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MUTT AND JEFF

IF HIS TAIL POINTS | AND HE CAN

STRAIGHT UP THAT `MEANS'YES'AND

I WONDER IF

MY WIFE IS OUT!

MUTT, WHY DON'T YOU

ASK MY LYRE DOG! HE'LL TELL

IF IT DROPS

YOU WITH

DOWN THAT...

MEANS "NO!",

TELL ME IF IT'S SAFE TO 60 IN THE HOUSE?

SURE! LOOK!LOOK! THAT MEANS

HIS TAIL IS UP! THAT MEANS

YES!"

HURRAH!

EVERYTHING IS ALL RIGHT!.

(NOW IN

CAN GET

MY DOUGH!

4-24

HIS TAIL!

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 6, 1940.

By BUD FISHER

LOOK AT THAT

FOOL! HE STILL

HAS HIS TAIL

UP!

WELL, I TOLD YOU HE WAS ALYRE DOG

"Vive la France"

and Other

London Relays

Today's Wireless

5.45 p.m.-Studio-Children's Hour. 6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-

tions.

6.47 p.m.-Negro Spirituals.

Oh! Rock, Me, Julie; Oh! Didn't It

Rain (arr. Burleigh).

Git On Board, Lil' Chillun; Dere's No Hidin' Place (arr. Lawrence Brown).

Since You Went Away (Johnson). Wid De Moon, Moon, Moon (Cook).

..Paul

Robeson (Bass) with

Piano accomp. 7.00 p.m.--Tudor Davies (Tenor) In a

Light Orchestral Programme.

Overture (Coleridge- Christmas

حسد

Taylor). Lane Wilson Melodies. Intro: When dull care; Phyllis has such charm- ing graces; The Sailor's Life; My lovely Celia; Come, Let's be merry.

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

9.52 Megacycles

Symphony Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent. Onaway! Awake! Beloved ("Hiawa-

tha'-Coleridge-Taylor)

Cinema. Memories - Medley; Free (from 'O-Kay for Sound'); Night Must Fall (film "The Tenth Man'). Tu-8.35 p.m. -- Selections from Light

Opera. "The Bohemian Girl"-Vocal Gems (Balfe)....Light Opera Company with Orchestra.

dor Davies (Tenor) with Orch. Petite Suite De Concert (Coleridge- London Symphony Taylor). Orchestra cond. by Dr. Malcolm Sargent.

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

Report and Announcements. 8.03 p.m.-Studio-Jazz-Plano Recital

by Doreen Ma. 8.20 p.m.-Quentin

́Organ.

Maclean at the

Winning

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 beaten every other system in existence.

GOOD GUESSING

To-day's hand was well bid by North and returned a trump. South now and South, for in spite of the handicap | trumped his remaining diamond in of a partial score, they contracted for a Small Slam in hearts which offered a

good chance for success. However, South had to do some good guessing to make his contract.

Neither side vulnerable North and South 60 on suora

A 10 8

◊ A 7

4 Q7582 ♡ 8 5

J 10 4

♣ A Q.J⋅ 6.8

8 4 7.6 2

N

10 6 2

W

K9 8 5 2

S

◊ KQ 8.8 10 4

A K J 9

9 8

Selection "The Gypsy Princess"

(Kalman)....De Groot & The New Victoria Orchestra. "Die Fledermaus" Vocal Gems (J.

Strauss)..

....Grand Opera Com- pany with Orchestra. 9.00. p.m.-Military Band. Music.

ROYAL AIR FORCE STRENGTH

LONDON, TO-DAY.

IT CAN BE COMPUTED FROM AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUES IS- SUED DURING THE PERIOD THAT THE TOTAL BRITISH AIRCRAFT

է

Doreen Ma

At The

Piano

Country Life Suite (Alford)....The Band of H.M. Royal Marines, `Ply- mouth Division.

The Soloist's Delight (Godfrey); Marche Heroique De Szabady (Massenet, arr. Dan Godfrey).. The Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards cond. by Lieut. J. C. Win- dram.

mary.

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

France".

"Vive la

9.45 p.m.-Ninon Vallin (Soprano) In

a French Programme.

Hill 10.13 p.m. — Varlety with the

Blilies, Jack Buchanan, Cicely Courtneldge and Others.

11:00 p.m.-London

Relay

ground to the News". 11.16 p.m.-CLOSE DOWN.

"Back-

U.S. TRIBUTE TO B.E.F.

NEW YORK, TO-DAY. THE "DETROIT FREE PRESS" SAYS. HE WHO REMAINS COUR-

·AGEOUS IN THE FACE OF ADVER- SITY IS COURAGEOUS INDEED.

The conduct of the British "In the retreat from Flanders has provoked Nazi opponents and the morale of expressions of respect even from their those who finally reached their island home suggests that the spirit of ATTRI-

Majesty's fighting men remains

LOST IN ACTION SINCE MAY 10 IS 302-LESS THAN ONE TENTH OF THE TOTAL LOSSES BUTED TO THE ALLIES IN GER- MAN CLAIMS.

are

dummy, ruffed a club in his hand Naturally no official figures of the and then played his remaining trumps, output of the aircraft industry At this point South had to guess the available. It can be confidently stat- location of the spade Queen, for heed, however, that the total strength could finesse in either direction. He of the R.A.F. is greater at the end had carefully counted his opponents' of these four weeks than it was at the distribution and now know that East beginning-four weeks in the latter Dunkirk had originally held five spades. There- part of which fore the chances were overwhelmingly in favour of his holding the Queen. South therefore played East for the spade Queen and made his contract by two two-way correctly guessing finesses.

❤

宓

*

Yesterday Merwin Maier was your partner and you held:

MMM

The bidding:

Bouth

West

North Dast

10

Рава

8♡

Раве

3 4♡

-PASS

The bidding:

Pass

Babenken

Рава BV

Pass

Pass

Pass

West made the embarrassing lead

(for South) of a trump. Observing

Jsonky UniMaler

Pass

You INT Pass 8

INT

PASS

INT Розв Page

Pass.

Pass

ANSWER: Your correct lead is a

that he could now ruff only one dia- club. This lead will surely not cost

#

mond in dummy, you a trick. Any other lead is likely

HISH CARD VALUES –... South decided that he to..),

OF THE FOUR ACES SYSTEM

ACE... 3 KING QUEEN 1 JACK.

would have to finesse. clubs. There were two ways of taking, the club finesse--dummy's Ace could be played. and then the Queen led through East, or South could lead the single- ton club from his hand. and take a straight finesse. It appear. ed as though West's trump opening showed some club strength and South therefore decided on the latter method. After dummy's club _Queen held, the Ace was cashed and a diamond dis- carded. The Ace and another dia- mond were then played,

won

Score club lead 100%, any suit 0.

other.

QUESTION NO, 429 Howard Schenken is your partner and you hold:

J 9 X X

K.J XX

Schenke

The bidding:

You fustone.

Mater Pann Pass (7) What do you, bid?

Pask

Pass

over the

and

in-

beaches it "engaged the main strength of the German air force flicted upon it losses of at least four to one," to use the Premier's words. British Wireless..

broken.

His

un-

The "Cincinnati Inquirer" declares the removal of more than 250,000 AI-

lied troops from Flanders is specta- cular proof that sea power can stand up to aerial thrusts better than many observers expected. Reuter,

LANDSLIDE VICTIM

The heavy rainfalls of the last few days have claimed yet another victim. In a report to the Police, Ngan Yan, 52, who resided in a hut on the hill- side at Sek Kip Mel Village, in the Shamshulpo area, stated that his 18- hut year-old daughter was in his when it was buried by a landslide at 6 a.m. yesterday. ́.

GERMAN DIPLOMACY IN BULGARIA

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Softa, To-day: A German delegation has arrived here which is entrusted with the signature of a cultural agreement be- tween the Reich and Bulgaria-Havas. tuary.

In the

When the girl was extricated, life The body was found to be extinct. was removed to the Kowloon Mor-

HONG KONG

HOTEL

DINNER DANCE

With Nick Korin & His Swing Band. NIGHTLY 9 PM. TILL 1 AM

TEA DANCE

SUNDAYS 5 TILL 7.

(Answer

tomorrow.)

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