1941-02-01 — Page 10

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BRIDGE NOTES

AUTOMATIC

TECHNIQUE

By The Four Aces

Many good plays are examples of what might be called "automa- have no tic technique." They specific object and are very simi- what the billiard player lar to

direction shot." calls a "general

A typical example was East's play on the first trick in to-day's hand:

South, Dealer

Nelther side vulnerable

A A Q 9 7

♡ J 984 окол 37

6 5 3 2

A 63

A 10 7,4 354

W

◊ 963

♣

KQ 10

9 32

HEAVE

HO./

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 1, 1941.

HUT REPLACES

OLD CHURCH

FURS WORTH £1,356 STOLEN

An enterprising local man hasį John Philip Ivan Tilley (33), provided congregationalists in the of Herbert Road, Manor. Park, small Essex villages of Canewdon was alleged, at Liverpool, to have and Paglesham with a makeshift breken into a shop and stolen furs church, to take the place of their worth £1,356.

articles in-

coats, two The

in

own that was recently demolished. Mr. E. H. Sidgreaves, prosecut-

Mr. H. W. Carpenter, a mem-ing, said the stolen

mink ber of the congregation, found a cluded nine small hut on the old church site, clonks, and 18 fox fur ties. moved it to his own land, and thief carried the goods away soon provided a temporary church. two suitcases.

It seats 24, and has electric Tilley was arrested in London, light.

and he made, a statement in, which, The old church had been in use it was alleged, he admitted the for over a century.

offences,

and

WARNING

are

A KJ 10 s

♡ K Q 10 2

0.852

AAG

The bidding:

South

1 A SA

West

l'ass Pase

North

34 Pass

Eart

J'ass Pass

hereby

HIGH CARD VALUES

FOUR ACES SYSTEM

Busines Housca

warned that all payments in con-

nection with the 1941 edition of

The Hong Kong Dollar Directory

should be made at the Offices of

the publishers, through the post or by chit book.

tu

Win

the

12-17

(Halen by Tha Kali Myndiente, fpc.

A beginner is convinced no game is more upsetting than skiing.

FAMILY DOWN ON

THE FARM

On

Britain's "family Down farm" a tather and his 15-year- old son have just cut and threshed West opened the seven of hearts,

425 acres of barley. and East quite soundly played

The farm

Hall. - Old

Muze the six instead of winning

Beaumont (Essex) - runs to 390 trick with his Ace.

It is worked by Mr. Rober: There was no need acres.

Davidson, his wife, their son An- the first

two daughters, heart trick for West, drew, and their could not have led the elder of whom is 21 and the

heart. younger 13. a singleton

Their barley yield has averaged (I West's heart

12 sacks to the acre, and the mem- were il singleton,

war agricul- South must have bers of the local started with a five-; tural committee are delighted,

Before the Davidsons took over card suit which he

SIX years ago, the had never bid an almost im- Maze Hall

farm kept busy 12 men and 12 horses To-day there is a single horse on the farm.

FACE...3

KING..2. QUEEN.1 JACKA

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offices and collect money art be, half of this publication.

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Now South found himself quite a predicament because

4-1 trump the poon-discovered break. I he tried to knock out either red Ace before drawing all West would surely the trumps. get a third-round heart ruff; and that would defeat the contract, Siner South was bound to fuse it least one club in addition to the two red Aces.

10 Yet it would be no better

then draw all the trumps, for both red Aces would have to be knocked out; and that would give the ubponents tune enough both To establish and run the setting.

Note however, trick: in clubs. that South could have mad his Contract without muci, trouble H East had won the first trick wita the heart Ace

Yesterday you were

*

How bed

HONG KONG DOLLAR DIREC-Schenken's parture and, will: both TORY 1941 EDITION-On sale et sides vulnerable, you held,

all Bookstalls and at the Offices of the Publishers, Windsor House, Des Voeux Road, Central Tele- phones-20922 & 20011

FOR

a Q J 1076

642

♠ ♠ B

♣ K Q G

Schenken

20

The bidding:

MISCELLANEOUS

Jacoby

10

VISITING CARDS

printed,

neatly -The

Malen Dbl.

You (9)

i

"Last winter ploughed the whole farm single-handed," Mr. Davidson said. "This year Andrew is helping me."

Sixteen acres of sugar-beet have just been harvested. Hard work is sugar-beet pulling. Hard on the back. Mr. Davidson and Andrew have dune that, too, between them. Then there are acres of turnips.

Mrs Davidson and the two girls The daughter of 13 has been driving a tractor since are kept busy.

she was 10.

SEAWEED STOCKINGS

Seaweed is being used experi- pentally as a new raw material for rayon,

Both wood pulp and cotton, used extensively at present, are difficult

wartime. to obtain in may replace them

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Seaweed OFF THE RECORD

When it was generally used for the manufacture of jodine, 100,000 tons were gathered in the Heb- ANSWER Pass. Your dia-rides every year. and promptly

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Score 100% for pass; 40% for

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY, (Wo spades. THERAPION NĢ.1 THERAPION NĚ.2

Question No. 628

THERAPION N13 To-day you are Oswald Jaco-

Mo. 1 Gresa Discharges. Me. 3 Cures Blood Poison, No. * Cures Chronie Weakness Anglais Parco 3g. Chemists.or either No, raturn 5 Tall DR. LE CLEXcMod.ca.Haverstock Rd, NW,8,Londa, DR. LE OLERO'S PILLS for the Liver #Kidneys-stranici jetrays & bladder.

REACH THOSE WHO

CAN AFFORD TO BUY

THROUGH

by's partner and with both sides vulnerable, you hold:

A Q 9 8 3 2 ♡ 6 6 3

◊ 10

A 10 G 4

The bidding: Schenken

10

Jacoby

Muler

You

20

Dbl. (?) What do you bid? (Answer

Monday.)

DUKE'S LAWSUIT

By previously tried processes a from could be produced rayon seawood, but it dissolved in soay and soda.

Dr. J. B. Speakman, of Leeds University, has now discovered a method of producing a rayon not only insoluble in which is soap and soda but is soft to the touch, lustrous, and fire resisting.

Already

been the fabric has

than dyed successfully in more forty shades.

curtains, lingeri,

And soon women may be able to buy seaweed and stockings.

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PILOT SHOT DOWN THREE RAIDERS

A former Manchester bank

(Released by The Bell Syndi- clerk, now a Hurricane pilot off- cate, Inc.)

the DF.C. last who won month, shot down three German. raidors into the Thames Estuary. Fifteen Junkers 67 dive-bomli- soen by. a Hurricane ers were A claim for nearly £2,000 squadron fleeing, for France only

Duke of West-100ft above water,

says an Air minster against Major Edmund Miristy bulletin. Above them Howard, of Piccadilly, W., will wore formations of protecting come before Mr. Justice Halleftes erchmidts 109. The Hurri

“The China Mail' brought by the

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in the King's Bench Division, cone pilots, splitting up, destroy

The Duke alleges that the sumed one of the Junkers and four is due to him under a building Messerschmidts. agreement of May, 1939.

Major Howard pleads that, be cause of the war, it had become impossible for him to carry out the agreement and erect a pro- posed new building.

The D.F.C. pilot-accounted for the Junkers and two Messersch- midts.

Two sergeant pilots, one a Pola, accounted for two more. Messer- schmidts.

Telephone 20022

By ED REED

1940 CLASS

"He was quite a star on our relay team!"

Here's Luck

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