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HOW PRECISE RELES BREAK DOWN.
[DY HUGH ELLIOT.]
JAPANESE LOVERS' TRAGEDY.
SUICIDE IN SHANGHAI LODGING HOUSE.
DANCER AND MUSICIAN DIE TOGETHER.
A CONSIDERATE WARNING TO OTHERS.
SHANGHAI, April 10th. Presumably tired of life, sad, be- cause they could not marry, the adopted parents of Miss Toni Sakai having refused to give their consent. S.. Mizutani and Miss Sakai carried out a suicide pact
It is sometimes said that the original bid must always be dead sound, while subsequent bids are left free for the exercise of the tancy of the bidder. A player will often remark to his partner: You at 139 Range Road, Shanghai at can always rely on my original some time between 8.30 p.m. on bids: my later bids mean nothing." April 3rd and yesterday afternoon And the implied theary is now very widely accepted.
In so far as it is a true theory it is mot very happily expressed. The purpose of biking is to arrive a the most antisfactory final declara.
Both In Pyjam35.
1928.
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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The room was in perfoot order. P. & O. Bank 7 DAY
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Mizutani and Miss Sakai were ly ing on the bed, her body having fallen partly across his. They lay Chiu Underwrilen bay.
Chins
Fire Insurance....is nom facing the getting jun. Both were but over a Steero lamp was a brass dressed in prjamas. On the door, Hong Kong Fire Ins... 760 bay.
Dooglase basin in which remained a thick white residua. On the table was an empty bottle which had contain ed an opiate. The wardrobe door was closed and a man's hat lay on Before committing the not, one of the chest of drawers. With the ex- them very considerately wrote aception of a pair of shippers no notice in Japaness and placed other articles of clothing were seen in the room, excepting those, st
at 330 o'clock.
On the table wore several photo graphs, a few letters, some visiting cards, and three or four other bot
(Dol.)
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tles which, contained medicine. The Kwo Cottone western window was open.
tion. If we get the faal bid right / ontside their room door as follows: course, which wore in the wardrobe. the original bid matters nothing. Do not enter, the room is full Indeed, there is much to be said of poisonous gas" for the view that the original 'bid' The unhappy couple both of in the least important of any, for it is the least likely bid to be left whom were employed in the Blue- in, and there are more opportuni-bird café, the one as a musician,
Last Attempt For Life. Lies of rectifying a bad original the other as a dancing partner, dis- According to the deductions of K. and bid than of rectifying a bad subae- | appeared from their place of em- the police both had taked part of
A Of course, originat bid is often incurable, and ployment last Tuesday night, and tho opiate, the label on the bostle being Adalin." The police fur lead's up fatally to a bad final bid, had not been seen by the manager ther conclude that the couple had with perhaps a disastrous double since. The police from their in-lain upon the bed and that Mizu- But bad secondary bids lead to the vestigations learned that the couple tani had taken, a very large portion same consequences with even greater had rented a small atfle room at
of the opiate, inasmuch as his ap- certainty.
pearance suggested this He had 158 Range Road at about 8.30 pmbled slightly from the nostrils.
quent bid.
bad.
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RASH ON BOY LASTED 2 YEARS
Caused Much Pain From Burning. Cuticura Heals.
"My little boy had a red raah on the back of his neck. When he was six weeks old it spread all over his body and caused him much pain frem burning and itching. It was a Ary masb, but very red and angry Looking. We could not bear to kee him watching and crying. The troubla lasted about two year.
"We rend en advertisement for Cuticura Soap and Ointment and west for a sample. It seemed to re- lieve him so we purchased more. Gradually the rash began to dia away, and he was bealed." (Signed) Mrs. J. B. Coates, 2, St. James Park, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, Eng.
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During the present week I had occasion (being laid up with in-
on the same evening. Neither the Officials are of the opinion that H.K. Electrics $76.10 buy. The Food of Life Buenza) to read a book on bridge. ¡ landlord or ́servants on the premises Miss Sakai had taken very little I found in it elaborate instructions saw them afterwards. They bad of the opiate, and when she saw ns to the precise amount of strength paid one half month's room rent her comrade to the pact was un- required to bid no-trumps or a suit and had informed the proprietor conscious, that she made a Singapore Tractions......11/9 These instructions filled папу
that they did not desire to take desperate attempt to save their | Chins Sugars munici........36.10 nom. pages, and certainly no one who any meals. The room which they lives by opening the window, She Canton ices BOM followed them would go very wrong.
But when I looked for the author's
engaged was the only room in the attie and the servants had no instructions about the later bid-ason to meet them or be in the ding I found the subject dismissed
in a few lines
The reason is clear: it is not possible to set out hands for the purpose of late bids, nor to give precise rules for them, as is easy to do with original bida. That being so, it becomes fantastic to make rules for original hids. If a player knows how to bid he will not re- quire rules: if he does not know, rules will do him little good: they will carry him through the first bid and fail him for the rest. He will merely by burdening his memory and tying up his attention instead of devoting his whole mind to the exercise of his own best judgment.
roome
The Boy's Discovery.
succeeded in this but was so weak that after opening the window, she fall prostrate over his body the position in which they were found.
Letters To Parents.
than
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On Sunday afternoon, one of the servants chanced to visit the attic. In the letters, addressed to his He saw the sign on the door but father and her mother and to their not being conversant with the friends, the deceased referred to Japanese language thought nothing the fact that they preferred dying of it. No further attention was together rather given to the room until yesterday separately, they having been denied afternoon whom the landlord the privilege of marrying,~ thought to investigate as he had Miss Sakei is the adopted daugh-bay-buyers; salallera; 25-82 not seen his teaants for nearly a ter of well-to-do Japanese residents week. He saw Sergt. Hale who acof Shanghai and she had formed companied him to the house. Theher acquaintance" with Mizutani officer after questioning the ser since the Arst of the year. Mizu rants instructed one of the boys to tani according to information in crawl over the gabled root. The the hands of the Japanese police boy saw both of them dead on the had attempted some time ago to bed and reported to the officer. commit suicide subsequent to an Sergt. Hale, immediately went to estrangement with a geisha girl. the door azd burst in. Upon se-
The manager of the café in which ing what had happened he notified they were employed, has, it is at least a Queen abore the average his superiors and Det.-Inspr. understood taken charge of the re-
Varying The Bid.
An original bid really announces one thing-namely, that the hund is too strong to pass on. Aa original bid of one mo-trump is made by some players, only when they have
hand: by others when they have just an average hand. Between these two extremes-it often matters little whether we pass or bid das no-trump.
|
Schmidt came to the house.
down like a lamb during the later | rounds. It is better policy to start like a lamb and defer barking until there is something to bark at.
maina-Forth China Daily News.
BOGUS COUNT ARRESTED.
10-YEAR MASQUERADE AS ANOTHER MAN.
** WIFE."
It is not possible to lay down, an exact standard of strength for a one no-trump bid, and it is not bad thing to vary one'e habits ac- I am often asked when a player cording to the score and according should hake out his partner a no- | DEATH MYSTERY OF ENGLISH to the players. With timid or un- trumpli into a suit when second dercalling adversaries, it is as well hand has passed. The cardinal to bid no-trumps as soon as pos rule is never to take out on week- sible, so as to depress their bid- ness. ""A takeout should always ding, and also to avoid the hand imply strength. It is nearly al being thrown in. With overcalling ways wrong to take out with a adversaries, on the other hand, one suit of four it is nearly always. need be in no hurry to start the biduight to take out with a major ding, but can join in to more suit of tix With. major suit of advantage-later.
discretion is needed. If the five, When bidding a suit the same sort five are all low, it is better to leave of considerations apply. In Len- the no-trump. don it is usual now to bid a'suit.
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BUDAPEST. officer who is highly respected in Count Felix La Vaux, an ex- Budapest, wae amazed, on receiving police, to learn that he was sought a paremptory summons from the by the police of London, Paris, that among other crimes he was Berlin, Vienna, and Munich, and The minimum strength, when accused of murdering his wife. He with A, K, x, x, and no other card there is nothing else whatever in as able to prove that he had not in the hand In New York this is the hand, is something about E, Qeft Budapest for several years, condered, X are taken as trumps may be weaker. If there is considered too weak; and A, X, x, x, I, 1. With side-strungth the the minimum. The fact is that, as a major suit of five good enough to with no-trumps, no definite fixed take out a no-trump call, a player line can be drawn. The border line should never be deterred from doing is very vague; and hands that are so by the fact that the rest of his near the border-ne may be bid or hand is enormously strong and passed according to fancy. But if that game seems safe in no-trum all over Europe sa Count Felix Ca we intend at some stage to lid & No hand is too strong to take out short suit, it should obviously be a partner's no-trumper; but many bid at once, as the bidding may bands are too weak. have become too high to show the suit when the next opportunity
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When To Bo." Forward.”
brystet Coatly in Marienbad. and recalled that a friend had told that a La Vaux had been
arrest at Marimbad was taken to In consequence the man.' under Vienna, and made a confession of identity. His name is Friedrich Essenbach, and he has been posing
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ENGLISH : JUDGE SHOCKED.
ME. JUSTICE SWIFT ON DIVORCE CASÉS.
After adjudicating in nearly 50 matrimoniale cases at Manchester"
Youx, with the aid of papers be found in the tunic of the read
When food enter your stomach, Assizes, Mr. Justice Rigby Swift count, which was lost during a re-large quantities of old-bearing said he heard things in the court which shocked and grieved him. Back To Ho-Trumpa.
treat at Luck towards the end of gastric juice are at once secreted. But it is not my business, he The no trump bidder, on being the war.
If too much gastric juice is secret- He is native ofed, the food soon becomes sout, added, "to express disgust at what taken out, should always go to two Bavaria, and has a wife at Esses fermenting moes which may re goes on, and so I won't Later no trumps if the suit called by his in South Slavia, A long suit can much more safely partner happens to be his weakness, As Count La Vaux he went main in the stomach several hours, he said, "The more I sit in these be postponed: ad if it lacks the
and this is the main reason why through a form of marriage with an top honours it is better postponed, as one of the adversaries may hold suit-bidder should take out his widow of diplomat: She died Rome strength is needed before the English woman of good family, the the top honours and bid it Brat. It partner. He must always remem right months later, poisoned under "should, of course, never be post- ber that his partner may go back to mysterious circumstances. It was poned with a strong hand, lest the two no-tumps, which is a call that the warrant tested on this charge others pass and the deal is thrown may easily be doubled. The one which reached Budapest and clear in The forward style of play no-trump, if left alone, cannot be ed up to some extent the iden which I have always advocated dots doubled For the double of one ́stity mystery. Dot, mean making reckless original informatory, and not intender to The imposter had posed as an in-stomach lining, and at once restores respectable husbands have proved bids It refers to the later stages be left in If by chance it is left timate friend of the ex-Kaiser Wil painters, normal digestion. Get a perfectly good cases of unfaithful rather than the initial stages of the in, then the question of a rescue her. He is alleged to have vic, package of Biurated Magnesin ness on the part of their wives and bidding. It in of little use to start will arise; but it is a fine maximtimised dozens of aristocrats in from your demist to-day: Use na have still been ordered to pay main off barking like a wolf and then lie to avoid rescuing your partner be any countries by blackmail and directed, and you can laugh at tenance, and in one case sent to
(Continued on next Column),
digestive troubles. fone you know he is in dange
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causing great pain and distress, courts the mare startled I am at cases of this kind by taking order in the police sourts, angenee Instant relief can be obtained in the ease with which an unfaithful wife appears to get a maintenance tablets immediately after eating or respectable husband duds himself
Bisurated Magnesia powder or whendrer pain is felt. This safely, in the police court because he can surely, and quickly neutralizes the pot pay excess neid, stops the fermentation, must have heard three or soothes and heals the inflamed four-cases to-day in which perfectly