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THE CHIKA MAIL, JANUARY 31, 1941,
BRIDGE BEAUTY SALON NOTES BEATS US
CRIME DOESN'T PAY! NO. 28
By The Four Aces-
One of the players committed a Bridge Crime in to-day's hand; see if you can spot both the crime
and the criminal;
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
こ
9 4 2
♡
9 8 5
O
A Q J 7 6
94
76
N
8 5
K 10 7
4 3
W E
OK 6
S
8 3 2
♡ 9 6 2
A 1076
3 2
AAKQ J 10 3
KU J
A J
10 9 4
JA
JA
The bidding
Weat South
Pass Pass
North
Puss
Hast
Pass Pass
In Edwardian days the Gaiety girls used to take back to London with them from Manchester enor- mous milk cans full of the famous soft Manchester water “so good for the complexion.”
Beauty treatment has gone a long way since then, but it is still to Manchester that many hun- dreds of "lovelles" of society, stage and screen come, for Manchester has the finest beauty parlour and hairdressing salon in this country.
GEORGE MEDAL
P.C.'S ESCAPE
(By A Correspondent) A police-constable who was recently awarded the George Medal for bravery in a raid had a remarkable Nazi West opened the King of clubs, escape in a savage
011 a south-east holding the trick He continuattack with the Queen of clube, and then
coast town. shifted to the eight De- of diamonds. clarer finessed and
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE
FOUR-ACE SYSTEM
FACE... 3 KING:2 QUEEN.I JACK
STIN, VRAJAT OF PACK IV AVERAGE MAND 135
East won with the King of diamonds
East returned the nine of hearts, but
South put up the heart Ace, drew
and trumps.
his carded
heart
one of dummy's long
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN | loser on that the ANNUAL ORDINARY
diamonds. GENERAL MEETING of Share- hulders will be HELD at the Hong |
Something slipped somewhere Kong Hotel, Hong Kong 011 TUESDAY, the 11th. February,
but what was it and who was 0941, at 11.30 A.M., for the responsible? Try to find out for purpose of receiving the Report yourself before
you read of the Directors together with a statement of acerunts for the year ended 31st. December, 1940.
more.
any
East was the criminal, and his the second occurred at Crunc
East could be quite sure that the defence could win only
of diamonds was one
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"Neither in London nor New York have I seen anything So complete and up to date as Man- chester's new beauty parlour," a London visitor told a reporter.
The beauty parlour is one of the departinents of the new Kendal Milne store in Deansgate, Man- chester and the planning and de- signing of the department have taken months of care by the fore- most experts in the world.
It is impossible to ask for any beauty treatment which can. not be provided in this super. haunt
complexione of lovely and well-groomed hair. During air raids the depart- ment has its special roof spotter who immediately, on any sign of danger, gives the warning to the
assistants.
A police-box I had left a few Customers are then taken down seconds before was blown up," hinto the shelters by special lifts told me. "As I rounded the corn-end their treatments continue. er of a public-house I heard the roar of a 'plane and saw in the
not bomber
500ft moonlight overhead.
a
"A bomb crashed on the other There side of the public-house, was a blinding flash and wreckage all around me. leapt in the alr Then another bomb struck the stunned ground, I was almost where I stood. A child cried out inside the public-house. I went in and found a five-year-old girl. I tucked her under my cape and stumbled along the road until a colleague took charge of her, then
collapsed."
It was the biggest attack yet experienced by the town. Although a number of working-class houses were demolished and others badly damaged the loss of line was pro- portionately small,
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from SATURDAY. 1st. Febuary lu trick! TUESDAY, 11th. February, both adays inclusive,
JOHN D HUMPHREYS & SON,Į two club tricks, so it was, neces-
General Managers.
sary to look for two other tricks The King
Mrs. H. W. Bond, who was serv- Hong Kong, 21st January, 1941, to defeat the contract.
of them, ing Tree refreshments to rescue but the other had to be contribut-workers in her badly battered tea ed by West. If West had a trump shop, typified the courage of the trick, he would get it without any help from East; but if West had a heart trick, it might be vital for Eust to help establish it before South managed to establish diamonds.
WARNING
Business Ноивев aro hereby warned that all payments in con- mection with the 1941 edition of The Hong Kong Dollar Directory should be made at the Offices of the publishers, through the post sor by chit book.
the
Therefore East should have played the Ace of clubs at the Then he could re-
victims "Hitler
Bowls That Disappear
In the beauty parlours where maplewood and soft-tuned car- pets make a background for some of the most famous beauties of the present time, there is every, concċivable type of gadget-dif- ferent types of lighting for day and evening make-up. special lights on the make-up hidden mirrors, and wash bowls which become dressing disappear and tables.
The chairs are hydraulic, and If My Lady wants a foot treat- ment, che is lowered in the chair untit she can comfortably put her foot in the stainless steel footbath which is sunk into the floor.
No woman likes to be watched "dropped-on" when she is having her fachl armour put on,
so each of the cubicles has a warn-
has done hising light outside to indicate that it worst to us," she said to me. "Now is occupied. perhaps he will realise cannot frighten us!"
that he
But gossip must be provided for, so there is a manicure lounge For many hours I watched re- where women may talk together, scue parties at work liberating drink cups of tea or coffee while people who had been trapped. It nails are being touched up,
them that the is due mainly to
is not and casualty roll death much higher. Ten dead had been
was taken.
turn a heart, and South would be accounted for when the last count OFF THE RECORD
No one le authorised to vialt second trick! offices and collect money on be. Cheif of this publication.
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HONG-KONG DOLLAR DIREC-
unable to prevent the loss of a heart trick as well as the in- evitable diamond and two clubs.
*
Yesterday you were Merwin D. Majer's partner and, with both vulnerable, you held:
AK 5 3 2 ♡ Q J 6 4 0 7
K 6 5 3
The bidding: Bchonken 10
Anter
20
Jacoby Dbl
(7)
You
Men in a rescue party led by Lt. "Jim" Slattery, M.M. and bar,
heroic of the R.E.'s, did work.
1
Mr. Charles Colgate, an elderly man, was trapped at the bottom of an immense pile of rubble and masonry which had once been a large building. Lt. Slattery and the ethers tackled the task of reaching and saving Colgate, whose cries for help just pêne- trated the mass of wreckage,
цве
As they came nearer to success they moved the debris with their cupped hands rather than tools which might cause a fall of wreckage. At last-after 10 hours -they were able to release the man, who is expected to live.
Sir Auckland Geddes, the Re-
TORY 1941^EDITION—On sale at ANSWER: Pass. Your black all Bookstalls and at the Offices of Kings will be useful to your part-gional Commissioner for this area, the Publishers, Windsor House, ner at a diamond contract; his arrived during the afternoon to Des Voeux Road, Central, Tele- diamonds may be useless to you watch the rescue work.
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DOLLAR ACADEMY
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Prospectus and full particulars may be obtained on application to the School Secretary, or at the @Office of this paper.
at any other contract.
Score 100% for pass; 30% for two no-trump.
`Question No. 627 To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held:
QJ 10 7 5 ♡ 6 4 2
◊ 99
The bidding: Jacoby 1♡
Bohenken“. · Malor/
20
Dbl.: What do you- bid?.. tomorrow.)
(T)
HERO'S SEXTANT FOR WARSPITE BOY
The sextant used by Lieuten- ant-Commander John Bowman- Manifold, who, as navigator of HMS. Fxeter, was killed in action during the Battle of the Plate last December, has been presented to a Warspite boy who has been pro- moted to Sub-Lieutenant in less than five years, after leaving the training ship.
wer Mr. Sydney Marsham (Vice- President) stated at a meeting of the Marine Society that Lady Bowman Manifold had entrusted
nster, HARRY BELL, B.A. (Released by The Bell Syndi- | them to present, the sextant to
(Cantet:)cate, Inc.)
someone worthy of it.
IT PAYS TO APPETISE WITH
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unique blend of
fruits, spices and malt vinegar rich,
HP
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piquant flavour
and makes food more digestible.
HEROINE OF HELL'S KITCHEN
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
The
"Angel of Hell's Kitchen"-that's the title Mrs. Amy Fluck, fifty- seven, earned for herself down the Old Kent-road.
Everyone knew her there. Near- ly everyone, at some time or an- other, visited her "Hell's Kitchen" a tiny coffee stall in the centre of South London's battlefield.
coffee Serving hot ples and from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. without a break for seven nights a week through bombing and gunfire, the Angel had a smile and a cheery word for all.
One night, in a heavy raid, she fell as she was busy baking pies for the hard-worked A.R.P. men.
A piece of shrapnet had hit her.
Within a few minutes she was rushed to hospital by her A.R.. friends,
When Mr. Fluck saw his injured wite all she was worried about was the stall.
"My poor people won't be able to get their tea of a night now," she said. "But I'll be back in a couple of days."
She was wrong. The hospital to which she was taken was bombed soon after her admittance. She was evacuated to another in Sur-
rey. That, too, was bombed.
This time Mrs. Fluck was killed.
When I visited her little coffee- stall is was boarded up. "Open in a couple of days" were the words chalked faintly on one side. A tiny Union Jack waved above it.
"It ain't no ordinary Ice, Mam Banja Henie!”
Here's Luck
By ED REED
It was skated on by
EWO BEER
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