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MUTT. AND JEFF

BOY, IT FEELS GREAT

YEH, I'M GOIN' RIGHT HOME TO SEE THE ; SWEET WOMAN! BOY,

TO BE HOME

AFTER GOIN'

THROUGH THAT

AWFUL WAR!

SAY, I KNOW MY WIFE! ABSENCE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER- MAKES | SHE'LL WELCOME ME

YOU THINK

WHAT

WILL SHE BE GLAD TO SEE ME!

SO?

_WITH_OPEN ARMS!

YOO-HOO! WELL, HERE

SWEETHEART!

I AM!

WHERE?

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 18, 1940

HOMEJ WHERE EVERY

HUSBAND

-BELONGS!

By BUD FISHER

BET YOUR LIFE I WILL!” › WELCOME HOME!

AIN'T YOU GONNA WELCOME ME HOME?

London

Relays

6.00 p.m.-An hour of Dance Music.

Today's Wireless

7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tlons.

7.02 p.m.-The

Comedy

Harmonists

(Vocal) and Rawicz and Landauer (Two Planos).

7.30 p.m.-London Relay-The News, 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal, Weather

Report and Announcements.

8.03. p.m.-New Symphony Orchestra

with Miliza Korjus (9oprano). 8.80 p.m.-Musical Comedy Belections. Vocal Duets by Norah 9.03 p.m.

Blaney and Gwen Farrar, Another One Gone (Beverley Nicholls): Maybe I'm Wrong Again (Trent & Ben- nett)....with Piano and "Cello accomp. Old Favourites. Intro: Running wild: I

ZBW 355 M. (845 k.c.'s) and 31.49 M. 9.52 Megacycles

ain't nobody's darling: 'Beautiful faces; Second Hand Rose: It ain't gonna rain no more; Fonso; What'll I do; Our Lit- tle Garden Subbub; Ukulele Lady; Who tied the can on the old dog's tall....with Piano accomp.

1

9.15 p.m.-London Relay-News Bum.

mary.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay--"Cards on

the Table".

9.45 p.m.-Music of Debussy, and Ravel. The Fountain (Ravel).....Alfred Cortot

(Piano),

Noctures (Debussy)...........Orchestre

Winning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

de la

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.

score.

SUPERBLY PLAYED-

:

Dance

Music

Debussy); Ondine ('Gaspard de la Nuit No. 1-Ravel); La Vales de Cloches

Le

Gibat ('Miroirs-No. 8-Ravel); ('Gaspard de la. Nult-No. 2'-Ravel)

...Walter Gieseking' (Piano),

Excerpta from Grand

Bodfete des Concerts du Conservatoire 10.30 p.m. ----- cond. by 'Piero Coppola. Polssons D'Or ('Images'-Set 2, No. 311.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

MR. AND MRS.Į

DUNCANS'

SUCCESS

Mr. and Mrs.. L. A. R. Duncan won the Mixed Foursomes competition at Fanling when they beat Mr. and Mrs. E, J. R. Mitchell three and one.

ADAMSON CUP

scores

At Happy Valley, W. Stoker return- ed a card of 82-17-65 to qualify for the April qualifying competition of

Other the Adamson Cup. (handicaps have been reduced by one stroke owing to the course having been shortened) were H. H. Mundy 74--7-67, E. Tuck 81-13-68; F. Buckle 80-11-69 and T. J. Price 78-8=70.

RECORDS BROKEN -““Tarzan-Finds A Son" has establish- ed an all-time Box Office record in Hongkong.

Opera.

SOCCER PROGRAMME

The following is the Soccer programme for the week:

TO-DAY, APRIL 16, 1940 First Division

V.

South China "B"

Royal Navy

(Caroline Hill, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:-Beard. Linesmen:-Ient and Wilson.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1940

First Division.

Kwong Wah”

V.

South China "A"

(Boundary Road, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:Glover.

Linesmen :-Carley and. Dove. Second Division Runner-up. Play Off (2nd game) Royal Engineers

V. 30th R.A. (Caroline Hill, 3.00 p.m.)*** Referee:Hinchliffe:***!

R. A, 5. C.

Third Division,

v. Electric (Caroline Hu, 5.00 p.m.) Referee:-Banham.

SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1040 First Division

Royal Scots

(Club, 2.45 pm:)

Referee:-Ford:"

St. Joseph'

Linesmen: Salter and Edwards. Middlesex

(Club, 4.45 p.m.)

Referee:-Kossick.

South China ·"B"

*Linesmen-Baker and" Banham,

Kwong Wah, ..V..

Kowloon

(Boundary Road, 4,45. p.m.). Referee:Mitchell. Liricsmen:Smith "and" Copay." South China "A" - xv, Club.

Judge A. Demorest Del Mar of for his play was actually superb. On Hackensack, New Jersey, sends us the other hand, the defence was weak. that on the to-day's hand, concerning which he Suppose, for example,

"While I deserve no great first trick East had had the courage Declarer says: credit, I think you will agree that to play the diamond ten. making four notrump was pretty good would then have had no way of knowing that East still had the dia- moking and thus might very well nave nased the Queen With East winnnig, two-tricks in" diamonds, the

Its release in Hong Kong has run situatfun would be changed and we would not be at all surprised if, in- true to form, for it has already creat-Electric stead of making four notrump, Southed records in Shanghai, Singapore, would wind up by being set at three. Malaya, and Japan,

North, Dealer Neither side vke Therable

AK

♡ J 6.3**

AJ 10 A

8 2.

◇ J.8.7 6 4 48 52

W

*

*

Q1075 Yesterday you were Howard Schen-

ken's partner and held:

◇ K 10

0.7 48

A-10 x

♡ K J X I

◇ A 10 x x AAJI

K 8 2

◊ 9 5

AK 04

Judge Del Mar

The bidding:"

North East

South

West

1A

Dbl. 3A

Pass

2NT

Pass

Pass

Pass

Pass

10 BNT

"West opened the six of diamonds.

HAGN BÁRD MÄLUKS FOUGAKKE SYSTEM -

ACL KING QUEEN 1 JACK

The bidding:

Jacoby

You Barnstone

Schenken

Pass F188 Pass · 4A

Pusa What was your correct" load?

QUESTION. NO, 385

ANSWER: Lead a trump. This 18 I played low from-dummy, East won

Furthermore with the King and shifted to the Jack your only safe lead.

you wi of spades. I ducked, by leading trumps twice, West won with the reduce dummy's, ruffing power.

Score 100% for a trump, 50% for King, cashed the Ace and then played a diamond Ace, 80% for a low heart, second diamond. Win-0 for a club. ning, with dumfny's Queen, I also cashed the diamond Ace and discarded a heart, then four club

· off. tricks, landing in my hand. I next-cushed the Queen of spades, forcing West to let go of a heart, and then threw the last dia mond from dummy.

ran

"East had also been squeezed as he had to keep two spades and therefore could hold but two hearts, The, re- maining hearts then all dropind. I had actually executed two ducking plays and a double squente in the same, hand.”.

unduly modest,.

Judie Del Mar

You are Dávid Bruce Burristone's partner. Nelther side is vulnerable

hold: and you

10x

The bidding: "

You

Malar

÷Pasa Pass-RanS

Pass 20

Pass 80

Pas

Pass

What do you bid? tomorrow.

(Released By The Bell Syndiente

Its success has been so' overwhel- ming that it is being shown for two more days at the Queen's and Alham- bra theatres.

CHINESE ATTACKS IN EAST HUPEI

Chungking, To-day, Chinese troops intensified. opera- tions along the Yangtze River below Hankow last week-end, according to reports from east. Hupeh.

A Chinese dolom has recaptured Lushengkang other force passed over the hills regions of Kwangtst and is pushing toward Wusuch and Tien- chiachen-Central News.

assoolation

(Carolina Hill, 4.45. p.m.). Referee:-Omar,

Linesmen: Taylor and Barretto.

Thith Division' A

M. International (Caroline Hill,* 3.45. p.m.).. Referee:-Demme,

H.K.E.R.C. LAWN BOWLS TEAM

Following will represent. Hong Kong Elec tric Recreation Club in a friendly, lawn bowls match against Indian Recreation Club at. Seokunpoo on Saturday:-

W. E. Baker, W. E Macfarlane, H. S. McKay and A. F. Paul (skip); Ä‚``P. Tar- buck, R. A. Owens, C. E. Gahagan and W. B. Muskett (skip); R. C. Butler, V. Sorby, G. G. S. Thomson and G. T. Padgett (skip). Practice will start at Hong Kong. Electric on Saturday::April ~37:::

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