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MUTT AND JEFF

I SUPPOSE YOU THINK YOU'RE A

CRACK SHOT

I DON'T

WITH A PISTOL!THINK IT-

I KNOW

13-11

IT!

I'LL BET YOU! A BUCK YOU CAN'T EVEN HIT "HE TARGET!

AND I'LL BET YOU I HIT THE BULL'S-EYE SIX.SHOTS IN A ROW!

HA-HA! LOOK WHO'S

GONNA HIT THE BULL'S-EYE SIX SHOTS

IN A ROW!

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 23, 1940

YEH, ONCE!! WHERE ARE THE

By BUD FISHER

OH, THEY

ALL SHOT THROUGH THE SAME HOLE!

?

WELL,

SMARTY,

I HIT IT,

DIDN'T I?

OTHER FIVE: SHOTS ?

BANG!

BANG! BANG!

BANG!

BANG! BANG!

Churchill Speech

Today's Wireless

to

6.00 p.m.-A Chronological Programme

of English Music from Purcell Elgar.

7.00 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

7.02 p.m.-English Ballads. 7.23 p.m.-The Band

of H.M. Cold- stream Guards playing a Wartime March Medley. Intro: Tipperary; Quand Madelon; Ca c'est Paris; Wish me Luck; The Siegfried Line; Beer Barrel Polka.

-

"Lon-

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

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording

don". A somewhat mis-conducted tour of the Capital of the British Empire. Written and produced by H. L. Morrow.

8.30 p.m.-Latest Wartime Variety. 9.00 p.m.-London Relay-Speech by Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of

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

the Admiralty at the luncheon of the Royal Society of St. George, followed by a speech by the Chairman, Lord Vleveland.

9.30 p.m.-London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

9.45 p.m.- Eric Coates-Four Ways Suite. New Light Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Joseph Lewis.

"Shake- 9.68 p.m.-Studlo-Talk on

speare" by Professor R.: K. M. Simp

aon.

10.18 p.m.-Peter Dawson (Bass-Bari- tone) and the New Light Symphony Orchestra.

Glory of the Sea (Sanderson): The Border Ballad (Cowen)....Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone) with Orchestra.

Wartime

Variety

leridge-Taylor)....New Light Symphony

Orchestra..

The Admiral's Boom (Bevan); A Jovinl Monk Am I ('La Poupee-Andran)..... Peter Dawson (Bass-Baritone) with Orch. Monastery Bella (Wely): The Mill In The Forest (Ellenberg): Buffoon (Confrey); Jazz

Love" Nocturne **My Silent (Suesse)....New Light Symphony Orch.

Prelude (Haydn Wood); Intermezzo (Co-11.00 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

NAVY ACTIVE

NEAR MANILA

At Dawning (Cadman): Policeman's Holl-KEEP AN

day (Ewing); Parade of the Tin Soldiers (Jessel)....New Light Symphony Orch.

Minning

CONTRACT

(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 heaten every other system in existence.

SUCCESSFUL FALSE-CARDING

We are indebted to Rozier C. Bayly of Alexandria, Va., for the following hand:

West, Dealer East-West vulnerable

A Q 10 3 2 ♡ AK 2

A AKJ-9

46 3

* J 8

◊ J 8 7 3

A 8 7

5 4

◊ Q 10 6

W

◊ 10 4

S

J8764 OAK 952

4

♡.9 3

◊ Q 6

AKQ 10 9 7 6 2

Mr. Bayly

14

Pass Z♡

Bouth 3affe

8♡

Рава Pass

4. Равн Равя

40

Dbl.

5 Pass

The bidding: West North East

HISH CARS VALUES

FOUR ACES BVITEN

ACL ... KING .2 QUEEN 1 JACK.

West opened the spade King and shift-

last club lead forced West to let go of a heart, whereupon the spade was thrown from dummy and East was now compelled either to let go of the high diamond or unguard, his of hearts. He chose the latter ternative, whereupon dummy's deuce of hearts made the thirteenth trick for the Declarer.

*

***

Jack al-

Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner. Both sides were vulnerable and you held:

JI I

́Ò A Q⋅ 9 x x x 1

Q x x

You

The bidding:--- Schenken Jacoby Maler

Dbl. Pass (7) 30 Answer: Bid five diamonds. The double of an opening three-bid is for takeout.. Under these conditions your hand is fully strong enough to jump to gamez

Score 100 per cent, for five dia- ed to the ten of diamonds, 50 per cent. for four dia- monds, East winning monds (may be passed and a game

with the King and

Mr. Bayly dropping the Queen as a false

missed),.0 for pass.

QUESTION NO. 391 Merwin. Maler is your partner and

card. If he had mere- you hold:" ly played the six-spot,]"/ East would surely have cash d the .se- cond diamond. As it was, the false card worked. East played his other spade. Mr. Bayly trumped" and pro- ceeded to run down his club, suit, retaining the Queen of spades and the Ace-King-deuce of hearts as the last four cards. in dummy.

the

10 $

AAK Q 10 The biddingi: Mater Burnstone

-10

PAIS 24

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)!

(Released By The Bell Byndicate,

West's last four, cards wereo Ace of spades and three hearts. The Inc.)

TO

MANILA, TO-DAY. TWO UNITED STATES WARSHIPS HAVE BEEN DESPATCHED:

EYE" ON A BRITISH WARSHIP REPORTED TO BE OPER- ATING IN PHILIPPINE WATER6," ACCORDING TO THE "MANILA BULLETIN" QUOTING - "RELIABLE SOURCES."

This action has been taken in ac- cordance with the neutrality regula- tions, the newspaper says,

EASTERN WIN LAST GAME

•

Manila, To-day. Eastern climaxed their visit with a three nil victory over the combined La Salle-Y.C.O, team, and so winning six out of seven games.

Eastern were leading at the inter- val by two goals and for the rest of. the game concentrated on the defence. The .second half play was erratic throughout.

A trophy was presented to Eastern after the game. Eastern are return-

Local radio programmes have beening to Hong Kong by Clipper.-Reuter. interrupted during the past three days

ex-

by the naval authorities recalling per- sonnel to ships. Naval quarters plained the reason for this as "special exercises."

It is learned that last week a British warship requested a coaster to verify its nationality at a point between Manila and North Luzon. Reuter.-.-.-

GOEBBELS KEEPING UP THE GOOD WORK

;

Berlin, To-day. · The official news agency claims that nine British and two French planes were shot down on Sunday, including two British bombers, during the raid

and on Stavanger

four raids on Aalborg.

In London, the Air Ministry stat- ed that only one plane was missing in the Aalborg raid and none after the attack on. Stavanger-Reuter. ** FOREIGN AIRCRAFT FLY OVER BELGIUM

2

NEW GERMAN- RUMANIAN AGREEMENT

SIGNED

Rome, To-day. The Rome Radio states that a new has German-Rumanian agreement been signed in Budapest by the Ger- man representative, Dr.. Clodius, and the Rumanian Minister of Commerce. few Details will be published in a days:-Reuter.

SOVIET-JAPANESE TALKS IN-MOSCOW

Moscow, To-day.. The Soviet, Foreign Commissar, M. Molotov, received. Mr. Togo, the Ja- panese Ambassador, on Sunday for the second time within three days, it Is understood the interview was con. nected with trade negotiations.—Reu- tor

region' yesterday morning, foreign air- Brussels, To-day. craft flew over Belgian territory at a A Ministry of Defence communique | number of points during the day. Two states that in addition to flights by were identified as German machines. foreign 'planes over the Neuf Chateau Reuter,

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