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CHINA LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
Notice To Consumers
cent.
Notice is hereby given that the Company's standard charges will be increased as from 17th March, 1941, by adding a 10 per surcharge to the amounts charged for electricity consumed for light- ing and power as per meters read on and after 24th April, 1941.
The existing scale of discounts will remain in force.
By Order of the Board of Directors,
D. W. MUNTON,
Manager. Hong Kong, 8th March, 1941.
PUBLIC AUCTION
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auc- tion of
MONDAY, the 7th. April, 1941
R
PUBLIC AUCTION
"WEATHER TOO BAD"
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 5, 1941.
BRIDGE
NOTES
Many people ask why German aircraft are heard overhead on nights when the weather is re- ported to be too bad for our BRIDGE SWINDLES CONDI-bombers to operate over Germany..
-PARTICULARS AND TIONS of the Sale by Public Auc- tion to be held on MONDAY, the
7th day of April, 1941, at 8 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Cheung Sha Wan, in the Colony of Hong Kong for a term of 75 years, commencing from 1st July, 1898, with the option of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 24 years less the lust three days
thereof.
Intending bidders are advised that immediately after the disposal of the lot the Purchaser (if not the applicant) will be required to de- posit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale,
the sum of two hundred dollars, ($200) în cash. This sum will be refunded on payment of the Pur chase price.
PARTICULARS OF THE LOT.
No. of Sale
Registry No.
Inland Lots Nos. 1146 and 2126, Cheung! Locality Un Chau Street between New Kowloon New Kowloon Inland Lót No. 2840.
Sha Wan.
Boundary
Memuremont
N.. R
As per
enle plan
W
About 4,800.
$65.
$3,500.
Contents in sq. ft.
Annual Rental
Upset Price
The purchaser of the lot will be required to pay to the auctioneer in cash the sum of $360 (being 10% of the upset price) immedi- ately after the fall of the hummer, the balance of the premium be- ing paid in accordance with the Conditions of Sale.
DOLLAR ACADEMY
Dollar, Scotland.
Raids over Germany are plan- ned for every night, and the de- cision to cancel one is never taken without the greatest reluctance.
There are a number of reasons
NO. 33
By The Four Aces
To-day's, swindle hand started
wasn't any reason
South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable
why our bombers may be ground- a rather acrimonious debate, but ed. Compared with the R.A.F., the there really Luftwaffe has certain advantages. for it: The Germans have a large num ber of alternative bases, within' of this easy striking distances country, in the countries which they now occupy, and in the event of bad weather in the Channel or over the French const it is simple Holland and Belgium Instead. for them to operate from bases in
The R.A.F., on the other hand. alternative bases, and in really bad has not the same wide choice of
weather flying from some of the aerodromes might be severely ras-
tricted.
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The bidding:
West
North
East
Pass
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Рауд
Pass
40
Pass
Pass
Pass
Pass
The RAF has too. a much deeper penetration to effect, except on such targets as the "invasión South ports" and the like, than have the sa Germans. At any time, but parti- 34 cularly in poor flying weather, GA these longer flights automatically involve greater risks. It is also the case that for a flight occupy ing, say, seven hours, there will reasonably be more doubt in fore- the weather custing changes In than for a short "trip" of only two or three hours.
South overbid start to finish,
HION GANS VALUKS OF THE
FROS-ACER SYRȚEN
ACF 3 KING, 2 QUEEN 1 JACK.....'
his
hand from of course, but his partner forgave him when he brought home the bacon. West led the Queen of clubs, and South took the club Ace Our aircraft might set off for
and drew two Berlin in ideal conditions, only to
rounds of trumps- find on their return that fog had
Then he led the ten come up while they were away
of diamonds, play- and had hidden their base. In such
ing the King from circumstances. they would be dummy, East took the Ace of diverted to other areas free from diamonds and, convinced that fog. It would only be when the South had misguessed a diamond meteorological forecast showed finesse, returned a diamond. Na- general fog .conditions over this turally, South won the rest and country that an operation would then the fun began. be called off on that account.
TWIN, WANT SPIKES
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If life were just a song and dance the gay young blade al- lows as how he'd be the out- standing success of the world.
BOMBING WITHOUT BOMBS
Synthetic training-that is to say, the Imilation of conditions in the air by means of devices on the ground-has produced many ingenious contrivances. Bomb. aimers, for instance, learn their job in an A.M.L. Teacher, the most curious "feature of which is a horizontal cinema screen, the projector being directed down upon it from above.
low.
Imagine a darkened room about twelve feet square, with a gallery about eight feet above the floor running along one wall. Up in the gallery sits the bomb-almer
which in a compartment
gives him a-clear view of the floor be- Behind him sits the pilot. in- Alongside them stands the structor. The floor itself is the cinema screen, on which is thrown a film taken from an aeroplane
pears when, flying at, say, 10,000 feet. Slowly the ground stips away, and looking down upon the screen from the gallery one gets a perfect illusion of flying. It is like those early cinema theatres which showed a film taken from As the front of a railway train. the country flashes past, you fell that you yourself were travelling.
The anguished moan let out by attack definite military objectives, to tally could
The policy of the R.A.F. is to West when his Ace of hearts failed have been heard the bombing and destruction of ten miles away. And East, in a which will effect the enemy's war hurry to defend himself, claimed and showing the ground as it ap effort. For that reason, the wea- that South had "coffeehoused" ther over target areas in Ger- him. (That terro comes from the many, or wherever else the objec-early days of Whist, when the tive may be is also of great im- players in coffeehouses were us- portance to us.
fly To
seven ually very unethical.) East said "ten-tenths" cloud which would tated hundred miles out, only to find that South had percepubly hesi- before playing dummy's prevent the location of any obiec-King of Diamonds, as though won- tive, is largely a waste of effort. dering whether to let the ten ride or put up the King. South in- Preparation for Universities. The test, therefore, to be applied, sisted that the hesitation had been
The instructor points with the Army, Public Services, Commerce; to every case is this: Is the result only his natural measured pace,
wand to a distant part of the On list of Schools nominating for likely to be worth the risk? Here and suggested that East get him- moving landscape, to an objective The commencing at 10.30 a.m.
Sandhurst, Contingent of Junior it is that our policy differs from self a well oiled stop watch to help which is to be "bombed". Division O.T.C.
that of the Germans. They appear him play the game.
bomb-aimer begins to guide the at their Sales Room, No. 2,
Mild climate and healthful sur- to be content to send over aircraft]
pilot exactly as he would in the Connaught Road, Central,
roundings. Specially suitable for to bomb haphazard and indis- All this discussion may have air in order to bring the aircraft colonial boys and boys from Ur-criminately. It is certain that, al- been amusing, but it was pointless. over the target. "Left a little Second Floor Room No. 205
ban areas. Preparatory School ready, on some of the nights they The moment South made a dia- left," he says. The pilot shifts A Quantity of Carpets, Rugs, adjacent.
have come over, their pilots and mond play, he admitted (to his controls, which are connected Blankets, Towels, Sheets, Table
Prospectus and full particulars | bomb-aimers have been unable to anyone who took the trouble to with the film projector, and the may be obtained on application to see anything at all of the ground think rather than count split sec- "ground" slides # little to the Cloths, Napkins, Plilow Slips the School Secretary.
below them, let alone pick out onds) that he didn't have the Ace right while the synthetic aircraft (used)
Headmaster, HARRY BELL, B.A. particular objectives for attack. of hearts. If South held the heart up in the gallery appears to be bomb- (Cantab.)
Ace, he'd use the hearts to dis- turning left. Now the How many of these aircraft are card his diamonds instead of tack-almer is getting his sight on the lost and fail to return, or howling the diamonds first. East objective, "Right-straight ahead," many manage to return only to should therefore have returned a he warns the pilot, and the crash, because the weather” has heart instead of the diamond. "closed in" over their base, the EXPERT instructresses for ladies; Germans, of course, never reveal. and young girls in music, short- But it is safe to assume that some hand, typing, bookkeeping and must be lost for those English and French. Apply 24 sons in these bad weather raids. Austin Road, Kowloon,
They are heavy payment for any damage which may be done. ·
and
(in.
A Quantity of Furniture cluding One Singer Sewing Machine) etc.
On View from Saturday, the 5th. April, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 4th April, 1941:
TUITION GIVEN
KAIPING COAL
| FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE
HOME,
FACTORY
AND
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For Price Apply to
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LOCOS
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hong Kong
you were
Yesterday rea-
Burnstone's partner vulnerable against upponents, you held:
COPIED MONKEY ON A STRING
K 6 4 2
1 6 3
OQJ 9 3 2
"ground" again responds to the pilot's controls. A. sudden red flash in the bomb-aimer's cock pit shows that he has "released" David his bombs. Actually he releases and, non- nothing; but during the time it vulnerable takes a bomb to fall ten thousand feet the "ground" keeps moving. The objective approaches. two concentric rings the inner about an inch in diameter-paint- ed in black on the floor. Abrupt ly, at the moment when the bomb", would hit, the film stops. If the bomb-aimer has done" "his work accurately the objective will be exactly super-imposed on the two rings.
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The bidding: Jacoby Burgstone Schenken
1♡
14
·20
You (3)
ANSWER: Bid two spades. You have fine support for a spade
one
But the novice, of course, can> not learn accuracy all at once. Perhaps the objective finishes sev erat inches from the rings: The "bomb" has missed by several
A WOMAN WHO WAS FOUND contract and must show your HANGING FROM THE BANIS-partner the chance for what may] TERS OF HER HOME WAS be a profitable sacrifice. The op- hundreds of yards. The Instruc STATED TO HAVE COPIED A ponents probably have the bulk TOY MONKEY WHICH WAS of the high-card strength, but your HANGING FROM A PIECE OF good distribution may largely STRING NEAR HER,
offset that.
.
Muriel Parker,
She was Mrs.
Score 100% for two spades, 20% aged thirty-nine, wife of an R.A.F. for three diamonds, 0 for pass.. corporal, and housekeeper to Dr. Winifred Symonds, of Hitchin, Herts
A policeman stated at the in- quest that, the, monkey had been hanging from the banisters for
Jong time.
.....
Question No. 683 To-day you hold the same hand, and the bidding continues!!
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khat Mrs. Parker", copied tho position, ho, arcted un
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the trouble
abologising”, for
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recorded 'a verdict of smelde while
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tor points out where the bomb- aimer went wrong-perhaps he guided the plot incorrectly, per- haps he bombed too early or too late. So the film is run through again, and they do the run-up once more. The objective may be thanged, but the lesson is re- peated until the bomb-aimer: has mastered, his task.
WIFE MURDERER.
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