1940-12-17 — Page 10

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M.V. "HOEGH TRANSPORTER"

By The Four Aces

To-day gives you the chance to spot a criminal and a crime:

South, Dealer

East-West vniperable

10 9 8 7

& B

54

48 ♡ QJ 8 4 ◇ A 8 5 49 10 7 3

W

# 2

K Q J B

◊ Q J 4

AK J 9

The bidding:

South

West

North

East

14

Ранн

1♡

Pass

IA

Payr

2A

Pasa

INT

Pass

SA

Ране

*A

Puss

I'nas

Pune

2

On instructions from the Under- writers. Tenders are invited for

West opened a trump, East win- the Single Screw Motor Vessel "HOEGH TRANSPORTER" as shening with the Ace and returning

another trump. 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 the undersigned not later than 31st December 1940, who will supply any further information

available.

The highest, or any, tender may not necessarily be accepted.

RITCHIE & BISSET.

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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 17, 1940.

GIRL BURIED FOUR DAYS. FOUND ALIVE

A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl buried beneath the debris of three houses demolished by a high- explosive bomb in South-West London was dis- covered four days later to be alive.

The girl, Mildred Castillo, is the daughter of a doctor who was out on an air-raid case when the bomb razed his house to the ground. When he re- turned home and saw his house wrecked he collaps- ed and has since died.

he mass of debris, heard cries.

Four days afterwards, George | concerned. Woodward, leader of a rescue and demolition squad which had been removing bricks and timber from

WOMEN WILL GET SAME WAGES AS MEN

of

the man's months' service.

He and two others of the squad volunteered to tunnel through the wreckage. Through small crack they saw Mildred

Handed Her Tea

Very

They talked to her and passed her cups of tea while working frantically under a heap of rub- Women employed by Cooperative ble that at any moment South won the Societies in place of men and as-have collapsed on them.

might second trick, cash-suming duties different from those If was evening before they car- ed two high clubs, of women workers in the same rled Mildred to a waiting ambu- and ruffed a club department will be paid at the rate lance, allve, and, in the words of in dummy. He then led a diamond from

wage after six the doctor in charge, "in dummy,

good condition.” She was taken playing

They are also to receive the Queen from us man's war bonus-75. a week in

the to hospital.

The bomb, which fell on a row own handt and

the case of adults. West won with the

of houses, cut three of them out diamond

During the first six months they jas cleanly as if they had been Ace will receive 80 per cent. of the carved away with a giant-knife:

mon's wages and the women's war The bodies of victims were re-

moved earlies. bonus, 5s. In the case of adults.

All hope ed by the Cooperative Unions' Na-given up.

This agreement has been reach- | finding anyone alive had been “ tional Wages Council, representing 800 societies, and the trade unions

West returned

low heart, but dummy's Ace won;

and South regained the lead with the diamond Jack to ruff out the last club loser. He had to give up a heart trick, but easily won the rest to fulfill his contract.

Something slipped somewhere. See if you can tell who commit- ted what crime before you read any more.

PEERESS ESTATE

DIRECTOR

Light Still Ore

ΟΣ

Yet in Mildred's miracle cellar fan electric light bulb still burned. On the one wall still standing three wall mirrors, unscathed, can

of

East was the criminal, and his! Viscountess Wimborne is to be be seen from the street. Two crine occurred at the very first the permanent government direc-fixture hanging cupboards, the trick. West found the right de- tor of Ashby St. Ledger's Estate doors torn away, expose to view fence by opening a trump, but Company, which, states Jordan a woman's wardrobe and an East made a hash of matters by and Sons, has been registered with Army officer's uniforms. putting up his Ace. If he had a nominal capital of £50,000 in There is scarcely a speck played a low trump, South would £1 shares, "to acquire the estate dust an the have won and managed to ruff and interest in

woman's dresses, certain lands in and the buttons of the uniformis. one club but would be unable to Northants belonging to the Vis- shiile as brightly as it they had get the lead back into his own countess,"

just been polished. band in order to ruff the other club. He would lead diamonds (Just as he actually did) and West would get the lead with his dia- mond Ace.. But then West would! still have his other trump left, and by leading that trumn he would allow East to take the FOR VISITING

neatly trump Ace and lead a third round and promptly printed, The of rumps. With only one club Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-ruff in the dummy, South would sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen- have won only nine tricks for a trat Telephones--20073 & 20011.one-trick set.

MISCELLANEOUS

CARDS

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

A KJ 6

❤ 10 8 6 4

◊ 4 9

The bidding:

# 10

ļ

Schenken Jacoby

Рада

INT

Maler Pase

་་

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ACT NOW

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ASSIST A FUND TO BRITAIN'S WAR EFFORT

The whole of, the money subscribed will be handed to The Government of Hong Kong for - transmission to

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT For the Purchase of Aeroplanes or such other Armaments as the British Government

may decide,

Yeo

19:

ANSWER: Bid two spades This bid may compell your part ner to go to three hearts, but your Hand is strong enough to stand such a contract,

Score 100% for two spades 20% for two no-trump.

Question No. 591

To-day you are Oswald Jacoby's partner with the same hand as above, and the bidding continues:

Του Bahamkan 10 24

(T)

Jacoby

Mater

Pass

INT

Paza

Pass

ENT

Paus

What

at do you bid? (Answer

To-morrow.

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

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WIND BROUGHT

GOOD NEWS

On holiday in Devonshire, Miss Elliott, of Trimley. Suffolk,

blown across the sands to her feat as he sat on the beach.

Glancing through it, she read

Donations will be received by The South picked up a newspaper which had China Morning Post. Cheques should be

made payable to "War Fund-South China that her fiance, Eric Richard Ste-

Morning Post, Limited."

All donations will be acknowledged in the

maa of The S. C. M. Post.

work twenty-two of Clarkson Street Ipswich had been, awarded the Military Medal.

That was the float she knows of

Elliott wrote to Stewart's

"It was news to us, tƉo,

Men, J. Stewart, told

pgrat

"Harden me. I'm from the vocational rehabilitation: oor-

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel. 30911.