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MONDAY, 18th December, 1940 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 33. Hankow Road, Kowloon. A Fine Assortment of Dressed Dolls, Wooden & Mechanical Toys, Furniture, Tea Sets, Balloons and Sundries. also
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On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
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TUESDAY, 17th. December, 1940 commencing at 5.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, Second Floor,
A Fine Collection of Poutage
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Terms: Cash on Delivery
LAMMERT BROS.,
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Hong Kong, 11th Dec., 1940.
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NOTES
PUTTING ON THE
BRAKES
By The Four Aces North found himself in a bid- ding predicament which occura pretty often, and his way of put- ting on the brakes is quite instruc- tive:
North, Dealer North-South vulnerable Duplicate Bridge
9 4 3
♡ J I
O AQ 5
K Q J 95
AJ 7
N
♡ K 10 7 3 ◊ J 6 2
AAK Q
10 6
W
❤ 9 5 2
10 7 6 3
S
◊
10 4
8 4 2
A Q 8 4 OK 9 8 7 3 ♣ A
The bidding: North East 14
South
West
1A
20
Pass
30
Pass
3♡
Pass
4
Para 40
Pasa
Pass
Pass
DEN CAMO VALLE
OF THE POORACES #VETER
A 8 5 2
North's hand, while no rock- crusher, was worth an opening bid He expected to show his minimum strength by a rebid of one no-trump or two clubs — if South responded with one of a suit. But, as it happened, East made an overcall and South had to bid two of his best suits. And then.
FACEVE
KING 152, QUEEN'T JACKLIN
TOTAL VALINE Dedevov
North was in trouble.
He couldn't pass, since South's free bid was forcing. He couldn't bid two
besides no-trump; for having no spade stopper, his hand was not nearly good enough for that strong rebid. He could, it's. true, bid three clubs -the least but encouraging bid available
that would suppress the good fit in diamonds and risk a bad fit in clubs. So North was compelled to bid three diamonds a rather strong-sounding bid, inviting three no-trump.
It was at his next turn that North found a chance to slow down. Instead of going to four dia- monds, North bid jour clubs. That permitted South to bid four diamonds; and at last North had a chance to pass. At many tables, with identical bidding up to that point, North bid four diamonds and South then went to five, hop- ing to find a doubleton spade in the North hand. Those players got a bad score, of course, since they lost three spade tricks before they could even get started.
10
M
•
Saturday, what did you bid as dealer with the following hand:
A KJ 5
♡ Q10 8 6 4 O AD
X 10.
ANSWER: Bid one heart. With two suits of unequal length, you bid the longer suit first provided that you are ready with a con- venient rebid.
Score 100% for one heart, 20% for one no-trump.
Question No. 590
To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both sides vul- nerable, you hold:
ДАКЈБ
Q10 86.4
O AÐ
K 10
The bidding:
YouSchenken Jacoby Mator INT Pass
:(7):
Pass
What do you bld? (Answer tomorrow:)···
(Released by The Bell Syndi cate, Inc.)
BOY LOOTERS BIRCHED
Boys aged eleven, twelve and fourteen, who stole crockery, cigars and a cigarette holder from houses damaged by a bomb, were each ordered to be birched by the chairman of a south-west town Juvenile court..
The mother of one of the boys, prison for a month for receiving. a widow aged forty, was sent to
She pleaded not guilty, but ad- mitted giving a boy 2d. cigarette holder.
for a
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