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TO RUSSIAN RESIDENTS! the only Firm in Hong Kong having still ready Xmas trees and Xmas Cards for the Russian Christmas. The "Star of Bethlehem"; Whitesway Bldg. End Πουτί
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
DENTISTS
MR. HARRY FONG, DENTIST,
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.:
HAVE NOW REMOVED.
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ENGINEERS & SHIPBUILDERS
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OPTICIANS
THE HONG KONG OPTICAL COMPANY,
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Leather Handbags, Sult Cases, Purses, Hal Boxes, Collar Boxes Belts, Etc. a
MAN WO LOONG Leather Case Store 5, Pottinger St.
W.W. AHANA
COMPANY (H.K.) LIMITED beg to announce their removal on Jan, 15th to
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935.
Aune Button, a 22-year-old midget, la suing five-foot-eight Andrew Murphy, aged 28, in New York, for $100,000, alleging breach of promise. Morphy, who is married. and is the father of two children, denies her charges.
BRIDGE NOTES FORCING BIDS
by Ely Culbertson.
Forcing bids are in themselves NO. 81 DES VOEUX ROAD CTL both an evil and a necessity. They (Opposite Wing On Bank Bldg.) are bad, because players are apt TO LET-Furnished European Dwelling and invite their former clients and all to use them too indiscriminately House No. 11, Mountain View, The who desire high class tailoring at rea-
On the other Peak. 6 Bed Rooms with Drawing, Bil-sonable prices to visit them in their and with hands which do not
justify their use. liard, Dining, and Drying Rooms, Ser-new location.
hand, when a forcing bid should vants Quarters. Available for occupa-
be used, a Bridge player should tion from 1st April 1985. Apply to
not hesitate, as otherwise a Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co., P. & 0.) Building,
wrong picture of the hand is pre- sented. In this hand the South
FOR SALE
SOON
Directory 1935 EDITION H.K. now being printed. Will be on sale Coples PAID CASH IN AD- VANCE will be delivered from Brat lot bound up. The Publishers-3A, Wynid- ham Street..
MISCELLANEOUS
YOUR VISITING CARDS neatly and promptly printed."Chinn
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SPORT NOTICES,
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
ANNUAL RACE MEETING, 1935
NOTICE
FINTRIES for the above will close at 3.00 p.m. on SATURDAY,
E
12TH JANUARY, 1935,
By Order of the Stewards,
C. B. BROWN.
Secretary.. Hong Kong, 9th January, 1936.
Just Received POSTAGE STAMPS CATALOGUE
for 1935
Stanley Gibbons
1st Part British Empire
$4.50
2nd Part Foreign Countries.. $7.00
Whole World ...................... Simplified
..... $10.50
$3.50
Scott Stamp and Cain Co... $8.00 Yvert et Tellier Champion.. $8.00
GRACA & CO., Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious Gooda, Garden Seeds, Post Cards
etc.
No. 10 Wyndham Street.
P: O. Box No. 620. . Hong Tong.
HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors' the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland. Is published:
Bigual Station
Mt. Parker
Telephone 26456
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The Eyrie
1,725
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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME
The following programme will brandcasted to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station [Z.B.W. on wave length of 255
metres (845 K.C.'s) :-
12.30-2.15
STAMNG.<
p.m. European
12.80-1 p.m.-Recorded Music,
Pro-
1 p.m.-Local Time and Weather Report.
1.08 p.m.-Recorded Music.
1.15 pm-A Relay of the Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room!
(by courtesy of the Management).
1.30 p.m. Reuter Press Bulletins, Rugby Press Nawa," otc.
2.15 pm.-Close Down.
THREE STUDIO ITEMS Dance Music.
4-7 p.m. Chinese Programmé.
PAULINE-
7-11 pm European Programme,
7 pm-Closing Local Stock Quota tions, London and New York Stock and Commodity Quotations,---
GEORGE
་་་
7.06-7.33 p.m.-Band Selections from Operas.
Aida-Introduction and Moolah Ballet
(Verdi).
PAULINE
Alda-Grand March and Finale (Verdi)
| La Traviata-Drinking Song and Gypsy
Choras (Verdi).
La Traviata Prelude Act. III (Verdi). Carmen-Aldershot Command Search-
light Tattoo-Selection: (Bizet), 7.33-8 pm-Variety.
Songs
What more can I ask? Brighter than the Sun...
Duets-Alene
"Anona Winn (Soprano),
Waitin' at the gate for Katy
Instrumental
Layton and Johnstone.
Kitten on the Keys
Canadian Caners
Songs
The Bix Keyboard Kings.
You were so charming I'm your slave
Charles (Gerry) Fitz Gerald
(Tenor).
8 pm-Local Time annd Weather Report
8-8.33 p.m. From the Studio. A Violin and Pianforte. Recital by Professor F. Gonzalez and Mrs. Luba Shaftin.
Programme 1. Violin Solos:Suite by Goldmark,
Op, 11. 1st Movement-Allegro. 2nd
singer used three forcing bids to 2. Pianoforte Solos:
assure the correct final contract.
North, Dealer
North and South vulnerable
North:
S-K
H.-8
DA Q J 10 5 2 C-K Q 10 7 4
West:
S-Q 10 9 8 7 6 2 H.-Q J 3
D.
C.-8 5 2
East:-
S-6 3
H-10 9 7 2 D-9 8 6 4 C-9 6 3
South:-
.
S-A J 4
H-A K 6 5 4
D-K 7,3
C.-A J
(a) Fuge (b) Rondo
Andante Sistenuta.
Bach. Dagain.
(e) Tahbourin Rameau Godovsky.
3. Violin Solas:-
Fuga in A Minor
Danse Espagnole
Tartini-Kreiales.
La Vida Breve ...Falla-Kreisler. 8.38-9 pm.-Orchestral Music, Rondo aus der Haffner Serenade
(Mozart). #
Cocksine, Concert Overture, Op. 40
(Elgar).
Le Carnaval Romain-Overture
(Berlioz, Op.9).
9-9.45 p.m. From the Studio.
A 30th Recital of Gramonhone Re cords by The Rev, C. B. R. Sargent.
-9,45 p.m.-Reuter Press Bulletins, London 1 p.m. Stock and Commodity Quotations.
9.50-10 p.m. Quartets.
Quartet No. 1 in D Major-Finale
Allegra (Dittersdorf).
Barcarolle--Transcription
(Tchaikovsky).
Gavotte Transcription (Gluck).
.10-11 p.m.-From the Studio.
- Dance Music by the R.M.S. "Ranchi" Orchestra.
10.80 p.m.-Renter Press Bulletins. Further London Stock and Commodity
The bidding: (Figures after bids refer to numbered explana- Quotations. tory paragraphs), North East
ID.
Pass
3D. 4C.
Pass
South West 2H. 28. 8S.(1) Pass Pass 5NT(2) Pass 4D.(3) Pass Pass Pass 1-Four diamonds is an' alter-
native bid at this point, but
11 pm-Close Down.
EMPIRE CANCER CAMPAIGN
the North player was rather Hong Kong Donations
devoted to semi-psychics and
*South wished to learn more
Top Overseas List
about the distribution of his $5,330 FROM WIRELESS APPEAL
hand.
2-Inasmuch as North has shown,
A copy has just been received in another suit South decides to take the bidding at its face Hong Kong of the Report present- ed by Professor W. 8. Lazarus-Bar value, and the bid of five no-i trump is the conventional low, Chairman of the Appeal Fund showing of three Aces and Committee, to the Grand Council the King of a bid suit. This of the Campaign at its Annual should make the situation General Meeting.
crystal clear to North. The In summing up, the Chairman King of diamonds is marked said: "I have reason to believe that -- in South's hand.
the Empire Day Appeal, 1984, when 8-North knows that South its accounts are closed, will show holds the diamond King. He in round figures that a sum of therefore bids the grand slam £60,000 has been raised at a cost at once of 20,000, or 10 per cent."
Of course, seven diamonds was Contributions outside the British made laid down, as both diamonds Ieles have been received from
and clubs were solid and South's Palestine, East Africs, Roumania, Aces accounted for singletons in Belgium, West Indies, France, the major suita.
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