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The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on
THURSDAY, the 31st. July, 1941
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A QUANTITY OF
RADIO PARTS
THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 30, 1941.
BRIDGE BIG U.S. SUPPLIES
NOTES ARMING THE
A USEFUL INFERENCE
By The Four Aces
To-day's hand probably belongs the crime series, because South misplayed the hand and lost his Small Slam contract. But the crime is a little obvious,
In
and the real interest centres in how South should have known the right way to play the hand:
South, Dealer
North-South vulnerable
NORTH
A Q 10 7 4 (KQJ 7 3 OK Q 6
WEST AJ X6 2 10 6
KAST
A 3 V9
54
◊ 7 4 2
O AJ 10 9 R 3
764 3
♣Q 10 9
SOUTH
AK 9 6
♡ A 8 2
об
♣AK 8 6 2
The bidding:
South
West
North
East
14
Puss
1♡
20
"A
Pass
1A
1188
GA
Pasa
Рава
l'ass
West diamonds,
the opened
and
seven
HUBH CARE VALLIES
FOUR ACES SYMEN
FACE
KING..2 QUEEN 1 JACKIEM
"APTIRA, MRAME BY PACK BE
NEAR EAST
(By HAROLD DENNY)
PORTS IN THE NEAR EAST have become the real war front of the Near East. American war materials of every description are arriving in this theatre in sufficient volume to promise an appre- ciable effect.
The first ship to arrive after President Roose- velt removed the legal barriers against American vessels' voyages to the Red Sea docked July 4 after
a voyage from an American port.
Her captain, a husky Irish-American, was proud of his distinction. While a group of correspondents watched the unloading of his ship, another vessel with the Stars and Stripes nosed into port.
The quay. a narrow strip of her forces, launch a sweep toward solid ground with the blue sea India and the Near East, coming un one side and a fringe of down from the Caucasus across stringy paling cutting uff the Persia or Turkey into Iraq and. desert on the other, was a scene Syria and, if successful, even of great animation, for these to Egypt.
British
priceless stores were being un- Granted that Adolf Hitler gels loaded at top speed twenty-four the Ukraine and the Caucasus in hours a day.
freighters a few weeks, it will take at also were unloading.
least two years to organise the production and transport of the of American Experts Help resources he most needs. After he has geared these resources soldiers into his war machine, unless
dummy's Queen | forced
East's ht Ace A diamond return was won by dummy, and South, took the next trick with the spade Ace. Thus far. South had
played, the hand correctly, but his next play upset his applecart; he trump and won with
led a low dummy's Queen.
way
officers
he
British
and were supervising, while American is beaten, he will be the master technical experts stood by to of the most formidable empire the
charges world ever saw.
see that their precious were not damaged and to advise on the uncrating and assembling. The stevedores were Egyptian! Arabs, who, with dirty cotton burnouses rolled up around their waists, sweated and shouted they pried out the cargo.
as
a
BABY RESTLESS ?
Baby should sleep soundly, he needs sleep. So do his parents--
the night.
The dock was already jungle OT crates containing but they will not get it if their Tomahawk engines, fuselagos little one is restless and cries in and wing sections ready to be assembled, motor trucks, tires and spare parts for automobiles and aeroplanes.
When East showed out of trumps, the snow was over. South could not avoid the loss of a trump trick, and was therefore
The ship appeared packed to bound to be set one trick.
cupacity. Deep in the hold lay South had no
of telling squat, ugly war monsters. As one
hoisted that West had started with four by one they were trumps, but he should have known derricks and deposited on
few gallons that if either defender had four they received a trumps, it was more likely to be gasoline and chugged off That sort of inference is their own power. very useful, and can be made technician fondly patted a gun a defensive muzzle and remarked, "These are hid has been made. The defen-made of steel that is second to sive bidder displays length in
interstices bid, and he is
& FURNITURE | West. also
1 X-Ray Apparatus Adding Machine
1 Mutor
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 30th July, 1941.
The Undersigned have received
to sell by
Instructions Auction on
FRIDAY, the 1st. August, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
almost every
the suit
he has
time
none,"
The
'PLANES
COUNCIL PLAN
A British-American production council to achieve standardisa- tion of 'planes is sug- gested in a Parlia- mentary question by Mr. E. Granville (Lib. Not., Eye).
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among the
therefore a little more likely to heavy items were filled with coils upset stomach, colds and croups, i
be short in some other sult than of wire, is his partner unusually long suit.
who
has
no
1
tires, medical stores, shoe polish and ordinary civil goods, including American canned beer that has already appeared in Cairo cafes at 40 cents a pint Word that a large variety of supplies İs actually reaching the Near East has spread widely through the troops, who for months have been asking every American they see, "When will your stuff begin coming?"
Acting on this inference, South should have won the second round of trumps with the King in his American Public
Then if both players own hand. followed suit. dummy's Queen would draw the last trump; but If East showed out, a finesse could be taken through West's Jack. The way South played the hand would have been correct if West had bid the diamonds, but was very unsound in view of the actual bidding.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:-
Teakwood Drawing Room, ded Room, Dining Room and face Furniture, Ornaments, Cutlery,
*
•
you
Yesterday
were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and,
Porcelain, Glass, Brass and E. P. Ware, Gramophones & Records, Pictures, Clocks, Rugs, Napkins, with both sides vulnerable, you Table Lamps, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
also
A Few Pieces of Blackwood
Furniture. and
2 Typewriters "Royal" &
"Adler"
held:
▲ AQ 10
0 7
♡ K J 9 4
♣ ▲ 10 5
The bidding:
You Schenken
1 Piano by "Lane Crawford
Co."
14 2♡ (2)
Равз Pass
Barnstone INT 20
1 Radio Set "Patterson"
3 Tientsin Carpets
1 Teakwood
Suite
1 Gas Stove
1 Cooking Stove
Dining
1 Hand Sewing Machine
Near East Hails Russians
is
The Near East apparently secure for the time being. How long it will remain so few yen- ture to predict.
British authorities speak admir- skill of the Red Army, for it is ingly of the courage, tenacity and devouring a considerable slice of Germany's trained man power and destroying much German equipment though at an immense cost to its own men and material. But even though Russia's T2- sistance has been more effective than had been hoped for, most observers here have little doubt Pass of the final outcome. Russia can Pasa
at best only delay the German march
Mala
The Germans are driving heav-] fest at the administrative and in- dustrial centres, Leningrad, instead of directly at Moscow and
Kiev, as first expected, and Score 100% for pass, 40% for Lala's nerve centres and knock out evidently intend to paralyse, Rus-
ANSWER: Pass. Your partner's Room bidding indicates
a weak hand, and game is unlikely unless he has at least fair 'strength.
On View from Thursday, the three spades.
31st, July, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong, 30th July, 1941.
THE NEW ERENOH REMEDY.
THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION NË 2
Question No. 781
Russia by a blow to the head in stead of simply going after grain, coal, iron and oil, the resources. Transcau- the Ukraine and
To-day you are Howard Schen-of ken's partner and, with both sides su vulnerable, you hold:
7 3 2
8:4 AQJ78 K.8.3
The bidding:
THERAPION Nebenken
Felson Ko. # Cursa Ukromie Mi
Should the Germans sucosed,
the
It la difficult to sto, where the Soviet Government could itself up again, west of -Ural Mountains"and" how.
could avoid being driven from: Europe.
Germany's attack on
Russia Major makes the war problem greater and more immediate. for Britain und the United States: If Ger- many is able to overrun Western Russia in the next. few weeks It Indden (Released by The Bell Syndi-seems likely that she would then,
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(Answer
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