THE
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
Registered Offico. - Windsor
House, 12, Des Vœux Central, Hong Kong.
Telephones:
Rond,
20022-Advertising Dept.
20011—Business .Dept.
20022-Editorial Dept. 33963-The Editor,
33993-Sub-Editor.
Cable Add: "Mail, Hongkong" Codes: Bentley and A.B.C. SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
LOCAL
6 months
3 month.
H.K.$ 9.00 H.K.$18.00 H.K.$36.00
12 month
OVERSEAS (including postage)
.. months
6 months
12 months
H.K.$17.00
H.K.$34.00
ILK.$68.00
All subscriptions Arc strictly prepaid, and all cheques, postal and money orders should be made payable to The News- paper Enterprise Limited. CONTRIBUTIONS:
All contributions must bear the writer's
or artist's signature,
not
for publication purposes unless desired, but as a sign of good faith. The publishers do not Recept responsibility for the return of manuscript, draw- ings or pictures unless a stamp. ed addressed envelope in together with the contribution.
Lent
¡
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
The
SIXTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held, weather permitting. on SATURDAY, 31st May, and MONDAY, 2nd June, 1944, commencing at 2.00 p.m. an Saturday and 11.30 am, on Mon-
day.
The First Bell will be rung at 1:30 pm
on the first day and at 11.00 am. on the second day.
The tin interval will be after the fourth race on the second day MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
T
No One without a badge will
admitted 10 the Members Enclosure Such must he worn throughout the duration of each Meeting in such ล manner as to He readily identified.
Badges admitting Non Member
the Members' Enclosure and Club Roone. at $5.00 per day for Gertlement and $300 per day for Lache (hoth including tas
1
such
tainable through the SECRET- ARY upon the personal or written appaleation of a Member, Member to be responsible for all saitors introduced by hun, and i tog fryment of all chats, etes
The Secretary's Office, 1st floor. Exchange Burding. (Tel 27704)
clusa at 1145 am on Satur¦
on Monday Filthys
ablanteatule
the Club House provided they ordered
from No. 1 Bay (Tel 21920)
PUBLIC AUCTIONS x and at 9:45 a ma.
The Undersigned have received instructions from The caglial Ad- manistrator, Supte m Court, ft: sell by Public At tinn on
TUESDAY, the 27th May. 1941. commencing at 10.30 a.m.
at No 182, Price Edward Road. First Floor KowloonT}
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Collects of the tate Mi
J Bickerstaff)
aud
One EC" Rathegiatm
Two Radio Sets.
One Westinghouse" Refriger-
ator
One Gie Mtove
One Quartz Lamp
On View s Day of Sale.
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auelsmeers. Hong Kong. 24th May, 1941
The Undersigned have recessed Instructions
seli by Publei Auction on
WEDNESDAY, the 28th May 1941,
commencing at 10.30 a.m. at No. 11A. Jordan Road. Kowloon
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
On View From Tuesday, the 27th May, 1941
Terins Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioners. Hong Kong 23rd May, 19441.
The Undersigned have received instructions tu sell by Public Auction on
THURSDAY, the 29th May, 1941.
commencing at 10.30 a.m. at No. 4. Conduit Road.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
also
111 ady unive
''
the
No children or amahs will be admitted to either Enclosure,
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE
at the Gate
Veforma
M
1
By Order.
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1941.
PORTUGAL WOLFRAM
BRIDGE
NOTES RUSH
BRIDGE SWINDLES
NO. 40
By The Four Aces Simple analysis directed East to the swindle in to-day's hand:
WEST
A Gi
 ૩ ૪ ઇ QJR 3
4 19 6 2
NORTH
▲ AT3 2
W 10 7 4 97
♣ AKQJ
SOUTH
EAST AK 84 Q93 ON G5 2
A QUIA 9 VK 65
AK 4
A "wolframite rush" is sweep- ing Portugal. Thousands of pea- sants are deserting their cabbage gardens and little farms for the hills where they are engaging in ntury of mining like the forty- niners of California.
Wolframite is the chief ore tungsten used in high speed tools and munitions making.
of
Despite a warning by the Gov- ernment, which fear crops will suffer, hundreds of North Portu- gal peasants have joined the rush from the villages of Borralla, Via Campo de Gales, Tarouca, de Aguar Alva, Castro Daires, and Codicoso.
Said the newspaper "O Seculn:" "Families of peasants who had lived happily there lancolie life. work ng from sumise to sundown To earn Just enough to keep them- selves alive have been serious y templed to wolframite mining
"Neighbours who tong had been friends and shared poverty with resignatio hoping generation Lafter genmation that the land one day would produce BRON than what they needed to eat. have be the Queen opened
of jcome enemies in a fury to extract South woning within one day's deen, what a whole
the Ace South then month of tiling the land
would the Quren tiltree "
...
* 7 4 3
The bidding:
North MARI IA
luསས
l'a 8
South LA 3NT Pass
Wost Pass Paxs Pass
West diamonds,
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE
FOUR-ACER WYSTEM
ACE ......... KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACK...'2
TOTAL VALUE OF PACK BO
Spades for a finesse, ;
and East won with the
East
sparle King then thought
biefly
briefly
executed
VPLY
1 l neat
swindle by return-
ing the Queen of hearts.
Before we ser let's
examine East's lead.
what happened, The price of Admission to the
the reasons for Tub Enclosure is $100 per day
The opening legd had healing Tux, for all Persons. told him that South had both the meluding Ladies, and is payable Ace and King of diamonds; West Soldiers and Sailors could not have the diamond King. dmuited Half; for if he had held it he would have led the King rather than the Queen of diamonds. The deeree
win could obviously
no club tricks, nor Secretary.
any further trump tricks. The contract could be set, therefore, only if three heart tricks could be won. Those tricks could be won if West had both Ace and King of hearts (unlikely in view of the bidding and West's opening lead) or if West had the Ace and Jack guessed wrong.
CB. BROWN,
Hong Kong, 26th May, 1941.
Help your Friend and his Hobby by giving POSTAGE STAMPS
for
his collection
and Seeds For His Garden
We can supply the goods of his and your want
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Garden Seeds, etc., etc. 10. Wyndham Street Established 1896 Hong Kong
TUITION GIVEN
1
Associated Press
GAOLED
FOR TAKING FUSES
Stated to have taken home two shell fuses as "ornaments," Morris Freed, of Naper Road, Luton, was sentenced to two months' impri- sonment. The case was heard in
camera,
He was convicted of possessing two shell fuses, contrary to th
with Defence Regulations, and committing an act preparatory to communicating to another person information respecting munition of war.
3-29
ONE
FORCHID FOR "A"
WHOLE EVENING/
(Hbisaand" by The Bed Brudiratojne.)
Gold-digging
Gertie says lean pickin's never did make
for a gala evening.
KEEPING FIT IN THE EAST.
How to keep Bt is a question. constantly in the minds of those living in the East.
Care sa the matter of diet and regular living habits will do much lo preserve health, but un- fa vuur a ble climate condi- tions
often cause impover- ishment of the blood
and
when the blood 15 below Dar illness may - soon follow.
If you are not feeling up to the mark and cannot tell why, most likely your blood has become thin and impure. Do not delay but begin a course of Dr. Williams* Pink Pills which rapidly create fresh supplies of rich, red blood to nourish and strengthen all the
issues and cells of the body.
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have
been bringing aid to ailing men and women throughout the East When police saw the fuses on for the past thirty years. Give
#t provided South the mantelpiece his home. them a that, you will not be dis- Freed said he brought then home antented They are obtainable at
Now for what happened. South to show the family what he was all chemists.
He intended to take themi thought, reasonably enough, that doing. East had led from the Queen-Jack | back.
of hearts. If that were the case. The prosecution submitted that
it would be fatal to play the King, the articles were of
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,.
secret Equally good for men and women,
FELLOWSHIP OF THE BELLOWS
for West would take the Are and nature which Freed had no right return the suit through dummy's to have. 18, and South would love three heart tricks. But if Bast had the Jark of hearts 25 Well as the Queen, South
make his could contract by playing a low heart. For then if East continued with the Jack. South would play the King, thereby setting up dummy's ten or winning that trick at once; and if East continued with a low heart, South could play low, and dummy's ten would force West to put up the Are,
South therefore played a low heart, and there went his con- tract! East continued with a low heart, and West took two more hear tricks.
·
EXPERT instructresses for ladies Saturday you
were Howard
and young girls in music, short-Schenken's-partner and, non-vu! - hand, typing, bookkeeping and ]nerable against vulnerable op- English and French. Apply 24 ponents, you held.
One "Philips" Radio (model Austin Road, Kowloon.
1940).
and
Fine Peking Rugs.
On View from Wednesday, the
28th May, 1941.
Terms:. Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong. 23rd May, 1941.
It's
DEPENDABLE
Phone 28183 THE DAIRY FARM ICE & COLD STORAGE CO., LTD,
MISCELLANEOUS
* K J 9 7 ♡ AJ 4 ОК 10 Б3
A 10
The bidding:
14 PABS 20 24
Puss
FOR VISITING CARDS neatly Maler 'Tau Jacoby Schenken and promptly printed, The Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind- sor House, Des Voeux Road,' Cen- tral Telephones:-20022 & 20011.
Nothing
to go Out of Order!
ICE. IS BESTI
(P)
A
ANSWER: Pass: You can pro- bably beat two spades about 'trick or so, but that is not a real certainty if the diamond 'Ace ta behind you. You may not do well, furthermore, against 'three diamonds; and that may become the contract if you double. A pass at this stage may pay big dividends (if the opponents "con="" tinue to bid, as-is quite possible,
Score 100% for pass, 30% tón double.
Question No. 726
To-day hold the same 'hand, and the bidding continues:
Рава Pass
You Pass Pass "INT (7) What do you bid? : CAnswe "tomorrow.)
BNT
(Released by The Bell Syndi cate, Inc.)
JOIN
RAISE
AND HELP
NOW
THE WIND FOR THE R.A:F.
2,000 "SNUFFS” have become “WHIFFS"
BUT
THERE'S
ROOM FOR MORE
EVERY "WHIFF" ́(Member) PROMISES TO PAY ONE CENT A PLANE
BROUGHT DOWN BY OUR LAND, SEA AND AIR FORCES.
DON'T BE A "SNUFF" (NON-MEMBER)
"WHIRLWIND”
APPLY TO
0/0 Far East Oxygen & Acetylene Co., Ltd.
Kowloon.
"RECEIVER OF WINDFALLS"
c/o Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Kowloon.