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NEW

ADVERTISEMENTS

THE HONG KONG

JOCKEY CLUB

THE TENTH EXTRA RACE

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 30, 1940

GERMANS

BRIDGE SUDETEN

NOTES IN CANADA

By The Four Aces

MEETING will be held (weather Bridge Swindles-No. 11 permitting) at HAPPY. VALLEY on SATURDAY, 2nd November, 1940, commencing at 2,00 p.m,

The First Bell will be rung at

1.30 p.m.

MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE No One without a badge will be admitted to the Members' En- closure. Such must be worn throughout the duration of each Meeting In such a manner as to be readily identified.

and

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentle- men and $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon the personal or written applica- tion of a Member, such Member to be responsible for all visitors introduced by him, and for Pay- ment of all Chits, etc.

A few miles from Edmonton, Alberta, just over the British Co- lumbia border in the Peace River section, approximately 500 Sude- ten German settlers have found their key to happiness.

Some swindles are more or less the result of accidents. The gay

The colony, now almost two deceiver simply makes it possible years of age, has proved success"""" for the opponents to make a misful, a recent visit disclosed. take, even though he may not clearly see what mistake is pos sible. For example:

North, Dealer Nelthor side vulnerable

A Q 8 3 2 ♡ A 4 OK QJ 9 6.AQ 5

A 7 4 VK 6 3 ◊ 8 6 2 2 * J 10 9 G

N

W

◆ A 5 ♡ J B 5

A 10 7 4 &K 842

A K 3 10 9 G

Q 10 9 7 2

◊ 6

J 73

The bidding: North East

10

The Secretary's Office, 1st Floor, Exchange Building, (Tel. 27794) will close at 11.45 a.m.

3A

Pass

South Pass 1A Pa98 40 Paes

at the

Tiffins are obtainable

PUBLIC AUCTIONS Club House provided they are

The Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public Auction on

ordered in advance from the No. 1 Boy (Tel. 21920).

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE The price of Admission to the

THURSDAY, the 31st Oct., 1940 Public Enclosure is $1.00 includ- commencing at 10.30 am. ing Tax, for all Persons, including at their godown, No. 2 Wood. RoadLadies, and is payable at the Gate,].

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE Soldiers and. Sailors in

:

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

On View on Day of Sale. Terms: Cash on Delivery

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 29th Oct., 1940

are admitted Half Price.

By Order,

Uniform

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary. Hong Kong, 28th October, 1940.

WARNING

West Pass Pass

West opened the Jack of clubs, and when the finesse of the club Queea lost to East's King, South realised that he had to hope for a swindle.

+MAİ CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES BYSTEN

FACI

KING 21

QUEEN1 JACK

East returned a club, and dummy won with the Ace. The trump Ace was next knocked out, and East's club re- turn was ruled by South. After drawing the adverse trumps, South led a diamond, dummy putting up the King, and East winning with the Ace.

IF BABY

IS CROSS

FIND OUT WHY

Healthy Babies are not cross. your baby should not be cross. If he is, then something in his little system is "out of order". Probably Baby's Own Tablets can promptly

put it right"

Mrs. B. Barnet of Toronto, had this experience. "My baby was terribly cross. I tried different. Not quite two years ago they remedies but nothing seemed to were a German minority wedged help. A neighbour suggested try- in between a belligerent Germanying Baby's Own Tablets. I did. and an equally resolved Czecho- and baby slept nights and we got slovakia the focal point of one our sleep. He was good in 'the' of the world's largest crises. :

day time. I cannot recommend Baby's Own Tablets too highly,”

But to-day that is all in the

No matter how delicate your. back-ground. They did not care baby may be, these little tablets. for the Nazi rule when the Sude may be administered with perfect ienland was awarded to Germany-confidence. They are the prescrip- They left their homes for Canada. tion of a British medical child- And to-day their muin worries

specialist. Promptly effective in are whether it will be an early clearing up simple fevers, diar-

or whether Spring for planting,

rhoea, colic, constipation, worms,. the price of livestock will go up. colds and teething troubles

and other minor ailments,

Sickness often strikes in the night, so be prepared by keeping Baby's Own Tablets in your home. From chemists everywhere.

•

They are of German extraction, they speak German and they have many German habits of life, yet they will tell you they sincerely hope the Nazis are beaten in the war now raging far from their new homeland at Tupper Creek,

British Columbia.

Dates Of arrival

The first party of Sudeten folk,

in 25 families, arrived April, 139, under a scheme of assisted migration approved to by the Bri- tish Government. They had been in refugee camps in England anti cagerly agreed to the plan of settlement in Canada. By August all the colony were settled in the Peace River block, 153 families and 35 single men. There were a few Jewish people in the number.

along night and day.

.

a high degree. New families are gradually being located on their individual farm units. When each family "breaks off" it is given an allotment of livestock, and at once. they go to work to build up their home. place.

Assorted Group

It was a motley group, that col- the Sudeten country. ony from

professional men, There were artisans, factory hands, toy mak- ers, cabinet makers, blacksmiths. and others. They accountants found the manual labour in Cana- The first summer these sturdy da's northern hinterland hard and Sudeten families-few of them the country wild. It was new. had had previous agricultural ex-country. But they did not com- perience managed to sow 630 plain; they smiled and worked the acres of crops and during the harder. At this point, East found him- summer 1.400 acres were cleared, self in what seemed to be a dif-three tractors being kept chugging cult situation. Both dummy and South were void of clubs, and a diamond lead would allow dummy Business Houses

to make an undeserved trick with are hereby

the nine of diamonds. Apparently warned that all payments in con-only a heart lead was safe. For nection with the 1941 edition of tunately for South, he guessed The Hong Kong Dollar Directory right by playing the heart nine should be made at the Offices of rather than the Queen; and the rest was easy, since West's King the publishers, through. the post was trapped. Teakwood & Iron Bedsteads, or by chit book."

for Wardrobes, Dressing Tables, No one is authorised to visit Washstands, Chesterfield Suites, offices and collect money on be Sideboards, Dinner Waggons, half of this publication. Chairs, Dining Tables,, Hatstands,.

The Undersigned have received: instructions to sell by Public Auction on

FRIDAY, 1st November, 1940 commencing at 2.30. p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD: FURNITURE

comprising:-

· Ice

Chests, Teapoys, Tables, Desks, Filing Cabinets, Glass Ca- binets, etc., etc.

Curios, Ornaments, Pictures, Clocks, Cutlery, Porcelain, Glass, Brass and E. P. Ware, Electric Table Fans & Lamps, Perambula: tors,. Binoculars, Cooking, Uten- sils, etc., etc..

also

A QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD AND RATTAN FURNITURE

1 Radio-gram.

and

2 Radio Sets.

1 Canteen. Set

1 Dinner Service

2 Bed Room Suites.

2 Dining Room Suites.

1. Upright Piano by "Moutrle."

.On. View from Thursday, the

31st. October, 1940,

Terms: Cash on Delivery.

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THE PUBLISHERS, The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Windsor House.

POSITION WANTED

MANAGER of established firm recommends reliable educated English-speaking Chinese girl of 19 to good European Family to look after children, Write P:O. Box 931, Hong Kong,

TO LET

Their district is served by the Alberta Northern Railways with Pouce Coupe 12 miles away. They This year 2,500 acres were have schools with the English lan- but the regular. seeded and most of this will be guage stressed, harvested as feed crops for live British Columbia school curri- stock is being stressed rather than culum is, followed. One of the commercial grain production. Up teachers, Miss Lydia Hinke, a gra- in the Peace River country frost duate of the University of Alberta, comes early and then it would was born in Sudetenland al- cost excessively in freight to get though coming to Canada at the. wheat to the Edmonton market, age of six. Night schoot is pro- Native Czech #76 miles away.

vided for adults. handicrafts are being continued, East thought he was caught in a true end-play, but it was really The colony has its own sawmill with the products of these skilled only a swindle since a diamond which supplies the material for workers much in demand Mrs return was perfectly safe. East the houses and other buildings, Winelm Wanka, a former student knew that South had started with Most of the foundation work has at the University of Prague, makes

with European costume. five trumps and two clubs; hence been done cooperatively with six red cards. Allowing the communal spirit prevailing to do handsome basketry. dummy to make three diamond tricks would still leave South with.

a loser in hearts/

Yesterday you were Merwin Maier's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held:

·9607

The bidding: Maler

Jacoby You Belienken

Dbl.

ANSWER:

Bid one spade or MARBLE HALL--34-36, Gran pass, depending on partner and ville Road, Kowloon. Beautiful opponents. There is no 100% bid LAMMERT BROS., rooms, suites with verandah, pri- in this situation, but one spade Auctioneers. vate bathrooms, garden, tennis is best with a fine partner against Hong Kong, 30th October, 1940. court. Special rate for Military and Navy. Apply proprietress. Phone 59433. '*

THE NEW FRENOH REMEDY.

THERAPION NO.1 THERAPION No.2]

TUITION GIVEN

EXPERT instructresses for ladies

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ve&bladder.

BRASSO

METAL POLISH GIVES BRILLIANCE AND SPARKLE TO METALWARE,

FOR SALE

Apply 24

HONG KONG DOLLAR DIREC- TORY 1940 EDITION.-On sale at all: Bookstalls and at the Offices of the Publishers, Windsor House, Des Voeux Road, Central: Telo- phones:-20022 & 20011-

MISCELLANEOUS.

FOR VIBITING CARDS

neatly i

B

sensible opponents. Erratic op ponents may bid four spades if you pass; and an erratic partner may, land, you in trouble if you bid one spade. So in a "spotty" game, a pass is better than a bid of one spade.

Score 80% for one, spade, 80% for pass, 0 for any other bid.

Question No 551

To-day you are David 'Bruce. Burnstone's partner and, ; non- vulnerable against vulnerable op- ponents, you hold:

A.K.J.9.5

The bidding: Barnatons

OFF THE RECORD

ED REED

dolls; others

By ED REED,

1105, The_Ragialer

#But, Dear! You said yourself you; didn't want me to work

after we were married!""

◊ Q 3.10

Here's Luck

Male

Dbl.

You Jacoby

What

(Arswor

and promptly printed, The To-morr Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-

sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen-

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