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WANTED KNOWN
WINNING CONTRACT
(By The Four Aces)
A DIFFICULT DEFENCE
"I was severely criticised the other night," writes a reader, “for failing to make the defensive play which would have stopped a game. Here's the hand;
South, Dealer
Neither side. vülnerable
GAJE
A 9 8 4
O A·8
10.8 2
AK 74 2
N
Q 10 6
♡.6 3
W
◊ K 7 6 3
E
4K 7 6 3
$
◊ Q10 6 2
AJ 6.4
A 9 8 3
KQ J 10 7 8
0 J 94
* 9
The bidding: South West
North
Pass
Pasu
14
East
Pass
10
Pass
2♡
Pass
40
Рабо
Pase
Рабѕ
6-22
An apple à day may keep the doctor away but a little clove of garlic can give a girl real privacy.
could return a spade before South had discarded his losers,
✡
*
Saturday you were David Bruce Burnstone's partner, and with
"West, my partner, opened the neither side vulnerable, you held: three of clubs, dummy ducked, and I won with the Jack. At]
10SH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES UVETËM
TOTAL WALE sv PACK BA -
this point every suit looked dan- gerous to me, so I returned a trump. "Dummy Wo11 and returned the Queen of clubs. I ducked, and South discarded a spade.. West won
A 7
VAKQ B
OAK J 6
A Q 10 6 B
The bidding:
You
Schenken Barnston
Jacoby
1♡
Pass
1A
Pass
20
Pass
1♡
Pass
(?)
FAC IKINCIS THE FOLLOWING FIRMS, hav- QUEEN 1 ing been closed owing to illness, JACK?! have now resumed business: CERER Casmer-stamps. The Universal, Language School, The Interna-
and returned a ANSWER: Bid five hearts or tional Translation Office-the Me-spade, but it was too late. Dum-four no-trump as a Slam try. You teor. Whiteaway's Building. Also my took the spade Ace, drew my have at least an Ace more than open on Saturdays.
last trump, and pushed the ten of clubs through my Ace. No matter what I did, South was sure to get his other spades discard. LEARN FRENCH at the Univer- sal Language School, Private les-
"I claimed South had played sons by lady teacher daily, also the hand very well, but my part- Saturdays. Special fees for Ser-ner said I had defended like a vice Men. Whiteaway's Building, fish. 2nd floor.
TUITION GIVEN
So
Score 100% for five hearts or four no-trump, 50% for six hearts or five clubs, 10% for pass.
have indicated, bids your should make a slam try.
*
✡
*
QUESTION NO. 487
THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 13, 1940
SHE HELPS UNINVITED GUEST IN FRENCH STOLE WEDDING BREAKFAST HAM
Bristol,
Moving about the wards at 1 northern hospital, a twenty-year-| John Keohane, twenty-one, of old girl with a flair for French Fredrick-place, Clifton, and its dialects helps to solve the went to a wedding celebration un- prablems of doctors, in dealing invited.
left the When, he with wounded French soldiers.
with him; table,, the ham went Vital time has béen däved and but its disappearance was noted: many French soldiers will al-
The bridegroom chased him ways be grateful to this smiling down the street until he was "dark-haired-igiri,, who, with stopped by a policeman. Later he fluent tongue, probed into the said he knew Keohane slightly, history of their wounds white but had not asked him to the doctors and nurses waited. · party.
1.
When Miss, Winifred Burrell Bristol magistrates bound over learned that French soldiers had Keohane. for a year for stealing been brought to the hospital she ham worth 29. 6d. It was stated went along as a visitor.
that when arrested he had £15 Soldiers and officers smiled
on him.. delightedly when she began to talk with
them in their own language and use their colloquial expressions. At more leisurely
own Burrell tits with pencil and pad and writes dictated letters to times Miss wives and sweethearts,
MUTT AND JEFF
side
1-28
Who was right?"
To-day you are Merwin Maier's' We're going to hedge. South partner and, with neither EXPERT instructresses for ladies played the hand very well, but vulnerable, hold:
and young girls in music, short- hand, typing, bookkeeping and English and French. Apply 24 Austin Road, Kowloon.
FOR SALE
A 6 8
♡ Q # 8
◊ A Q 10 7 4 AK 6 2
The
bidding:
Schenken
Pass
You (?)
Jacoby
East should not be severely cri ticised for missing the correct de- fence since only an expert would see it. The expert would note that only one club and at most one diamond could be won by the defence, so he would go after two spade, tricks. They could be ob- HONG KONG DOLLAR DIREC-tained only if West had the spade TORY 1940 EDITION.-On sale at King, and even then only if the all-Bookstalls and at the Offices of six of spades were returned at the Publishers, Windsor House, the second trick. Then if South Des Voeux Road, Central. Tele-tried to set up the clubs, West cate, Inc.) phones:-20022 & 20011
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What do you 'bid? (Answer _tomorrow.).
(Released by The Bell Syndi-|
By BUD FISHER
"I see this hotel's run on the European plan!"
Here's Luck
EWO BEER
"STAY-AT-HOME WIFE"
missed all the fun"
(THINKS)
JACK WILL BE SO DISAPPOINTED WHEN I TELL HIM THAT Í DON'T
FEEL LIKE GOING TO THE
·RACES TO-DAY
FAT THE DOCTOR'S
IN YOUR GASE ALSO THIS HAS LED TO AN EXCESS OF ACID WASTE PRODUCTS IN THE BLOUD, * REGENT TESTS. HAVE PROVED
THAT HORLICKS AT BEDTIME
IS WHAT
YOU NEED.
JACK DEAR -DO YOU MIND GOING ALONE?
I FEEL
"DONE UP
WHAT, AGAIN DARLING. IT IS TIME YOU SAW
A DUCTOR ABOUT THIS.
TIREDNESS.
SIX WEEKS NEXT RACE MEETING =
LATER
HORLICKS REGULARLY ESOON GAVE ZHERI NEW!! SVITALITY!
JACK DEAR THAT'S 'THE THIRD, WINNER WE'VE PICKED. THIS AFTERNOON,
CLEVER OF YOU DARLING!
YOU'RE A DIFFERENT PERSON' SINGE TAKING
HORLICKS
DO YOU FEEL WORN OUT, DEPRESSED, ÖR NERVY? DO YOU EVEN AWAKE TIRED ?
Tel. 30311
WAT THE DOCTOR'S
...I EVEN WAKE
TIRED
YOUR TROUBLE ¡S NIGHT
STARVATION. -YOU SEE,WHILE
YOU SLEEP, YOUR HEART, LUNGS AND OTHER: AUTOMATIC
PROCESSES CONTINUE USING UP ENERGY.
DOCTORS AND SCIENTISTS USE HORLICKS
IN HOSPITAL TESTS
REC
ECENTLY tests were made in 'à great hospital on men and women' who com- plained of always feeling Ured.
It was found that these people had an excess of acid waste products in their blood during sleep.
This hold waste' kept the brain and nerves *on edge' all night even though the rest of the body was sound asleep.".
Hut when Horlicks wre given to thèse peosia Ist thing at night. Autis«'excéan, aeld` waste was completely neutralised. – They woke refreshed, with increased energy and vitality:
Take HORLICKS
THEN YOU WILL SLEEP SOUNDLY- WAKE REFRESHED "AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY
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