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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
EVACUATION/ REPRESENTATION. COMMITTEE
A Public Meeting will be hold
at 6
In •tho Rose Room, Peninsula- Hotel, on THURSDAY, 28th August,
p.m. Husbands, relatives of ovacueta and
all Interested are invited to attend.
W. V. TAYLOR,
(ed)
Acting Hon. Secretary
Evacuation Representation
Committee.
Hong Kong, 26th August, 1941.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that PN Interim Dividend of $ 60 per share has been declar. ed in respect of the half
year ended 30th June, 1941 on 900,000 OLD SHARES and will be pay- able on and after THURSDAY, 11th September, 1941 Dividend Warrants may be oblained application at the Company's Registered Office, P. & O). Build- mg.
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 26, 1941.
BRIDGE END OF
NOTES BISMARCK
THE RE-OPENING DOUBLE
By The Four Aces
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The takeout double is usually thought of as #
weapon to be used by the side which does-not||
--BY
THE NAVY
The end of the Bis- open the bidding, but under cer-marck-her guns shot out
tain circumstances it can be used
nost effectively by the opening of her and "drooping like
bidder himself. For example: a:
East, Dealer
Neither side vulnerablo
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10 8 4 3
K 10 & 3
K 9 4
NORTH
A 10 7 3 ♡ 6
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9 8 4 2
8 6 6 3 2
EAST
SOUTH
A Q. J G
A 9.84 2
CA 6 2
O A J #AJ 7
VKQJ97
0 Q 7 6
* Q.10
On
The bidding: Cust 14 Dbl.
South
West
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Pass
Pass
Pass
North
Pass Paso
MEM
WANTED TO BUY
THE REGISTER OF RERS of the Company will bel WE BUY SECOND. HAND CLOSED from MONDAY, IST MOTOR CARS AND CYCLES. SEPTEMBER tu THURSDAY Also buy ears of big consumpe LITH SEPTEMBER, 1941 (both tion of very old models for scrap- days inclusive) during which ing. Please Phone 50717 or 56332., peiod no transfer of shares can
be registered,
By Order of the Board of Directors, PUBLIC AUCTIONS GIBB, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD.,
The Undersigned have received; instructions to sell by Public! Auction 11
THURSDAY, 28th August, 1941 Commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Cor- naught Road, Central, 2nd Floor, A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. compriking:--
Teak wood Bedsteads, Ward robes, Dressing Tables, Chests of Drawers, Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, Dining Tables, Arm chairs, Chairs, Chesterfield Suites, | Desks. Cabinets, etc.
Carpets, Rugs, Curtains, Mat- tresse. Ornaments, Eaetric Fans & Lamps, E. P., Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Mirrors, Clocks. Filters, Cooking Utensils, etc., etc.
also
A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD AND RATTAN FURNITURE
and
660 Books (in lots)
3 Canvas Canoes
2 Radios
2 Enlargers
1 "Remington" Portable Type-
writer
1 National Cash Register
1 "Kelvinator" Refrigerator
- 1 "Protos" Refrigerator
1 X Ray Machine
1 Dinner Service
On View from Wednesday, the
27th August, 1941.
Terms: Cash on delivery,
LAMMERT BROS,
Auctioneers.
Hong Kong. 25th August, 1941:
The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public
Auction on
FRIDAY, the 29th August, 1941
commencing at 2:30p.m.
at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
Teakwood Drawing Room, Bed Room, Dining Room and Office Furniture, Ice Chests; Showcases, Enamel Bath, Porcelain Sink. Ornaments,... Cutlery; E.P, Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Pie fures, Clocks, Cooking Stove and -Utensils, etc., etc.
also
A Few Places of Blackwood Furniture:
8 Radio Sets.
and
2-Hand Sewing: Machines.
“1 Tron Safe,
1 Cine Projector
On View from Thursday, the
28th. August, 1941.
Terms: Cash on Delivery,
LAMMERT. BROS,,
Auctioncers. Hong Kong,. 26th. August;. 1941.
M-
Agents.
Hong Kong, 5th August, 1941.
TRY COCOMALT THREE TIMES A
DAY FOR A MONTH.
AND NOTE
THE DIFFERENCEI
@comalt
ON SALE AT
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
REACH THOSE WHO
CAN AFFORD TO BUY
THROUGH
The China Mail
THE PAPER THAT GETS
INTO THE HOME
"Earliest with the Latest”
smoking, lurching, black ruin, a thin trickle of men already jumping to safety over her side- was told by an officer and
JUDAS AND FRIEND
"You can't always judge people by their looks.
"Judas may have been quite good look- ing and judging; by his photographs. Ad- miral Darlan is quite a charming man.” Mr. St. John Hut- chinson K. C. at London Sessions.
a gunner who took part Indian
in the battle.
"She was like a dog that had been run over: Someone" had to finish her off," said one.
Here are some of the points from theh stories:---
The Commander - in - - Chief; Admiral Tovey, saw the Bio- marck first. He put on his tim hat and cut poured a little cascade of water all over him.
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He just grinned, undisturbed by that or any other incident of this fivo-day chase.
Wheat
For Iran
Sixty thousand tons of Wheat have already been sent from India to Iran, it was learned in Simla. I actually saw
This wheat is for the people of the Rudney's East's opening bid was
for Iran with whom Britain has no quite shells flying through the air
of the normal, as was South's overcall. some seconds after they left the quarrel and the whole West, however, had a bit of a guns, like little diminishing foot-normal supplies have been seri- problem. He could hardly raise balls curving up and up into the ously depleted by earlier Axis spades with only a doubleton in sky.
demands. the suit; nor could he go to three diamonds with so shabby a suit and so meagre a hand. He didn't like to three Kings opposite an opening pass with as much as
bid, but decided that game was unlikely unless East could find a rebid.
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he had a
very
KO
你
•
The Admiral kept saying: "Close the range, get closer 1 can't see enough hits." .So wo closed the range.
Merciless Hait
The Bismarck, with a fire on the As it happened, East could find 10'esle which seemed to envelop
rebid since
the upper
turret, turned away. strong hand; but right here is then back, under the most mer- where most players would ciless hail of high explosive arm- astray. Most players would won-our-piercing shells any ship has der only whether to re-open the ever faced. There was no escape bidding with two spades or three our fellows just went on pump- spades, but neither bid would being it out. a good choice. The correct re- opening bid in this situation is a double -- a takeout double.
ID this oase, West properly chose lo convert the takeout double into a penalty double by passing. With a different type of hand, West would have bid his
After twenty minutes some of] her econdary armament and two of the great turrets werd still firing. Racing across her quarterdtok were little human figures a little steady trickle of them jumping into the sea,
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long suit or taken East back to as the Bismarck's spotting top
One flerce flame shot up as high spades. But the penalty pass, every man there must have beer. with West's actual hand, produced incinerated.
a very gratifying result.
a
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Well, we just shot the guns out of her and lett a stnoking, lurch
to
Steps are also being taken send supplies of other essential commodities to Iran.
It is estimated that there are at present about 3,000 Indians in Iran, mainly in oilfields and in Meshed Aran in the north-west. Precautionary measures regard- ing Iranian Consulates in India will, it is expected, be taken im- mediataly-Reuter.
INDIAN ARMY
COMRADESHIP
A perfect spirit of comradeship and mutual respect prevails be- the British and Indian tween troops on the fronts in which they are fighting shoulder to shoul-
vice in the Middle East, says a dor, declared an Indian officer who
Bhopal message,
is now on leave from active ser-
He added that the fighting of the indian soldier is ability equal to the best in the world. The Indian troops are very well
had seemed still to looked after, and
absolute little confidence in the ultimate victory
for the Allies. Reuter.
Almost any defence would have held South to four trump tricks. ing black ruin. Only her slow but East and West managed the wallowing speed defence ably enough to limit give her life, and those
South to three tricks -- a penalty of 900 points!
>>
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were
Yesterday you
Oswald Jacoby's partner, and, with nei- ther side vulnerable, you held:
AK 9'6 3
♡ 8:
OJS 2'
A 9° 7 5 4
The bidding:
Schenken
Pass
You
(?)
Minier
Jaroby ZA
ANSWER: Bid two notrump. You must make some response 'but cannot quite make a "posl- tive" response with with so little high-card strength.
Score 100% for two notrump, 60% for three spades.
Question No. 804
To-day you hold the same handį and the bidding.continues: Jncoby
30
Bélienken Ton
Maler 2NITY Pass (2)
Pass What do you bid? (Answer
[to-morrow)
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PARIS REFUGEES HOME
Nine hundred refugees from the Paris region have been allowed to return, hotne from the South of France, says the Nazi-controllid Paris radio. Another batch, will ibe: allowed to return shortly!--
Reuter.
umping figures at the stern.
OFF THE RECORD
"No.
womon.
Here's Luck
By ED REED
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