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TRINITY COLLEGE OF MUSIC, LONDON,

LOBAL EXAMINATIONS: HỒNG KONG GENTHE.

The following are the dates of the forthcoming examinations. PRACTICAL (Vocal & Instru- mental Music) early May, 1941. Last day of entry 31st March, 1941.

THEORETICAL (Paper Work) on the 7th June 1941. Last day of entry 31st January, 1941.

BRIDGE BREN GUN REAL OLD

NOTES FRIEND TO

Bridge Swindles-No. 22 CZECHS

By The Four Aces.

Czech Army chiefs wel-

West shouldn't have doubled comed the Brew gun as the Siam to begin with

(even an old friend" when they though actually North had been guilty, of overbidding); but hav- inspected équipment with ing doubled, he should still have which their forces now in ster the jaws of the trap South

Britain will Be re-armed. set for him:

the Bren gun is Actually Czech invention.

South, Dealér Neither side vulnerable

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The Vidding: South West Pasa

North

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East

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"We are very glad our troops will be able to use it again," said` Lieut.-General -Ingr, Czechoslo- vak War Minister, who watched the demonstration with Major- General Miroslav, Czech Com-

mander-in-Chief.

"In France we had to use an- other type of gun which was not so good."

General Ingr was impressed. too, with Bren gun carriers or he went "rough riding" which over lumpy ground.

Staff' officers and equipment ex- perts of the Polish; Norwegian. Belgian, and Dutch forces were also present to see the equipment they will receive in the very near future.

West opened the Queen hearts, dummy winning with the King. South noted MELAD VALUES that he was prae- FOUR-KERS SYSTÉM

tically bound 10 lose both i din- ACT 3 KING....2 QUEEN.1 WACKU

In nearly every case their own kit was lost when their lands were over-run by Nazi hordes.

What they saw was familiar but mond and a clubs, enough to British soldiers,

most of the staff officers found something new.

"OYAL, MILLJŠE UP PACK DUR

so looked around for some

way to eliminate one loser. After sothe

en- thought, he tered his own and led the

hand with a trump Jack of diamonds."

West quite properly played a low diamond, although covering with the King would have worked out better for him in this part- cular case. South's Jack of dia- monds held the trick, and he then c/o The Anderson Music Co., Ltd. promptly led the Jack of clubs.

J. E. ANDERSON

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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 18, 1941.

SHELTER IS BABY'S 14- DAY HOME

A MOTHER WHOSE baby was born during a raid in a home-made shelter found it so comfortable that she is going to stay there until the child is a fortnight old.

Bombs were falling when Mrs. Betty Ceaplen, twenty-nine, of Brighton, went to the shelter which her husband had made under the garden shed in their back yard,

DORNIER RIDDLE

Baby, was half an* hour-old when the "All clear" was sound-

ed.

Mrs. Ceaplen told a reporter:-

"I went down into the shelfer while my husband telephoned for folk was being watched for four

While every road in East Suf-nurse and it was born during the

raid: German airmen from a Dornier 17 which trasfied on the mird flats of the River Stour, near Ipswich, three police were looking for a

before nights

Ger- man plane belonging to four air- men they had captured.

Tam content to do a nurse tells me, because- she insists that I spend: a fortnight in the dug-out with baby.

No Draughts

"My husband fixed

up a bed

The puzzle for the police in these two distant counties was to for me while the baby was being connect the two reports,

All day Chief Constable Stauri-born, and it is comfortable. ton of the East Suffolk police,

"There are no draughts because waited for a phone call from the he has fixed up trapdoors to pro- Wiltshire police to hear if their tect us. German prisoners were from this Dornier.

It le 160 miles filght from Wiltshifo, and it did not seem possible that an empty Dornier could have blindly flown all that distance without milshäp. But it did. The four. airmen They were enthusiastic, too. baled out from their Dornier at about the quality of the material Chilmarkt East Khoyle, Hindon and the embleney, and, discipline and Wylye-villages in the Wilt of the British troops who demon-shire countryside.

strated the various arms.

General Freischer, in command

of the Norwegian Forces, describ-

Saw No Parachutės

"He spent a fornight excavat- ing and concreting the shelter, and I much prefer to stay in it than go indoors with baby.”

Mr. Johnny Ceaplen, the Hus- Band said:

shelter,

ing and concreting the because my wife is happy and calm when the sirens go.

her, and underneath I have put "I managed to rig up a bed for a mattress for myself, so that I can sleep in the night to protect my wife and baby. During the dya mother and I look after them when nurse is away:

had some strange

Nurse Ryman said: "I have cases all over the world this is the strangest. Mother and oaby are doing fine. "The dugout will be their home A naval rating was first. on the

They are enjoying he fresh air. spot when the German plane

for the next: fortnight. After at crashed on the edge of the River with the baby in

Mrs. Ceaplen intends to sleep the dug-out

ed the equipment as very good. Their machine flew on just so Allied far as its petrol kept the engines and other officers of the

equally warm iuturning. Forces were

It came down at mid- their praise.

The French were not represently damaged, except for one

night nine miles from here hard ed at the demonstration for the two bullet holes in its side. very good reason that they ar still using a great deal of their own equipment.

that foolishly. imagined South intended to finesse against the club Queen, so played a low ctub to let his partner win a trick, Had West taken his Ace and exited safely with anything but a diamond, he would have defeated; the contract; but his low club was fatal.

South promptly led to the heart Ace, returned with a trump, ruff- ed a heart in dummy, and then led out the rest of his trumps. West could keep only three cards, so had to blank the club Ace for fear of unguarding the King of diamonds. Thereupon: South led a club, forcing West to win and re- turn a diamond to the ten-ace in the North-South hands.

Yesterday you were David: with neither side vulnereble, you Bruce Burnstone's partner and,

held:

The bidding:

7.8

You Jacoby: Burnstone Schenken

Ране INT

'Pass Pass

2NT

Pass

1

2

17)

ANSWER! Pass. You have no essurance that three of a major will be a better contract-than twó no-trump, and to bid would pro- Bably encourage your partner to you have go on to game. Since

only a minimum opening bid and show only your partner's bids fair strength, there should not be a game,

Store 100% for pass, 30% for threa spades, 20% for three, no- trump, 0 for any other bid.

Question No. 617 To-day you are Merwin Maler's partner and, with neither side vulnerable; your Hold

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The bidding:

· Schönkén

PROD

What do you bid? Monday.)

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BURIED, GUIDES RESCUE

Gasping out directions to her rescuers as she lay with her dying husband under the wreckage QL their bombed home in a coast town, an elderly woman was! saved after. fifty men had work-. ed for nearly three hours.

Stour..

or

there than in-

One or two. bullet holes had every night during the raids. Sho ponetrated the grey, fabrio here

feels much: cafer and there, but, there. Is certain-

doors," ly nothing fo show. that Dornier kid, been hit by anti- altcraft fire.

the

which were papers giving the People in a village four miles pilot's. enume-Lieutenant

Hein- away heard the plane flying very rich: Werdemann. low. No one saw.airmen baling out.

He brought out a suitcase from the pilot's compartment inside

South OFF THE RECORD

contractor, was got out an hour Her husband, a retired building.

afterwards. He died on the way to hospital.

"The woman's courage was mar- vellous," said a rescuer. "The couple were pinned under a din- ing-room table.

"We heard a than's voice cry: ing Hurry up.' It was difficult: to find them. The woman could j be heard somewhere underneath- the wreckage trying to guide us. Everybody kept quiet to listen. Again and again we heard that calm voice telling us where to look for them.

"We found hor alm choulder-deep in debris. We gave: her coffee, She suggest. ed an axe should be used. Directly she was pulled out, her only complaint was that' dust: had got: In her eyes.".

Killed By Masonry

Regular and auxiliary firemen were killed in a school ́ ́'düring intermittent night, raids on Lon- don. Rescue parties found them dead, still on seats in front of the canteen bar. They had been trap- ped by falling girders and ma- sonry,

One of the A:F.8, men tr

trans-- ferred to this sub-etation, war to have announced his engage- ment the next day:

Members of the ambulance unit

at the school had nearly all their ambulances destroyed.

One driver was taking firemen

(Answer to hospital when a bomb blew off

the roof of his ambulance. Be continued his journey to hospital

(Released by The Bell Syndi and having handed over. His

Inc:}

patients, collapsed, from shook,

Hours later; when questioned by the Wiltshire police, the officer of the German prisoners said he he was Werdemanh.

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