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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction on
TUESDAY, the 24th June, 1941,
commencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, No, 2 Connaught Road Central, Room 205, 2nd Floor
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
POSTAGE STAMPS
On view from Saturday
the
21st June, 1941.
Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1941.
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NOTES
EXCELLENT TIMING
By The Four Aces
South. måde
TO CURE
EM
Here's a job for the Civil Servant to give him the right ideas on the use of power-he should wash the feet of the poor,
a'difficult Slam contract not by any unusual playMr. Philip Milner Oliver, of but simply by playing each card Manchester, suggested it. in his presidential address to the Gen- at precisely the right time:
eral Assembly of Unitarian and |*Free Christian Churches at Oxford,
North, Dealer
"North-South ̈"vulnerable
WEST
4 K Q 10 3 ❤ 9 2 06 4 AJ 8 7 3 2
NORTH
OA/5
A 8 5.4
OAK 10 7 3
4K 6
EAST
A ? 4 3 ♡ J 10 3 ◊ 4 J 6 2 496 4
SOUTH AJ 9.8 € ♡ K Q 7 6 OD 8
A 10 9
The bidding:
North East
Bouth
West
10
P488
10
Pass
3♡
Pass
44
Pass
4NT
Pass
5♡
Pass
6♡
Раза
Pass
Pasa
West opened the King of spades, and dummy won with the Ace. The Slam obviously depended on get- t'ng a 3-2 break in
TUSH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES BYRNES
KING QUEEN JACK
AVERAGE HAND 67%
With this
trumps and on establishing dum- my's diamonds. The
only problem was to draw just enough trumps so as still
to
leave possible
the establishment
The insolence of power was a subtle poison, he said, and to the average .bureaucrat, the poor were not immortal souls, At the best they were interesting cases, at the worst a mass of statistics or confounded nuisances.
"The mediaeval church had a corrective 'for such insolence. Her great once washed the feet of beggars.
"The practice might be revived and the feet of the poor be wash- ed by our Civil Servants-washed in all the stinks und uncomeliness of poverty."
BRITONS LIKE ALLY COOKING
BILL
5-19
over
(felbloed by "The Bull Bruditate; Inc.) The honeymoon when the groom learne it takes more than love to fill a cottage.
الم
CHILD MILLIONS WAR 'CASUALTIES'
First casualty of the war was the education service, delegates at the National Union of Women Teachers were to'd at their annual conference "the Schoolmarmıs' Parlament"-at York.
Speaker was Miss H. R. Walmesley, who referred to the "destruction" to the 5,000,000. children in Britain. It was "something for which posterity will take the legacy," she declared. The conference unanimously demanded immediate restoration
Food tastes of Britain's of full compulsory education. allies now living in Lon-
don have not been forgot-
ten during the establish-
of the diamonds. ment of the big chain of though! in mind, communal restaurants
South drew two rounds of trumps
At one centre in Westbourne- terrace, Bayswater, the daily menu is devised on entirely con- tinental lines.
with the King and Queen. It was sponsored by the Ministry We are happy to be able to in-important to leave two low trumps of Food, says the "Even- form the Shipping Public that
in the South hand, since it might| arrangements
ruff diamonds ing Standard." have
be necessary to been completed which make it possible twice, and to ruff with an honour for us to rescind our previous it would cost a trump trick. structions regarding non-accept- Next dummy's high diamonds South ruffed a The Undersigned have receivede of Letters of Guarantee in were taken, and instructions
lieu of original Bills of Lading. third round of diamonds. Dummy to sell by Public Auction on
with the club Consequently. It is our intention' was then entered
THURSDAY, the 26th. June, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Floor.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. comprising:—
Teakwood Bedsteads, Ward- robes, Chest of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Chesterfield Suites, Side- boards, Dining Tables, Chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Ornaments, Curios. E.P., Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Ceiling & Table Fans, Cabinet & Portable Gramophones. Records, Filters, Oil Paintings, Pictures, etc., etc.
also
A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and 1 Teakwood Dining Room Suite.
1 Mahogany Bed Room Suite.
1 Oak Dining Room Suite..
1 Beauty Rest Mattress.
1 "G.E." Refrigerator.
1 Surf, Board,
2 New Canvas Canoes.
1 Radio-gram.
1 "Philco" Radio.
1 "Emerson" Radio..
1 "Fada" Radio:
1 "Atwater Kent" Radio.
On View from Wednesday, the
25th. June, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 24th, June, 1941.
Just Received FRESH SUPPLY
...
of the best varieties of
RELIABLE & TESTED
FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS
from
Button & Sons Ltd., Reading.
Here, each meal time gather
gians, Czechoslovakians and Aus- trians.
to accept Letters of Guarantee King for another diamond, led by Free Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Bel- endorsed by approved Banks for dummy and ruffed by South. De- the production of original Bills of clarer then cashed the Ace of Lading in future as we have in clubs and ruffed a club with dum- the past, and our recent notifica- my's low trump. Only at this tion in the Press is hereby declar point could the trump Ace be ed null and void.
laid down to draw East's last trump. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.
Hong Kong, June 20th., 1941.
THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE
LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
THE SIXTIETH ORDINARY -MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on WEDNESDAY, the 25th June, 1941, at Noon, for the pur- "pose" of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1940.
The Share Register and Trans- fer Books 'will be closed from the 11th June to the 25th June, 1941, both days inclusive.
JARDINE. MATHESON- & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, 4th June, 1941.
TUITION GIVEN
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MISCELLANEOUS
The dummy's last diamond could be cashed for the twelfth trick. Note that South loses his contract if he draws three rounds of trumps at once, or if he pre- maturely plays the trump Ace, or if diamonds are tackled before two rounds of trumps are drawn.
*
*
*
The cook comes from Vienna, and refugees and British volun- tary workers cooperate in pro- viding continental dishes.
The secretary of the Wartime Kitchen told the Continental "Evening Standard": "The pecu- liar part is that more and more 100 'per cent. Britishers' are patronising our dishes each week
"They seem to appreciate vari- ous typical non-British dishes."
Monday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with neither OFF THE RECORD side vulnerable, you held:
MAA 10 05
♡ 9 4
OK 8 4 2 4 3 7 4 The bidding: Jacoby
Schenkea 1♡
- Puss 34%
Pasa
Του 1A (7)
Maier Pass
"
ANSWER: -Bid three no-trump. You have a stopper in 'the' unbid suit, and can «best show the loca- tion of your meagre strength and. your-balanced distribution by going to no-trump.
Score 100% for three no-trump. 0 for any other bid.
Question No. 750
To-day you hold the same hand, but the bidding is different:
Jacoby
You
10/ **Pass INT Pass
What đó
Maler Pass
(Answer:
sto-morrow.
(Released by The Bell Syndi-
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ON SALE. AT ·
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