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for

NEW

WINNING

ADVERTISEMENTS CONTRACT

THE

GANTON... INSURANCE OFFICE, LIMITED (Incorporated in Hong Kong). NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that] Scrip Certificate No..1358 dated 9th June, 1933 for Fifty Shares numbered 35386/35435 in the above Office, standing in the name, of Mr. Harry Adolph Lucker, of Tientsin, has been lost, and should the same not be produced before the 24th September, 1940, a new Scrip Certificate will be issued in of the said Mr. Harry favour Adolph Lucker, and no transac- tion taking place under the old Scrip Certificate will be recognis- ed by the Office.

JARDINE, MATHESON

& CO., LTD. General Agents. Hong Kong, 10th Sept., 1940.

TO LET

(By The Four Aces)

CAN IT BE MADE?

"Can it be made?” asks a rea- Įdėr. “I didn't make the contract,

but there'should be"some way; to] get ten tricks out of all those high; cards."

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

A 7.6 3

K, 8, 6 3

OJ 9.8.7- ♣AK 962

Ο Α' Κ 10

N WE

A 5

4 2

J

0. 5 5 3

S * Q 10:8:

540

A'K'QJ 10.8:

♡ A*Q*6* 2

ph

.7 3

The bidding:

South West

JA 44

Pass Pass

North 24 Pass

East Pass-

Pass

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I

"West: took the King of dia- monds and then led a trump

the heart finesse, and another trump.came: Baok. a CARE VALUES Then I had to lose rocks were two more hearts; going down one trick. Could I have done better?”

OF THE

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KING QUEEN 1 BACK

TOTAL VALUE OF VADIDA

AMERANÉ KAMO SIS

interesting to going on.

We're afraid so. There are at least two ways to make: ten tricks, and our: readers may find it find them before

The more logical play is to win the second trick in the South hand! land return the eight of trumps to: dummy's nine. A diamond is re- turned, South discarding a heart. West wins and returns a trump. South wins and gets over to the club King to lead another d'a- mond. Again a heart is discard-

But Jed, while West wins.

the Jack of diamonds is set up for the tenth trick.

now

The other way to make the con- tract is to run trumps and one

at least three club, and then return a diamond from the dum- my:

and South discards heart, West wins. With only red cards! left, West must yield the tenthr trick either to one of dummy's diamonds or by a heart lead up to South's tenace.

*

Yesterday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held

14

Q J. 9 8

♡ J

A 95 3 X-8-7-4-

Burnstone

The bidding: Jacoby. Bchenken You Разв (?)

ANSWER: Bid three spades:' You can practically guarantee a game even if your partner has a minimum opening. bid.

Score 100% for three spades, 50% for two clubs or two dia- monds. 20% for two spades.

QUESTION NO. 514 To-day you hold the same hand, and the bidding continues:

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 13,, 1940..

Be Selective

Climbing Clara says she gets

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"Do you gain merit by standing on your hands; Philip, or are you merely giving your feet a rest?":

whole course of my life-how to have a good party and feet jolly fit next morning.” --

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**The attitude would no doubt be a congenial one for a bat or a sloth, but to my eyes, Philip, it Jacks elegance and, moreover, contributes nothing to human progress.

If you must know, I'm celebrating a discovery, which, will alter the

Why -have you heard about it too ?

Heard about it? There isn't a man on this continent who doesn't know that Rose's is' a remarkable therapeutic agent with the exception possibly of one or two odd people who spend. their lives standing on their hands?

►

Jacoby

1A

56

Schenken Tau Pass 30 Pass (?)

Hurnstone.

Pass

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.}

(Released By The Bell Syndi- cate, Inc.)

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

1940.

WEDNESDAY, 18th Sept

commencing at 5.16 p.m.. at their Sales Room, No. 2) Connaught Road, Central, Second Floor Room No.. 205 -

A VALUABLE COLLECTION- OF POSTAGE STAMPS Catalogues will be issued: On View from Tuesday, the 17th, September, 1940.

Terms: Cash on Delivery

"LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

1940. Hong Kong, 13th Sept., ·

FOR SALE:

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