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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received Instructions Lo sell Ly Public Aur tion on
THURSDAY, 6th February, 1941
10.30 a.m.. comunencing t
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road Central.
2nd Floor.
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD AND OFFICE FURNITURE
and
Steel Desk and Chair. New Carpets.
41 Chinese Hand Paintings.
1 Copying Machine and
Rolls paper,
2 Cases Shoe Laces.
1 Case Porcelain Ware.
1 Case Razor Containers,
1 Case Vacuum Bottles.
1 Case Buttons.
2 Bundles Steel Rods.
3 Rtudios.
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 4, 1941.
BRIDGE Daredevil Ted, NOTES 15, Was Hero
In Bomb Blaze
· BLIND SPOTS
By The Four Aces
If you occasionally criticise your partner for his mistakes, re- member that even ranking experts eccasionally strike "blind spots." To-day's hand was muffed by a
his embarrassment:
South, Dealer
(By A Special Correspondent)
DAREDEVIL FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD Ted Bald-
very well-known player, much to Winson, at the wheel of a lorry filled with blazing bags of sawdust, drove between walls of flame to safety when a "Molotov breadbasket" fell and set fire to his mother's sawdust mill in London. When Ted had got the lorry out he went back and brought along two more.
Neither side vulnerable
◊ A 10 8 3
AQ 84
Q 9 8 4 CAJ 94
0 Q 3 7 5 4
A 5
N
A 7 32
41085 K9 62 AJ 952
♡ K 7
IW
E
S
A KJ 10 & 6 32
K 10 7 G 3
The bidding:
South
West
IA
Pass
24
Разк
North 20 A
Bust
Pass Pass
Pamu
Pass
M CARD VALUES
FOUR-ACES VITEN
VACE
2
KING QUEEN.1 JACK.....!
SOMERANG HAND & TA
Meanwhile, eighteen-year-old Bert Whattley. a. neighbour, had opened the stable doors to release two horses half-maddened by the flames, and he and Ted brought the horses and two carts out from the inferno,
NO FARM
WORK FOR CITY MEN
Not content
they with that
this both wont back again time to set free two wire-haired terriers and a watch-dog, be. tween thirty and forty hons, and a rabbit in a hutch.
“Wobbler” Died
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London office workers, who fled to the Lake District with their families when their homes were bombed, are trying to get as farm labourers.
work
hir-
At Kendal Martinmas
they
Larm jostled with to workers seeking
be hired way In the traditional
for six work on Westmorland
West opened the five of hearts, and
Thanks to their bravery, the South saw a good:
limit only casualties were about a dozen chance to
hens and Wobbler, pet duckings one loss to the
known to all the neighbourhood. by trick heart finessing dummy s heart nine. So he finessed the nine of hearts and gain- ed a heart trick----
When the "breadbasket" fell, the months' Baldwinson family shelter.
in
were in their farms, and their womenfolk,
smartly cut slacks, competed for dairy work with rosy-checked
"I daslied out.” Mrs. Baldwin-country girls. son told me, "and saw flames all round. Sume houses were on fire, till I turned round but it wasn't
but lost his contract!
For East returned a trump, and there was no more balm in Gilead. would If South cross-ruffed, he
ing too. 106 make five trumps in his own hand that I realised our mill was blaz-
and three trumps in the dummy:
to: "Young Ted jumped over the but then he would be unable
wall into the yard and got into and could draw East's trumps
the first lorry. Bags on the bon. therefore bring in only one heart
net and in the back were blaz- trick. If South drew trumps
ing, but he drove it as far as the safeguard dummy's second heart
street. trick, he could get only two ruffs in the dummy; so the heart trick
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"He is always driving the lorries
On Vaw from Wednesday, 5th would come at the expense of aup and down the yard, so he had
SO GIVEN that the REGISTER | Felinery, 1994 1
» MEMBERS of the Company
I be (LOSFD from MONDAY. 19th to TUESDAY, the 231 February, 1941, 3-1 days inclu-
By Order of the Board,
W. F SIMMONS,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 1st February, 1911,
WARNING
arc hereby
Teums. Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneers. Hong Kong: 4th Feb., 1941
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion on
FRIDAY, 7th February, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon. A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:--
Teakwood Bedsteads,
of Wardrobes, Chests
Divans, Drawers,
Business
Houace warned that all payments in con- nction with the 1941 edition of Dressing Table, Sideboards, Din- Chairs,
ing Tables, Armchairs,
trump trick.
If South hadn't hit a blind spot he would have noticed that tak- ing the heart Ace at once would have made his contract fronclad. A cross-ruff from there on would have brought in all nine trumps as separate tricks.
So sad a story should probably have a moral: Not even an ex- to the pert can afford to play first trick without thinking.
*
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*
Yesterday you were Merwin D.
with Maier's partner and,
both sides vulnerable, you held:
J 10 9 4 3 2 ♡ 5 4 ◊ G
AQ 96
The bidding:
The Hong Kong Dollar Directory Dinner Wagons, Chesterfield should be made at the Offices of Suites, Desks, Bookcases, Glass the publishers, through the post or Cabinets, Folding Screens, Tables, Jacoby by chit book.
etc., etc.
No one ia authorised to visit offices and collect money on be-and
half of this publication.
THE PUBLISHERS,
The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Windsor House.
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THE-- OVERLAND CHINA MAIL
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You Maier Schenken
(7) Dbl. 20 Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Orna-
ANSWER: Bid two spades. Your ments, Curios, E.P., Brass, Glass
Porcelain Ware, Gramo-hand is probably worthless at a will win phones, Records, Electric Table diamond contract but Lamps Bc Heaters, Pictures, about five tricks at spades. Your Clocks, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc., partner's high-card strength will he also
raise that, total especially if has anything in the black suits.
for two Score 100 per cent.
A Few Pieces of Blackwood
3 Radio Sets
Furniture and
1 "Underwood" Typewriter
1 Upright Piano by "Zeitter &
Winkelmann"
On View from Thursday, 6th February, 1941,
spades, 20 for pass.
Question No. 630
To-day you are Howard Schen- theken's partner, and, with both sides
vulnerable, you hold:
Terms: Cash on Delivery,.
LAMMERT BROQ;
Auctioneers.. Hong Kong, 4th Feb., 1941.
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FIRE SWEEPS CASTLE
Castle Howard, Yorkshire man. sion of the Carlisle family, has been partly destroyed by fire and many art treasures destroyed.
It is cocupled by the Queen Margaret's School, Scarborough.
The fire, which broke out in a bed-room in the east wing, swept | along the southern side destroying | the dining-room, the south en- trance and a famous dome 100ft. high.
*York and Malton fire/brigados prevented the flames from spread- ing to, the western and eastern wings.
no difficulty in getting them out.
Kept Cool
"He always was a dare devil, and he never turned a hair. "As he went back into the fire for the other lorries and the horses he shouted to his sister, Lil, to dial 999 for the fire brigade. They were here in four minutes, but Lil was away helping with the hens."
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None of the London men was hired. "A country boy of fifteen
for la a better investment than an inexperienced towns.
one farmor told a man," porter. "These men are willing, but it would take six months to harden them let alone train them.
Farmers are facing
shortage of male labour.
re.
趋 serious
At Car-
tained £40 for the winter term lisle hirings lads of eighteen ob- of six months. As they get free
this board and lodging for these boys pocket money at the rate of £1 10s, a week.
open
For every man engagement there were a waiting farmers.
means
to
dozen
un-
over
The land girls are in growing
But though they request. dertake the milking, tramp heavy fields to feed the sheep and do drive tractors they will not housework.
puzzled.
"Bert and I got out what we could," said young Ted, "and then we tried to put out the fire in the machine-room. The incendiaries
The farmer's wife is were blazing, and our sprinkling only seemed to make it worse at She thinks that when bad wea- 0 ther holds up work on the land first, but neighbours kept up string of buckets, and we did our the girls should do their bit in- best till the Are brigade came,"
OFF THE RECORD
I doors.
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By ED REED
“Please don't cry, mother, it's just for a fittio.
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
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