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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 12, 1940.
BOUNCE THE
OLD BOUNCER!
By BUD FISHER
MISTER, YOU GOT ME ALL WRONG! I WAS
A BOUNCER IN A
RUBBER BALL? FACTORY!
B.B.C. Recording Of The "Fol-De-Rols”
Today's Wireless
6.00 p.m.-Excerpts from Gilbert and
Sullivan's "Patience".
6.28 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quotȧ-
tions.
6.30 p.m.An hour of Dance Music. .7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.
Orchestra.
New Light Symphony
Zampa-Overture (Herold},
Spanish Dance, No. 1 (Moszkowsky), "The Dubarry"-Selection.
8.25 p.m.-Hawalian Selections.
All My Life (flm Laughing Irish Eyes');
(Carlton Sundown In Old Walkiki
& Ritz)....George Ellott's Hawaiian. No-
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.. 9.52 Megacycles
velty Quartet with Vocal Chorus. Kohala March; Honolulu March....Frank Ferera & John K. Paaluhi (Hawaiian Guitars).
Hawallan Happiness-Medley....Len Fillis
& His Orchestra with Vocal Chorus. 8.45 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording - "The Fol-De-Rols". Written and pro- duced by Geatrex Newman, Music by Wolseley Charles.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-
mary.
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
ken..
FINE DISCARDING
to
Haydn Symphony In D
10.17 p.m.-Plano
Cortot.
Solos by
Alfred
Papillons, Op 2 (Schumann).
Etude En Forme De Valse (Saint-Saens). Etude in F Minor (La Leggerezza-Liszt).
9.30 p.m.-London Relay "Cards on 10.38 m-Haydn-Symphony No. 86
the Table":
9.45 p.m.-Schumann
Trio in
In D Major. London Symphony Orchestra
Bruno conducted by
D
Walter.
11:00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN,
Minor, Op. 63. Cortot, Thibaud and Casals.
PRISONERS LANDED IN CAPETOWN
CAPETOWN, TO-DAY.
SHIPS SUNK BY MINES
LONDON, TO-DAY.
A LIFEBOAT WHICH WAS OUT AT SEA FOR 39 HOURS DURING THE WEEK-END WENT OUT AGAIN A BRITISH WARSHIP HAS LAND-YESTERDAY TO THE HELP OF A ED 46 PRISONERS FROM SCUTTLED GREEK STEAMER NAZI SHIPS IN CAPETOWN. THEY REPORTED “MINED WILL BE INTERNED IN THE UNION TWO OTHER SHIPS HELPED AT THE EXPENSE OF THE BRITISH PICK UP THE CREW. GOVERNMENT.
Two British ships, aggregating 4,000
WHICH WAS AND SUNK. ΤΟ
On board the British warship, the tons, have been sunk, both by mines. Germans' were given the greatest pos-Reuter. sible freedom and at their own re- quest were allowed to help in the working of the ship.
The warship also landed 16 British casualties (including five cot cases) from the River Plate battle with the Graf Spee; they have been in hospi- tal in the Falkland Islands-Reuter.
QUIET SESSION ON STOCK EXCHANGE
London, To-day. The Stock Exchange was mainly quiet owing to the imminence of the war loan issue. The prices of most won two tricks in clubs, you can group tended to ease, but Indian Government Bonds were exceptional- observe that if I had
ly strengthened on good buying from Eastern sources.
Our friend. William D. Lee of manner of discarding hearts was Evanston, Ill., writes: "I think you show a five-card suit and Declarer will agree that the most difficult hands must therefore be void. to defend are those where the de- "I of course quickly got rid of my fending side are forced to make re-diamonds, but subsequently let go of eventually peated discards. I feel rather proud all my hearts While I of having defeated this six-spade con- tract with some fine cooperation by my partner, George Sagarin."
South, Dealer North-South vulnerable
5 2.
Mr. Bagnklä
10.8 5 4.
0 Q 75
4754
A 74
10 0:
a
my
discarded single club in order to protect King of hearts, the contract would have been made."
#
XX
✡
Yesterday, with both sides vulner- able, you were David Bruce Burn- stone's partner and held:
OK QJ 10 x x
♡ A Q 9 7 8
Axx
Mr. Les
♡ xx
♡ K J 6
W
A XX
2
0 0 6 4 2
The blading:
◊ J 10 8 8 4 3 2
S
♣ QJ 10 8
Alaior INT
Barnstone Pass
Jacoby 2NT
You (7)
AKQJ8 6 a
correct
OAK
♣AK 96
is
1.
The bidding:
South
West
North Bast
Разв Pass
*♡
Pass
Paps Pasa
HIGH GARD VALUES
FOUR-ACE# #YETEN
3
ACE CO KING..2
QUFEN 1 JACK....!
“Mr. Sagarin open-
Wall Street was steady--Reuter.
ENEMY PRISONERS
Asked
IN BRITAIN ·
London, To-day.
· DUTCH: SHIP: LOST
AMSTERDAM, TO-DAY. THE DUTCH CARGO STEAMER AMOR (2.325 TONS) WAS MINED AND SUNK NEAR THE WEST HIN- DER LIGHTSHIP YESTERDAY,
The crew of 30 were rescued by the Irish steamer City of Bremen and landed at Flushing. The Amor was en route to Holland from the West Indles. Reuter.
MILL STRIKE IN BOMBAY
Bombay, To-day.
in-
The Bombay Government has tervened in a labour dispute-with- out. much success so far..
Since last Monday, 130,000 mill workers have been out on strike for wage increases owing to the higher cost of living:
the
em-
owner:
When negotiations with ployees' broke down, the Bombay In the House of Commons Government asked the mill now many German prisoners of war if they would grant a bonus if, as a and captured merchant seamen were result of the war, they got higher now in internment camps, the Under-profits..
1
Secretary for the Home Office said The mill owners had a meeting and that the figures on March 8 were 257 yesterday issued a statement saying
Your ANSWER:
bid combatant prisoners of war and 1,271, that they could not increase their
Reuter... While merchant seamen.
original offer.--Reuter. three diamonds.
may be yout
set as much as 700 points (three tricks doubled, less honors), it looks as though your op ponents will bid and make a notrump game unless you get a diamond open- ing.
Score 100 per cent, for three dia- ed the three of diamonds, 70 per cent. for pass,
monds, showing! a
four-card
and sult
Question No. 356
Oswald Jacoby is your partner and
marking Declarer with you hold
Ace-King
proceeded
South run off spade sult.
hia frat
three discards were the five-four-deuce of. hearts in that order. This was highly significant to me as I thought if my partner held only three hearts, his first discard, would be the deuce, If he bald four, he would have given a high-low cho
K10, 11, 1)
The bidding.
Phay What do you tomorrow.).
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