1941-01-14 — Page 10

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Entry Trouble

By The Four Aces

In the remarkable hand shown 'o-day, entry troubla caused South's defeat:

South, Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

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H.K.$18.00

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H.K.$36.00

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H.K.$17.00

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H.K.$34.00

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1 Teak Dining Room Suite

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1 Radio-gram "Universe"

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The bidding:

HIGH CARD VAUVA >

OF THE FOUR-ACES EYETEN

West

opened the ten of

! tramonds, South winning with the

Declarer cashed the Ace of i Jack.

clubs and next led i the Juck. When West dropped the nine. Dunny's Queen was played, and East won with the club King. East returned his diamond, and now South found un- expected trouble.

PACE.......

KING..2: QUEEN.1 JACKI

PÝTAL TRAUME 10 BEST

Vikas PEKNE AT

If he won this trick in his own hand and tried to establish a spade trick. West would win with the spade Ace and lead A third diamond. If South won that trick, too, he would never get to dummy to cash the good clubs; and if he won it in dunimy, he would never get to his own hand to cash the established spade.

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 14, 1941.

GIRL SHOT

BY JEALOUS SOLDIER

•

Crown Charge

A soldier's jealousy was claimed by the Crown to have led to the alleged shooting by him of his sweetheart when he was charged with murder.

ECZEMA,

sores, ringworm, itch, chapped lips and hands, piles and skin com- plaints generally are best treated with the delightfully fragrant ointment

SHE-KO

Driver Edward George Beesley, twenty-nine, of the R.A.S.C., whose home is a Charles Street, Oxford, was accused at Oxford Assizes of the murder of his sweetheart, Irene Sherry, a twen- ty-year-old domestic servant.

which also rapidly heals cuts, The girl was found shot at her scratches, burns, scalds, bruises lodgings In Oxford on the night and other minor skin injuries. of September 16. Beesley, who From all chemists. appeared in dock in battle dress, pleaded not guilty.

Mr. H. H. Maddocks, for the Crown, said there was no doubt After the last club, dummy led that Beesley was desperately fond a spade, and West took the spade of Sherry. There was no doubt,

he Ace and returned a heart.

shot And either, that

the Kiri that heart lead allowed East to through the heart with a rifle at

close range. take the rest of the tricks!

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Yesterday you

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Merwin

were

Maier's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held:

J 7

V 4 8 5 OK 10 8 6 K 10 8 7

The bidding: Mater

Sebenken LA

Pass

You

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Jacoby

ANSWER: Bid one no-trump. You have more than enough for this response, but not enough strength to bid either minor suit.

Score 100% for

one no-trump, 30% for two clubs or two diu- monds.

There seemed to be B better chance to make the hand if he won Question No. 613 the second round of diamonds in the dummy, so he overlook the To-day you hold the same hand, diamond Queen with dummy's and the bidding continues: diamond Ace and INT dummy's good clubs. When the last club was led, South had to reduce to five cards! the King and Queen of spades, the King of diamonds, and the Jack-ten of hearts. Unfor- unately, however, East had suved four hearts and a spade; while West had kept two diamonds, two spades, and a heart.

Maier I A ♡

Hchenken

Pass Pass What do you bid? tumorrow. }

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Jacobi P258

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The motive for the crime was undoubtedly jealousy.

Cooling-Soothing-Curative.

DANGER POINT NO. 2 IN FEVER

Almost as serious as the raging

Mrs. Payne, the girl's landlady, fever, is the serious weakness it described how Beesley came fo

It is danger point

The only way to overcome the

her home with a rifle and, on be-leaves behind. ing told that the girl was not at No. 2 in your illness. home, returned later and was al- lowed to sit in the girl's room,

Mrs. Payne said she heard weakness is by feeding up. But Sherry go upstairs. Then came a the stomach is just as weak as noise like something falling out the rest of the body and turns against most foods. There is a food, howeyer, which the ex- hausted, digestion can take easily. It is Horlicks.

Doctors find

of the window, The front door was slammed, and on witness go- ing to Sherry's room, she found her dead in a chair.

"May Best Man Win"

Mr. Maddock

a

said the letters

that Horlicks

on

a feeble pleasant

Police-Constable Swann said that in the girl's room was places ΠΟ strain handbag, and among the contents patient's stomach. Its was a letter. In a wallet were six flavour stimulates the appetite and letters.

It pours into the weakened nerves, showed that Corporal James Ful-muscles and tissues all the food ler was in love with Miss Sherry. elements necessary for quick re- building. Convalescence is shor- An extract was read from ધ letter in which Corporal Fuller tened, vitality completely restor-

ed. Get Horlicks to-day "I feel sorry for the chap your store. who's breaking his heart over you. Still, it breaks my heart when I cannot meet you at all. Let's hope the best man wins. I think you and I were made for each other."

wrote:

The clerk read letters written by: Beesley to the girl. One extract "If it is my bad fortune to have to love you, then my whole Bell Syndi- future is blank."

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Driver Cripps, of the R.A.S.C.. "The China Mail”

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sobbed his heart out.

Beesley and Miss Sherry ware going to be married and witness was to be best man, but the wed- ding did not take place as Miss Sherry refused.

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