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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BRIDGE

HONG KONG CORPS OF NOTES

AIR RAID WARDENS

Inspection by H.E. The Acting Governor

on Sunday, 22nd Decembar, 1940, at the Hong Kong Football Club

Ground, Happy Valley,

REFUSING A FINESSE

By The Four Aces

To-day's hand is really pretty

Owing to the limited accom-elementary, but we happened to modation for spectators admission

to the ground will be by ticket see a pretty good player "muff” it,' only. Members of the Public so there must be more point to it wishing to attend are requested to than we think: apply for tickets fő:—

A, R. P. HEADQUARTERS, 88,. Morrison Hill Road, Happy Valley

or Chief Air Raid Warden, Hong Kong, Alexandra. Building

(Top floor),

or Chief Air Raid Warden, Kow- loon, c/o Kowloon Godowns.

M.V. "HOEGH TRANSPORTER"

On instructions from the Under- writers, Tenders are invited for the Single Screw Motor Vessel "HOEGH TRANSPORTER" as she lies submerged in her damaged condition in Singapore Roads.

The vessel is of the Shelter Deck type designed for a carrying capacity of 9,000 tons and fitted with Diesel Machinery. ·

A large part of the cargo has been removed from the vessel.

Tenders should be forwarded to MARBLE HALL34-36, Gran- the undersigned not later than ville Road, Kowloon. Beautiful 31st December 1940, who will rooms, suites with verandah, pr-supply any further information vate bathrooms, garden, tennis available. court, Special rate for Military

and Navy. Apply proprictress. not necessarily be accepted. Phone-59433.

The highest, or any, tender may

TUITION GIVEN

EXPERT instructresses for ladies and young girls in music, short- hand, typing, bookkeeping and English and French.

Apply 21 Austin Road, Kowloon,

WARNING

Business

Houses

arg

hereby

warned that: all paymenta in con-" nection with the 1941 edition of3·

RITCHIE & BISSET, UNION BUILDING,

SINGAPORE.

THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB

The THIRTEENTH EXTRA RACE MEETING will be held (weather permitting) at HAPPY VALLEY on SATURDAY, 14th December, 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

South, Dealer

East-West vulnerable

A K 10 8 6

QJ 8 4 3

◊. 7 G 4 JQ

✪ A 4

!

♡ 10 9.

◇ K8 5.3 2 W

1087 3

: South

S

A Q J 3 3

A 7 4,2

AK'5

O J 10 9 J652

♡ 7 6 2

◊ A Q

AK 9 4

The bidding:

West

North

1

Pass

10

14

Pass

24

2NT

Pass

4A

. Pass

Pass

and

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

East Pass

Pass

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 9, 1940

10-18

<nimeerd by The' Roll' Send

A real optimist is the man who thinks he can get through a traffic jam without getting a creased fender.

LONDON'S SPIRIT IS UNBROKEN

Londoners are "hopping Paas mad, but are showing no signs of defeatism." That is the message a corres- pondent (quoted by Reu-

West opened the Ace of trumpster) sent to New York.

continued with his other For nights now the Nazi ven-

trump,

South geance raiders have tried to break winning with the the spirit of London. And they nine. Declarer have failed-dismally. then led a heart, the West played ten, and East took. his King. When East returned the Jack of diamonds, South made the mistake of firiess-: ing..

ACES IKING 2 QUEEN1 HACK

TOTAL WILME GROENTEN

And there, of course, went the game, for another heart trick had to be lost. South's excuse was that he thought the hearts were hadly split..

Londoners have set their teeth; they can grin and bear it. In their thousands they waited patiently at suburban stations to find out what faciltles were avaliable to take them to busi-

ncss.

No matter how packed were railway carriages, it always seem- e possible to make room for one more. In thany London streets a great army trekked on office and workshop.

...

foot to

Communal Vehicles Sometimes they paused to catch a glimpse of heaped debris that was once a building. Then they

That, of course, was entirely be- side the point. If the hearts were three badly split that is, if heart losers were unavoidable passed on. the contract was unmakable. But South was not vulnerable and had not been doubled, so his proper course was to disregard the risk of being set two tricks in order to preserve the best chance for the contract.

South's correct play is to put.

East's last trump,

The Hong Kong Dollar Directory admitted to the Members' En-up the diamond Ace, cash the club should be made at the Offices of closure. Such must be worn Queen, get back to his own hand the publishers, through the post throughout the duration of each by drawing or by chit book.

Meeting In such a manner as to hel ́and discard dummy's diamonds on No one is authorised to visit readily identified.

the Ace and King of clubs. Then another heart lead establishes offices and collect money on ba.

dummy's suit and the rest is easy. half of this publication.

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

HELP YOUR FRIENDS

AND HIS HOBBY BY GIVING

Badges admitting Non-Members to the Members' Enclosure and Club Rooms at $5.00 for Gentle- men and $3.00 for Ladies (both including tax) are obtainable through the SECRETARY upon

Saturday. you were Oswald

the personal or written applica- Jacoby's partner and, with neither tion of a Member, such Member: sige vulnerable; you held:

to be. responsible for all visitors

Introduced by him, and for Pay-

ment of all Chits, etc...

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

KQ 5 3

4 3.2

6 8 6 4

For

his Collection

Seeds

For

his Garden

Tiffins are obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from No. 1 Boy (Tel. 21920.).

The bidding: Maler PASS

Jacoby

Schenken You

Pass

(?)

the

PUBLIC ENCLOSURE

Postage Stamps

For the most part, trains were running from the outer suburbs of points within reach of the cen tre of London, the from these, workers had to devise their own means of transport.

The majority walked, and those who remembered byways" which were discovered during the general stake fourteen years ago reaped the advantage, for they were able to get away from traffic hold-ups and keep clear of the busler routes. Some hired taxis, but as the de- mand far exceeded the supply parties were often formed of those: going to a certain area, and the

OFF THE RECORD

REFUGEES DON'T MIND THE RAIDS

French, Belgian and Dutch refugees in London are not as a rule much alarmed by the air raids.

These, they say, are nothing to what they have endured in their own countries. Not because the scale of the raids is not consider- able, but because our defence is 50 powerful.

In their own countries the Nazis did as they pleased because there was no effective defence. There they watched with utter helpless- ness the spectacle of the German dive bombers bombing and ma- chine-gunning terrorised crowds. Confidence in Barrage

"It is so different in London,” they say. By day. most of the raiders are kept away; those which do reach the capital have to keep height and clear off at full speed from our fighters.

:

By night the terrific barrage gives the refugees the confidence they never knew at home. To that confidence is added the resolution of Londoners and the development of shelter protection already far surpassing anything these exiles had in their home- lands.

MOTHERS ANNOYED

After leaving two of her

United children in the

States and the other two in Canada for the duration, Mrs. Ruth Drum-. mond, of Bedford, is returning to England to help beat Hitler.

"We have another two months

then of hard work, and

we'll said start pushing them back," Mrs. Drummond before she left Trenton, New Jersey.

"We're prepared to live in the ruins of our houses," she daclared.

"They can't break our spirit, .. We're angry."

Mra. Drummond has left Ivor, aged seven, and Lucille, six, to Gould, magazine editors, of Tren- the care of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce

ton.

Commissioner Host

Her other two children, Anne, aged eleven, and Elizabeth, aged nine, are the guests of

Mrs. Iris Leeming, Girl Guide Com missioner,-in-Toronto.-- vehicle was shared on a com- munal basis.

Because of the unusually heavy pressure, huses, taxis and cars were only able to crawl down the Strand and Fleet Street at what is normally congestion was made

the peak period. The cauise

worse be- the raids had affected Covent Garden.

By ED REED

GRACA & CO.

Dealers in Postage Stamps & Garden Seeds

No. 10, Wyndham Street,

.... Hong Kong Established 1896

ANSWER: Bid two hearts. You The price of Admission to the is worth one or two responses. can't be sure whether your hand Public Enclosure is $1.00 includ- The raise will give your partner ing Tax, for all Persons, including a chance to indicate whether or Ladies, and is payable at the Gate, not he has a good hand. Soldiers, and Sailors in Uniform are admitted Half Price.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Hong Kong, 9th Dec., 1940.

Score 100% for two hearts; 80% for one spade; 0 for any other bid.

Question No. 584

To-day you are Howard Schen- ken's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you hold:

BAGGAGE TRANSFERS

Telephone

27761

to Engage our Servico.

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2.

4.

7.5 4

The bidding: Jacoby

Rchenken INT

24

What do you bid?

Maler You

PRES (7)

(Angwor

(Released by The Bell Syndi-

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ER REED

Here's Luck

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