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THE HONG KONG
JOCKEY CLUB
THE TENTH EXTRA RACE
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 30, 1940
GERMANS
BRIDGE SUDETEN
NOTES IN CANADA
By The Four Aces
MEETING will be held (weather Bridge Swindles-No. 11 permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 2nd November, 1940, commencing at 2.00 p.m.
The First Bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE No One without a badge will be admisted to the Members' En- closure. Buch must be worn throughout the duration of each Meating in such a manner as to bei readily identified.
Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentle- men and $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal or written applica- tion of a Member, such Member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for Pay- ment of all Chits, etc.
The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, (Tel. 27794) will close at 11.45 a.m.
Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS Boy (Tel. 21920).
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction' on
THURSDAY, the 31st Oct., 1940 commencing at 10.30 a.m. at their godown, No. 2 Wood Road, A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE -HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 29th Oct., 1940.
The Undersigned have received instruction's to sell by Public Auction on
FRIDAY, 1st November, 1940 commencing at 2:30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE_
comprising:
Wardrobes,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of Admission to the! Public Enclosure is $1.00 includ~ ing Tax, for all Persons, including| Ladies, and is payable at the Gate.j Soldiers and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 28th October, 1940.
WARNING
IF BABY
IS CROSS
FIND OUT WHY
A few miles from Edmonton, Alberta, just over the British Co- Healthy Babies are not cross. lumbia border in the Peace River Your baby should not be cross. If. section, approximately 500 Sude he is, then something in his little ten German settlers have found system is "out of order". Probably their key to happiness.
Baby's Own Tablets can. promptly now. almost two "put it right"... The colony. years, of age, has proved success- ful: a recent visit disclosed.
Some swindles are more or less the result, of accidents. The gay
Mrs. B. Barnet of Toronto, had deceiver simply makes it possible for the opponents to make a mis-
this experience. "My baby was terribly cross. I tried different take, even though he may not Not quite two years ago they remedies but nothing seemed to clearly see what mistake is pos- were a German minority wedged help. A neighbour suggested try- I did in between a belligerent Germanying Baby's Own Tablets. sible. For example:
and an equally resolved Czecho- and baby slept nights and we got slovakia the focal point of one our sleep. He was good in the of the world's largest crises.
North, Dealer Neither side vulnerablo
A 71
A Q 8:3 2 ♡ A 4
◇ KQ J
♣ AQ5
N
4 A5
VK 6 3
IW
S
◊ 8 5 3 2
J 10 9 6
♡ J 8 6 ◊ A 10 7 4
K8 42 AK J 10 9 6
Q 10 9 7 2
0 0
A 73
3A
Радя
The bidding: North East South 10
Pass 14 Pass 40 Pass
West Pasa Pass
CARP VALIES
West opened the Jack of clubs, and when the finesse of the club Queen lost to East's King, South realised that had to hope for a swindle.
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYRTEN
AMERONIS MAJU 635
But to-day that is allin.. the back-ground. They did not care for the Nazi rule when the Sude tenland was awarded to Germany They left their homes for Canada. And to-day their main worries are whether it will be an early spring for planting, or whether the price of livestock will go up.
They are of German extraction, they speak German and they have many German habits of life, yet they will tell you they sincerely hope the Nazis are beaten in the war now raging far from their new homeland at Tupper Creek,
British Columbia.
Dates Of arrival
day time. I cannot recommend: Baby's Own Tablets too highly."
No matter how delicate your:
baby may be, these little tablets may be administered with perfect confidence. They are the prescrip- tion of a British medical child- specialist. Promptly effective in clearing up simple fevers, dlar- rhoea, colle, constipation, worms, colds and teething" troubles and. other minor ailments.
Sickness often strikes in the night, so be prepared by keeping Baby's Own Tablets in your home. From chemists everywhere.
a high degree. New familles are gradually being located on their Individual farm units. When each family "breaks off" it is given an allctment of livestock, and at once they go to work to build up their home place.
•
Assorted Group
The first party of Sudeten folk, in April, 25 families, arrived 1939, under a scheme of assisted he migration approved to by the Bri- tish Government. They had been in refugee camps in England and
the plan of It was a motley group, that col- eagerly agreed to settlement in Canada. By August ony from the Sudeten country. professional her, all the colony were settled in the There were Peace River block, 153 families | artisans, factory hands, toy mak and 35 single men. There were a ors, cabinet makers, blacksmiths, few Jewish people in the number. accountants and others. They
East returned a club, and dummy wan with the Ace. The trump Ace was, next knocked out,
and East's club re- turn was ruffed by South. After drawing the adverse trumps, South' led a diamond, dummy, putting up the King, and East winning with the Ace.
diamond lead would allow dummy
found the manual labour in Cana-
Their district is served, by the Alberta Northern Railways with. Pouce Coupe 12 miles away. They have schools with the English lan guage stressed, but the regular British Columbia school curri- One of the culum is followed.
The first summer these sturdy:da's northern hinterland hard and Sudeten families-few of them the country wild. It was new › had had previous agricultural ex-country. But they did not com- perlence-managed to sow 630 plain; they smiled and worked the acres of crops, and during the harder," At this point, East found him-summer 1,400 acres were cleared, self in what seemed to be a diff-three tractors being kept, chugging cult situation. Both dummy and along night and day. South were void of clubs, and a This year 2,600 acres were to make an undeserved trick with seeded and most of this will be Business Houses are hereby the nine of diamonds. Apparently harvested as feed crops for live warned- that all payments in con-only a heart lead was safe. For stock is being stressed rather than nection with the 1941. edition of tunately for South, he guessed commercial grain production. Up teachers, Miss Lydia Hinke, a gra
then it would was born in The Hong Kong Dollar Directory right by playing the heart nine in the Peace River country frost duate of the University of Alberta,
rather than the Queen; and the comes early and should be made at the Offices of rest was easy, since West's King Cost. excessively. in freight to get though coming to Canada at the wheat to the Edmonton market, age of six Night school is pro- the publishers, through the post was trapped.
475 miles away.
vided for adults. Native Czech for by chit book.....
handicrafts are being continued, East thought he was caught in a true end-play, but it was really
The colony has its own sawmill with: the products of these skilled material for workers much in demand.. Mrs. only a swindle since a diamond which supplies the
East the houses and other buildings. Wilhelm Wanka, a former student return was perfectly safe. knew that South, had started with Most of the foundation, work has at the University of Prague, makes with European costume. dolls; others: live trumps and two clubs; hence been done: cooperatively
red cards. Allowing the communal spirit prevailing to do handsome basketry, dummy to make three diamond tricks would still leave South with
No one is authorised to visit Teakwood & Iron Bedsteads, offices and collect money on be
Dressing Tables, half of this publication. Washstands, Chesterfield Suites, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Chairs, Dining Tables, Hatstands, Ice Chests, Teapoys, Tables, Desks, Filing Cabinets, Glass Ca-| binets, etc., etc.
THE PUBLISHERS,
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. with six
Windsor House.
POSITION WANTED
Curios, Ornaments, Pictures, Clocks, Cutlery, Porcelain, Glass, Brass, and E. P. Ware, Electric Table Fans & Lamps, Perambular tors, Binoculars, Cooking Uten- MANAGER sils, etc., etc.
also
a loser in hearts..
*
Yesterday you were Merwin of established firm Maier's partner and, with both recommends reliable educated sides vulnerable, you held:"
| English-speaking Chinese girl of 19 to good European Family to
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD look after children. Write P.O
·AND RATTAN FURNITURE
and:
1 Radio-gram.
2 Radio Sets.
1 Canteen Set.
1. Dinner Service.
2 Bed Room Suites.
2 Dining Room Suites:
1 Upright Piano by "Moutrie,"
On View from Thursday, the
31st, October,: 1940;.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Box 931, Hong Kong:
TO LET
AJ 10 7 6
OK-5.3
4.8 4.2
The bidding: Malor Jacoby
Dbl.
MARBLE HALL.—34-30, Gran- 10 ville Road, Kowloon; Beautiful rooms, suites with verandah, pri- vate bathrooms, garden, tennis court..
Schenken
ANSWER: Bid one spade or partner and Special rate for Milltary pass, depending on and Navy. Apply proprietress. opponents. There is no 100% bid Phone 59433.
in this situation, but one spade is best with a fine partner against sensible opponents. Erratic op- ponents may bid. four spades. if
Auctioncers. THE NEW FRINOK REMEDY. you pass; and an erratic partner Hong Kong, 30th October, 1940. THERAPION NO.1 may land you in trouble if you bid one spade. So in a "spotty" THERAPION NO.2 game, a pass is better than a bid The Undersigned have received THERAPION N3 of one spade.
instructions from The Marshal Ino. 1 Oster Dichanéve, Mesures stood Prize, Supreme Court to Sell by Public Auction on Saturday, 2nd November, 1940 commencing at 10.00 a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central. (Room: No, 205, 2nd. Floor)·
A QUANTITY OF /MISCELLANEOUS, GOODS.
olson Rolfare Carante Score 80% for one spade, 80% English Fine to Chemists, or either No, refere for pass, 0 for any other bid.
DR. LE CLERC Med. Co. HaverstockILL, 27.WJK, Loodus DR. LU OLERO'S PILla for the Livan @Kidnaya"wonkiskekapayımda blatidors.
comprising:
44
Coffee, Sugar Rice, Clothes, Gombs, Dried.. Pchs, Jam,
Ver- micelli, etc.
also
Under instructions from The Registrar, Supreme Court.
One Electric Refrigerator "Westinghouse".
Terms: Cash on Delivery..
Lammert Bros.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 30th October, 1040,
BRASSO
AMETAL POLISH VES BRILLIANCE AND SPARKLE TO METALWARE
Question No: 551
To-day you are David Bruce Burnstone's partner and, non- vulnerable against vulnerable op- ponents, you hold:
KJ 95
O.Q. J. 10.
AQ9 0.
The bidding?. Burnstens
Dialer -
Dbl. (7)
What do you bid? To-mor
(Released te, Inc.).
Jacoby
(Answer.
The Bell Syndl-
OFF THE RECORD
ED REED
Sudetenland al
By ED REED,
"But, Dear! You and yourself you didn't want me to work
after wo were married!"
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
Tel. 30311