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(By The Four Aces);
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THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 4, 1940
HUSBAND HAD NINE WOMEN SAYS WIFE
the reduction in the duty on Hong close bidding questions because that her husband had A good player often decides woman who alleged Kong brewed beer, our prices will of the presence or absence of be reduced by $1.04 per case of eights and mines rather than committed /* misconduct 6 doz. pints and $1.32 per case of deuces or treys. The hand below with nine women 4 doz, quarts as from 1st Septem shows how useful an "Infer- ber, 1040.
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The bidding North East Pass
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West 20 Pass
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THURSDAY, 5th September, 1940] commencing at 10.30 a.m.
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was
granted a decree nisi in the Divorce Court: .
Misconduct was trot denied, but the husband Phillip Chandler, pleaded condohation by his wife, Freda May Chandler, of Langham Street, W. This she denied."
- The marriage was in 1937, at Workingham register office, and Mr. and Mrs. Chandler afterwards lived. at Sonning, Berkshire,
According to the case for Mrs. Chandler, there was trouble over other women within a few weeks of the marriage and in September, 1938, she found a diary which in- dicated the misconduct alleged in| the petition.
Mr. Chandler, who gave an ad- dress at Campden, Glos., contend- ed that the act of condonation| took place last month.
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You no longer are of the younger generation when you've decided the most un- essential. thing in life is the night latchkey.
that Mr. Chandler had committed
Giving judgment, Mr. Justice adultery. dummy winning with the bring her petition within three that of condonation. "There is no of Bucknili said that in order to The only issue remaining was
Declarer noter a possible years of the marriage, Mrs. doubt that there must be de-
loser in each suit, Chandler
affidavit liberate perjury on one side or the so had to find a in which she alleged that other unless. Mr. Chandler is the
and way to eliminate between May. 27
August kind of man who
BUSH CARD VALUES)
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
FACH 03 EXINGS 2 QUEEN 1 JACKEV
TOTAL VALUE OF PROCITA
swore
an
imagines this
one loser. A sim- 29, 1938, Mr. Chandler committed sort of thing," Mr. Justice Bucknill ple finesse of the adultery on nineteen occasions, said. club Queen would with nine different women.
gome.
suffice if East held As for the discovery of the diary the King, but even if it were, in part a work of South looked for imagination-and he was disposed)
additional to believe that it was in part-
coupled with the evidence and the He found it in the possibility fact that the charges of adultery that East held either the King or were not. denied he was satisfied the Jack-ten of clubs. At the second trick, therefore, he led a
chance.
naught Road Central, 2nd Floor. ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS low club from the dummy and OFF THE RECORD.
A QUANTITY OF LINEN
Comprising:
and
Table cloths, Napkins, Towels, Pillow cases, Table covers sundries.
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10 bundles Galvanized Plain
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8 coils Galvanized Wire Shorts
1 carton Olive Oil
and
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.AND OFFICE FURNITURE Terms: Cash on delivery..
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.: Hong Kong, 14th September, 1940.
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc-| tion on
FRIDAY, 6th. September, 1940. commencing at 2.30 p.m.
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also
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
2 Sewing Machines,
1 Adding Machine.
1 Steel Filing Cabinet.
1 Flask Light.
1 Cooking Stove.
3 Bed Room Suites.
1 Dining Room Suite,
2 Radios "Delco" and Westing-
house."
2. Electric Refrigerators "Kel-
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finessed the nine.
As it happened, that knocked out West's. King West returned! a heart, dummy winning with the Ace, and South promptly cashed; the Ace and Queen of clubs; to discard the heart loser" from the dummy.,Only then was it time j to draw trumps.
Note that East would not have gained anything by playing the ten of clubs at the second trick. South would finesse the Queen, losing to West's King. But on the next trick South would suc-
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dummy's losing heart would go off on the club Ace.
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Yesterday, as dealer with nei- ther side vulnerable, you held:
A 9 8.4 ♡ ̃AKQ7 ◊ 8 3
AJ 10 2
ANSWER: Bid one spade. Al- though the hearts are considerably stronger, the opening spade bid makes later bidding much more comfortable with this hand.
Score 100% for one spade, 60%%% for one heart, 0 for pass..
QUESTION NO. 506
To-day you hold the same hand and, with Oswald Jacoby as your partner, the bidding continues:
.Fou Bebenken
1A (7)
Pass
Jacoby INT
Burnstone
Pass
(Answer
What do yow bid?
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It was not likely that Mrs. Chandler, a woman, of thirty- four, who had been divorced, would have condoned her hus- band's adultery in the way Mr. Chandler suggested.
"I am satisfied this condonation. never took place," said the Judge.
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By ED REED.
"They've always treated that mutt like one of the family!"
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