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MERCURY GARAGE

WAR, LECTURES.

The meeting was held under the auspices of the local branches of the St Andrew's and St. George's Societies, and was pre sided over by Sir Havilland de Sausmarez

THE MOST MODERN CARS IN TOWN.

10. Chief Ind

THE INDUSTRIAL & COM- MERCIAL BANK LTD.

Wang Wai Lam was charged with forgery of receipts, and by the Board of Directors at a In view of a resolution; adopted pleaded not guilty.

The Attorney General (the Hon. Mr. H. E Pollock K. C.) appeared for the prosecu- tion and the Hon. Mr. C G. Alabaster, O. B. E, instructed by M. D. J. Lewis, of Messrs. Johnstone. Stokes and Master, defended the accused..

meeting held 21st June, 1919, the Bank is in charge of the Manager, Mr. J. Usang Ly. The resolution reads:

"It was resolved that in order to carry out the new policy of the Board" to a5- sunte more active control the President be requested to refrain from exercising his usual powers of active administration of the Bank pending the revision of the Articles of Association .

Extraordinary. present an

and Special Meetings of the Shareholders the date for which meetings are to be. decided later."

on

By Order of the Board.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS;

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THE Undersigned has received Instructions to sell by Public Auction un

TUESDAY the 24th June. 1919,

commencing at a m

at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon. 43 drums Caustic Soda. 119 cases Hydroxide,

and afterwards at 3 pm at No. 50 Godown of the Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf. &Godown Co. Ltd. Kowloon

133 drums Caustic Soda. Terms: Cash on delivery.

Geo, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Tunctions to sell by Pub HE undersigned have received

Auction on

J. K. CHOY,lic Secretary.

Hongkong, 23rd June, 1919

WISEMAN'S

delicious

The jurymen were Mestre. D. Raichleman, F. A. Chopard, F. Rapp. B. W. Tape, C. Stewart. W.J. Roberts, and J. H. Pidgeon, Opening the case for the Crown, ponsibility for the construction of the Attorney General said. new trenches, the repair and drain-the prisoner in the age of existing trenches, the con- case

Was charged two BY FORMER HONGKONGstruction of bomb-proof shelters counts for forgery, the first, on

MEN.

in the front line, machine gun April 22, 1918, a, receipt for $350 emplacements, observation posts, and the second, on June 19, 1918, advancedressing stations, assemba receipt for $417.83 Counsel There was a large audience trenches for the attack and the said before he went into the facts present at the Masonic Hall, consolidation and fortification of of the case he would deal with a Shanghai, on June 13, when four captured positions. In this latter point of law. "There would be a interesting addresses were given connection, I would say that ex-witness who would speak asto the by officers returned from the perience has proved that it is signatures in the book being forged comparatively easy to capture a and not his signature. Of course, position, but it is infinitely more they were not prepared to but difficult to hold is against the who wrote the signatures but inevitable counter-attack, which rder the Ordinance say person invariably follows when the tired who aids, abets, counsels or pro- attackers are confronted with cures a false signature is liable to masses of fresh enemy troops. the same extent as the principal" The pick, the shovel and the The point was that although the sandbag are then of equal, if not prosecution cannot prove actually and Mr. C..W. Wrighton.

more important, than the rifle as to who wrote the forgery The officers who addressed the and the bayonet: and those if the jury were of the opinion meeting were Major M. Reader troops who can dig themselves in that the accused... was Harris, M., 13th London Regi- in the most thorough manner, in accessory to

the forgery ment (Kensingtons): Major M.the shortest possible space of being committed, they held that! H. Logan, M.C., Royal Engineers; time are those who are successful he was liable to be punished as a Captain Alister St. Clair Camp in the capture and retention of a principal The facts were that bell, Argyll and Sutherland High- position. In the case of work in aceused was manager and partner landers, and Lieut. E. H. Me- the advanced trenches, most or in the Wa Cheong Lung firm off Michael, Westminister Dragoons. nearly all of it must be done Hongkong, which was rather The two first-named were for-by night, and in the event of closely connected with the Wai merly resident in Hongkong, it not being possible to finish Wing firm of Canton and it was 'PRONE 407. Major Reader Harris being with the work one night, it the forging of the signature of a Messrs. Wilkinson and Grist, and is usual that the

member of "the Canton firm Major Logan on the staff of the Kowtoon-Canton Railway and later with Messrs. Palmer and Tuner.

Along with the Chairman on the platform were Dr. R. S. Ivy

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ICE CREAMS

in various flavoUTS can be sent out ready

for serving

for

PICNIC, TIFFIN

or

DINNER PARTIES. From $2.00 per quart.

» D. M. GOODALL,

Manager.

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wages were sometimes

SATURDAY the 28th June, 1919.

commencing at li a.m. at No. 23 Cameron Villas, Kowloon

A Quantity of Valuable Household Furniture

(Full particulars from catalogue) On view from Friday, the 27th inst.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

GEO, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Public Auction .on

MONDAY, the 30th June, 1919.

`commencing at II a.m.

at No. 2 Austin Avenue, Kowloon A Quantity of Valuable -Household -Furniture

(Full particulars from caralógúa) i On view from Sunday the 29th inst.

Tercas: Cash on delivery.

Geo, P. LAMMERT,

Auctioneer.

Mr. A. R. F. Raven, had a "top" at his house in Conduit Road added to by other sums which his thieving propensities were able to procure. On Saturday he called 2 marine hawker, a regular kitchen and struck with him a customer of his. into the

again over two of the covers of Mr. Raven 40 cents, but as they the stove. They originally cost: did not belong to the "boy," the latter could, without a pang of regret, dispose of them cheap for THE Undersigned has received instructions to sell by Pub- 15 cents. Two empty wine bottles lic Anction on also came into the possession of the hawker on the pay- nient of a few additional cents. The "boy" was later arrested, and he pointed out the hawker to the Police. The hawker, in Court this morning, said the Gerasimes, a Greek who arriv-boy had invited him

A GREEK FINED:

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the conditions. The setting outed in the Colony by the French several occasions to buy the

of the work and the arrange-Mail steamer Nera from Port Covers. Mr. Raven asked his ments for tools and materials are Said, was to-day fined $1,000, or, Worship to deal leniently with all part of the work of the R. E. in default,six months' hard labour, the "boy" as he came from good Companies.

for being in possession of 34 lbs. people. The "boy" had been in of raw opium, valued at $40.

his service for two months. Mr. who found the drug concealed in or seven days, while the hawker Chief Revenue Officer Wildin, R. E. Lindsell fined the boy $5. the accused's suit-case, said he was fined $10, or 14 days* im- received information through the prisonment. accused attempting to effect a sale of the drug previous to the HID NOTES IN MOUTH. night of his arrest.

Major Logan gave a full and graphic description of bis ex- perience on the Ypres Salient, after which he described bis work in connection with the con- struction of light railways to the firing line in connection with the fighting on the Somme.

"The work of the R. E. Field

...

In connection with this case.

THURSDAY, the 26th June, 1919.

commencing at II a.m. At the premises lately occu- pied by the Victoria Dispensary. at No. 32 Queen's Road Central. A Quantity of Shop Fittings

Also 750:

1 Iron Safe and Stand- 4 Electric table fans. Terms: Cash on delivery.

Geo, P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

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will be fully aware of what is that formed the subject of HOUSEBOY'S SQUEEZE ”- being done, having noted from the charges. It would his observation posts during be shown that there were business the day the signs of fresh transactions between the Canton Major Reader Harris was the excavation and on

the fol and Hongkong firms in 1917 but first speaker. He told some lowing night he

there were no transactions during working interesting stories of life at the parties will be the target the Fear 1918 which is front and of some of the experi- for machine-gun fire. Machine the

year in regard to which ences that befell those who lived gun fire and shell gun fire, not the forgeries were alleged to in the trenches. During the day, withstanding, the work must have been committed. It would he said, they were chiefy con still go on, and does so in spite be

shown that the accused cerned about the unexpected of numerous casualties. The made certain entries in the visits of staff officers and, at night, trenches lend a feeling of securi-books of his firm in 1918 which they chased rats and had other ty, but it is a very different thing purported to show that on the exciting- adventures. When to work for hours on the surface dates mentioned the Wa Cheong General Birdwood paid them in the most deplorable condi-Lung firm had paid the moneys visit, he reprimanded a "Tommy" tions of weather and mad stated. These entries would be for not saluting him. The

under, heavy shell fire. The shown to be incorrect because, in "Tommy" replied that he did reconaissances and setting out of fact, no such transactions took not know the visitor was an all new works falls to the lot of place between the two firms. officer. "I am General Bird- the officers and N.C.O.'s of the Evidence was then taken. wood," said the gallant Anzac Field Companies, R.E.; and a

The case is proceeding. *Then," retorted the "Tommy

good deal of time is spent in the why don't you wear feathers, as dusk or the early hours of the any other bird wood! (Laughter) morning in examining the ground It was always a great relief for and making oneself familiar with them to get over the top into the open, as they could then see what was going on around them, and his experience and that of other officers was that not one man in a thousand ever perienced the Boche waiting on them to engage with the bayonet. Mr. Reader Harris paid a high compliment to "Tommy" on his extraordinary personal pluck." He had never known en occasion where the pluck of the British Tommy had failed (Applause). Major Logan, M.C., R., Was Company and the army troops Mr. Tsantsancopulos," a local the dock in Mr. R. E Lindsell's the next, speaker. He described company in the preparation for Greek gentleman, who acted as Court to-day. How he came to An impudent thief ornamented the work of the Royal Engineers, and in the actual battle of the interpreter, lodged a protest this be there, was related by a Shang- From EUROPE AND STRAITS. referring particularly to the Field Somme in 1916 was" he said, morning with the Magistrate hai Chinese, who said that whilst Company Branch with which be of a particulary arduous and (Mr. R. O. Hutchison) concern- stepping out of a tramcar, the served in France. A Field Com trying, character, observationing the publishing of his name in thief extracted $7 in notes from pany, the speaker said, has a war strength of six officers and 226 ments, water supply on a large that of the accused.

posts, machine-gun emplace-three local contemporaries for his breast-pocket and putting it TE Company's Steamship..... N. C. O.'s and men. It is compos-scale, the pipe lines being taken ed of specialists in certain trades right in the front trenches, the

KITANO MARU,”: and carries in its technical construction of many miles of

to get him off from the scene of having arrived from the above wagons an equipment which new roads chiefly of the corduroy enables the personnel to deal with description, the setting out and

the Chinese, who placed one hereby informed that their Goods trouble Into the car followed ports. Consignees of Cargo are almost every contingency likely digging of assembly tranches the

strong finger on each cheek of the are being landed and placed at to occur in the field. In installation of gas cylinders and

thief and literally-pressed out their risk in the Hongkong and trench warfare and during the many other kindred operations as O/C No. 2 Company during the $5 note from his mouth. Where Kowloon Wharf & Godown Com period of the war on the western imposed a very heavy strain on front, the actual war of move the personnel and exacted a large A.E.S. Alves on leave, to date.tery...

absence on leave of Inspector

the other two, notes were, was a pany's Godowns at Kowloon, ment occupied but a limited proportion of casualties.

where each consignment will be The thief had prepared a state-sorted out mark by mark and de period A Field Company is "In the later part of the Somme generally allotted to a Brigade Battle I was almost entirely those enormous concentrations of ground where they had been

ment to offer to the magistrate-livery can be obtained as soon se front and, asja rule, works with engaged with my Company in the artillery and ammunition which thrown by the complainant, who on unless instructions are given

I picked up the notes from the the Goods are landed.. a particular Brigade both in construction of a Light Railway

Optional Goods will be carried attack and defence. There are System forward of Trones Wood, were the ultimate cause of the mistook them for three Field Companies in the Guillemont and Guichy, on the for a very sketchy and incomplete have the ticket here and he

final victory. I must apologise ticket. The complainant:-TO-DAY.

his tram-to the contrary before NOON establishment of a Division, and front line of XIVth Corps and they are mobile units who move later I became Assistant Director, account, but to convert you showed one to the Magistrate. June, 1919, will be subject above Pharmacy at 32,

Goods not cleared by the 30th with the Division. The Siege Light Railways of Fifth Army, anyway able to convey to you The thief-But that is another boys, R. E or Army. Troops Cos. and as such was responsible for which the front line units of the the Magistrate.

some idea of the manner in one."Six weeks, interposed R. E whose personnel is inter the contraction of several hun-Companies of the R. E' carry out

to rent.

Road, Central, has changeable with the Field Cos. dred miles of line which connected their duties I shall have accom

Damaged packages must be left red to A. B. Watso E. E, and who carry out similar the forward Railheads of the

in the Godowns for examination SHANGHAI VOLUNTEERS by the Consignee's and the Co's

the Hongkong remain longer in an ares and the actual batteries and troops in Lieut. McMichael work, are alloted to a Corps and Standard Gauge Railways with plished my object."

Capt. Alister Campbell and annual musketry shoot, Pte. C.E. hour on Tuesday & Friday. All prietary

At the Shanghai Scottish V.C. representatives at an appointed have employed on work the firing line,

described M. Thomson you the Champion claims must be presented I wish, Major Logan said, operations in Palestine and ship and also headed the Grand within ten days of the stesher's that I had time to describe this several phases of the campaign which is the highest since the they cannot be recognised: No Lieut. McMichel illustrated Aggregate with a total of 290, arrival: here, after which date of work in detail, but I can for the in this areatre with an inter- Company was formed It only claims will be admitted after

moment say no more but that the esting collection of photographic two! advent of the Light Railway slides and maps.

the goods have left the Godowns Thot

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H. K. P. R. ORDERS.

Franks, D.S.P. (R.), state-

Orders issued by Mr. J. W.

NO. 2 COMPANY. Inspector Silva Netto will act

from 25th June, 1919.

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System on the British front collection was taken during revolutionise I conditions of trans the evening in aid of the United

ort and alone made possible service Association.

into Car,

his mouth boarded the trusting to its speed

sinc won the Aggregate, ongratulated on

1917-Pte.

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