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The hopes of many residents assassination of M. Clemenceau, au centred in the-proceedings the Prima Minister of France, which are to take place at the reported yesterday, we give below City Hall at 5.30 pm. to-day, some extracts from an apprecis-hen the official drawing of St. tion of him written last year for Andrew's Society War Bond Chambers's Journal by Mr. Henry tickets will take place. Mr. W. Leach, which furnishes a very Forsyth and Mr. George Duncan, Cantons clear idea of the type of man he of Kowloon Docks, have been North Chinas
There is a man in the world responsible for the adjustment of Linions who is known to his own people with the drawing machine, whilst Far Easteras
the mechanism in connection Yangtzer and to many others as Tiger. The sobriquet is not the the stage management has bean FIRE INSURANCES. best to describe the characteris in the hands of Mr. D. E. Blair.
Mr. R. M. Dyer, President of H. Fires b tics of this man, but it serves, the Hongkong St. His facial appearance is very strong, hard, determined to a high degree; and a certain scepticians
slight but very sardonic smile and A. R. Lowe will officiate at -plays frequently upon his. countenance. It suggests
the mixing receptacle; Messra. you always that he believes take the official check of the T. A. Martin and D. K. Blair will
Lie is A MAR who the truth, and who perceives the will post the winning mm-
numbers; Mr. A. J. J. Martin Sugars proper way that he, of his own bars; while Mr. E. AM. Will Malabons b. cum. iv. 140 volition and with his big deter- iams will draw the prize and mination, will act accordingly; winning ticket numbers. Mr. despite .all the intellectual
John Macdonald, the Hon. Tres-, Langkats barangues, the pretty sophistrios,
Rauba or the politest prattle that may be surer of the War Bond Committee, Tracas used to oppose his view; and that will also be on the stage and no
Urais danht will be able to announce' he will go through. It is indeed from the records where the win- Brit. Burmahs b. a great, strong face. The large, ning tickets were purchased.
DOCKS, WHARVES, piercing eyes, with eyebrows
GODOWNS, &C. The Telegraph this evening will slightly gathered and somewhat be issuing a printed slip giving heavy underlids, are the main the winning ticket numbers, and feature. There are long. By copies of these will be supplied drooping moustaches, a strong
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| applying at our office. suggests that this man through a keen life has toiled uttermost, and He does not
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Centrals fought hard. in the history of France the H. K. Hotels tired- whole nation virtually called him ) i and Invest. that: he to power as the only man who H'phreys Est energy. Yet, as you look at him, the deep sincerity, and the full L. Reclamations . No. 8. Whether he has ex-on feel that he has discovered unfavouring honesty to carry her West Polots
the world to be a hard place, and plained to his purchasers that the
He through.
Was the most has few illusions about it now. thorough patriot. houses already sold have only Perhaps he made it as difficult for
Ewos single party walls, which may give himself as he could, but no matter. Chamber a day or two later and "When he appeared before the
Kung Yika rise to a lot of vexatious litigation More than seventy-six years of made his statement, there was later on, should some holders
age, he has to undertake the most remarkable scene. There attempt to rebuild without the hardest and most responsible task he was, the old Clemenceau, the scourge of fools and knaves,
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instractions to sell by Public sent of their neighbours? That the rescue of his country, to lead
in fact intending builders would one of the best nations the earth a razor, his truculence as of old. as it was said, his wit cutting-like lose the rights of part of their has known through darkness to He was there for France, which THURSDAY, the 27th Feb. ground should they re-build its own salvation, happiness, and he loved, and for nothing else. against the wishes of the owners glory. One is writing, of course. He spoke of her, bloody in her on either side of their property?
of M. Georges Clemenceau, the glory, and said that he, an old No. 9.Whether there was not Prime Minister of France. We man, had nothing to gain for commencing at 2.30 p.m.
a meeting held of Portuguese at have read lately in at No. 5 Minden Villas,
which Mr. Alves was authorised French newspapers that nobody
various himself by being where he was. (Kowloon)
to purchase houses for the
What are my war aims? you Quantity of Valuable Portuguese community on a co- The Tiger though the nickname The Chamber almost shook with knows when he was first called ask. I have only one to win!” Household Furniture compria-operative basis? Whether the has been attached to him for very emotion, as this last phrase was ing:-
properties he is now selling
many years and is in constant feng upon it with a marvellous Cherrywood drawing.
room were not originally intended for use; but that is surely wrong, for intensity of passion. And then, Tips: Chesterfield sofa & eszy the Portuguese at the meeting? chairs, pile carpets
we remember an explanation be- after a pause, he let loose a flash & rugs, As regards a personal intering vouchsafed to us, and it seem- of the old sarcasm, remarking, pictures etc. etc.
view,Idoubt whether this would ed to be true. Some time ago, And if I win, you may pass a extension serve any good purpose. My when the Combes Ministry was vote of censure upon me." Teak sideboard, dining table & chairs, dinner questions are the direct outcome in power in France, two Parisian waggon, glass & crockery wars of investigations I have instituted journalists, M. Vauxcelles and to who is the most important man After dealing with the point as regarding his scheme, and my scle M. Pottie, were publishing in in the world to-day, the writer Dauble & single teak ward-object in putting them through the newspaper Gil Blas robes with mirrors, toilet tables. the medium of the Press is as series of short, bright sketches Europe and beyoud, glancing says "Looking around us, ovar washstands, toilet orockery etsPlayfair correctly surmises, of the leading journals of the upon all the figures that play the enlightenment of capital, and when they came to their part in the enormous the general public. If Mr. Pantry & Kitchen utensils.
make their remarks on 'Aurore, tragedy, we must admit that this Alves scheme Can Also
bear the which was edited by M. Clemen-war, so much greater than any light of day why. should it cean, they noted that this man, other, has produced no such out- Electric light fittings, 2 ceilin not be dealt with exhaustively in who had already gathered fame standing figures, no such great engineer, has recently arrived in the columns of the newspapers of by his attacks upon Ministries, characters, as might have been Hongkong and is, for the time, the Colony?
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Mr. G. W. Hawkins, power St. Andrew's Society War Bond Drawing.
STATEMENT
$143,500.00TM
Donated to War Charities 50%.. Expenses Prizes (56)-as-per-list
$71,750.00
4,750.00 67,000.00
Party politics have attached to the firm of Messrs. To be drawn in the City Hall, on Friday, 21st February, 1919 33:30 p.m. disaster to some of them, was had a stifling effect. Men are not Andersen, Meyer and Company. behaving in a peaceful way, for so fine as they should be. They [With regard to the last the time being, and not indulging have
Mr. Hawkins will superintend до brilliance of in- paragraph in the above letter, Mr in any smashing tactics. So they dependence, and they talk, and the erection of a new Power Alves scheme was fully ex-wrote of him: On View from Wednesday, the plained in last Saturday's Tele- is a tiger who has cut his claws. when the Allied Conference was son some time ago, being asked Tickets sold, 28,700 at $5.00 each
M. Clemenceau and merely talk, too much. Now, Station Canton. He visited Can- graph, and photographs of the The idea took the fancy of M. held in Paris recently, and Mto apply estimates for the areas included in it were publish- Bure, on the staff of L'Aurore, Clemenceau. opened it, he made station by the Civil Government ed.-Ed. H.K.T.]
and when they heard H the shortest speech on record for of Clemenceau
Kwangtung, and the entering the
a gathering of such transcendent contract has now been signed for editorial "apartments that even-importance. He said, Gentle-the erection of a 5,000 kilowatt ing, he remarked, 'There's
man, we are here to work. "Let us the Tiger. The change from the work; and so they went to work. power station, which will be the U. S. LEAGUE FIXTURES. initial letter, to the definite make long and noble speeches, China and will cost something indefinite tiger, with the small When it is necessary he, too, can most up-to-date installation in Tiger, with the capital, as it orations with meaning and bite like $2,000,000. With the The list of fixtures in con-were, was important, because it in them; but he is a great man present plant, Canton has suffer-Price nection with the United Services established the
From of action. So, passing over the ad's good deal from the smoke of that utterance the name spread colourless persons who here and the old-fashioned steam engines Hockey League is as follows:
Jan. 29th-S. & D. v. 83rd from the office to circles outside, there have
and when the Cri de Paris began business of leadership in different this will be done away with in been doing the which drive the dynamos and Coy. R.G.A,
to make use of it in its cölumns
come to this great, ways, we
· Terms: Cash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer. Hongkong. Zúth February, 11.9,
LOST.
LOST STOLEN, OR
STRAYED from Crows nest" No. 132, The Peak, Sealy ham Terrier dog, rough haired white with black marking, aged
about one year. Last seen on Barker Road A suitable reward will be "giren. Communisst above address.
HOCKEY,
1
Feb. 21st.-S. & D. v. HKD.C. Feb. 27th-88th Coy. R.G.A 7. 83rd Coy. RG.A.
March 5th.-S. & D. v. 88th
Coy. RG.A
March 6th.-H.K.D.C. v. 83rd Coy. R.G.A
March 12th-83rd Coy. R.G. CANADA AND ATLANTIC CABLES.. Canadian shareholders of the A. 7. S. & D. Atlantic cables have brought to the attention of the Government Coy. R.G.A
March 13th.-H.K.D.0. v. 88th
name.
it was fastened to M. Clemenceau fearless, independent 'Tiger, and the new plant, which will be for life. Perhaps it is no bad if a vote of the world were taken driven by Deisel vil engines. The name for him, after all, He is would it not be agreed that he is foundations of the plant will be the Tiger of France whom Ger- by much, the most fascinating of reinforced concrete and will 8. many fears more than any other man in it? When we are told cover an area of 180 feet by 180 man.TheCentral Powers saw their that these are the times when feet. The site of the new plant 10. prospects fade and fade when all youth most counts, and when also is on the Bund France last November performed it is said that wars discover new the veritable miracle of acclaim-men and scrap the old, here we
$143,500.00 $13,500.00
Prizes to be drawn.
Falue
No.
of Prize.
Prize No.
Valur
of Prize
1
*317,610
$210
2..
7,050
210
3...
7,050
31
210
4.
7,050
210
5..
-7,050
1210
6..
7,050
210
7
3,520
$140
700
140
9.
700
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700
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(12)
350
140
13.
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350
350
350
£140 140
280-
70
280
280
2803
280
-280
*280
280.
210
210
210
210
56.
ing with mighty enthusiasm as have the amazing fact that constructor, not the head of the Ministry this this most hated statesman, the And if all his past, all his 15. a destroyer. 14. man, who by common consent most independent and the strong successes, seem composed of 16.. the action of the American March 19th-HK.D.C. v. Swas the best-hated statesman in eat, and one, who was Premier negations; if the path of his long 17. authorities in taking over the & D.
the Republic. He had gone years ago, is called to the leader career is strewn with the 18; cable companies. The Govern March 20th-83rd Coy. RG through his strenuous life makship of France at her most critical wrecks of the Ministries he 19. ment has the matter under con- v. 88th Coy. R.G.A.
ing political enemies. His career moment at seventy-six years of has undone Gambetta (1882), 20 Bideration, but some uneasiness March 26th-88th Coy. R.A had been destructive, as every age. Surely this must be an inter- Freycinet (1882), Ferry (1883), 21.. body said; he had cared for esting man. His vigour, his, im- Brisson (1885), Goblet (1887), 22.. is felt that Washington's control. S. & D. of these cables for the purposes March 27th 83rd Coy. KG. nothing and for nobody. He had pressiveness, and his constant Grevy (1887) we may no doubt 23.. au appalling record sa alayer of freshness make an alluring per regret that all these victims have 24.. qutlined by President Wilson-A. YHED.C
Cabinets. The defence in the sonality.
beon Republicans, and some of 25. case was that, if he
M Paul Hyacinthe Loyson, them great statesmen whom the 26.2 commonly destructive, it was that editor of Les Droits de l'Homme, country needed, but we cannot 27. which was bad that he says of him, His sarcasm is deny that the man who brought 28, always set out
destroy really nothing but a modest veil them to the ground pursued his However, there it was no matt behind which he hides his way, his programme, his principle
namely, the precedence of trans March 31st 88th Coy. R.G.A mission for all Government matter. HK.DO
and American news dispatches-- might interfere with Canadian offeral, Prees and business com munication
WINCARNIS
had so many nosezinhenemieg he, and yet at the gravest
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ictions. At bottom he is a with an inflexible logio. We may
"not a scurtica lenye it at that tribune
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