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MUTT AND JEFF ·

HOLD THAT

TIGER

HOLD THAT TIGER -

SAY, HOW DO YOU

WE GOT A

EXPECT PEOPLE/NEW BASS FIDDLE

AN' TRAP DRUMS!

·TO SLEEP WITH

THAT NOISE?

THAT RACKET'S BEEN GOIN' ON CONTINUOUSLY FOR TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS IF YOU DONET: STOP. BY SATURDAY YOU'LL.

HAVE TO MOVE/72

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 17, 1940

OH, DON'T WORRY! WE FWON'T PLAY THAT LONG!

By BUD FISHER

WE'VE ONLY GOT 'EM ON A THREE DAYS'

FREE TRIAL!

COME ON, MUTT!

Nazi Rule, By Sir N. Henderson

Today's Wireless

6.00 p.m.-Compositions of Brahms.

Hungarian Dance No. 1.....Grisha

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

Goluboff (Violin) with Ivor New- ton at the Plano. Little Sandman.....Comedy Har-

monists (Vocal) with Piano.

7.00 p.m.-Light Orchestral. Waltzes Nos.. 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15 and 7.30 p.m.-London Relay The Nows.

16 (Op. 39).....Anatole Kitain | 8.00 p.m.-Local Time.Signal, Weather. (Piano).

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Latest Variety and Dance

Music.

Sonata in E Flat Major for Clarinet & Piano, Op. 120, No. 2.....Fre- derick Thurston (Clarinet) and Myers Foggin at the Piano. Hungarian Dance No. 6 in B Flat Major.... Yehudi Menuhin (Vio- lin) with Piano accomp. by Marcel Gazelle.

6.40 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

Mavis Bennett (80-

6.42 p.m.-Ballads by Derek Oldham

(Tenor) and prano).

•

8.30 p.m.-London Relay "What I saw of Nazi Rule in Germany". Speech by Sir Neville Henderson at one of Foyle's Literary Luncheons. 9.00 p.m.-Concert Waltzes.

April Smiles (Depret); Spring Waltz

(Lincke)

Vienna Boheme

Orchestra.

Concert Orchestra.

Beethoven Quartet In E

9.46 p.m.-Coleridge-Taylor "Otello" Buite. New Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. 10.00 p.m.-Flute Solos by Maroel

Moyao.

9.16 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum- 10.10 p.m.-The Kentucky - Minstrels.

mary. 9.30 p.m.-Studio

Chinese Post Office".

Talk on "The

MOTORCAR EXPORT

"Eva" Waltzes (from the Operetta PLANS

"Eva"-Lehar);

Carmen Sylva—

Waltz (Ivanovici).. . International

Minning

CONTRACT

(By The Four Aces)

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

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

SAVING RE-ENTRIES

Sometimes in the play of a hand the Declarer may find that while he seems to have a sufficient number of tricks, actually he can't get at them because of a lack of re-entries. For example, in to-day's hand South, in order to be able to enter dummy twice, had to "kill" one of his owning tricks. tricks.

South, Dealer

North-South vulnerable

AJ 10

VAK 54

◊ Q 10 0 2

9754

LONDON, TO-DAY..

10.20 p.m.-Beethoven-Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127. Busch Quartet. 11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

STOPPING PACIFIC LEAKAGE

London, To-day.

A MOTOR EXPORT GROUP HAS The Minister of Economic Warfare BEEN FORMED ON THE BASIS OF was asked in the Commons yesterday THE OVERSEAS ORGANISATION about what the questioner described ALREADY ESTABLISHED BY THE as ships of different nationalities SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFAC- | clearing the port of Los-Angeles load- TURERS AND TRADERS WHICH ed with all kinds of war HAS ITS OWN TRADE COMMIS- for Vladivostok. “

AUSTRALIA, NEW SIONERS IN ZEALAND; SOUTH AFRICA, INDIA, BURMA AND CEYLON:

Export production plans comprise motor vehicles of a basic trade value of £12,000,000 annually and motor parts and accessories of the value of

£3,000,000,

Mr. W. E. Roote, chairman of the played, and at this point East held the group and President of the Society, guarded Jack of diamonds and two said yesterday that the Agures did not spades, and West had retained three necessarily represent the full, exte spades to the Queen plus a heart, of the export drive.

Throughout the first 7 months of which was now high. West of course had to let go of a spade, and now the war, the export of thousands of South's three spades won the remain-vehicles a week had been maintained

with the total exceeding 30,000.

Empire demand had been excep- an unusual manner. First, he hadtionally good, particularly from Aus- established a heart trick for West and tralia, India, Malaya and Ceylon, and then squeezed him out of it.

increased numbers had also been sent to many foreign markets including Yesterday, with neither side vulner-Uruguay, Argentine and Portugal. able, you were David Bruce Burns- British Wireless. tone's partner and held:

Declarer had made his contract in

♡ K JIX

▲ AX

0.3 97.5

♬ 10 x

*

8 7 3

Q 6 3

10 9 8 7

~ 6 2

7 6 4

W

OJ 9 8 3

6 6 2

S

♣ KQ'S

AK 8.2

QJ 8

Ο ΑΚ

The bidding: You Maler

AJ 10 4

Pass Pass

Barnstone. !-

Pass

The bidding:

Pase: 20

BA

South West

North

Dast

2NT 6NT

Pass

4NT

Pass

Рада

Разв Раяв

Pass 80 (1)

Pass

Jacoby

10 PASE Pass

ANSWER: Pass. You should not risk doubling your opponents into game. Remember, partner has passed originally and may not have much de- fensive strength......

Score 100% for pass, 30% for dou- ble, 10% for three spades.

West opened the ten of hearts and South saw that if he simply ran off four heart tricks, he would have no re-entry to dummy. Thus he won the first trick with the Queen,

Neither side is vulnerable. You are led a small heart to dummy's King, then Oswald Jacoby's partner and hold.

HIGH BARS VALJAKS

FOUR-ACER EVETEN

ACE..... KING

QUEEN JACK

played a club. When

East split his

handurs, ↑ South

club

and forced out Frig other honour Elst played a third cluta.

Declarer won and, on his last club discarde

from dummy Next, South cashed, his two top dia-

QUESTION NO: 886

K∙103 7'x

Jacoby

Past

What do you bidt

Dum-

now l

(Release

Bell: Sindicat

.

BMMSA OPENS DOORS

London, To-day. The British Mercantile Marine Services' Association has opened its membership to Danish, Norwegian and Polish masters and officers serving under the British flag,-Reuter.

materials

Mr. Cross said his Ministry had a large volume of information about the shipments from Los Angeles and other American ports to Vladivostok.

Where there was sufficient evidence that the ultimate destination of the goods was Germany all possible steps were taken to detain them. British Wireless.

FALL IN FOOD PRICES

London, To-day.

A very slight fall in the cost of living is shown by a Labour Ministry the announcement that on April 1, index figure was 78 per cent. above the level of July, 1914, as compared with 79 per cent. on March 1.

The figure for food alone shows a fall of three-points or about 2 per cent, which is due to a decline in the prices of eggs which had reached an abnormally high level at the begin ning of March owing to the weather in February-British Wire- less.

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