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THE
WINNING CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 14, 1940
ARCHITECTS' S
PLIGHT
Of all the professions, that of
CANTON INSURANCE BRIDGE SWINDLES NO. 5 the architect has probably been
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Notice is hereby given that Scrip Certificate No. 1358 dated 9th June, 1933 for Fifty Shares numbered 35386/35435 In the above Office, standing in the name of Mr. Harry Adolph Lucker," ofļ Tientsin, has been lost, and should the same not be produced before the 24th September, 1940, a new Scrip Certificate will be issued in favour of the said Mr. Harry Adolph Lucker, and no transac- tion taking place under the old Scrip Certificate will be recognis- ed by the Office.
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The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
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commencing at 5.15 p.m.
at their Sales Room. No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Second Floor
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:
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS
Catalogues will be issued
On View from Tuesday, the 17th. September, 1940.
Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
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Des Voeux Road, Central. Tele- phones:-20022 & 20011 ·
TUITION GIVEN
North, Dealer
Noither side vulnerable
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SOLDIER JILTED, DIED
If to-day's hand had been pro- most badly hit by the war. Others perly bid, West would have lack-have suffered a drastic diminution letter. from his sweetheart Sylvia. A soldier in camp received a ed the opportunity for a very of both work and income, but, the He knew the handwriting and he neat Bridge "swindle."
architect alone has seen his ordi-leagerly tore open the envelope to nary means of living completely read her cheering message. stop.
But as he read the letter alone This was an inevitable result of in his tent his face fell. It was to the almost complete cessation of be, she told him, her last letter. all private building and of au She had fallen in love with an- public bullding except that re-other man. quired for urgent national pur- AK 4
poses. True, there has been an
The soldier wept as he read and 'immense amount of building for re-read the message which he d'd K865 the War Office-camps, barracks, not want to believe. Then he de- etc., for the Air. Ministry-aero-cided that he must go and see dromes and air buildings general-Sylvia. ly and for other departments, but this in the main has provided very little work for architects.
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KJ 9
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A 10 9
The bidding:
North
East
South
West
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Pass
IA
Pass
3♡
Pass
34
Pass
40
Pags
Pass
Pass
Pass Pass
KISH CARD VALVES
OF THE
Acer
100,000 People Affected
"The problem is a terrible one,' a high authority in the profession said. "Many of the younger
He went to an officer to ask. for leave. But he was too dis- trecred to speak. Without saying word he saluted, handed Sylvia's letter to the officer, and remained silent, weeping, whlie the officer read it,
a
The officer sympathised, pro- mised to place an application for North should have passed at six men have found a solution in leave before the colonel The leave hearts, largely because an open-joining the Forces, but the older could not be granted. When the ing diamond lead by East would men have seen their livelihood soldier was told of this he told a not be dangerous, vanish. Some have struggled on pal that he had not slept for two As it happened, with odd jobs-designing and sup nights, had missed the last three. Ex however, when ervising air-raid shelters in houses meals and that there was "only North went to six and offices, surveying building. he was found shot in his tent.
one thing to do." Soon afterwards spades, the opening for A.R.P. purposes, and that sort diamond lead by of thing-but many have been QUEEN 1 West gave South unable to pay even their office JACK
no choice, but to rents and their future prospects finesse. East took are deplorable. the diamond King and returned club, dummy winning with the tered architects in the country.
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KINK
TRIAL VALUE DE PELLA
BARBARO HAND & SS
EXPERT Instructresses for ladies Jack.
MISCELLANEOUS
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Leave Impossible
That was the story told at the inquest in a south-west town on "There are about 13,000 regis-the Yorkshire and Lancashire Re- Private Douglas Haig Mordue, of
but taking into account draughts-giment. Mordue, whose home was men and office staffs the profes-at Ashington, Northumberland,
was twenty-three. sion probably supported up to 100,000 people.
and young girls in music, short-' South now had to clear trumps hand, typing, bookkeeping and without loss, and his only chance English and French. Apply 21 lay in finding a doubleton King in
The girl's name was not given Austin Road, Kowloon.
the East hand. He therefore led
at the Inquest. She was referred Ja low trump from dummy and
"It is difficult to see any real
to only as Sylviä. finessed the Jack. It was on this remedy until the war is over and Captain Leonard Percy Stack trick that West set his trap.
normal life is resumed, but we said that Mordue handed him the He simply played the nine of feel, the Government might have letter. Mordue was crying and in spades! Now South expected to done more to help. The import-a broken-down state. find the five of trumps in the East building industry generally to the saw Mordue and explained to him ance of the architect and of the FOR VISITING CARDS, neatly hand.
Later the Commanding Officer' The only chance, in that ind promptly printed, Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-case, was to lead the spade Queen country is clear, but in each case sympathetically why it was not
from dummy to pick up West's concerns are being wound up and possible to grant leave. sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen- "blank" ten while trapping East's their services will not be avail- tral Telephones-20022 & 20011. King. That, of course, was justable when the need arises.
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The coroner said it was one of. those unfortunate occurrences that had to be met, but it was more.
country.
what West had been hoping for, since the fall
"One" remedy, which of the three top continuously urged on the Gov-the young man was serving his
we have unfortunate, in this case because. spades made his teh the high ernment, not merely for the sake trump. Note, however, that South would have been forced to terests also of economy and eff- of the profession, but in the in-
"I think," he said to Mordue's make
the correct play but for ciency, is that they should employ
father, you will find, that the.... West's imaginative false-card. expert professional supervision on
young lady was very open with... Yesterday you were Oswald ment urgency work which is be-temporarily, deranged was the ver-
the enormous amount of Govern-
your son and did what was hest.co Suicide while his mind was Jacoby's partner and, with both ing carried out. The sides vulnerable, you held:
men are dict. available, Why not employ them?
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7:
The bidding: Jacoby Schenken You
16
Pass
34 Рава (7.)..
Burnsions Pada
ANSWER: Pass. You gave the
full value of your hand on the]
Saving Public Money
:
sumption of these materials when' efficient substitutes were avail- "Had this policy been pursued able has been enormous. Experi- in the beginning there would have ence has already proved, too, as been a great saving in such es-in the last war, that there would sential materials as steel and have been a substantial reduction. timber. The unnecesary con- in costs."
last bid, you have no real reason OFF THE RECORD
to accept the Slam invitation. You
would accept the invitation if you had two Aces or a long suit or even better "intermediates."
Score 100% for pass, 50% for six spades.
QUESTION NO. 615
To-day you are David Bruce Burnstone's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you hold:
The bidding
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