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THE HONGKONG FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
The SEVENTY-SECOND OR- DINARY GENERAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS will be held ut. the Ofices of the undersigned on WEDNESDAY, the 21st May, 1941, at Noon, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Gen- eral Managers, together with Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1940.
The Share Register and Transfer Books will be closed from the 7th May to the 21st May, 1941, both days melusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON
& CO., LTD., General Managers,
The Hongkong Fire Insurance
Co., Ltd.
Hong Kong. 30th April, 1941.
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
DRAFT PROGRAMMES and
BRIDGE NOTES
IT ISN'T BAD LUCK!
By The Four Aces
"Is't this bad luck?" £1
friend asked us the other day. "I made at what happened to me. Isn't it a perfectly normal rebid and look horrible?"
East. Dealer
North-South vulnerable East-West 60 part score
▲ 2
Q 10 7 4 OJ 98 G 4 ♣ K 10 7
A J974 V KJ 9 OAK 62 A 32
N
▲ A 10
6632
IW
0 7 #AQ98
6 4
AKQ8 65 J
A &
Q 19 3
A JE
The bidding:
Kart
1
Puns
IA ZA Pass
South Wexl
INT Dbl.
North
Puss l'ass
PUBLIC AUCTIONS ENTRY FORMS for the FIFTH ed the three of clubs and
The Undersigned have received instructions to ***!! by Public Auction on WEDNESDAY. 30th. April, 1941
commencing at 10 30 a.m. at their Sules Room, No 2, Connaught Road, Central,
Floor.
2nd
A Quantity of Radio Sets, Kits.; Loud Speakers, Eliminators, Chargers and Other Accessories.
1 Bag Sets
also
3 hop Canisters
7 Motor Car Hub Capes
and
A Quantity of Furniture and Sundries.
Terms, Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctionee
Hong Kong 24th Apr, BMI.
EXTRA RACE MEETING to be held (weather permitting) 11 SATURDAY, 10th May, 1941 may be obtained from the Secretary's Nee, Exchange Building: the Club House, Happy Valley; the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club; Eared the Stables, Shan kaa.
VIT
Kwong
THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 30, 1941
ONE-MAN STATE
-SO HE SAYS
It's the same old world in the United States. These stories of a one-man kingdom, a corset strike and the animals' fortune-teller
were cabled by John Walters from New York,
Alexander Reichert, twenty-nine, of Chicagó, has "seceded" from the United States and declared himself to be an independent kingdom with himself as sovereign.
This self-proclaimed one-man State appeared before a conscrip- tion appeal board to argue that he could not be drafted for the American Army.
"I notified the Department last October that I had socoded from the United States," said Alexander. "As I am no longer an American citizen I regret | cannot serve in your anmy.
"I am now a member of the kingdom of Alexander, of which I myself am king."
The one-man Sovereign State was ordered to appear before a
board of mental experts.
IN FIRE
PERIL- STAYED
(GY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
"Go away! I haven't time to talk. I've got work to do." This was the re- ply of a volunteer raid
Girl strike pickets. paruding warden, Vera Grover, only in cursets, caused a storm of protest among shocked citizens of
Detroit, Michigan.
Police prevented angry middle- West, our friend related, open-aged women from mobbing the East girls, as they smilingly walked the pavements outside the premises of the American Lady Corset Cor-
HIGH CANE VALUES OF THE
·FOUR-ACES ÜVETEM
ACC KING
QUEEN.1 JACK.....M
AVERAGE HANNO »Ya
Won with the Queen. The sing
leton diamond was returned, leading
the to cushing of two
top diamonds and
poration.
Astrologer
* *
10
Mrs.
roar-
animals, a diamond ruff by | Dorothea Pratt is doing a East. A low heart ing business among wealthy own- came next, South ers in New York. ducked, and West the heart King,
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON ¦ won with
THURSDAY. Ist May, 1941, West next led his remaining club 10 East's Aer, and East returned a low club.
By Order,
All day she sits in her little office busily casting the horoscopes of ammals that include dogs, cats. Cows, monkeys und horses, rubbits.
Pratt
Breeders
come to Mrs.
C. B. BROWN,
Poor South had already lost six tricks. Secretary.
to lose for assistance in selecting the right and was bound three more no matter what bemates for their dogs and cats. Hong Kong 78th Apr", 1941.
TO LET
i did! Actually, he discarded the heart Aer and West uffed. Then West returned his low diamond, East rulling with the trump Ace. And
had a West still
natural Trump trick.
BLITZED- BUT BESSIE CARRIES ON
MARBLE HALL. 34-38, Gran→ ville Road, Kowloon, Beautiful South lost 1.100 points on the Fooms, suurles with verandah, pr-hand, but it waar't bad luck It vate bathrooms, garden, tenis! was his own Rudt, and we hope court. Special rate for Military ¦ it tought hon a lesson. (The and Navy. Apply proprietress | chances are it didn't, however, for
Mrs. Bessie Angell is a must players can give up thing but a bid habit.) He might | British woman who won't have fump'amed of had luck it be beaten by Nazi bombs. is perfectly normal hid of one
The Undersigned have received | Phone 59433. instructions to tell by Public Auchon OR
FRIDAY, the 2nd May, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Salt, Room, No 35,
Hankow Road, Kowloon
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
Teakwood Bed Room, Dining Room. Drawing Room and offle Furniture, Ornaments, Curios, Cutlery, Porcelain, Glass, Bruss and Metal Ware, Gramophones & Records, Electric Table Fans & Lamps. Pictures, Clocks, Cooling Stove & Utensils, etc., etc.
a 80
A Few Pieces of Blackwood
Furniture. and
2 Dining Room Suites.
2 Bed Room Suites.
2 Tientsin Carpets.
1 Blackwood Silver Cabinet.
1 "G.M." Refrigerator,
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
BRASSO
METAL POLISH
GIVES-BRILLIANCE AND SPARKLE TO METALWARE
THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY.
THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION NO.2
On View from Thursday, the THERAPION N3
1st. May. 1941.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 29th, April, 1941.
FOR
No. 1 Oʻres DischarÉES. No. 2 Curse 21000 Polson. No. 2 Cares Chronie Weskussens, Engilah Pesca 36. Chantata, or either No,return [123), DRALE CLERG Mad. Co. Unvernzoek Rd, NAW,& Laped out, DR.LE OLERO'SPILES for the kiver &Kidneys-weekjidneys dihfadder
MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY
any-
spade had been doubled and set | Her invincible spirit in the 800 points. But he was just ask-face of cruel misfortune is ing for trouble when he bid two
Spades, and it served ham right an inspiration to the wo-
when he got it.
in
when firemen rushed to her post to tell her that a burning church steeple might fall on her at any moment.
Her colleagues wanted to re- port her bravery that night. She would not let them. They tried to make her a presentation. She would not take it.
Deputy Post Warden E H. Berry told me of it.
Dive Under Table
"When the Bre started in the church vestry," he said, "we dash- But more ed in and put it out. incendiaries came down, followed by H.Es, and the church blazed
flercely.
+
"Miss Grover was alone in the post at the telephone. Firemen triect to persuade her to leave. She ignored them. I was arguing with her, warning her the post
doomed, was probably
when a bomb whistled down.
"She dived under the table and drived into a corner. All the windows were blown in and the lights went out. We grawied out of the debris. I got a can- dle alight to show Miss Grover the way out. She refused to go. "A few minutes later an order
came through to abandon the post, Then, at last she put that tele- phone down and walked out.
"Just afterwards the church steeple crashed-but, by chance, it fell across the road and not across the house."
Miss Grover, a Civil Servant, It has won the admiration of Mr. lives in the country, but comes to Winston Churchill,
the
Prime
He should have been warned men-and men-of Brit- by West's no-trump hid and by ain. his partner's pass. Of course was tempted by the hope of pre- venting the opponents from mak-Minister, who has sent her a let-town to do her duty. ing an easy game--and he suc- ceeded in that aim. But it wasn't worth 1,100 points,
✡
•
were
Yesterday you Maier's partner and, with side vulnerable, you held:
AK 10 7 6 ♡ K 5 4 2 ◊ 6 ♣AJG 8 The bidding: Maier Schenken
PLAS
ANSWER:-Bid
ter expressing his sympathy.
Her husband, Mr. Robert Her- bert Angell, landlord of the Pound Tree Inn, Southampton, was killed by a bomb which fell outside the inn. Mrs. Angell bravely decided to carry on. The day after her The reopened Merwin husband's funeral.
neither the bomb-damaged inn.
Jacoby
You (?)
three spades. There is little point in bidding a suit before raising spades, be- general cause your strength is rather than localised.
Score 100% for three spades, 80% for two clubs, 40% for two
hearts.
Question No. 703
To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you hold:
A QJ 8 5
V K J 8 6
◊ J
♣ K 10 5
The bidding:
Maler
10
-KING'S STUDIO
WEDDING GROUPS SPECIALITY.
AVAILABLE: FOR: PRIVATE ÜBE
You Jacoby (?)
Schenken
That night the Luftwaffe struck gain, The inn was hit by incen- diary bombs
destroyed. and Danny, her pet Alsatian, perished in the fire.
Still In Business
were
The premises under which she de- had taken refuge
bomb. molished by a
But she is still in business- at the bomb-damaged Osborne Hotel, Shirley.
"When I lost my husband, my home and business," she fold are porter "I almost decided to join It was a my sister in America. fine broadcast speech by the Prime Minister that decided me to stay
put.
his
I talked to her about the raid. Then the telephone rang.
"Go Hw.ay," she smiled. "I haven't time to talk I've got work to do."
Toys do not always
quieten the cross baby
tuny.
Graduate nurse 'tells of treatment used for, har awn baby girl.
When toys fail to please baby you may be sure that something is Canadian nurse, Mrs. Mary E. Crosthwaite of Freeman, Ontario, tells of the treatment, she found successful when her own baby girl was fretful. "My little "I was so impressed by
girl was a small delicate baby at words that I wrote to him."
birth, always constipated and And this is the reply Mr. Chur- cross. When she was a month old chill sent through his secretary 1 bought Baby's Own Tablets and
The Prime Minister bas asked was so pleased with the results ob me to tell you how very deeply tained I have used them con- he appreciated your kind letter.stantly ever since which baby has He feels, it especially encouraging been cross, deverish, teething, or to receive such a tribute from at the first signs of a cold. one who has suffered so much at the hands of the enemy. He sends. you all his sympathy in your great misfortune.'
RAILINGS GO
The railings around the lawns What do you, bid? (Answer in Parliament square,
London, -tomorrow.)
bave been scrapped. They have provided about 15, tons of metal,
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(Released by
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and I now have a healthy five year old who has had a po, corrective other than Baby's Own Tablets."
For the minor health troubles of bables and young children there is no better corrective than the pleasant-tasting, safe and reliable remedy
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use in tanks, ships or guns,