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{LAMMERTS' AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE "Undersigned have received

Instructions

to fell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Thursday, the 22nd August, 1940

commencing at 11 am.

at The China Navigation Co.'s Go- down, West Point.

162 crates White Glazed Porcelain

Capping Tiles

79 crates White Glazed Porcelain

Interna Angle Tiles

46 crates White Glazed Porcelain

External Angle Tiles

Terms: Cash on Delivery.”

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS.

GENERAL

THURSDAY," AUGUST 22, 1940.

|· QUEEN'S NIECE AND NEPHEW IN UNITED STATES MISSING SHANGHAI

雞

FIVE SMALL BRITONS VISIT J. P. MORGAN WHILE ENGLAND IS MENACED—Three cousins ac- company the niece and newphew of H.M. the Queen to America and are photographed at the Hotel Biltmore In New York. Left to right:-Daving and Simon Bowes-Lyon, niece and nephew of the Queen, and their cousins, Ange, Joanne and Francis Nichols. The children were sent by the Queen's brother, David Bowes-Lyon, and were among a group of 550 landing in Montreal, Quebec,

FINEST COLLECTION OF

BOOKS ON CHINA

Possessor of what is probably the finest" private collection in the Far East of books on China, is retiring, scholarly Dr. Teo

PUBLIC AUCTION. Kah Toh, of Singapore, writes Lorraine Streeter in the Malaya

THE Undersigned have received

Instructions

to sell by

PUBLIC AUCTION

OR

Thursday, the 22nd August. 1940

commencing at 10.30 am5,

at No. 120, Carnarvon Road.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

(Particulars from Catalogue)

On View from: Wednesday, the 21st August, 1910

'Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

AUCTIONEERS,

Tribune

Experts say that this collection even seems to outrival the Chinese library at the Chinese Protectorate at Havelock Road, because it covers such a comprehensive field and embraces so many subjects: arts, geography, travel, etc, which are not found In the latter.

Dr. Teo's library contains B. E Chamberlain, of Tokyo thousand volumes of all sizes and University, on Things Japanere was started in 1920 when he was

RARE BOOKS ä niedical student at Hongkong University

It is interesting to note that

The library also boasts the fol-

lowing list of rare old books, most the most informative hooks..

of which are now out of print. China have been

or Rev. W. Lobscheid's English. written by Europeans and De. Teo lias the

Chinese Dictionary 1868-1869, warks uf various European and

A. Wylie's notes on Chines American sinologues of interna

Literature 1887 (photo-thograp- tional iame in his collection "

hic re-issue). He based his collection of these

Rev. Justas Doolittle's Vocabu-

MERCHANT IN H.K.

MR, HU ESI-YUAN, general manager of the Oppcl Electrio Manu- facturing Co. Ltd., to Sanghal, who was reported missing, has arrived in Hongkong.

Interviewed, Mr. Hu told Central News that he went to Shanghai

RESTORES Dental Plates

from Chungking over a month ago. While in Shanghai he received to

a letter signed by two Chinese whom he did not know, asking him to subscribe a large amount of money to establish a bank or pro- ceed to Nanking to assume an important post.

He also received many telephone, terrorist acts he decided to leave calls declaring that the proposals | Shanghai, On the morning of In the letter were made with August 15 he secretly boarded a "sincerity" and requesting that he British ship and arrived in Hong appointed a place and a time for kong four days later. As he did a talk.

not bid farewell even to

Natural Colour

12ts BEFORE

In view of the prevalent wave of family, reports were circulated that

he was missing,

DEFENCE REGIONS IN BRITAIN

14

After a brief stay in Hongkong. he will proceed to Chungking by plane.

"GANGSTERS' WORLD" According to Mr. Lin Kang-hou Secretary-General of the Shanghai Chinese Bankers' Association, and member of the standing committee

The Military correspondent (or of the China Red Cross Society; the Evening Standard states: who also arrived here from Shang-

AFTER

No matter how badly stained your demon? plate in, Stereḍent will clean it and restore ise trecura), ralpur: Mr. H. Rf Bristol, wrkes-I can certainly upsdorse ali you way about Steradant'. It was amazing the way

clean forting even I put the plate in my mod Itsink on no dental plate désappeared. The delight

was something had never had before, homrear wach I rubbed my denture,”

ANGLO-SOVIET IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THT hat on August 10 by a President the posed into a glass containing muflaten wer

RELATIONS

Matter Of Concern

Government

Το

LONDON, August 21 (Reuter Lord Caldecote in the House of Lords made a similar statement

there should be a Defence Gene-liner, Shanghai has become "al ralissimo commanding all armed, gangsters' world", with, kidnappings torces in this island. Will that and murders b'appenig almost include the naval units here or everyday. hereabouts?

1. Merchants. of integrity Have lost adequate protection for their

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IT IS EQUALLY IMPORTANT, lives and freedom, Trade is on. and as urgent now, to sort out the downward trend as a result of and settle the authority which is the lowering of the purchasing to control our many civilian ser-power of the people. vices. There are. or were. exist- Mr. Lin will stay in Hongkong ing 14 Regional Commissioners. for some time to manage the With reference to Russia, Lord who received delegated powers of affairs of the Red Cross and may Caldecote said an improvement Government at the outbreak of proceed to the interior later. in Anglo-Soviet relations has been war

to that of Mr. Churchill...

a matter of concern to His Ma-

IN THE EVENT OF A BREAK- Jesty's Government. The Soviet Union's Interests touch the Bri-DOWN of communications between tish Empire at many

the Imperial Government and any points. Ordinary prudence would indicate area (it was thought in those days a better understanding. He be- that bombing might Cause It) lieved there was a basis

these Commissioners were, to exer- cise plenipotentiary powers. The į satisfactory' trade agreement,

time bas Come to test that DIFFICULT TASK -

system.

for a

Big Stafford Cripps. He said WES

on the fact that they were to beary and Handbook of the Chinese courageously, and successfully ful- found in the extensive English Language, 1874.

Chinese libraries of Hong-

Langu

優

AS I SAY, a multitude of ser- tilling a difficult task in his in-

and

terviews with M. Molotov. The Vices and authorities have grown kong

Dr. S. Wells William's Syllabicunportance of these negotiations up since September 1, 1939. They University. Authors who Dictionary of the Chinese to trade is fully appreciated by confuse. But when Der Tag fin- overlap, they conflict, and they fall into this class Include Dr. age 1874.

Sir Stafford Cripps and it is Robert Morrison, Dr. James Legge, G. Rawlinson's "The Origin of

noped an agreement may shortly what we

ally arrives, confusion is just Dr. S. Wells Williams, Professor Nations" 1877.

wish to avoid, result.

Every Closing the debate which follow-man then must go to his post and led Lord

obey orders. Caldecote's statement

The Civ Authority

Lessons in

H. A. Giles, Rev. Justus Doolittle,TA M. Field's First Str Thomas, F. Sodhill and Dver the Swatow Dialect 1878. Bail

F. Zottoll's Census Litteraturae Lord Halifax replied to a question must be as clear and explicit in

The works of these men urous-Sinicae 1879-1882. ed in the young medica: student Dr. B. Wells William's. Middle. the first spark of interest in what Kingdom 1883 (second edition, was to become the hobby of a revised).

fetime.

Dr. F. Hirth's Notes on the Chi-

PUBLIC AUCTION. Dr. Teu's library is divided into nese Documentary Style 1838.

four sections-General arts, Chi-

T

E undersigned have received Japanese studies.

Instructions

to sell by PUBLIC AUCTION

on

Friday, the 23rd August, 1940 commencing at 2.30 p.m:

at their Sales Room. No. 35, Han- kow Road, Kowloon.

A. QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

Comprising:-

whether discussions

its proper sphere as the Military, with the

Only thus can we work together United States affected British bases elsewhere than in the and avoid the fearful disarray

which defeated the French. lantic, like Singapore.

Lord Halifax said that the arrangements were confined to C. de Bussy's French Translathe Atlantic, nese language Chinese studies tion of Volume ons of P. Zottoll's Newfoundland. Discussion of de- West Indies and

Census Littératurae Sinicas. 1893. tails had not yet begun though The fourth small uut usetul Dr. James Legge's The Chinese agreement had been reached in section deals with the civilisation Classics 1893. (Oxford University principle and of Japan which was originally publication. second edition). that no great difficulty would borrowed from that of the Chinese Rev. J. MacGowan's History of arise in the discussion of details Empire,

China 1897,

...

The General Arts" section con. talas books on Latin, French, Basic Engilah, selected Malay, works on English literature and history and a complete set of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica,

CHINESE SECTION

be was

satisfied

FREPARE THE PLAN NOW. Mark out clearly where the Re- lona-begin and end--Define ber Fond argument the power of the the effective direction of all those Regional Commission. Organise

services which a population must have when the enemy is actually being engaged in their midst. Mr. NAZI BLOCKADE

Churchill has exhorted MPs to Referring to Hitler's declaration set about preparing the evil de-

blockade of Britain,

Lord fence of Halifax said that the declaration How far has the work gone?

their constituencies,

adds nothing startlingly new to

of a

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If these roads zre

J. A. Van Halst's Chinese Music 1884 (photo-lithographic re-issue

Prof. B. H. 'Chamberlain's Things Japanese 1898 Third edition).

On the whole Dr. Teo Kah Toh's the shipping situation "Ships marvellous collection should pro-will still enter and leave our ports military will require the total use `ON, THE DAY OF BATTLE the vide a most useful guide to those as they have entered and left in of certain roads. No civilians jistrulta Chinese and European thousands since the beginning of will be permitted on them. The The "Chinese Language" section students who have no preliminary the war. The amount of shipping Civil Authority can only work out contains books on spoken, literary grounding in Chinese and who are arriving and leaving is still at the its plans properly for evacuation and newspaper Chinese, converx anxious to acquire a practical level of the months immediately for staying-put tion and translations, dictionaries kriowledge of the Chinese language preceding the recently intensif-population

or feeding the Chesterfield Buites, Bedsteads, in Mandarin and other

Chinese and become conversant with things cation of attacks upon shipping." Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Wash-dialects and works on

the philo-Chinese,

scheduled now. sala Lord Halifax. stands, Chests of Drawers, Bide-logy and etymology of the Chinese boards, Dinner Waggons, Dining language.

FINALLY, EVERYBODY NOW Tables,

Included In this section is Chairs. Hatstands, Ice

Mr. W. K. Ward has been a from The Times even to the Daily Chests, Cabinets, Desks, Book-bulky Chinese-English dictionary by European sinologists On the pointed assistant private secretary Herald and from Mr. Chamber-

Blackwood and by the late Professor, H. A. Giles,

study of Chinese, easily eclipse to Mr. H. Morrison, Minister elain to Mr. Hore-Belisha, Is in of Cambridge University, which any of the best works that have Supply, in place of Mr. A. A. Part. favour ot waging a People's Carpets, Rugs, Perambulators, still the dictionary par excellence been produced by Chinese so far. who has joined the Forces. Wardrobe Trunks, Baby Cots and for the study of the Chinese Play Pens, Cutlery, E., P., Brass, language in English, ' ; Porcelain and Glass Ware, Mectric The "Chinese studies” sector Ceiling and Table Fans, Radios, contains books on the religions. Gramophones and Records, Filters, ethics. customs, arts, classics, Ornaments, etc., etc.

cases, Tables,

Rattan Furniture, etc.. etc.

2 Cameras

also

1 Portable Typewriter

Corona'

1 Typewriter." Remington "

1 Upright Plano. "Moutrie"

"Hellar" Lens

1" Keystone

(new).

16 mm. Projector

1 Sewing Machine

1 Aviary

1 Steel Filing Cabinet

1 Gas Range

1 Teakwood Bed Room Suite

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It is no exaggeration

to

Bay

that some.

of the books written

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Hiterature. history. politics. REO. graphy travels trade and finance of China.

Partial Reshuffle Of

Governments.

CHUNGKING, Aug. 21 (Central),

It is interesting to note that A partial reorganisation of the book entitled "Li Sao" written by Kwangtung and Shantung Provin- Dr. Lim Bout Keng during his cial Governments was decided up-

U.S. - CANADIAN

term as President of the Amoy on by the Executive Yuan at its DEFENCE

University, is included in this sec- regular meeting yesterday. tion. This iterary masterpiece

of the Grand Old Man has been Finance Commissioner for Kwang-

Mr. Tsou Lin was appointed COMMISSION

highly praised by Professor Giles

War" the enemy should land, They all want to "build block- houses," "erect defence-in-depth," make every farm a fort," AN really united at last. Admirable. Now will our cheerfully accepted commissioners. In every region lay their heads together with the military and tell us what to do," where to go and at what time with our spades and shovels. The simplest plan is always the best and there's no time like NOW.

LONDON, August 21 (Reuter)—— The death, on active service, near In the following statement, made while Mr. Cheng Yen-fen was The Canadian American Defence nounced

tung to succeed Mr, Y. C. Koo OTTAWA, Aug. 21 (Reuter)St. Valery on June 11, was an- in the concluding chapters of his named Secretary-General of the Commission will be mostly for Lieut.

yesterday of Second preface to the book:--

Alastair Telfer-Smoliet, "I will only add that in these ment to succeed Mr. Kao Hsin.

Kwangtung Provincial Govern- study and advisory work for second son of Major-General

mutual defence. Mr. Mackenzie Telfer-Smollett, days when people assert that the

formerly G.0.0. primacy in Chinese studles has Mr. Tseng Yang-fu, member of Kins, the Canadian Premier, British troops in Shanghal. been snatched from the British the Kwangtung Provincial Gov-stated at a press conference. Empire, that this elaborate study ernment, was relieved of his post. It would advise both Govern- The Kwangsi Provincial Govern- of an ancient and difficult, poun.

Mr. Li Shu-chun, Civil Affairs ments of new ideas on defence. It ment is planning to establish a On View from Thursday, the 22nd achieved in the early part of the Commissioner for Shantung, was did not mean that Canada was school here' in commemoration of

twentieth century, seems to me to relieved of his post and. Mr. Lei shirking her responsibilities, but the late Dr. Ma Chun-wu, presi August, 1940:

go far towards leaving the British Fa-chang was appointed, to act in that she will be assuming Empire precisely where it w2g.".

his place.

and,

One "Ford" V. 8 Motor Car

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS,

The "Japanese studies" section General Sun Llang-chen Was contains ́ text-books by standard named member of the Shantung

part of mutual obligation.

B. authors, among them, the well-Provincial Government and con- Shantung Administration

known book by the late Frofessor currently director of the West of the Government.

her dent of the National Kwangsi University, who passed away on August 1. A petition has · been submitted to the National Govern- Bureauiment for an appropriation for

founding the school

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"I feel so fit this morning I could tackle a very fierce man- eating tiger."

"Try tackling some of those exti- mates you "should have forished yesterday."

“Now, David. No bitterness. It is a very beautiful morning. Let us cast aside our mundane tasks and hearken to the pipes of Pan. If I were a poet, David..." "You're not. You're a very busy consulting engineer."

"Come, come, Mr. Scrooge. Is there no spark of sentiment in that finty old heart?"

Flinty old fiddlesticks. Look here, David, what is biting you today ?**

"Weller as a matter of fact

I went to a party last night. Th foaming beakers were knocked back with speed and precision. I had a whale of a time."

"I'm anyway,"

you lock fresh mough

"That is the climax of my story. Somebody gave me the tip about Gimlets. You know Rose's Lime Juice being a therapeutic agent-anticipating hangovers- and so on. And it works I.”

* H'ms: Must make a note of that -Rose's Lime Juice. Confound! I've written it on the plans for the new reservoir !

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