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BRIDGE NOTES
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.
A Hand From West Africa.
by Ely Culbertson.
Mr. H. C. Ray of Forminiere. Tshikapo, Congo Belge, writes that it is rather difficult to get up a Bridge game in West Africa as. the natives have not of course, taken up the pursuit, preferring head-hunting to such a mild pas- time as Contract Bridge, while the difficulties of the game among the few Europeans and Americans be- there are greatly enhanced cause of the trouble in finding a to in which common language make their bids.
He stated that, as a
general
rule, for Contract purposes En- W. 8. BAILEY & CO., LTD. glish is used, although French is Kowloon Bay, the tongue used for common com- New Work & Repairs. Call Flag "munication, by the
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GOVERNMENT NOTICES.
Americans, and English, French, Germans Russians who make up the little colony.
Accompanying his Interesting
j letter on Contract under the Equator he submits what he con- siders one of the worst bid hande of all times, and I must confess
An unusual picture, showing three generations of the Rumanian royal family on the reviewing stand during a recent celebration in Bucharest. Left to right. Prince Nicholas, brother of King Carol; Crown Prince Michael, heir to the throne; King Carol and his mother, the Marie, in uniform.
that Mr. Ray makes out a strong KING GIVES
case against his partner in the
North, who happened to be a lady BACK FAMOUS
who had learned her bidding
Germany. The hand was:
East, Dealer.
North and South vulnerable. NORTH:----
in
Dowager Queen
SHARED ROOM
FRADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAHNE
The following programme will be broadcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. on a wave length of 355 metres
(845°K.C.'s) :-
1-2.15 p.m.-European ProgramING. I p.m. Local Time & Weather Re-
port
1.03 p.m.-Recorded Music.
1.15 p.m.-A Relay of the Hong Kong Hotel Orchestra from the Hong Kong Management).
Hotel Grill Room. of the
(By courtesy
1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press Nows, etc.
2.15 pm-Close Down,
A talk on the "Shlag Mon Dam." Classical programme tonight.
4-7
Chinese Programme.
7-10.30 p.m.-European Progamme 7pm. Closing Local Stock Quota- tions London & New York Stock & Commodity Quotations.
7.107.30 pm Dance Muric.
Fox Trot
My Song Goes Round the World
Song Without Words
Walt
Hold Your Man
Fox Trot
Under a Blanket of Blue
Let's Fall in Love
Waltz--
You Have Taken: My Heart 7.30-8 p.m.-From the Studio. Hawaiian Selections by the Kaili Hawaiian Troubadours.
(Queenie, David & Pearl)
Programme
Hawaiian Rose
BRITISH SUBJECT AN ALIEN
COUNT WHO
BOER WAR RELIC
WITH HORSE 1.
2.
Eccentric Figures Found Murdered.
3.
I Lost My Heart To You
5.
A Flower Leh
6.
Steel Guitar Specialty
"Malama
Ukulele Dream Girl
Steel Guitar Specialty-"My Boy"
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AND SURVEYORS.
· Public Auctions
Undersigned have received
THE poll by Public
Auction
ON
Monday, the 9th, July, 1934,
at 12 o'clock Noon
at their 'Sales Room,
4; Duddell Street.
22 Cases Finest Danish Pressed
Pork each containing 12 tins of
3 lbs. net.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
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PUBLIC AUCTION.
PART the Sale by Public Auction
ARTICULARS & CONDITIONS
to be held on MONDAY, the 9th day of July, 1934, at 3 p.m. at the Officea of the Public Works De- partment, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Mount Kellett in the Co- tony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
years.
Van Sale
Baral Filding Int
Register No.
Nome: Burai Rulling
Locality.
Mount Kellett.
Bunday
enla
Doctim to T
Tipset Prien
S.-Q 987 5432 H.-8
D.--6 5 4
WEST:--
C.-Q
S.
H-KJ 53 2 D.-A Q 3 2 C-J853
S.-K 10 €
H-10 7 0
EAST:-
D.-10 97 C-K 10 9 2
SOUTH:-
S.-A J H.-A Q 9 4
DK J 8
C-A 7 6 4
East
P&18
1 H
I V
Pasa
2NT
Sonth Weet North
Pase (1) 18 (2) 3NT (3)
Pass
Pass
Разв Dbl.(4) Pas
Flo
11
ft. [About]
Pass (5) Pass
Stellaland Flag Returned.
RHODES RECOLLECTION ·
Cape Town.
Important Ruling In Southern Rhodesia.
APPEAL SUCCESSFUL
Bulawayo. (S. Rhodesia), A man naturalised as a British subject in the Union under thei Naturalisation of Aliens Act of
YOUNG ALBANIAN CHARGED
Waltz""Hawaiian Hotel March".
7. Hawaiian Hola-"Hu'i E-Ka Lei"
8. Old Plantation (Baritone Solo) 9. Hawaiian Song of Love.
Belgrade. One of the most extraordinary port.
8 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-
.8.01-8.30 p.m.-Musical Comedy.
1910 was held not to be a British characters in Yugoslavia, Countcal Gets
Djedushitzki, has been found
has
New Mayfair Orchestra. Vocal GemB
Wild Violets (Stolz)
Maria Elaner and Martin Kraemer of the State Opera Dresden with Chorus and Orchestra. 8.30-9 p.m.-A Relay from Daven-
8:40-9 pm "The Midland Studio
9.30 p.m.-London 1 p.m. Exchangw
The King's action in restoring to the Union the Flag of Stella
C. B. Cochran's 1930 Revue land recalls an interesting side subject in Southern Rhodesia by murdered in his house at Sara-
Light Opera Company. light on South African history.
the Bulawayo High Court.
jevo.
Selection- In 1883 President Kruger be
The Chief Justice, Sir Fraser
His manservant, a young Al- Casanova (J. Strause) gan a scheme of expansion to Russell, gave the ruling that rival Rhodes' dreams of expan people naturalised as British sub-banian named Vejail Hromo, sion to the north, and started out fects in the Union of South been arrested and charged with
the crime. bands of men to acquire and hold Africa must be regarded as aliena territory beyond the borders of in Southern Rhodesia and conse-hoarded vast quantities of gold The count was reputed to have the South African Republic.
quently not obliged to register in and jewels, but a search of the try. (Should reception prove satisfac- One of these expeditions, un-the local Defence Force. der Gerrit Jacobus van Niekerk,
The appeal of Samuel Stark, house has failed to reveal any tory).
..8.30-8.40. p. "An Eye-Witness founded the Republic of Stella-who was fined 10s. at Selukwe trace of them.
Many years ago Count Dje Account of To-Day's Play in the Third The actual bidding: (Figures land, in Bechuanaland, the cap for failing to register as a citi-
Test Match by Howard Marshal!". after bids refer to numbered ex-tal being Vryburg.
zen under the Defence Act, was dushitzki, who was a Pole, quar- Relayed from Old Tafford Cricket planatory paragraphs.)
Rhodes tried in various ways upheld and the conviction quash-relled with his family because of Ground, Manchester. to get the Cape Government to ed, the Judge holding that he his eccentric ways and became a
His was not a take over the territory.
beli. British subject in homeless wanderer over the face Orchestra" conducted by Frank Can- suggestion was backed up by Southern Rhodesia and therefore of Europe.
Finally he drifted to Bosnia-.20 p.m.-From the Studio. cession of the territory
The first of a series of Short Talks to the not a citizen."
on "Dama" by Mr. G. B. Gifford-Hall British by Chief Monkgroane and
observed and spent several years there, The Chief Justice
"The Shing Mun Dam". 1-West awaits developments. by a petition signed by a large that the appellant was born in working as an overseer in the peranze pix. 0,00011422-Of course, the correct Takeout. portion of the Dutch farmers Russia and entered the Union forest department.
Wherever he went he insisted 3-This, in the opinion of Mr. asking to be taken over.
with his father while still a Ray, is the world's worst bid. The Cape Government
re minor.
His father was natural-on sharing his room with
horse. The lady's explanation was fused.
ised in the Union in 1918 under Later, however, Rhodes car-the Union
Later he settled in Sarajevo, that South's
Naturalisation of
1910, and the living the life of a miser. It is trump showed atoppers in all ried his point, after himself go Aliens Act of suits and that, as she had such ing up to Stellaland and treating minor son therefore became na- told of him that he even refused a long sult in spades, she felt with its leaders.
turalised. In this Act the rights to allow the floors of his house to up he found conferred on naturalised British be scrubbed because he said, it Jure her partner could make When he got
things rather strained, but his subjects were expressly confined were then out. game.
the to the Union. 4--West now does not fear the re.frte-and-easy manner
1920 Case Cited.
a friend, who found him lying turn to spades although the confidence of Stellaland Boers. Double is dangerous and might
"Blood Must Flow"
The question as to rights con on the floor, strangled. He had suggest the wisdom of this The toughest nut he had to ferred under a similar Act, said been dead some time.
The arrested man "Groot" crack
Adrinan the Chief Justice, was decided in North to either courke South.
Delarey, a huge backveld farmer the case of Markwald versus the found the count dead when 5-At this point South consider with a reputation for direct Attorney-General in England in reached the flat in the morning
action.
1920, when it was held that but was afraid to When he first spoke to Groot person, although naturalised in police, Instead, he made Adriaan the only answer he got Australia, was an alien in the parations to escape.
The count's former wife, Coun was:. "Blood must flow."
"Now that United Kingdom. Rhodes replied: "No, give me case decides the matter I have tess Mihaelina, has come for- my breakfast. We can
talk to discuss to-day", continued the ward with information suggest- about blood afterwards."
Chief Justice. "It is binding ing that robbery was the motive Groot Adriaan, who knew a upon me. It is clear. from that of the crime.-Reuter. man when he saw one, was 8p case that such naturalisation ex-
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& Commodity Quotations.
9.20-10.32 pm-"Beethoven's Choral Symphony"
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor "Chora
(Beethoven) Conducted by Felix Weingartner with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Choral Work by
Miriam Licette, Muriel Brunskill, Hubert Eisdell, Harold Williams and
Chorus.
at Movement-Allegro ms non troppe 2nd Movement-Molto Vivace 3rd Movement-Adagio Molto 14th Movement Presto
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TUG-OF-WAR WITH AN EAGLE.
Boy Nearly Drowned
:
In Moravia-
Prague.
tine..
10.45 p.m.-Clone Down.
MAN SPEAKS 17
-- LANGUAGES
Beggar Sentenced To One Day In Gaol HAS NO NATIONALITY'
I
Vienna.
impressed with this that he tends to a Colony or Dominion agreed to talk.
which confers that privilege but Rhodes stayed with him for a does not extend beyond the bor week, became the godfather of ders of that Colony or Do- I hope that Mr. Ray, who was his grandchild-and managed to minion. the unfortunate
the South, made an come to a settlement with
The effect is that the appel- cspecially advantageous des in Stelleland Boers,
lant is not a British subject in crude rubber the next day to make Later British protectorate over Southern Rhodesia. It has been up for his losses.
the disputed territory was estabdecided that the mere taking of
A 18-year-old gypsy boy at Adolf Ziskin, nged 67, sad and ished by an expeditionary, force the oath of allegiance does not Stare Mesto, in Moravia, had just shabby, was charged with beg- under Sir Charles Warren. He confer the status of a British took the dag to England, where subject where it did not exist be caught a fish with hook and line ging in the streets of Vienna.
in the river when an eagle swoop He claimed to speak 17 lan- it was presented to the Queen. fore; so the fact that the appeled down and seized it in its guages, and the judge, who ad-
Now the King has given it lant's father Has taken the oath back to the Union-a gracious of allegiance does not make him act that will no doubt encourage a British ‹subject"—Reuter, the already coplous flow of Boer War relics back to South Africa.. -Reuter..
WIDOW'S GIFT TO NIEMOLLER.
Aiding German Fight For True Faith.
Berlin.
...A valuable diamond ring has been sent to Pastor Niemoller. head of the Pastors, Emergency League, at present conducting a struggle with the Narl "German Christian” movement...
SUICIDE AFTER SEEING FILM.
Unhappy Childhood
"HIKING" SEAL IN SWEDEN.
Found Floundering Four Miles From Sea.
Stockholm.
talona.
dressed him in French and Ita- The bird tried to fly off with lian, admitted that he spoke them the fish but the end of the line perfectly. was wound tightly round the Adolf said that his parents had boy's wrist..
to flee from Plevna during the There was a desperate tug-of-Russo-Turkish war of 1877, and war. Then the bird few at the hs was born in Istanbul But he Boy and beat him with its wings, did not know who his father and knocking him in the river,
mother were and had never had He was in danger of being nationality, drowned when luckily the disk V.He studied in Paris, he related. was torn from the hook and the and then became an engineer at bird made off with Its bootythe Berlin Balytechnic... Later Beuter.
the owned a factory at Elberfeld The ring has come from a A boy aged 12, living in Fop
(Rhirieland), till 1914, when he widow, formerly a wealthy wotenay le Comte, La Vendes, com
A grey seal which must have
On investigation they found was deported to Turkey. The man, and it was given to her by mitted suicide in his home short walked across four miles of her husband 32 years ago, ly after he had seen a film about rough country from the Baltic full-grown young seal about three Turks again departed him, as he
Now she has written to the unhappy childhood........
Adolf, was sentenced to "One: {} Pastor aaying that she has lost. He asked his parents to his hoon found in a farmyard at feet long, trying to squeeze in he had no papers, e
to let aggdanger, a Swedish village tween two walls,vtrope
In spite of its Journey across day " and the judge gave him ■ all her mong but is determined him remain at home when they dear Harnosand
Men employed on the farm land on awkward flippers, the few cigaretics Mirel bien, in some way to help him in his went out for a walk and on their fight for the True Faith Re-return they found him dead, heard a weird noise in the neigh-deal was still freen and showed musieur said, the old man 'as
he left the dock Reuter, light when captured-Reuter. hanged with his own ball-Beu- Bourhood of an outhouse,
Parade Paris.