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On instructions from the Under- writers, Tenders are invited for. the Single Screw Motor Vessel.
BRIDGE NOTES
"HOEGH TRANSPORTER" as she BRIDGE SWINDLES - lies submerged in her damaged condition in Singaporo 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.
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FRIDAY, 20th December, 1940 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon, A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising
Peak wood Bedsteads. Word- res, Dressing Tables, Chests of D:uwers, Washstands. Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Dining Tables, Chairs, Tables, Stands, Cupboards, Chesterfleid Suites, Hatstands, Desks, Cabinets, Bookcases, Screens, Rattan Furniture, etc.
etc.,
THE PUBLISHERS, The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd.
Windsor House,
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WOULD ANY ENGLISH or Eng- Ish speaking lady care to accom- pany middle-aged serviceman to dinner dance on New Year's eve. Apply Box No. 171 c/o "The China Maii".
NO: 18
By The Four Aces-
The deceptive plays which are to déceive a good most likely player are precisely those which are most impossible" fron purely technical point of views
West, Dealer
East-West vulnerable Duplicate Bridge
A 4
J 7 3
O J 10 9 85
AJ 6
AJ 762
862 OK 74 KQ #
N
A KQ 10
9 3
W
9 4
0 A 6
산
10 8 6
8 5
AK Q10 6 ◇ Q 3
9 7 4 3
The bidding: North Weat
Pass
Pass 24 $♡ Разн
Eust
LA Pites
VAGN LAND VALUR S
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEN
AGE KING..2. QUEEN 1 JACK......
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South
20 Paga
THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 19, 1940
MILITARY EXPERT ON "MUDDLED THINKING"
CAPT. B. H. LIDDELL HART, military his- torian and strategist who was close to the War Of- fice when Mr. Leslie Hore-Belisha was War Secre- tary, charged "muddled thinking in the conduct of the war and said Great Britain had "played re- "peatedly into Hitler's hands."
[Captain Liddell Hart has been a strong ad- vocate of the defensive war, and has even gone as far as to suggest that any country taking the offen- sive in the present war would be defeated. He was military correspondent of the "London Times” until he was replaced shortly after the war broke last September.]
In a letter to the "Manchester Guardian," he asserted that as a matter of "practical necessity" Britain should pursue an "offen- sive-dofensive" strategy,
and
suld that her policy of a waiting war had gone wrong because
1-France left the Belgian from- fier without a Maginot Line.
2-"Our Government took શ sudden decision to guarantee Po- land and Rumania without fest securing the assistance of Russia the maddest reversal of a policy of appeasement and retreat that could ever have been conceived."
Having thus got fa hole. E plus But themselves into the Allies "could think of nothing better than to get in deeper."
of
to
Always Folly
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BERLIN'S
HALF COAL RATION
York
Messages reaching New from neutral sources in Berlin say
that Berliners awoke to find the
snow flurries of the
and, for the second successive year uni
ditions of frost.
The people face the winter with about half their coal rations deli- vered and only an assurance from the Reich coal commissioner, Wal- ther, that the remainder will he supplied later.
Basically, Germany's problem is not one of coal supplies which are abundant, but of transport; Complicating the transport situation is the fact that since March Germany has undertaken to supply Italy by rail with coal which normally went by sea routes now cut off by the British blockade. Sixty-five trains daily required for ttris purpose
By giving the public an ex aggerated impression of our capa- city to take the offensive,"
inevitably fostered wrote, "they impatience with their own initial policy of restraint and were thus
are he propelled toward greater reckless- ness. This was shown in a foolish desire to open up the war.
alone.
West opened the deuce spades, dummy winning with the Acc. The low dia- mond was returned from the dum- my, South play - ing the Queen
"Through the first winter of the and West winning war they boasted of coming vic- with the King. And tory without any sign they had now West had attempted to calculate the means make, an "impossi-or chances. ble" play to defent the contract. With the club situation in full view, West calmly led: his deuce of clubs! South never dreamed that West was underleading both the King and the Queen; so played dummy's low club almost automatically. And, as a matter club of fact, playing the low
"The people of Poland, Den- would work if West had led from mark, Norway, Holland and Bel- suffering the conse- any holding which included the gium are ten; and it might even work ifquences-and so are our own. All still East had the ten but lacked the these troubles, like others nerve to play it:
mora recent; were precipitated by As it turned out, however, East the offensive spirit manifested in played the ten of clubs and al-talk and action uncontrolled by most fell off his chair when he sober calculation. found that card holding the trick. "In that state of wishful intoxi- He recovered in time to return cation we have played repeatedly the suit; and that established an- straight into Hitler's hands. It is made-full use of during the winter other club trick to be cashed when always folly to stir up a hornet's season, and there will be he got in with the Ace of dia- nest before you are adequately special efforts to entertain
The spade trick set the equipped to deal with it effective troops. FOR VISITING CARDS neatly contract for an East-West top | ly." and promptly printed, -The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-
Note that West's remarkable sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen-play is not just a matter of ins- tral Telephones:-20022 & 20011.
TUITION
GIVEN
EXPERT instructresses for ladies and young girls in music, short- Carpels. Rugs. Perambulators, hand, typing, bookkeeping and Apply 21 Gramophones, Records, Cutlery, English and French. Electric Table Fans and Heaters, Austin Road, Kowloon, Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware. Pictures. Clocks. Curios, Orna- ments, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
also
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
1
R.C.A." Radio Set (1940 Model)
1 Electric Washing Machine
* 1 "Underwood" Typewriter 24"
1 Cooking Stove
1 Exhaust Fan
1 Adding Machine
-1 "Agfu" Projector 16 min.
On View from Thursday, 13th December, 1940.
the
Terms: Cash on Dec., 1940.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong. 18th Dec., 1940.
The Undersigned have received instructions from the Liquidators and. Others to sell by Public Auction on
MONDAY, 23rd Decembar, 1940 commencing at 10a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2. Con- naught Road, Central, Room No. 205, Second Floor.
A Selection of Household Electric Apparatus, Dakin Patent Medicine. and: Sundries.
comprising:
13 & L (Micro Photographic)
Apparatus
1 Switchboard -
1 Impringer Machine
1 Heating Apparatus
1 Stand for Theodolite
MISCELLANEOUS
munds.
sccre.
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KEEPING TROOPS ENTERTAINED
Regimental bands
are
to be
uther
the
Announcing, this when opening an. Information. Burcau for H.M Forces in Trafalgar-Square, Mr. THE OPPORTUNIST Eden, Secretary for War, said piration.
that: welfare work in the Services He can tell that his
than In a South London street at was necessary to fight boredom, partner cannot have more one of the red Aces; and that the bomb had fallen, tactured a gas to keep up fighting efficiency, and defence can herefore win only main in several places and set to develop the offensive spirit. one spade and two tricks in the each fracture alight There are red suits. Two club tricks are pair worker was seen trying his needed to defeat the contract; and breakfast sausages on one of the
THE NEW FRENOH REMEDY, THERAPION NO.1 THERAPIÓN NË,2 only the low club lead has a blazing punctures. THERAPIONN1.3 chance to produce them.
No. 1 Cress Discharɛm. Mo, 1 Coran Blood. Rotman. 29o. 8 Curam Chronia Wankmannan, Maglish Peron ja, Chemists, or wither No.rstuen 7 fath DR. LE CLERuMad.Co. BawerstockRd, N.W.3.Xandan,
DE LEOLERO'S PELLS for the Liver Kidranya-wonkinTrinaya dibinciciar,
FOR THE 1. MAN
IN 7 WHO SHAVES EVERY DAY
A Special Shave Cream-It's
Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with bath sides vulnerable, you. held:
d":86
J: 7
K 10 8 6. Q.9 8.7.
The bidding: Schenkra Jacoby
Puss 1♡
You
(?)
Maior
ANSWER: Bld one no-trump. Your hand is good enough for a response, but not for any stronger bid than this.
Score 100% for one no-trump,-
Not a Soap, Needs No Brush!..for any other bid.
Dailyshaving leavesmanymen'sfaces. raw.and sensitive. Yet, because of his. business and social status, one-outof every 7 men must shave every day.
Sammons Electrio Combination
To meet this condition, Williams Sandwith Toasters and Waffle has now developed GLIDER-aspe Makers Electric Coffee Makers, cial cream for daily shavers. With no Electric Cookers, Electric Hot soap base, it's a complete departure Pads, Dakins Cod Liver Oil, from ordinary shave creams." No Chemical Food, Carlsbad Salt, brush. Nolather. Notsticky.orgreasy. Halibut Oil, Tooth Brushes, Ty- phoon Lamps, etc., etc.
A superabundance of moisture is also
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: gliden: Offi
·comes each hair at the base without scraping. Like a cold cream," Glider: help keep your skin smooth all day, Glider is the result of nearly 100 years' experience in making fine, shaving preparations.
A Quantity of Glass Dressing Syringes, Urethral Syringes, Eye Baths, Beakers, Drop Bottles and Empty, Ampoules
and
1 Rheinmetall Portable Type writer. (almost new).
On View from Saturday, the 218 December, 1940.
„Terms: Cash on Delivery.
KAMMERT BROS,
Kong, 18th Dec., (1940)
Sole Agenta: Lox
Com (China) Lich
· Question No. 593
To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner once again with the same hand, and the bidding con- -tinues,
Bohenken. Jacoby. You Maler
10
24
Pass INT Разв Pass (7)
What do you bid?, (Answer To-morrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndl- cate, Inc.)
NO SHORTAGE OF SOAP
A representative of one of the biggest soap manufacturers in Bri- tain denied reports in some dis- tricts that there was likely to be n'shortage of soup. There was plenty for all," and some toɑapare, he said it people were re about their purchases.
Radio sets, Mr. Eden said, were
in great demand. The Treasury had made them a grait of £200,- 000 for the purchase of sets.
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By ED REED
1339 The Register
EDREED'
11-22 and Tribune Azadənin
"They got to arguing how we could best keep the: U.S.A.
Here's Luck
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out of war!"
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