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MUTT AND JEFF

HALT! PUT YOUR HANDS UP, SOLDIER ! YOU'RE MY PRISONER!/ OH, BOY, WAIT UNTIL

JEFF SEES THIS GUY, I CAPTURED,

HEY! WAITTA MÍNUTE! THIS WAY! COME 'ON,

I GOT-CHA

COVERED!

HEY, FOR THE TENTH TIME, I SAID YOU'RE " MY PRIBONER }}

HEY--

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 3, 1940

By BUD FISHER

Relay Of Talk By Minister

Of Economic Warfare

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music. 7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tlona,

the

7.02 p.m.-Good Old Songs of

Good Old Days. Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey; The Ship I Love; Git yer 'air Cut; the Champagne Charlie; After, Ball; Break the News to Mother; In the Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay; Good Old Summertime; My Gal is a High-Born Lady; Little Alabarna Coon; I can't tell why I love you; The Big Goodbye, Dolly Grey.... Four (Vocal Quartet) with Piano. The One-Horse Shay (Trad.)....The

Today's Wireless

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M.

9.52 Megacycles

Dyrenforth & Smith); Love, I You; Ev'ry Little While; Never

Give You My All (from 'Luana'- Mind; Good-bye-ee.....The Old

Bowdon & Besly); Love Everlast- Timers with Orchestra.

ing (Friml); I Want Your Heart Minstrel Memories of Christy Min-

.with Orches- Intro:

(Haydn Wood). strel Days (Scott Gatty).

tral accompaniment. Click, Clack, De Ringtail'd Coon;

Relay" am a De Ole Banjo; Goodnight....The 8.15 p.m-London

Jew". A play produced by Howard Minstrel Singers with Banjo Band. 7.30 p.m.-London Relay The News.

Rose. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

Gay Ninettes Singers with Orch. 18.03 p.m.-6ongs by Ina Bouez (80- Meet Me To-night in Dreamland; Hitchy Koo; You Made Me Love

ken.

prano).

Always (from 'Puritan Lullaby'-

Winning

9.16 p.m.-London Relay-News, Sum-

mary.

9.30 p.m.Talk on "The Empire at War" recorded by The Rt. Hon. Malcolm MacDonald.

NUISANCE VALUE IN

CONTRACT AIR PATROLS

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maler, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in czistence,

GOOD BREAKS

Jerome. Scheuer of Boston writes: | again - ducked and when

the

mistic."

dummy's

that

Schumann Symphony

And

Variety Programme

9.45 p.m. -

Variety with George Formby, Elsle and Doris Waters and Others.

10.15 p.m.-A Chopin Recital by Ar-

thur Rubinstein.

Nocturne In B Flat Minor, Op. 9,

No. 1.

Andante Spianato, Op. 22.

Polonaise-Fantaisie No. 7 In A Flat

Major, Op. 61.

10.35 pim-Schumann-Bymphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120. London Sym- conducted by Orchestra phony

Bruno Walter.

11.00 p.m.-London Relay

Matters

of Moment". Talk by Minister of Economic Warfare.

11.15 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

THE TWENTY-EIGHTH

SCUTTLING

London," To-day, The German freighter Mimi Horn, of 4,000 tons, which scuttled herself when intercented "In 'the Atlantic by British warships last week, left the Dutch West Indies on March 4.

Her crew are all safe-Reuter. London, To-day.

*** The Mimi Horn, of 4,007 tons, the recent was built in 1928. Anoll-burner, Reports of

of she was 314 feet long, and one

fleet pa- R.A.F. Bomber Command

the largest vessels of a small trol flights over the German of merchant ships-owned by H. C. seaplane bases of Borkum, Horn, of Hamburg. Norderney and Sylt, make

JOHORE'S GIFT

Singapore, To-day.

"Here is a hand in which I achieved King won, I had my ninth trick.

result. an unusual

Although my Pretty lucky, but it pays to be opti-plain the nuisance value of

these almost nightly visits. opponents held a majority of

The State Council of Johore, one of high cards, I made a three-notrump

As soon as our aircraft approach the

the Unfederated Malay States, is in- contract, due largely to the fact that

seaplane bases lights, here and there,

creasing existing taxes and brought begin to go out. By the time the pain new ones to provide an annual con- I was able to prevent East from ob- taining the lead. I admit that

trol is overhead a strict blackout has

tribution of £200,000 for the Imperial my two-notrump bid was somewhat

been enforced.

exchequer. Reuter. optimistic, but my partner's raise to game was even more sanguine."

West, Dealer East-West vulnerable

▲ K 6 4

J 10 7

con-

We agree with Mr. Scheuer optimism often pays dividends, but

should caution him feel that we against attempting too many tracts of this type. If, for example, East had held the Ace of spades, we shudder to think how many tricks the contract would have been set.

* Yesterday you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner and held:

*

*

♡ 10 X X ÓK QJ X X

♡ A 8

◊ 8 7

KJ 9 8 5 2

A Q 3

IN

AJ 10 8 6

Q9.4

AJ A 7

5 3

W

6 %

$

0 10 4. AQ 3

The bidding:

A 978

You

- talor Barnstoné Pass Pass INT (7)

Jacoby Pass

K8 5 6.KQ93'

1064

Bouth

Mr. Scheuer-

The bidding:0

West North EAST

10

Равз

2NT

PREB BNT

Pass

Расс

Paos

OF THE

ACE KING QUEEN JACK.

"West opened his fourth-best diamond

HÍNH CARD VALUES (and I captured East's ten. I led a low club, and when West duck- ed, went right up with the King. This was the crucial play, 1 Felt

certain that West held the Ace, and from the general distribu- tion, it appeared that the sult. would be evenly divided. Furthermore, it was an absolute necessity to prevent

East from obtaining theTM lead,

"I then returned the sui the Aces and Queen

shifted, to a

K Q1 x 1

ANSWER: Bid three diamonds, Your strong two-suiter justifies this bid, which is forcing to game. ̈ Five diamonds or clubs should be safe, and a Slam is quite possible.

Score 100 per cent, for three dia- monds, 50 per cent, for two diamonds (inadequate and may be passed)," 0 for any other bid.

· QUESTION NO. 374. Oswald Jacoby is your partner and

you hold:

The bidding:

do you, bidt

tomorrow.

with

Released, By The Bell

Sometimes the patrol has to be maintained in the face of flerce fre

en-

LEE'S WEDDING from anti-aircraft guns cooperating Stanley Lee, the Interport swimmer, with searchlights. On other Occasions, will be married to Miss Pemberton- resistance is less sustained.

Paglar on Thursday week. On a recent flight, one pilot countered anti-aircraft fire which ap- trying to reach his objective after. peared to come from batteries placed evading an enemy aircraft which was evenly along the coast. Later it ran presumably reporting his course to the into a heavy concentration of search-German ground defences. The enemy |lights and was at once subjected to was eventually eluded and the patrol intense fire. The pilot of another air- carried out successfully though a little craft reported patrolling the island of late.

the Borkum for nearly half an hour with-

Nearly every report contains out opposition. Elsewhere, the enemy encouraging statement: "There was no failure of equipment and the aircraft "British Wirelesa. was also quiet..

Another pilot spent over 40 minutes behaved perfectly."

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