MUTT AND JEFF
IF HIS TAIL POINTS | AND HE CAN
STRAIGHT UP THAT `MEANS'YES'AND
I WONDER IF
MY WIFE IS OUT!
MUTT, WHY DON'T YOU
ASK MY LYRE DOG! HE'LL TELL
IF IT DROPS
YOU WITH
DOWN THAT...
MEANS "NO!",
TELL ME IF IT'S SAFE TO 60 IN THE HOUSE?
SURE! LOOK!LOOK! THAT MEANS
HIS TAIL IS UP! THAT MEANS
YES!"
HURRAH!
EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT!.
(NOW IN
CAN GET
MY DOUGH!
4-24
HIS TAIL!
THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1940.
By BUD FISHER
LOOK AT THAT
FOOL! HE STILL
HAS HIS TAIL
UP!
WELL, I TOLD YOU HE WAS ALYRE DOG
"Vive la France"
and Other
London Relays
Today's Wireless
5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
6.47 p.m.-Negro Spirituals.
Oh! Rock, Me, Julie; Oh! Didn't It
Rain (arr. Burleigh).
Git On Board, Lil' Chillun; Dere's No Hidin' Place (arr. Lawrence Brown).
Since You Went Away (Johnson). Wid De Moon, Moon, Moon (Cook).
..Paul
Robeson (Bass) with
Piano accomp. 7.00 p.m.--Tudor Davies (Tenor) In a
Light Orchestral Programme.
Overture (Coleridge- Christmas
حسد
Taylor). Lane Wilson Melodies. Intro: When dull care; Phyllis has such charm- ing graces; The Sailor's Life; My lovely Celia; Come, Let's be merry.
ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.
9.52 Megacycles
Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. Onaway! Awake! Beloved ("Hiawa-
tha'-Coleridge-Taylor)
Cinema. Memories - Medley; Free (from 'O-Kay for Sound'); Night Must Fall (film "The Tenth Man'). Tu-8.35 p.m. -- Selections from Light
Opera. "The Bohemian Girl"-Vocal Gems (Balfe)....Light Opera Company with Orchestra.
dor Davies (Tenor) with Orch. Petite Suite De Concert (Coleridge- London Symphony Taylor). Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.
7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather
Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Jazz-Plano Recital
by Doreen Ma. 8.20 p.m.-Quentin
́Organ.
Maclean at the
Winning
CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken
World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in existence.
GOOD GUESSING
To-day's hand was well bid by North and returned a trump. South now and South, for in spite of the handicap | trumped his remaining diamond in of a partial score, they contracted for a Small Slam in hearts which offered a
good chance for success. However, South had to do some good guessing to make his contract.
Neither side vulnerable North and South 60 on suora
A 10 8
◊ A 7
4 Q7582 ♡ 8 5
J 10 4
♣ A Q.J⋅ 6.8
8 4 7.6 2
N
10 6 2
W
K9 8 5 2
S
◊ KQ 8.8 10 4
A K J 9
9 8
Selection "The Gypsy Princess"
(Kalman)....De Groot & The New Victoria Orchestra. "Die Fledermaus" Vocal Gems (J.
Strauss)..
....Grand Opera Com- pany with Orchestra. 9.00. p.m.-Military Band. Music.
ROYAL AIR FORCE STRENGTH
LONDON, TO-DAY.
IT CAN BE COMPUTED FROM AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUES IS- SUED DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE TOTAL BRITISH AIRCRAFT
է
Doreen Ma
At The
Piano
Country Life Suite (Alford)....The Band of H.M. Royal Marines, `Ply- mouth Division.
The Soloist's Delight (Godfrey); Marche Heroique De Szabady (Massenet, arr. Dan Godfrey).. The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards cond. by Lieut. J. C. Win- dram.
mary.
9.15 p.m.-London Relay--News Sum 9.30 p.m.-London Relay —
France".
"Vive la
9.45 p.m.-Ninon Vallin (Soprano) In
a French Programme.
Hill 10.13 p.m. — Varlety with the
Blilies, Jack Buchanan, Cicely Courtneldge and Others.
11:00 p.m.-London
Relay
ground to the News". 11.16 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.
"Back-
U.S. TRIBUTE TO B.E.F.
NEW YORK, TO-DAY. THE "DETROIT FREE PRESS" SAYS. HE WHO REMAINS COUR-
·AGEOUS IN THE FACE OF ADVER- SITY IS COURAGEOUS INDEED.
The conduct of the British "In the retreat from Flanders has provoked Nazi opponents and the morale of expressions of respect even from their those who finally reached their island home suggests that the spirit of ATTRI-
Majesty's fighting men remains
LOST IN ACTION SINCE MAY 10 IS 302-LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF THE TOTAL LOSSES BUTED TO THE ALLIES IN GER- MAN CLAIMS.
are
dummy, ruffed a club in his hand Naturally no official figures of the and then played his remaining trumps, output of the aircraft industry At this point South had to guess the available. It can be confidently stat- location of the spade Queen, for heed, however, that the total strength could finesse in either direction. He of the R.A.F. is greater at the end had carefully counted his opponents' of these four weeks than it was at the distribution and now know that East beginning-four weeks in the latter Dunkirk had originally held five spades. There- part of which fore the chances were overwhelmingly in favour of his holding the Queen. South therefore played East for the spade Queen and made his contract by two two-way correctly guessing finesses.
❤
宓
*
Yesterday Merwin Maier was your partner and you held:
MMM
The bidding:
Bouth
West
North Dast
10
Рава
8♡
Раве
3 4♡
-PASS
The bidding:
Pass
Babenken
Рава BV
Pass
Pass
Pass
West made the embarrassing lead
(for South) of a trump. Observing
Jsonky UniMaler
Pass
You INT Pass 8
INT
PASS
INT Розв Page
Pass.
Pass
ANSWER: Your correct lead is a
that he could now ruff only one dia- club. This lead will surely not cost
#
mond in dummy, you a trick. Any other lead is likely
HISH CARD VALUES –... South decided that he to..),
OF THE FOUR ACES SYSTEM
ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK.
would have to finesse. clubs. There were two ways of taking, the club finesse--dummy's Ace could be played. and then the Queen led through East, or South could lead the single- ton club from his hand. and take a straight finesse. It appear. ed as though West's trump opening showed some club strength and South therefore decided on the latter method. After dummy's club _Queen held, the Ace was cashed and a diamond dis- carded. The Ace and another dia- mond were then played,
won
Score club lead 100%, any suit 0.
other.
QUESTION NO, 429 Howard Schenken is your partner and you hold:
J 9 X X
K.J XX
Schenke
The bidding:
You fustone.
Mater Pann Pass (7) What do you, bid?
Pask
Pass
over the
and
in-
beaches it "engaged the main strength of the German air force flicted upon it losses of at least four to one," to use the Premier's words. British Wireless..
broken.
His
un-
The "Cincinnati Inquirer" declares the removal of more than 250,000 AI-
lied troops from Flanders is specta- cular proof that sea power can stand up to aerial thrusts better than many observers expected. Reuter,
LANDSLIDE VICTIM
The heavy rainfalls of the last few days have claimed yet another victim. In a report to the Police, Ngan Yan, 52, who resided in a hut on the hill- side at Sek Kip Mel Village, in the Shamshulpo area, stated that his 18- hut year-old daughter was in his when it was buried by a landslide at 6 a.m. yesterday. ́.
GERMAN DIPLOMACY IN BULGARIA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
Softa, To-day: A German delegation has arrived here which is entrusted with the signature of a cultural agreement be- tween the Reich and Bulgaria-Havas. tuary.
In the
When the girl was extricated, life The body was found to be extinct. was removed to the Kowloon Mor-
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