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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

IN THE MATTER of the Allen Enemies (Winding Up) Ordinance 1914 - And

In the Matter of:

H. E. Arns Bodiker & Co. Wilhelm Maier. & Co. Schmidt & Co., Ltd.. Otto Wolff. (Köln) Hamburg-Amerika Linie V. Singer, Esq.

are

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

NOTICE

WATER SUPPLY

R.

In order to conserve the storage in the Colony's reservoirs. it is hereby notified that commencing at 10 p.m. on THURSDAY, De- cember 5th, 'water will be shut off in all districts from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. every night until further notice.

H. J. PEARCE,

Water Authority. Public Works Department, Hong Kong, 3rd December, 1940.

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BRIDGE NOTES

BRIDGE SWINDLES".

NO. 16

By The Four Aces

Among the most satisfactory of all swindles are those which en- courage the opponents to continue along a bad path into which they have happened to fall:

North, Dealer East-West vulnerabie

A 9 8 6 2 KQ 10

O. A Q J. 10

A. A 4

93

A KJ 5

N

Q10.78

♡ 7 5 4-2

IW

◊ 6.5 2

8 6 3 ◊ 7 43

Q J 10

S

AK 4

♡ AJ 9

R

OK 9.8.

87 86 2

.The bidding: North East 10 Pass 3NT 'Pass

South West 2NT... .Pass. Pass

Pass

PUBLIC AUCTION

PARTICULARS AND CON- DITIONS of the Sale by Pubuc Auction to be held on MONDAY,! the 9th day of December, 1940, at 3 p.m., at the Offices of the Public Works Department, by Order of His Excellency the Governor of one Lot of Crown Land at Blue Pool Road, ima the Colony of Hong Kong for. a

term of 75 years, with the option

of renewal at a Crown Rent to be fixed by the Surveyor of His Majesty the King, for one further term of 75 years..

.

-ON CARS W OF THE

KING QUEEN JACK"

West saw no point in opening either red' suit, and feared a spade lead, so opened the Queen of clubs. East overtook with the, club King, pre- OUR ACE SYETE paring to unplock thé sult; and South innocently dropped the seven of Cupsi South didn't know, of course, why West had opened the Queen of. Intending bidders are advised

clubs; he was just that immediately after the dis- glad whatever the reason was. posal of the lot the Eurchaser (if He could count eight top tricks not the applicant) will be required and no chance at all for a ninth to deposit with an authorised officer who will be present at the sale, the sum of two hundred dol- lars, ($200) in cash, This sum will be refunded on payment of

the Purchase price."

PARTICULARS" OF THE LOT.

Notice is hereby given that it is intended to pay a first and final dividend in each of the above (1 liquidations, and creditors, who have not already done so, ¿requested to lodge detailed state- ments of their claims, with the undersigned not later than 31st December, 1940, failing which they will be excluded from the distribution,

LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS,

Chartered Accountants,"

Liquidators.

Hong Kong, 5th December, 1940.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

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

FRIDAY, 6th December, 1940 commencing at 2:30 pm: at their Sales' Room,

No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon. A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE

comprising:

No of Sale.

Inland No. 6076.

Registry No.

North West of Inland Lot No. 5747,

Locality

Blue Pool Road.

Boundary. Measuremente

R. 8. E. W.

26. 26 the -16.

As per

sale plan

WARNING

Business

Contents in ag. 15.

Annual Rent.-

About 31,000

$570

Upset Price

$12,400

дро horeby

Houses

·warned that all paymente in con nection with the 1941 edition of

Teakwood. Bedsteads, Ward-The Hong Kong, Dollar Directory robes, Dressing Tables, Chests of should be made at the Offices of Drawers, Sideboards, Dinner

Waggons, Dining Tables, Chairs, the publishers, through the post Hatstands, Chesterfield Suites, or by chit book. ~

Office Furniture, etc., etc.

Cutlery, Curios, Ornaments,

No one is authorised to visit

Brass Fenders & Fire Brasses, offices and collect, moneyson be Electric Lamps, Heaters, Celling half of this publication. and Table Fans, Looking Glasses, Mirrors, Gramophones, Records,

THE PUBLISHERS,

Porcelain & Glass Ware, Pictures, The Newapaper Enterprise, Ltd. Tea Sets, etc., etc.

also

QUANTITY OF BLACKWOOD

FURNITURE ind

23 Volumes

Britannica"

of. "Encyclopaedia

3 Tlentsin Carpets and Rugs

3 Bed Room Suites

2. "Underwood" Typewriters

2. Pairs, Binoculare

1 "Gibson" Refrigerator

1 Enlarger

1 "Agfa" Cine Projector 18 mm.

1 Radio Set

1 Piano by "Moutrie”.

1 Piano by "Allison!!

On View from Thursday, the

5th December, 1940.

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Itong: Komr, ft Duc, 1010!:

Windsor House.

TO LET

MARBLE HALL-34-36, Gran 'ville Road; Kowloon, Beautiful rooms, suites with verandah, pr vate bathrooms, garden;, tennis- court. Special rate, for Military and Navy, Apply proprietress, Phone 59433.

TUITION GIVEN

EXPERT. 'instructresses for ladies and young girls in music, short- hand, typing, bookkeeping and English and French. Apply 24 Austin Road, Kowloon;

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RAIDS MEAN FUN FOR THEM

Fivé mothers-the "early turn squad"--wait every morning at the gates with a Norwich: school for younger children. opens.

And when the school opens again after the lunch hour. five more mothers, are there to carry on.

The women volunteers have

their formed:

children's wardens corps with the slogan, Fun and games for the kiddies during raid alarms.”:

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LONDON PUZZLES NAZIS

Reports from American correspondents in Berlin show between the line

lines

that the Nazis are both puzzled and exasperated by the failure of the Bri- tish to understand that they ought to give in. It is not hard to see, too, in some wishful thinking that the Germans are do- ing, a certain anxiety as well as bewilderment.

Thus one correspondent reports the Germans as saying it is highly significant that official communi- ques are constantly reiterating that railway stations and lines in and around London and else- where in England are being - bombed,

This can only mean, they say, that London is becoming more and more a "beleaguered fortress. which, like Warsaw and Rotter- dam, will have to choose between destruction and. unconditional capitulation." Daily and nightly

of bombings of a city the size London. is bound, they insist, to reduce the spirit of the inhabit- ants.

It annoys them, too, that the Royal Family stays at its post," and so they will not believe” it. In the hope of disposing of this unpalatable fact they declare that "the cheap “and obviously only

making Britons believe the Royal Family is standing, by in spite of he still less effective when the the rain of German bombs will British people "discover that it is living onfside: London, and dashes into town for State acts and pro- paganda purposes only when Ger- man raids are over."

unless he managed to set up a club before they knocked out his

When the siren is heard the slightly effective practice" of Ace of spades. Under the clr-women wardens get busy! cumstances it was his not tb rea- son, why, but just to tell a con- children and leads them singing Each gathers her own group of vincing le..

to their shelters. Once there it East looked happily at South's is her business to organise games seven of clubs. His partner had, and competitions to keep them opened a long club suit! For amused. South could have only one card: better than the seven, and West must therefore have led' from a;[ six-card suit. So. East hastily. laid down the club Ace, and South just as hastily dropped the club eight. And then another club lead went to West's ten.

At this point, of course, South was able to claim the rest, for the opponents had set up two club tricks for him. Note that. East might have shifted to spades if South had not encouraged him to continue the clubs. And a spade shift would have been the end of that hand, for South would have lost three spades and two clubs without a struggle.

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Yesterday you were playing a 1-Small Slam contract. You had entries to each handi no losers in the side suits, and the following trump suit:

9 7 6

Dummy

You

A Q 20.8 5.4

How did you play the trumps?··

ANSWER: Lay down the Ace the dummy and lead a trump of trumps first. Then go over to towards your Queen. If the Ace drops a singleton honour on your left, you have saved yourself n guess... Don't forget you are per fectly willing to lose one trump trick; you just want to insure yourself against the loss of two trumps,

Score 100% for the recommend- ed play, 0 for any other.

Question No. 581

Small Siam contract. You' have. To-day you are playing another

the side sults, and the following entries to each hand, no losera in

trump suit:

AJ 84 Dummy

K97-615

How do you play the trumps? (Answer to-morrow.)

(Released by The Bell Syndi cate,, Inc.).

EVEN INFANTS CARRIED ON

COLONEL KILLED WHILE SHOOTING Colonel Cecil G. Hankey, aged. [sixty-six; of Binderton House, near Chichester, was shot dead The headmaster of a London while pigeon shooting in his school was so pleased that chil-grounds. dren in his infants' class were at He was alone, but the position school in the morning, after hav-in which he was found proved that ing spent most of the night in air-he had caught his toe in a hold raid shelters, that he bought them and stumbled forward with the re- all ice cream to eat in their sult that his gun went off. morning. Break:

Verdict: Accidental death.

OFF THE RECORD

By ED REED

"Lot'e Icave itṭup to get back In-we'll hafta live with your

falke anyway

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel. 30311.