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CRIME DOESN'T PAY! NO. 11 Sad and weary is the lot of the |Bridge criminal! Try to spot the crime, but don't be too hard on
THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 26, 1940.
COLONEL PAYS DANCE HOSTESS £125 BREACH
DAMAGES
LOVE LETTERS in which a lieutenant-colonel,
GOVERNMENT OF the culprit his partner told him aged fifty-five, told a dance hostess she was “clean,
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In connection with the proposed A 10 94 establishment of an Immigration: 7 3 2 Department in Hong Kong, ap-8.7 plications are invited for posts of temporary Assistant Immigration Oficer.
The approximate salary of the posts will be $150 per mensem (inclusive); and'appointments will be terminable at one month's police.
TO LET
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sweet, and dainty," and made his life a "real throb- bing thing again,” were read during the nearing of a breach of promise action. to
Miss Kathleen Lee, twenty-four, of Ivor Court, Gloucester Place, London, W., sued Lieutenant- 5482 Colonel Humphrey Pellew Forster Mills, saying that they were to have married in February, but he called it off in January and had since married someone else.
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HIGH CAND VALUES FOUR-ACES EVETER FACE
KING 2 FURNISHED or unfurnished two QUEEN 1 rooms, with large front verandah.|
JACK Private kitchen. Fifty dollars. Nathan Road: Corner HillwoodL, VILLE ON PAAR SA
the
Mr. Justice Singleton, in the King's Bench Division awarded! Miss Lee £125 damages with costs.
Miss Lee's counsel, Mr. R. F. Levy, K.C., said the promise was made early last November.
Applicants should be British South subjects of pure European descent 1 between the ages of 21 and 28 2NT and should have passed the Lon-4 don matriculation examination or Pass a recognised equivalent examina-
West opened the eight of d'a- Miss Lee, an orphan, WES of tion.
the good education and culture. Applications should be address-monds, South winning with
Jack. led to Mr. J. H. B. Lee, c/o Secre-
three rounds of
Her father, who was Chinese tariat for Chinese Affairs.
trumps, South suc- and became a naturalised British cessfully finessed
subject, graduated at London. Unt- dummy's spade Queen
but fill-versity and became tutor at Nan- |king University. Her mother was ed the air with his
English. groans when
When Miss Lee became or- spade Ace drew a phaned and without means she diamond from East.
began to earn her own livelihood. South now got In the summer of 1938 she became back via the dia-
la dance hostess at the Floridal mond Queen to run Club, Grosvenor Street, W., earn- view. Top floor. Apply Box No. the last two trumps, West non- 158 c/o The China Mail."
chalantly discarding clubs. Duum-ing £5 a week.
She was introduced to Colonel my next won the diamond Acc Mills by another officer last Octo- and west blanked the club King Declarer then took the club finesse
At their second meeting he ask- and West took the blank clubed her to become engaged. AI- King and two spade tricks!
Now, our detective friends, it's though she did not accept him then, he insisted on putting a ring on her finger, on South but what was his obvious that the handcuffs belong
PUBLIC AUCTIONS Road Bus two minutes. Nice
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FOR SALE
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
FRIDAY, 27th September, 1940- commencing at. 2.30 p.m.
HONG KONG dollar DIREC- at their Sales Room,
TORY 1940 EDITION—On sale at No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.all Bookstalls and at the Offices of Des Voeux Road, Central. Tele- the Publishers, Windsor House,
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:
phones:—20022 & 20011
TUITION GIVEN
AVERAGE HAD STA
crime? Decide for yourself be- fore going on.
After successfully finessing the spade Queen, South should have led a low spade from the dummy! break, South
Drawing Room, Bed Room, Din- ing Room and Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Pictures, Curios, EXPERT instructresses for ladies Despite the bad
ber.
.
She did not love him then, but later became fond of him and ac- cepted.
They met frequently and ho telephoned to her almost daily and [wrote many love letters.
He informed her, in one letter] that she was dean, sweet and] dainty."
7-30
When Chorine Clara fussed about her terrible lince, the. stage manager told, her not to worry-it was her out-lines they'd hired hen for..
Ornaments, Cutlery, EP., Brass and young girls in music, short could win: the third spade Glass and Porcelain Ware, Electric and, typing, bookkeeping and in
the dummy and ruff Fans and Lamps, Gramophones English and French.
fourth spade to esta- Apply 24 a and Records, Books, Magazines, Austin Road: Kowloor
Colonel Mills told her his in-which was all he could hope for blish the last one. Then there
after the warst ye Ferambulators; Cooking Utensils,
would be no need to guess about come was about £90 a month, and
"I^am fifty-five, or nearly s0," etc., etc..
the club finese. Incidentally, give promised to open a banking, ac- be stated in the letter, "and I can. West credit for a very pretty de- her a monthly dress allowance of chances of earning. You are young. count for her with £50 and make!
not" deceive myself about my
also
A Quantity of Blackwood and Rattan Furniture
and
2 Bed Room Suites
2 Dining Room Suites
1 Upright Piano by "Challen"
1 Carved Blackwood Curio Standj
1.Harmonium.
1 Radio Set
and
By order of
MISCELLANEOUS
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FOR. VISITING CARDS neatly fence after South's slip.
a ind promptly printed, The
Yesterday you were Oswald Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind- sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen- Jacoby's partner; and, with neither tral. Telephones: 20022 & 20011. side vulnerable, you held:
FOR THE 1 MAN
The Custodian of Enemy Property IN 7
-One "Peugeot" Motor Car.
also
One Pair Binoculars in Case
"E. Kraus"
On View from Thursday,
26th September, 1940.
the
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. 'Hong Kong, 25th September, 1940:
IN 7 WHO SHAVES
EVERY DAY
A Special Shave Cream-It's Not a Soap, Needs No Brush! Dallyshaving leaves many men's faces business and social status, one out of raw and sensitive. Yet, because of his
every 7 men must shave every day.
The Undersigned have received
To meet this condition, Williams instructions from The Liquidators has now developed GLIDER—& 800- to sell by Public Auction on cial cream for daily shavers. With no SATURDAY, 28th September, 1940 soap base, it's a complete departure commencing at 10,30 a.m. from `ordinary shave creams. No at the Office of Messrs. F. Feld & brush. Nolather. Notsticky orgreasy. Co. (in liquidation) Bank Canton Building, Des Voeux Road, A superabundance of moisture is
Central.
contained in this rich cream. It won't dry on your face. Applied with the fingers, it quickly softens each whisker. A protective layer is formed 'over which your razor glides. Off
A QUANTITY OF OFFICE FURNITURE
comprising: Desks,
of
Chairs, Fans, Lights, Counter, Cabinets, Clock, "Egger" Iron Safe, Underwood Standard Typewriter, etc., etc.,
On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Hong Kong, 26th September, 1940,
comes each hair at the base without scraping. Like a cold cream, Glider helps keep your skin smooth all day. Glider is the result of nearly 100 years' experience in making fine shaving preparations.
Sole Agents:-
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The bidding:
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Mater Jacoby Pase
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Schenkem Pasa
You
ANSWER: Bid one spade: Des- distributional pite the enormous strength of the hand, you must not make a jump rebid of spades. You can. show. the strength and distribution of the
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and beautiful; my ways are not "1.love you and you are utterly adorable," he wrote later." am yours. Your friends would bóre going to marry you. Whobpeel" me; my friends would drive you,
crazy in a week.”
Gave Her £80
Miss Lee, in evidence, said that In the time she knew Mills she
Early-in-January-the position had received from him £80 in all. changed for he wrote what he
Colonel Mills, giving evidence, described as "a difficult letter to said that at first he was fascinated
by Miss Lee. compose."
"He called himself a poor man Later he thought she was more and suggested that she could never interested in the money he gave exist on the £250 or £300 a year her than in him.
two OFF THE RECORD
hand better by easy stages.
Score 100% for two spade, 0 for any other hid,.......
QUESTION NO. 525 To-day you hold the same hand; and the bidding continues:
You
Aller Jacoby Selenken Pass
PABA Pass.
16: (7)
Pass
What do you bld? (Answer tomorrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.)
BRIDE 70, WEDDING OFF
The wedding of seventy-year- old Miss Christine: Bates, of Auctioneers.w. R. Loxley & Co., (China) Ltd Broomyard Road, Worcester, and thirty-five-year-old Mr. Stanley Howell, a chemist assistant, of Oswestry, which was to have taken place at Worcester, was cancelled at the last moment.
The China Dail
WITH THE NEWS
DEALS
CONCISELY AND ACCURATELY
“EARLIEST WITH the latest"
While the bride was in bed recovering from the shock of har: broken; romance, the bridegroom was on his way back to Qowas- try with his father.-
A crowd had gathered at the church.
At the bride's home, where the wedding presents had been dis- played for the reception, a nieceja of Miss Bates told a' reporter-
"Last night Mr. Howell and his father called and had a long 'talk with Miss Bates, and afterwards It was decided to enlloff the wed`i ding"
ED REED
By ED REED.
#4 hated to do It, Roy, but you've gotta stóp pecking!"
Here's Luck
EWO
BEER
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