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M.V. "HOEGH TRANSPORTER"
By The Four Aces
To-day gives you the chance to spot a criminal and a crime:
South, Dealer
East-West vniperable
10 9 8 7
& B
54
48 ♡ QJ 8 4 ◇ A 8 5 49 10 7 3
W
# 2
K Q J B
◊ Q J 4
AK J 9
The bidding:
South
West
North
East
14
Ранн
1♡
Pass
IA
Payr
2A
Pasa
INT
Pass
SA
Ране
*A
Puss
I'nas
Pune
2
On instructions from the Under- writers. Tenders are invited for
West opened a trump, East win- the Single Screw Motor Vessel "HOEGH TRANSPORTER" as shening with the Ace and returning
another trump. lies submerged in her damaged condition in Singapore Roads.
The vessel is of the Shelter Deck type designed for a carrying capacity of 9,000 tons and fitted with Diesel Machinery,
A large part of the cargo has been removed from the vessel.
Tenders should be forwarded to the undersigned not later than 31st December 1940, who will supply any further information
available.
The highest, or any, tender may not necessarily be accepted.
RITCHIE & BISSET.
UNION BUILDING,
SINGAPORE.
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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.
GIRL BURIED FOUR DAYS. FOUND ALIVE
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl buried beneath the debris of three houses demolished by a high- explosive bomb in South-West London was dis- covered four days later to be alive.
The girl, Mildred Castillo, is the daughter of a doctor who was out on an air-raid case when the bomb razed his house to the ground. When he re- turned home and saw his house wrecked he collaps- ed and has since died.
he mass of debris, heard cries.
Four days afterwards, George | concerned. Woodward, leader of a rescue and demolition squad which had been removing bricks and timber from
WOMEN WILL GET SAME WAGES AS MEN
of
the man's months' service.
He and two others of the squad volunteered to tunnel through the wreckage. Through small crack they saw Mildred
Handed Her Tea
Very
They talked to her and passed her cups of tea while working frantically under a heap of rub- Women employed by Cooperative ble that at any moment South won the Societies in place of men and as-have collapsed on them.
might second trick, cash-suming duties different from those If was evening before they car- ed two high clubs, of women workers in the same rled Mildred to a waiting ambu- and ruffed a club department will be paid at the rate lance, allve, and, in the words of in dummy. He then led a diamond from
wage after six the doctor in charge, "in dummy,
good condition.” She was taken playing
They are also to receive the Queen from us man's war bonus-75. a week in
the to hospital.
The bomb, which fell on a row own handt and
the case of adults. West won with the
of houses, cut three of them out diamond
During the first six months they jas cleanly as if they had been Ace will receive 80 per cent. of the carved away with a giant-knife:
mon's wages and the women's war The bodies of victims were re-
moved earlies. bonus, 5s. In the case of adults.
All hope ed by the Cooperative Unions' Na-given up.
This agreement has been reach- | finding anyone alive had been “ tional Wages Council, representing 800 societies, and the trade unions
West returned
low heart, but dummy's Ace won;
and South regained the lead with the diamond Jack to ruff out the last club loser. He had to give up a heart trick, but easily won the rest to fulfill his contract.
Something slipped somewhere. See if you can tell who commit- ted what crime before you read any more.
PEERESS ESTATE
DIRECTOR
Light Still Ore
ΟΣ
Yet in Mildred's miracle cellar fan electric light bulb still burned. On the one wall still standing three wall mirrors, unscathed, can
of
East was the criminal, and his! Viscountess Wimborne is to be be seen from the street. Two crine occurred at the very first the permanent government direc-fixture hanging cupboards, the trick. West found the right de- tor of Ashby St. Ledger's Estate doors torn away, expose to view fence by opening a trump, but Company, which, states Jordan a woman's wardrobe and an East made a hash of matters by and Sons, has been registered with Army officer's uniforms. putting up his Ace. If he had a nominal capital of £50,000 in There is scarcely a speck played a low trump, South would £1 shares, "to acquire the estate dust an the have won and managed to ruff and interest in
woman's dresses, certain lands in and the buttons of the uniformis. one club but would be unable to Northants belonging to the Vis- shiile as brightly as it they had get the lead back into his own countess,"
just been polished. band in order to ruff the other club. He would lead diamonds (Just as he actually did) and West would get the lead with his dia- mond Ace.. But then West would! still have his other trump left, and by leading that trumn he would allow East to take the FOR VISITING
neatly trump Ace and lead a third round and promptly printed, The of rumps. With only one club Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-ruff in the dummy, South would sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen- have won only nine tricks for a trat Telephones--20073 & 20011.one-trick set.
MISCELLANEOUS
CARDS
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Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partier, and with both sides vulnerable, you held:
A KJ 6
❤ 10 8 6 4
◊ 4 9
The bidding:
# 10
ļ
Schenken Jacoby
Рада
INT
Maler Pase
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19:
ANSWER: Bid two spades This bid may compell your part ner to go to three hearts, but your Hand is strong enough to stand such a contract,
Score 100% for two spades 20% for two no-trump.
Question No. 591
To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's partner with the same hand as above, and the bidding continues:
Του Bahamkan 10 24
(T)
Jacoby
Mater
Pass
INT
Paza
Pass
ENT
Paus
What
at do you bid? (Answer
To-morrow.
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G
WIND BROUGHT
GOOD NEWS
On holiday in Devonshire, Miss Elliott, of Trimley. Suffolk,
blown across the sands to her feat as he sat on the beach.
Glancing through it, she read
Donations will be received by The South picked up a newspaper which had China Morning Post. Cheques should be
made payable to "War Fund-South China that her fiance, Eric Richard Ste-
Morning Post, Limited."
All donations will be acknowledged in the
maa of The S. C. M. Post.
work twenty-two of Clarkson Street Ipswich had been, awarded the Military Medal.
That was the float she knows of
Elliott wrote to Stewart's
"It was news to us, tƉo,
Men, J. Stewart, told
pgrat
"Harden me. I'm from the vocational rehabilitation: oor-
Here's Luck
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