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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public
Austion 477}
THURSDAY, 6th February, 1941 commencing at 10 30 a.m... at their Sales Room, No
Connaught Road Central.
2nd Floor
2
A QUANTITY OF HOUSEHOLD
AND OFFICE FURNITURE
and
1 Steel Desk and Chair.
2 New Carpets.
41 Chinese Hand Paintings.
1 Copying Machine and
Rolls paper
2 Cases Shoe Lares
1 Case Porcelan Ware,
1 Case Razor Colamers,
1 Case Vacuum Bottles.
1 Case Buitens
2 Bundles Steel Rods.
106
NEW
ADVERTISEMENTS
C. E. WARREN & CO., LTD.
(In Voluntary Liquidation,)
All
persons
BRIDGE NOTES
DON'T GIVE UP! By The Four Aces
having claims West couldn't see much chance against the above firm are re-of defeating the contract, but he quested to submit detailed state- ¦ belonged to the never-say-dic ments within seven days to the school of Bridge players: undersigned. Until further notice. the technical staff Will attend promptly to all orders.
J. FLEMING, C.A. D. 6. ROBB, C.A.
Joint Liquidators,
c/o Messrs. Lowe, Bingham
and Matthews.
Hong Kong, 5th February, 1941.
North, Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
4 8 5
♡ Q 4
8 7 6
♣ AK Q 10 5 3
A A Q 2
K 10 8 3.
N IW
▲ 10 6 4 3
♡ 9 7 5 2
૧૩ 876 2
OA 10 4 2
AKI 97 VAJ G
◊ K J 9 6
The bidding:
North
Eart
South
West
1
Pass
10
Puss
3NT
Разв PREB
Pass
Pass
thu
THE SPORTS CLUB.
Selling Lotteries.
REMINDER.
are
reminded
Members Selling Lotteries will be conducted at the Club on:--
* FRIDAY, the 7th,
TUESDAY, the 11th. THURSDAY, the 13th. comma neing each day at 5.30 p.m., on the following Races: -
The Hong Kong Derby, The Rhoty Hill Derby and
Sports Club Cup, The Austral Derby. Members' friends. Ladies, are condially invited,
LAM MING FAN,
Hon. Secretary.
including
HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
the that
ORDINARY YEARLY GENERALI MEETING of HONG
KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED
CẾP CARD Values
OF THE FOUR-ACET SYSTEM
THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 5, 1941.
SAVED BY BIBLE
A survivor of the armed mer - chant cruiser Laurentic, sunk by German submarines, owes his life to the fact that he left a crowded lifeboat to go back for his grand- father's Bible.
The man, Frederick William Train, twenty-two, a coder, joined the Navy last May, and the Laur- enitic was his first ship.
"We were hit at about nine o'clock on Sunday evening. The ship heeled over on one side and all the lights went out," said Train.
Into Another Boat
A PICTURE OF HEALTH!
Every mother who wants her baby to be "a picture of health" should know the value of Baby's Own Tablets.
little
These pleasant tasting "The ship looked as if it were tablets can be easily crushed to scttling down and the captain powder and children like them, so gave the order to abandon ship.ihere is never any fuss about ad- I swarmed down a rope ladder | ministering them. into a lifeboat and then remem- bered that I had left behind my physician who spent many years The prescription of British grandfather's Bible. I went back into the cabin for it.
"I grabbed the Bible and cilmbed down a rope In time to get Into another boat.
"We were picked up at about West Jed the three of hearts, 4.30 in the morning by a warship. and South put up (ummy's Queen ¦ "Before it went down the Pat- In order to lead roclus came steaming up to our A diamond, East aid. played a low dia- 'mond, anti South guessed wrong by playing the Jack. West wrn with the Queen of diamonds and looked mourn- fully at the dummy.
ACE... 3 KING 2 QUEEN.1 JACK.....1⁄2
VITAL, WILLÁR NO PACK PY
Obviously,
six
Declarer had club tricks whenever he wanted to take them and just
as ob- had the heart Ace, viously, he and therefore
heart two surz tricks. But six and two totalled only eight when West went to school, so there was still hope for South still needed a ninth him. trick, and West wasn't going to help him make it; so he made the safest possible return A club.
Dummy Won with the club Queen, and South once more had will be held at the offices of
to decide where his ninth trick Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., lay. Once more he guessed Ltd., Hong Kong, on TUESDAY, wrong this time by leading u The finesse of the spade the 25th day of February, 1941, at soade, 12 o'cock noon, to transact the Jack lost to West's Queen, and ordmory business of the Company. | back came
another club. AND NOTICE IS HEREBY had to be won in dummy, and ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER South had to run the rest of the OF MEMBERS of the Company clubs then or never. will be CLOSED from MONDAY, the 10th to TUESDAY, the 25th Few pleces Curios and Black February, 1941, both days inclu-
3 Radios.
1 Fur Coat
1. Typewriter
1 Ceiling Fun
and
Wood Furniture
On View from Wednesday, 5th February, 1941.
Terins: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROB., 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:-
sive.
This
But the last club squeezed the lite out of him! He could save only four cards, one of which had to be the heart Ace. It was there- fore necessary to blank either the spade or the diamond King. The defence could therefore take the two Aces together with a low Hong Kong. 1st February, 1941. card in the suit South had un-
By Order of the Board,
W. F. SIMMONS,
Secretary.
WARNING
are
hereby
Business Houses warned that all payments in con- nection with the 1941 edition of The Hong Kong Dollar Directory should be made at the Offices of the publishers, through the post or Teakwood Bedsteads, Divans; by chit book. Wardrobes, Chests of Drawers,
No one Dressing Table, Sideboards, Din-
is authorised to visit
half of this publication.
guarded.
C
Yesterday you were Howard
"As one of our lifeboats got to the Patroclus a torpedo struck the side of that ship."
to
The Bible was presented Train's grandfather by a Sunday School class in New South Wales, Australia, In 1897.
ARMY AIDS BRASS BANDS
Though this year for the first time since the last war there will be no national festival for the brass bands of Britain, an inten- sive recruiting of bandsmen and bandswomen is now taking place.
The War Office has called in the in the brass biggest personality band world-Mr. John Henry Iles, 79-year-old founder and director
of the National Bands Festival-to put the Army bands once again in their rightful position.
He is trying to establish bands in every Army regiment in the Civil Defence and Women's Ser- vices and in the Home Guards.
Mr. Iles told a reporter he is trying to keep home bands going, too, using very young and very old bandsmen.
"Boys of elight and nine can be made into good cornet players," he said.
Schenken's partner, and with both OFF THE RECORD
sides vulnerable, you held:
◆ QJ 10 4
♡ QJ 10 '9
◊ K 8
♣ K J 9
The bidding:
Schenken 20
Mater
1♡
Jacoby Dbl.
You
(7) ANSWER: Redouble, Even if your partner's overcall is ex-
to
ing Tables, Armchairs, Chairs, offices, and collect money on be-tremely weak, he should be able Dinner Wagons, Chesterfield Suites, Desks, Bookcases, Glass Cabinets, Folding Screens, Tables, etc. etc.
Carpets, Rugs, Cutlery, Orna- ments,_Curios, E.P., Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Gramo- phones, Records, Electric Table Lamps & Heaters, Pictures, Clocks, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc. also A Few Pleces of Blackwood Furniture and...
3 Radio Sets
1 "Underwood" Typewriter
1 Upright Piano by "Zeitter
Winkelmann”.
On View from Thursday,
6th February, 1941.
THE PUBLISHERS, The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Windsor House.
TUITION GIVEN
win eight tricks with your support. Moreover, and most im- portant of all, you are ready to double any attempted escape by the opponents,
Score 100%" for redouble, 20% for pass, 0. for any other bid.
Question No. 631 ́.
To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's partner, and with neither side EXPERT Instructresses for ladies | vulnerable, you hold: and young girls in music, short- hand, typing, bookkeeping and English and French. Apply 24
& Austin Road, Kowloon,
the
FOR SALE
7
♡ AQ J 8 6 3 OK J94
K 5
The bidding: Jacoby Maler, Too Pass Pash 2(7)
“What do you bid? (Answer To-morrow.)
(Released by The Bell Syndicate,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS..
HONG KONG DOLLAR DIREÇ.. Auctioneers.1 TORY-1941 EDITION. On sale at
all Bookstalls and at the Offices of Inc.) the Publishers, Windsor House,
·Des Voeux Road, Contral. Tele- phones:-30022⋅ & ©2001-
Hong Kong, 4th Feb., 1941.
THE NEW PRENOH REMEDY.
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in the study of allments peculiar to children, Baby's Own Tablets are in no way harmful to even the most delicate child.
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