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PUBLIC AUCTIONS
The Undersigned have received instructions from The Marshal in Prize, Supreme Court, to sell by Public Auction on
TUESDAY, the 22nd. July, 1941 commencing at 11 a.m.
at Godown No. 39 of The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., in The Hong Kong and Whampoa Dock Co.'s Cosmopolitan Dock, Tal-kok-tsui,
2087 Bundies Wet Sarted Hides. 1000 Pieces Wet Salted Hides. Terms: Cash on delivery. For inspection order and gate pass apply to:
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 18th July, 1941.
The Undersigned have received instructions from the Liquidators St Others to sell by Public Auction on
WEDNESDAY, 23rd. July, 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:
Iron
& Teakwood Bedsteads,
Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, Cup-
boards, Sideboards, Dining Tables, Chairs, Chesterfield Suites, Cabi-
HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING
CORPORATION
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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1941.
BRIDGE POLICE
NOTES
STOPPED
MASSACRE
A MISSED GAME OF NAZIS
By The Four Aces
How prompt action by "Where must be something the French police pre- wrong with our bidding,"
writes vented a massacre in A.W.D., of Washington, D.C., “but.
Maybe Paris, and how Germans we can't tell what it was. you can help us:
are ruthlessly rounding up and interning Jews there, was told by an American
woman, long resident in Paris, who
South, Dexter North-South vulnerable
NORTH
WEST
A 6 2
A A 85
8 7 3
0 5
4 AQ J 9 8 3
LAST
A Q 10 9 43 ♡ Q 6 2
O Q J 6 2
VA 6 OAK 10 8 4
10 7 6 2
SOUTH
A KJ 7
KJ 10 9 4 0 9 7 8 АКБ
The bidding: South Pass 20
West
10 Pass
North
2 Pass
East
20 Puss
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"There we were at all of two hearts, with four hearts colder
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As a matter of fact, I made five hearts because the defence wasn't anything to brag about.
"But who am 1 to gneer about the defence
when I couldn't even get to # cold ganie? My partner and I have wrestled with the hand long und earnestly, but we still don't know how it could have been bid. What do you say about it?"
We say that it's not an easy hand to bid, but the game should
has arrived in Lisbon.
On Joan of Arc day-May 11 -the authorities took precautions against possible demonstrations and had police flying squads ready ut key points throughout the capi- tal.
was
Parisians were unable to form processions, but many walked along the Rue de Rivoli and quietly raised their hats to Joan's statue by the Louvre.
Suddenly 2 commotion heard, and
# mat, carrying a French flag and a rosary, came along arguing with a German policeman. He reached a statue and attempted to a kneel before' it. refusing to move on.
Several German police, now watched by a growing orowd, tried to drag him away. The man fought until the German
policeman, drawing his revolver,
shot him dead.
At
this the crowd increased quickly and began shouting.
Troops Called
5-12
(Telenned by The Bell nakate, for,) ►
The office stonog says it's the bots' indisposition and not her sunburn that turns work-
ing hours on Monday into
one long heated argument.
PRISONERS OF WAR PARCELS
Field-Marshal Sir Philip Chetwode, chairman of the executive of the Bri- tish Red Cross and St. John War Organisation, stated at a luncheon of The German police blew their the Anglo whistles and German troops turn-
Swedish ed out.
Society in London that But the French police arrived British prisoners of war just in time to get between the soldiers and the people, whom in Germany were they drove into the Tuileries Gar- dens and closed the gates.
receiving a regular and
BART'S
now
He had just received a tele- gram from
Geneva asking the organisation not to send so many as it could not deal with them.
be reached if the two partners Later the Germans arrested 400 generous supply of par- are good bidders and trust each people who have since disap, cels. other. Everything Was pretty peared. logical up to and including West's pass on the second round. But North's pass was a different story. South had bid two hearts- freely and vulnerable. He wasn't trying to wriggle out of a bad spot, 203 since East had bid two diamonds and South could have passed with a bad hand. South couldn't have
nets, Desks, Ceiling & Table Fans, IN CHROMIUM PLATED
Standard & Table Lamps, Curios,
Ornaments, Pictures, Clocks, Cabinet & Portable Gramophones, records, Silver Bronze. Cut Glass, Cloisonne, EP., Glass and Force- Tain Ware, Pressure Incadescent Lamps, Tea Sets, Dinner Service, etc., etc.
#
also
400 Books (in lots)..
3 New Canvas Canoes
STEEL H.K $5-each. MODELS ON VIEW.
JUNE SCORE
470
2 Tientsin Rugs and 1 Carpet SEND IN YOUR REMITTANCE.
1 Pair Binoculars In Case
1 Agfa" Camera F 3.5 Lens
1 'Quartz Lamp".
1 Plano by "Moutrie"
1 Frigidaire
2' Ica Chests
On View from Tuesday,
22nd. July, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT:BROS.,
THE NEW FRENOH REMBOY
THERAPIONINI.I THERAPION NË 2
the THERAPİON N3
Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 10th July, 1941.
Ko. 1 Unres DischargSSJ
a four-card suit or even a weak five-card suit, since he had volun-
THRICE
BOMBED
tarily come in with his bid at the mew's Hospital has been Although St. Bartholo-
level of two when vulnerable.
In short, North did not have to hit by bombs three times
worry about the strength of the trump suit.
South had at least a in raids on London and strong five-card suit; and North's the buildings have been
three small hearts support.
were ample
North's strong Severely damaged,
the
"Something Funny".
There was no record, Sir Philip stated, either in the last war or this, of the Germans taking any
was going on. parcels. At some of the camps,
however, something very funny"
At Oflag 7 CH, which was full of officers, a good many parcels had been received, but letters from priɛoners were con- tradictory.
husband
A
woman said her
diamond, and staff has escaped on each wrote from this camp siating that
Surely clubs, singleton
game at hearts. Hence occasion.
spade Ace were enough to sug- gest a
North should have raised to three! The first damage was done on hearts, strongly inviting South to a night in September, when Д go on to game. And, since South bomb fell just outside the nurses bad about as much as could be home. A part of the basement, expected (considering his original where some nurses slept, pass), he would have bid four flooded, but there hearts.
casualties. Later in September a bomb demolished the anatomital
*
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was
were no
son
he had had no food or clothes and was miserable. Another woman said that her
wrote from stating that they were receiving the same camp at the same time
so many food parcels that they were having to make cupboards to take them.
Sir Philip added that he knew
Yesterday you were Merwin lecture theatre and some an- both men personally and neither Maier's partner and, with both nexes. Again the staff escaped. would tell an untruth. sides vulnerable, you held:
On the night of the great fire {raid on London it was decided to Spares For Weeks
remove at once 102 of the 225 patients. Within two hours every "If all the parcels we now have patient had arrived safely. at on the sen get through we shall another hospital many miles have, with the 10,000 parcels a week we get from Canada, a great
K 10
OK J 48
4.4 7 3 2
The bidding: Maier 1A 3♡
away.
Bolonken Pasa
You
+
Pass
Jacoby Pass 24 (7)
too
i.
Mr. George Aylwen, treasurer) many weeks' sparos' in case of of the hospital, in his 1940 re-accident," he continued. port, says he cannot speak.
Sir Philip also disclosed that £18,000 highly of the way in which the between £17,000 and nurses have maintained the great worth of supplies was sent to ANSWER: Bid three no-trump.tradition of their profession.
Greece by the Red Cross. He did You have a fairly good hand for
not think much had been lost, a simple raise, and can best
because it was sent in small indicate the scattered nature of
quantities, as required, from your strength and balanced dis-
Cyprus and the Middle East. tribution by bidding three no- trump at this stage. If your partner has a real two-suiter, he will probably bid again; but if his hand is well balanced, he will pass and you will be at the most logical contract.
Score 100% for three no-trump, 30% for three spades....
Question No. 774 To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner, and, with both sides vulnerable, you hold: AK. 10 A
♡ KJ4.8
The bidding: Belienken'
"Pass
Mater ( You
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Pass
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PANTECHNICON TO ROB HOUSE
They had sent £105,766 worth. of supplies to the Middle East, and more was going out every a day,
Patrick Joseph Clews, 23, thief on a big scale by using a mechanic, showed himself to be a
worth of property from a house. pantechnicon, to remove £1,009]
SKIN. TROUBLES A scrap of paper led to his being sentenced at the Old Bailey to such as eczema, ringworm, itch, three years' penal servitude. sores, pimples and ulcers, quickly Clews pleaded guilty to charges respond to the palliative effects of of house-breaking at Wandsworth She-Ko,the fragrant curative and to looting premises at Putney ointment of the Dr. Wildams of articles valued at £355.. Medicine Company.
He was not traced until after A reliable antiseptic drossing he had broken into a house in for cuts, scratches, abrasions, Wimbledon Park Road, Wands burns and other minor injuries, worth. Nearly 1,000 articles, She-Ko is unsurpassed for quickly valued at £1,000, were taken, healing skin injuries and skin Clews said he pawned some of troubles generally. Obtainable at his clothes to hire a pantechnicon all chemists. to go to the house,
In the grounds of the house police found a piece of paper which related to the journey and the vehicle. This led them to the (Released by The Bell Syndicate, warehousemen who had been
engaged and thon to Clewś/^:
to-morrow)
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