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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received instructions
sell by
Public to Auction G WEDNESDAY, 30th April,
PASTERAAPNETng at 10 30 a.m, at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Plen
BRIDGE
NOTES
SHOWING A MAXIMUM
By The Four Aces
"Please comment on the bidding of this hand," writes a Baltimore fan. There must be something wrong with 1:
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
A7653 2 V 4
◊ QJ 3
AHS 4
A 10 9
N
A Q 4
K1076
Q8 3
09662
175
W
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GAB73
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194111
AKIN
A16 2
1
QJ 2
1 A 3:
Wend
Fay
Noth
ZA BA
Part
fams
Pars
153
A Quant ty of Radio Sets, Kits, Loud Speakers, Eliminators.
Other Accessories. Chargers and
1 Bag Seal
3. Tron, Cametr
(0
Hub Caps
jatel
A Quantity of Furnduer and Sundries.
Term Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS.
Auctioneers. Hong Kong 28th April, 1941.
ENTRY FORMS for the FIFTH;
The Undersigned have received
by EXTRA RACE MEETING to be instructions to sell
Puble
held
Auction o
FRIDAY, the 2nd May. 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No 35, Hankow Road, Kow]DOH
(weather permitting) SATURDAY, 10th May, 1941 may be stamed from the Secretary's ONE ". Exchange Building: the! Ch.b House. Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club, and the Stables, Shan Kwong
Roz 4.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 1st May. 1941.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary, Big Kong 28th April, 1941.
TO LET
The hiring.
South
WEB.1
The band makes eleven tricks. these ought to be a
of. way getting to gmar Hogy”m
HIGH CARD VALUES
FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
ACE... KING.. 2 QUEEN.1 JACK....
TOTAL WAME de poen. Da Add Maren & Th
th
We think North 12 the hand too weakly. This Arst Les prob
one? spade might well have been two clubs, with the in- tention of raising
or a
spades later {|}, But having bid only two spades, he should have hastened to show his maximum holding for this weak spades hd by jumping to four Lover South's rebid of three hearts.
Such a
Jump would not show Slam intentions
very fine hand or anything else that might drceive South. North's fest res- ponse of two spades had already made it clear that his hand con- limited amount of strength. The jump Rom. Drawing Room and metained only a decidedly Furniture, Ornaments, Curios, wouki therefore show only Callery, Poreclam. Glass, Brass hund which was at or and Metal Ware, Gramophones &
upper limit possible for a single Records. Electric Table Pans & raise. Lamps, Pictures, Clocks, Cooking! Stove & Utensils, etc.. ele.
also
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:
Bed Room. Teakwend
Dining
A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture. and
Daing Room Stiles.
2 Bed Room Suites.
2 Treats Carpets.
1 Blackwood Silver Cabinet.
{ "G.M." Refrigerator Terms: Cash on Delivery.
On
View from Thursday, the
MARBLE HALL.34-36, Gran-! Ville Road, Kowlton, Beautiful roots, suites with verandah, prin Vate bathrooms, garden, tennis court. Special rate for Military 1st. May, 1941. and Navy. Apply proprietress. Phone 59433.
OFF THE RECORD
HOSPITAL, QUIET!
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 29th. April, 1941.
near the
South cannot be criticised for
to go rensing
three i on past spades. North would have bid the hand the same way with the same distribution but no high cards. And then South would lose at feast
diamond
three and
clubs.
one
10 14 **
David Yesterday you were Bruce Burnstone's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you
held:
♣AQJ983
AK 10 7 ОКБ 4 0 o
By ED REED
The bidding:
Binchefonn
14 ZA
Yon Jacoby
23% ឆឆម Pass (7)
10-27
"What's SHB got that I haven't; got?"
'Here's Luck
EWO BEER
Tel. 30311
Schenken
Pase
II
the
ANSWER: Bid four spades. your partner has a rebiddable spade suit there should be an ex cellent play for game in hand. To bid only three spades ¦ would risk a pass by partner.
Score 100% for four spades 70% for three spades, 0 for any
other bid.
Question No. 702
To-day you are Merwin Maier's side partner and, with neither vulnerable, you hold:
4K 10 7 8
♡ K 6 4 2
06
4 A JD 8
The biding:
Hajer
Betophen
Разв
Jacoby
You
16
(1) What do you bid? (Anawer Monday.) To-morrow).
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MUST SHOW. DRINK CARD
All girls who drink will have to carry official "cocktail cards" if a Bill being placed before the California State. Legislature is adopted. The sponsor of the Bill proposes that girls be forbidden alchot unless they register.
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 29, 1941.
theatrical costumiere' staff
on firo
These members of a watching duty found the cloaks of "Macbeth" and "Henry IV" Ideal for keeping them warm during their stay on the top of the premlacs,~(Copyright, Fox.)
THE BLITZ PURSUED THEM
(By A Special Correspondent)
THIS IS THE STORY of the family the blitz everywhere pursued. North, south, east and west they went the blitz was sure to follow. They were bombed in trains, hotels, farms and relatives' homes. Then, in despair, they returned home to join the fire watch.
And Cost of this "bombed out" tour was £500. they were in more raids than friends who stayed put.
Before the blitz, father, mother and two daughters, all of inde- pendent means, lived in a town on the Bristol Channel.
after
Ing trains. Mother cut by glass.
ROUND TEN-Fight stopped. Got home to find no bombs had fallen within a couple of miles of the it all the time they had been run-
aing into bombs elsewhere.
They quit Bristol first raid there. This is a round-by-round story of their fight to dodge the Luft- waffe:
ROUND ONE.-A bomb fell in the back garden in a south coast town, blew in all their windows.
ROUND TWO.--Caught by sec- ond Bristol blitz while bound by train for the Midlands.
YANKS ARE THERE
ROUND THREE. Two nights Among the thousands after their arrival in the Midlands, of Americans now serving Birmingham was attacked. 'Planes passing over their hotel unloaded with our Forces are some nine H.E.S.
who have thrown up good +jobs and left wives ROUND FOUR. Machine families.
A daughter was cut by flying glass.
gunned in train on way to new home in an East Midlands re- sort. ROUND FIVE.-Mine struck the docks at a west country town. Next night a raider, pursued, jetti- soned its bomb load.
In Time
ROUND SIX. - Arrived in Sheffield just in time for the blitz.
Relatives there had written: "We rarely hear the siren. here."
Father, hit by shrapnel went to hospital for a week,
ROUND BEVEN. - 'Daylight raider, jettisoning bombs, scored direct hit on farmhouse which the family had taken in North Mid- lands,
Family were out--for a walk. BOUND FIGHT On way back to their Bristol Channel home they were held up for five hours No girl would be allowed a by attack on a train, 、. drink until she had shown the bar-
her card.
and
how Nobody knows
many United States nationals are fight- but Mr. Robert ing at our side,
of the president Hutchinson, American Eagle Club in London. said that there are perhaps 8,000.
"1. think even that may be a conservativa. estimate,' Mr. Hutchinson told. a roporter. "They aro sentimental, about England.
"Most of them are serving with the Canadian Army, but two or three are in the Canadian Navy as ratings. Some are members of the Free French Forces."
1
DANES MAY HAVE NO GAS
The Danish Government -- h announced that stocks of coal are so low that gasworks in all towns:- ROUND NINE-Caught in all-in Denmark will probably be un Inight raid at Bristol when chang- able to supply gas.