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LIFTS

and

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1919.

WOTICES

WAYGOOD-OTIS

ELEVATORS

FOR ALL PURPOSES.

FOR QUOTATIONS APPLY TO THE Sold AGENTS —

DODWELL & CO., LTD.

MACHINERY DEPARTMENT. -

THE STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO.

New Scheme for Children's Early Endowment:-

Principal features: Small Premium, Libera! Surrender Value, Na Medical Examination, Return of Premium in the Evant of Death, and Numerous Options at the Age of 25. WRITE FOX PAMPHLET AND FULL PARTICULARS TO

DODWELL & CO. LTD. Agents.

THE HONGKONG ROPE MANUFACTURING,

ESTABLISHED 1883. MANUFACTUREES OF

PURE MANILA ROPE

3 STRAND

14 to 15"

GIRSÝMYERENCE

CABLE LAID

5" to 15" CIRCUMFERAKUM

4 STRAND

3" to 10" OIKOUMPEREKOR

Od Drilling Cables of any size up to 3,000 Evet in langth, Prloss, Samples and full particulars will be forwarded on application.

SHEWAN TOMES & CO.

CE

BIC BARGAINS

50% discount on LADY'S

SHOES only.

A. TACK & CO.

es Vœux Road, Jih

CREEN ISLAND CEMEN

COMPANY, LIMITED.

IENT.<

zet

PORTLAND CEN In Casks of 375 7

lbs. zot. In Bags of 150; SHEWAN, TONES & CO.

Managers. General |Hongkong, 180 Ah August, 1916.

LONGKONG JAPANESE MASSAGE ASSOCIATION.

Mr. U. SUGA Mrs. A SUGA 8 Queen's Road Central, Hongkong.

METALS

of all kinds, especially for ship- building and engineering works. Largest and best assorted stook in the Colony.

SINGON & CO.,

General Managers.

THE CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN AND MORTGAGE

(Capital Faid up...$1,250,000.)

Loans Mortgags of Roum Property, da Goods reostrad in Storage. Advenosa mada na Marchandise. Los made on the Provident Lystać...

TRUSTNE, CUTOR OF VILLA, ATTORNEY, àn Undertaken and Ezmazed. (Babes and Farticulkes on Appliastica) so the Ofios..ct

SHEWAN, TOMES & 00.

eneral Managers.

NORTH BRITISH

AND

MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO..

in which are rested the shares of THE OCEAN MARINE INSURANCE CO., LTD.

AND

THE "RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE CO.

The Undersigned AGENTS for the above Company are prepared to ACCEPT RISKS against FIRE at Current Rates. SHEWAN, TOMES & CO. Agents.

MASSAGE HALL 23, FLOWER STREET.

MR. T. TAKAYE,

MRS. MORITA.

CERTIFICA EU MASSEURS. PATIENTS TEETED IN THE GWS HOMES

1 DESI

KHAKI DREAMS.

SOME HOPES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REALISED.

Mr. Trevor Allen writes to 1 the Daily Chronicle --

We were all idealists in the desolate dugout days. I can see my good comrade now, lolling back on his blankets with hands deep in pockets and eyes deep in dreams of a. future incredibly

remote.

"This khaki!" he would say with shoulder. How I begin to loathe its drabness, its sameness, its uncouthaess.

"But when we come out at the other end if ever we do-that'll be the time of redemption, O my soul! No more drab greys and browns and pepper-and-salt timi- dities, but glowing plum-colours, ambers, clarets, purples-in soft velvets, if you like. No stiff collars and formalities, but dazzle shirts loose at the neck, with Futurist scarf flowing hapha- zard."

And there's the matter of interior decoration," I would remark, wincing audibly at the cold. rough earth walls, "Men who've lived in rat-holes in the earth are going to demand some sort of beauty in the home when they get back. Patterned wall- paper must go; one doesn't want grotesques flowers and fruit and tendrils writhing about one's pictures like snakes about the head of a Medusa; one wants a rich soft-toned distemper that will suggest space and infinity, provide a background of eternity, as it were, to our creations of time.

And lace curtains, lace cur- tains! What are they, I ask you, but the petticoats of Mrs. Grandy? Rather cretonnes and casement cloths that will take sunlight be autifully from without and lamp- light from within, so that one's windows have souls like human eyes.

"As for pictures, necessity has already taught us one worthy lesson" and I ind cated some colour reproductions from an art magazine which we had pinned on to lengths of new sandbagging and hung on the bare walls.

"Infinitely better than ponder- ous gilt frames and chili paper mounts!" he would enthuse. "My pictures when I get back shall be axed on to lengths of straw-coloured cloth, in a 'similar

manner.

"I'm not sure I'll go as far as that." I had replied, "but certainly not beyond the narrow bead frame of "passe-partout' binding.. And my white mounts shell become pipe-spills. With land- scapes, particularly, one should have the illusion of looking out through a window from a shaded room."

Dreams, dreams, my comrade! That incredible future has be- come the actual present what then? You come to me in dark grey suit, starched collar. and trousers unquestionably baggy at the knee; I to you in light grey suit, formal tie, and trousers somewhat whiskery at the bottoms. Snakes writhe about your pictures, which are fixed on "to plain brown paper, and the petticoats of Mrs. Grundy flap at your window. My walls have ce tainly the distemper, but more in the canine sense than any other, for they are blotchy and mottled; and white mounts still shriek at me from my pictures.

Things are so difficult to get and expensive, you ex- tenuate. "I tried half a dozen shops the other day for a dark- coloured. Morrissy sort of shirt with loose collar, and all the satisfaction I could get, even when I asked that one be specially made, was 'They re not worn now, sir, but perhaps this one? &z¢. &¢***

"C'est la Paix!" I reply. Jaconically, "as Wilson and one or Iwo others unfortunately

ound out."

DO NGS OF THE DUFFS

I DON'T BELIEVE | CARE

Phone 515

(Established A. D. 1880.) HING LUNG ST.

MEE CHEUNG

PHOTOGRAPHER. FOR ARTISTIC PHOTO- GRAPHS CALL AT ICE POUSE STREET OR RING UP 1013.

THE NEW FRENCH, ŘEMENT.

THERAPION NË 1 THERAPION NĚ.2 THERANION NO. 3.

Bul for EA CENA M5. 2. The Whood Pria Diana 34. 2 for Carmin Weaknesses.

SUR TRADE MARKED WORD

ABOUT GOING TO A

HOME TONIGHT,MR.LANE

I'LL TELL YOU WHAT LET'S DO- LET'S MAKE

FUDGE! MAKE WONDERFUL FUDGE,

DIAMOND WRIST WATCHES

GUARANTEED GENUINE.

The undermentioned firms have just purchased a small consignment of these Watches from Messrs. Alex. Ross & Co., and as these were bought before the recent advance in Swiss values, and Exchange settled at 52d, they are now offered at remarkably cheap prices.-Please call on

Messrs:-

The Wing On Co. Lee On. Li Jim Kee. Kwong Kee.

NOTICES.

FOOK LEE & CO.,

(always in stock, large quantities of

UTY,¤ fioulates, Wire nails, Pig Lead, Pig Iron, Steel Plates, Black Sheets Galvanized, Wire, Galod Sheets, Yellow Metal Sheathings & etc.

Te'ephone

[174 & 1950.

14

Nos. 2 & 4 Hillier Street, and a

York Building, Chater Road,

JAMES STEER.

8, ICE HOUSE STREET. WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER..

10:

[CHRONOMETERS, CLOCKS, WATCHES AND NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS REPAIRED UNDER MY

Nos. 107 & 13 Des Voeux Road. No. 134, Queens Road Central, "No. 9, Bonham Road, East,

No 159, Queen Road Central. -

TEL. 2877.

ALEX. RO'S & CO.

EARLIER TELEGRAMS.

KIEL CANAL INCIDENT.

J

Berlin, Dec. 7.

A semi-oficial message states that while the British steamer, St. Helena, was anchored at Holtenau Locks, Kiel Canal, a man aboard escaped. A British patrol pursued and fired at hin German troops occupied the Locks and police from Kiel boarded the steamer. They found German war prisoners en route to Danzig to be forcibly incorporated in the Polish Legion. They bad been selected from prisoners' camps in England in account of their Polish names. It was pointed out the men were in German waters and therefore no longer prisoners. The captain of the St. Helena, under protest, released to who did not wish to remain; about £fty to a hundred remained and proceeded to Danzig. The German Government has protested most vig rously to the Inter Allied Naval Commission at the infraction of German sovereignty and the armistice involved by the passage of a steamer through the Canal with German prisoners and crews and the use of Brearms,

SCAPA FLOW.

Berlin, Dec. 6.

The full text of Admiral Trotha's letter of Dec. 3 is fficially published with addenda declaring the purpose of the communication was rather to admonish the crews who were uneasy about their personal fate to continue to hold out. There is no hint of forcibly solving the future fate of the ships: contrariwise the entire letter is based on the iden that in accordance with the intention of the German Ad- miralty this question should be solved by way of negotia The statement re-contends that Admiral Reuter was d to order the sinkings purely by the assumption that the Armistice had expired.

tions.

WRECKED FINANCE,

Paris, Dec. 3.

The Intransigeant" says the Supreme Council is dis- cussing immediate measures to alleviate all countries in It has been financial dificulties including ex-enemies. suggested "that vast international credits solely will remedy the situation especially in Austria where help is badly needed. Urgent representations are being made to Washington. It is also probable the Council will accept the principle of free exchange of goods between different countries.

SHO AS IS ALIVE. Í SMELL SUGAR

BURNIN”.

Fansy knows how hard it is to ge!!

PERSONAL SUPERVISION.

TEL 2877.

STAR GARAGE.

¡Tel No.3017. [49. Dès Vœux Road]Central

HONGKONG.

• New Cars on Hire & For Sale.

E. HING & CO.

SHIPBUILDING MATERIALS, SHIPCHANDLERS AND

HARDWARE MERCHANTS.

"PHONE NO. 1116.

25, WING WOO ST. CENTRAL.

FRENCH LESSONS.

G. MOUSSION,

15, Morrison Hill Road,

We the UNDERSIGNED being General Agents for THE MOTOR UNION INSURANCE CO., LTD., are prepared to issue POLICIES against FIRE, MARINE, and MOTOR ACCIDENT

risks at current rates.

Particulars from

UNION TRADING CO. Prince's Building.

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FRENCH

STORE.

FRENCH BREAD

The Leading Bread In The Colony

The undersigned beg to inform the Public in Kowloon that from the let December henceforth our assistants will distribute bread in Kowloon between 6.30 to 7.30 am. daily. All customers who wish to have "French Bread” are requested to register their names and addresses at The French Store.

THE FRENCH STORE.

CRASED ALL OVER, TOUN TO GET DAT SUGAR AM HOME ISE GOMLA CHASE YOU ALL OVER TÖKKK - FO! "TAKUL” IT!!

BY ALLMAN,