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MARCH THESE

MUTT AND JEFF

TWO PRISONERS | PLEASURE

THE

HEH- HEH!

COME ON!

IT'S COLD!!

TWO MILES AWAY

FROM CAMP AND

IS ALL MINE, CAPTAIN!

HOW NICE!)

|KEEP MOVING ( GIVE US BACK

| OUR COATS AND 'DON'T

{HURRY UP! / WE AIN'T

TALK SO MUCH!) WE MIGHT

GOT ALL DAY&

SHOOT THEM!

BET

PNEUMONIA!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940

SOME NERVE YOU GUYS GOT ! MAKING US WALK TWO MILES

THROUGH ALL THIS SNOW AND RAIN

TO SHOOT US!!

By BUD FISHER

WHAT ARE YOU

KICKIN' ABOUT?

WE GOTTA WALK

BACK !!

"Under Nazi Rule"

6.00 p.m.-"For the Children".

"Now We Are Six" (A. A. Milne-Fraser-

The Wind in Crawford (Soprano)

Simson) The Engineer: the Hill.....Mimi with Piano.

Little Lady Make-Believe (Tobias-Simon) ....Bing Crosby (Vocal) with Organ. You Didn't Oughta Do Such Things (film

'Big Fella').....Paul Robeson with Orchestra.

Camptown Races;

(Bass)

Uncle Ned; Ring De Banjo (Foster).....Frank Luther & the Lyn Murray Quartet,

STUDIO-Story by Aunt Susan

I'm Popeye, the Sallarman-Comedy Waltz ....Sydney Kyte & His Plecadilly Hotel Band.

Snowball (Carmichael).....Paul

Today's Wireless

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

9.52 Megacycles

(Bass) with Orchestra. 6.30 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota.

tlons.

6.32 p.m.-Compositions of Borodin,

Scherzo....Sergel Rachmaninoff (Plano). Song of Prince Galitsky ('Prince Igor').... Theodore Chaliapine. (Bass) with Orch. Peasants' Chorts ('Prince Igor')....Soro-

kin Russian Choir. 7.02 p.m. - Marek

Orchestra.

Weber and

His

Robeson At The Tchaikowsky Fountain-Fantasia

(Urbach).

Simple Aveu (Thome). Spring Song (Mendelssohn). Suite Orientale (Popy).

Dream Waltz (Millocker).

7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.00 p.m.-Looal Time Signal, Weather,

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.--This week's programmes.

Promenade Boston 8.07 p.m.

The

Orchestra.

Meditation (from Thais'-Massenet), Largo (from 'Xerxes'-Handel).

Entrance of the Little Fauns (from "Cy-

dallse'-Pierne).

Mosquito Dance (White).

Thunder and Lightning-Polka, Op. 324

(Joh. Strauss).

Procession of the Sardar (No. 4 from 'Cau-

caslan Sketches'-Ippolitow-Iwanow).

Winning

CONTRACT NORENA'S

(By The Four Aces)

David Bruce Burnstone, Merwin D. Maier, Oswald Jacoby, Howard Schen- ken..

World's leading Team-of-Four, Inventors of the system that has beaten every other system in cxistence.

OPPORTUNISM REWARDED

SUCCESS

The following were the results of the se- cond Split Series Race held by the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club yesterday over 29 miles:

Norena

almost

"La Boheme” Acts III And∙IV

"Aida"-Grand March, Act 2 (Verdi). 8.30 p.m.-Songs by Richard Tauber (Tenor) and Deanna Durbin (80- prano).

8.45 p.m.-Norwegian Light Symphony Orchestra. Fantasia On Norwegian Folk Songs (arr. Haland).

8.64 p.m.--Excerpts from Gilbert and

Sullivan.

9.15 p.m.-London Relay The News

Summary.

Relay "Under

9.30 pm. London

Nazi Rule".

Eileen

9.45 p.m.-Short Concert by

Joyce (Piano), Marjorie Hayward Commette (Violin) and Edouard (Organ).

10.08 p.m. Puccini's "La

Boheme"

Acts III & IV. Sung by Artists and Full Chorus of La Scala, Milan, with Orchestra.

11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

MACAO HANDICAPS

Following are the handicaps for the Macao race meeting next, Sunday:

Shan Stakes:-Country Flower Chung (150); Coureur Bleu (154), Fairy Auk (154), Fairy Ousel (152), Gold Clause (154), Hog- Wood (150), Meadow Eve (150).

DIVISION I STARTED 10.00

Finished Corrd. Pos. Pts.manay .15.35.48

1 10

0

(P. C. M. Sedgwick).

.16.02.05 15.37.57 2 Yehonala

(Capt. M. T. L. Wilkinson).

...15.38.33 15.38.33 3 0 (N. V. A. Croucher).

.15.50.16 15.38.36 4 (K. Neckelman).

(E. Cock). Azuma'

It is possible to gather extremely thermore, North's hand was useful information if one is able to surely evenly distributed and contain- listen to the bidding with ears pro-led only three spades. Finally, since. perly attuned so that the character of the various bids is correctly inter- preted. For example, here is a hand in which Michael T. Gottlieb listened carefully to three rounds of bidding, then came forth with a devastating double which wins our whole-hearted admiration.

he and his partner were sure to have La Cigale I the heart suit solid, it would be an easy matter to force Declarer's four-Oresund card trump suit,

South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

A 7 3

♡ AJ 9 7 2

◊ Q 10 4 3

9

♡ 8 6 5

OJ 96

8 7 4 2

Mr. Gottlieb

A 8 6 5

AK 10 2

♡ KQ 10 4

W E

◊

8 5

S

KQ 10 3

A Q J 9 4 ✓ 3 OAK 7 2 A 3 6 5

South

Weat

14

Pass.

20

2♡

.3%

Paas

North INT Pass 3 A

Bast

Pass Pass Dbl.

Разв

Pass

Pass

The bidding:

From these reflections Mr. Gottlieb Donna concluded that it was absolutely safe to double. three spades. The result proved the logic of his reasoning for all Declarer could take were three trump tricks and his other three top cards, the penalty being 500 points.

*

*

*

You were David Bruce Burnstone's partner Saturday and held:

AK 9 x x x 1

◊ KJ

♣ KQ J

The bidding:

Jacoby You Pass (?)

Pass

Malor Barnstone Раба

ANSWER: Bld one spade. Never pre-empt with hands (such as this) that offer Slam possibilities. If partner can be "found" with two Aces and some trump support, you can probably make a Slam.

While most players in Mr. Gottlich's

Score 100% for one spade,70% for position would have raised his part-four spades (shuts out opponents but ner's heart bid, he reasoned: West also partner), 30% for three spades was unable to make an immediate (a weak bid that will probably be

HIGH GARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE

KING

PLAN

QUEEN 1 JACK.

singleton heart

overcall after the passed). opening spade bid.

QUESTION NO. 878

Therefore his hand Oswald Jacoby is your partner and

must be weak, so that you hold:

a game is unlikely. Now as to South's bidding: That player evidently had a fairly good hand that almost surely contained three -card suits and a Conversely, North's

hand must be ery weak for he had one notrump and

first responded

then reluctantly taken his partner

·∙10

AQIX KQ10, I K.J 10 X

The bidding: Schenken You Maler

Dbl. Pass Pass

(Auswer

Pase What do you lead? Monday,)

Ball Syndicate

back to his original spade suit (North (Released By should have passed free clubs).

4

.15.52.45 15.40.49 6

3

18.10.05 15.44.47 6

2

I STARTED 10.10

.17.10.67 10.58.55 1 14

(H. W. Browne). DIVISION

Sal Long

(A. M. Mack). Curlew

(P. Clarke). Highwayman

.17.14.47 18.57.06 2 12

..17.19.05 17.04.47 3 10

(Capt. I. D. K. Macrae). Tal Wan Shan.....17.11.11 (Major J. E. Dobbs). Tyrone

(B. Herschend), Tern

4 8

.17.58.13 17.30.55 5. 77

(J. L. Anderson). Sea Lark V........17.57.52 17.42.17 7 5

(Major Gen. A. E. Grasett). Evolene

Nymph (150). Jockey Cup:-Cairnsmore (152)., Dick Tur- pin (160), Pumelo (150), Quick Despatch (150), Tarzan (150), Zodiac (140).

Chinshan Handicap (First Section): Cop per Idol (168), Gallant Marshal (153), Lucky Eleven (148), Popular Star (160), Sunshine Susie (158). The Tigress (168), Wild Bear (159).

Hin Wang Cup: Eager (147). Dekko (147), Double Chance. (161), Fel Ying (152), Gold Coin (151), Jack O'Lantern (145), Night View (161). Plain View (181), Talkative (151), Tim (181).

Chinshan Handicap (Second Section):- Dow Jones (161), King's Envoy (165), Mac's (185). Adventure (157), National Anthem National Dignity (149), New Bedford (156). Old Fashioned (147), Persian Cat (157), Sports Venture (158).

Shekki

Star (158), Handicap: Cloudy Double Up (149), Eagle (165), Iron Knight

Labour Day 17.81.36 17.40.04 6 8† (158),

(155), Merry Maker 4 (140), Rothesay Bay (140), Shanghai (146), Sports Gesture (161), The Spirit of St. Louis (155).

with the Jockey Cup, a In connection special $1 Sweep, limited to 50,000 chances, is being run. The cost of one through chance is $10. The tickets can be obtained at the Cash Sweep Department. No: 17. Connaught Road, Central, Top Floor,

.18.00.52 17.66.00 8 4

.18.37.12·19.01.24 9 3

16.38.01 18.18.52 10 2

(Major G. R. Way). Treenlaur

(Major C. R. Templer). Monsoon

(Major A. P. Trevor).

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