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THE INDO-CHINA STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
Notice of General
Meeting
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 8, 1941.
BRIDGE A SELF-EDUCATED NOTES ARMY IN BRITAIN
A USEFUL PLAY
By The Four Aces
To-day's hand illustrates a very
MOST PEOPLE ARE vaguely aware that, after many false starts, there is an Army education scheme in action, but they know very little about its purpose or about the way it works.
Until a few weeks ago, apart, of course, from useful defensive play, often miss technical military training, there was one single
ed by the average player:
South, Dealer
Both sides vulnerable
WEST
A 64
07 2
A7 G 5 4 2 ♡ 7 5
NORTH
A A B
♡ J 9 8 2
0
10 9 8
J 6 3 2
EAST
A J 10 9 3
◊ A 4 3
49 9 64
K 10 7
SOUTH
A K Q
KQ 10 3
OK Q J 6 6
A 8
The bidding: South
West
10
Pass
20
Puss
40
Pass
North
INT 3♡ Pass
East
Pass Pass Рава
educational source in the Army the one provided by the adult education, bodies of Great Britain.
soldiers
The
nudiences.
the
understanding growing These bodies, working through regional committees, provided within the Army of the real cul- an educational Army and
with tural purposes of R.A.F. units lectures and discussions on a wide system is best shown in the em- variety of subjects. The massed phasis now set upon discussion. rescurces of university extension, At first there used to be some- paradc atmosphere W.E.A., local education authorities, thing of u
about this voluntary system. The &c. were thus lent, at first on a
proceedings volutary basis, to those citizens "high spot" of the
was regarded as What the Lec- also become who had
turer Said. The present inclina- and aimen for the duration.
tion is to consider the lecture as But adult education in peace-the preliminary to an unfettered lime provides lecturers for an give-and-take of opinion among audience not one-twentieth the the men feature all the more
among the size of the Army to-day. The only usually
good symptom is supplementing | Another possible way of
organise being made to this inadequate ration of import- | effort
in a subject ed education was for the Army continuous courses
produce some of rather than a series of unrelated to attempt to its own education. In its wise and lectures. imaginative pamphlet "Education in the Wartime Army." as well as in later instructions, the War West thought long and earnest Office has urged on units the im- ly about the opening lead and portance of developing their own finally hit upon the cultural resources, and to-day, seven of diamonds. although the Army is using to the Το be perfectly full the availble services of the frank, we think, adult education bodies, it is also his lead
week, the Wincreasing. week by more by number
"heme - of dictated
produce" KING QUEENTI clairvoyance than educational classes. Unit educa- JACK VA any clear
reason-ition officers are now finding and ing; but whatever using the teaching talent of of-
JOHN GARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM
PRERANA VAmo a 15
the reason the lead
The SIXTIETH ORDINARY the GENERAL MEETING of
held at the be Company will Offices of the General Managers, "killing" opening, Messrs Jardine, Matheson & Co.. Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, o THURSDAY, 10th July, 1941, at Noon, for the purpose of receiv- ing the Report of the Directors, passing the Accounts, and electing Directors and Auditors,
The Transfer Books
have a
for it, feers and men at a rapidly in- was the creasing rate.
But it isn't enough to make the killing opening lead; you must ulso
partner who can cooperate in the defense. Most players holding the East cards would automatically play the Ace on the first trick. of diamonds of
the
On Right Lines
After a slow and
uncertain
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Released by The Deli Ayndicate. Int.
The office stenog saya it's the boca indisposition and not her sunburn that turns work- ing hours on Monday into ona long heated argument.
GROUND STAFF DOWN NAZI
start Army education has got on RAIDER
to the right lines and is develop- ing at a surprisingly good pace. Its administration is in the very enthusiastic hunds capable and
re-
a
A German bomber of the Army Education Corps, re- cently reinforced by a keen "in-cently emerged from take" of men who were W.EA low layer of cloud above a tutors, officers of tion authority, schoolmasters, and group of ground defence
50
a local educa-
same
test their skill
of military Conditions on. training and movement make the crews of the R.A.F. Army
of an Cooperation Command. whole scheme something obstacle race, yet those Good And Bad
valuable For long these gunners had
· realise that, however Anyone who has spent a few the service they get from civilian been waiting to
the jonly
education against an enemy raider, and weeks observing at close quar-; sources,
be sure of wherever they were ready. ters the development of the new they can Army education scheme is at first they go is the one they, provide it for themselves, It is all the more bewildered by the contrasts
In presents. one unit the only lamentable that the A.T.S.,
a topic contract, for West would ly dedate on such
professional never be able to get a diamond "Amateur
sport" or a spirited performance by a small percussion band.
90
The German airman swept the
Company will be clused from the That would allow South to make sample you are offered is a week. much more stationary than the ground with a hail of machine-
3rd July to the 24th July Inclusive,
By Order of the Board, JARDINE, MATHESON & CO.,
LTD.,
General Managers. Hong Kong, 14th May. 1941.
TO LET
his
ruff.
But East correctly read his
lead as the
top of a partner's doubleton,
so he carefully re- first frained from winning the trick. Instead he played the four of diamonds, the highest card he could spare to encourage a con- tinuation when West regained the lead.
V.
science.
as
Disregarding, this
fire and then crews held their vicious attack, the RAF ground took a steady aim.
men, have so far shown the most gun bullets. in tepid interest in providing simi- la facilities for the women.
and
NAHLIN A
MINELAYER
The raider, still firing, circled But the gunners around them.
fired continued firing, too-and
so accurately that the Nazi air- craft crashed a few miles away and its crew was killed.
But in another unit you will find a time-table which includes within a single week classca in French, German, music, drama, world affairs, local government, elementary achacology. MARBLE HALL, 34-36 Granvi te Roud, double and single room with
There are units so well off in private bathroom and verandah.
teaching talent that they can not Also dressing
South overtook dummy's dia-only provide their own men with which the Tom, beautiful
Jack in sqaview. tennis, home grown! mund eight with the
a wide choice of subjects but can
surplus to their Duchess of Windsor weni, necessary repairs he was too late
to have a shot at the enemy. Vegetable, Phone 59433,
order to lead the Queen of hearts, also lend their but West stepped up at once with
poorer neighbours. In many places, cruising before the Abdi.
Nevertheless, he shares in the soldiers still depend the heart Ace in order to lend his
again, the
a mine-
official congratulations sent to the entirely on the "imported" educa- cation is now
by their commanding
A
Only one R.A.E. man felt dis- Luxury yacht in appointed. His gun jammed as the Germans approached him. Duke and Though he tried hard to make the
tional rations instead of provid-layer-on the enemy side. gunners
officer.
Duke's Cocktail Bar
PUBLIC AUCTIONS remaining diamond. And the
It was time for East to take his The Undersigned have received | Àce and return the suit, giving ing their own. Instructions
in this still to sell by Public his partner a ruff. Later on South
The truth is that
and had to give up a club trick, for tentative
experimental Auction on
FRIDAY, the 11th, July, 1941. a one-trick set.
scheme several policies are operat-
Nahlin was lent to the Duke by ing, and not all of them are effec-
In some the very wealthy Lady Yule With tive or even desirable.
well-the then monarch, aboard, Nahlin places, for example, the meaning but premature policy cruised in Aegean and Adriatic was tried of "training the men waters. for the return to civil life."
commencing at 2.30 p.m.
at their Sale; Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE
comprising:
⭑
*
Oswald Yesterday you were Jacoby's partner and, with nei-
Teakwood Drawing Room,, ther side vulnerable, you held:
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
Dining Room, Bed Room and Office - Furniture, Ornaments, Curios, Pictures, Clocks, Cutlery, Electric Fans & Lamps, Gramo- phones & Records, -EP
Brass,
Glass and Porcelain Ware, Cook- ing Utensils, etc., etc.
Furniture.
A Q 7 67
10 9 8
Q. A. J. ZLB 5.1.
A
The bidding:
also
A Few Pleces of Blackwood
and
You! Scuöhken Jaooby Pass 1A
Pasa 20
Pass
80 (?)
Malor
24 BA
2 Chromium Plated Figures
2 Cooking Stoves
1 Electric Stove
1 Refrigerator
1 Pair Binoculars In Case
1 Enamel Bath
1 Perambulator
1 "Chanticleer"
ANSWER: Pass. If you bid again, you will probably "push" the opponents into game at spades and that's just what you don't want. By passing, you give them Waveservatively at only three spades.
On The Turks saw her when she
this basis artisans were coaxed to anchored for a week off Moda, on a the shores of the Bosphorus, while gonsider the advantages of black-coated life after and for a few brief and illusioning weeks tried to learn recognised her off the Danube or delta. She was flying the Ruman- book-keeping or shorthand
the war the Duke, went to visit Ataturk.
diş-
A Turkish torpedo-boat recently
commercial French. This idea is lan flag, and had a German crew. now less favoured, and the local education authorities
Nahlin steamed into the Black are better Sea, some four years ago, when engaged, apart from the consider- King Carol bought her from Lady
in Yule. able aid they are giving technical training. courses
in arranging
King Carol made many altera- in handicrafts, drama, tions in Náhlin. One of the fow music, and similar constructive things unchanged was the cock- tall bar. But the shaker: with kinds of recreation..
which the Duke himself mixed cocktails for his guests is in the Bahamas.
“Anti-Boredom”
Another policy which gained a
1. Outboard Motor with Battery the chance to play the hand con- hold for a time was the anti-
Radio. A.C./D.C.
All
1 "Emerson" Portable Radio Score 100% for pass, 50% for
A.C./D.C. (1941 model)
four diamonds,
On View from Thursday, the diamonds.
10th July, 1941.
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
20% for
Question No. 762
boredom line. It is probable that some commanding officers who
would have been indifferent to MINOR INJURIES. five education for its own sake"" were persuaded to push the scheme for
Accidents occur almost daily its value in keeping the men of with children,, resulting in -outs, cupied in the winter evenings scratches, burns scalds, bruises. The weakness of the anti-bore: For the curative treatment of all dom polley was that it tended to such minor Injuries there is develop an indiscriminating idea. nothing better than of education. “Any old thing to Interest, the men" is an attitude which might soon produce the ef fect of a Gresham's Law and re-
Applied Immediately after the duce educational effort, to a sheer wound has been thoroughly cleanär entertainment level have
ed, the antiseptic properties pro- But eno heara für less, fram vent infection and healing quickly. commanding officora to-day followa Equally good for eczema, than one did a few monthe itch, ringworm, sores,chapped lips about the antidote Value of
Today you hold the same The Undersigned have received hand, and the bidding continues: instructions to sell by Public
at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con-i Pano 4A
Auction on
You......... Hgheaken.
F
TUESDAY, the 15th, July, 1941:
PABA
commencing at 6.15 p.m.
20
Pasa
Jacoby Pass
JA 80 Pass Puss
Binler
2
naught Road, Central, 2nd. Tibor,
(?)`
A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS:
Terms: Cash on delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers Hong Kong 8th July, 1941.
What do you bid? (Answer to-morrow.)
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