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Selling Lotteries.

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Members

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ADEQUATE BRIDGE

SHELTER DESIGN

Some clarification of ideas in the fog of argu- ment about shelters is to be gained from a study of the Government's own re- commendations.

Handbook

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NOTES

A DEEP FINESSE

By The Four Aces

"About a month ago you wrote about the excellent bidding of this hand," writes a reader. "All you said about the play wast "The contract was far from a laydown, but South's careful play carned

twelve tricks without excessive dificulty.' I'm sorry to say that my difficulty

the in seeing

North, Dealer Neither side vulnerable

47 2

KQJ63

▲ Q 9 9 4 3

A 0432

A 7 6 2

46 N

W E

J 10 7 9843

OK 86 4Q 10 5

10 8 7 4

2

It has published a number of correct play is excessive. I al- hand-books on air-raid pre-ways run un against two diamond

losers. Don't you?” cautions, one of which, No. 5 A. deals with the design and struction of bomb-resisting shel- ters, writes the scientifle corres- pondent of the "Manchester Guar- dian." It will be noted that the title has been carefully chosen, for "bomb-resisting" has not quite the same meaning "bomb- proot.

the designs 10 5 A include those of shelters which are sidered to give adequale tection against a direct hit by a 500lb. bomb travelling at maxi- mum speed that is, about 1,000 fat per second after falling from at 15,000 feet. In an aeroplate popular language such & shelter would be described as "bomb- pro because it would keep out dinary bombs for the num- ber of bombs of more than 500- Th, weight that are dropped is res latively small and the chance of being hit by one is extremely small Certainly the majority of persons would feel virtually safe in such a shelter.

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What, then, does Handbook 3 A recommend" It gives designs for circular and rectangular shelters for 200 persons and a rectangular shelter for 1,200 persons,

AAKJ10 6 VG

AQ 9 G

♣ KJ

The bidding:

North

East

South

Pass

Pass

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30 44

L'ass

10

Pasa

GA

West

20 PBBB Puss

L'ass

West's normal lead is the King of hearts, and dummy wins with the Ace. South next draws one

DUR ACKE SYSTEM

FACE 3

KING: 21 QUEEN 1 JACK...

TITUL WAR A PRAŠA

round of trumps, and then switches to clubs. The club King and Ace are followed by a club ruff, and dummy is entered with the postponed second round of trumps for nother club ruff. Dummy re- with a heart ruff

It is stated that the roufs such shelters should consist of concrete Ave feet thick, internally reinforced with steel bars. This reminded that will keep out 5001b, bombs with Selling Lotteries will be conducted | Faertium-weight metal cases and at the Club TO-DAY commencing still heavier bombs with lighter at 5.30 pm. the following cases. To keep out 500lb bomby gains the lead

with heavy metal cases reinforced- and a diamond is returned from

the dummy. concrete roofs soven feet six inches thick are required. But the

reces: ---

The Hong Kong Derby, The Rooty Hill Derby and five-foot will be generally ade-

Sports Club Cup.

The Austral Derby.

quhte. The rectangular shelter for 200 persons consists essentially of a single block of reinforced con- Members' friends, including crete with hollows inside for ac-

commodating people.

ladies, are cordially invited,

LAM MING FAN.

Hon. Secretary.

BANK HOLIDAYS The EXCHANGE BANKS will OPEN

will A M. and at 9.30 CLOSE at 12 Noo, for the Tran- suction of Exchange Business on MONDAY and TUESDAY. the 17th and 18th February. (Race Meeting).

Hong Kong. 111. Feb., 1941.

Part Above, Part Below Ground

At this point the stage is set for the key play of the hand. In- of stead of finessing the Queen diamonds, South Anesses the nine. As it happens, that forces out the But

King, and the rest is easy.

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THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 13, 1941.

ALL OIL SEIZED IN RUMANIA

GENERAL ANTONESCU, Germany's puppet dictator of Rumania, recently seized the whole of the Rumanian oil industry, in which hundreds of thousands of pounds of British capital are invested.

He issued a decree expropriating all pipelines, pumping stations and reservoirs, and the land on which they stand.

The Rumanian Government will in future have the exclusive right to operate existing pipelines and build new ones, and the decree added:

"Pipelines which are not regis- tered with the authorities by their present owners within a fortnight will be taken over without com- pensation."

the

Another decree ordered seizure of all Danube barges, tugs. tankers and sea-going ships own- ed or used by companies with Jewish stockholders.

This

In view of Germany's need for oil, Britain can find some satisfac- tion in the official announcement in Bucharest not so long ago that since the summer the daily vil production has fallen from 1,700 tankards to 1,400 tankards.

The reason given is that it has not been possible to transport the full production, but informed cir- eles say the disorders in Rumania are mainly responsible for An- drop in production.

and

enabled decrse tonescu to seize all British American oil companies' proper- ties he wished, since these com- panies undoubtedly have Jewish shareholders.

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[ftelegned by The Beit Ayndiente Ine

even if West had been able to win the trick with the ten or Jack of diamonds, South would still make his contract. West would either have to return a diamond up to It is rather surprising to learn South's Ace-Queen or lead a heart that galleries below ground need and allow dummy to discard walls twice as thick as

those diamond while South ruffed. Note above ground. This is due to the also that it does East no good to confinement of the explosion put up the ten of diamonds on the

The late shopper is always

never it occurs below ground.

making first round of that suit. That al-

а resolution # bomb explodes beside lows South to play the Queen and

again to put the task off until a wall above ground, the retain the A-9 as a tenace over

the last minute. explosion away from the wall East's 10-7.- will be into the air and will be virtually unresisted. But it it explodes beside a wall below ground the explosion away from the wall will be resisted by the earth. This will make the effect

when

The play is a rather neut one and is based on the fact that there high is less risk in cashing the clubs with a trump still out than the in banking everything

PUBLIC AUCTIONS of the explosion against the wall diamond finesse.

much more violent. When the ex- plosion cannot move freely in any The Undersigned have received direction it is descibed as tamped, instructions

sell by Public

Auction on

to

FRIDAY, 14th February, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room,

No. 35, Hankow Road, Kowloon.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:-

* *

Yesterday

you

**

were

ΟΠ

Oswald

and its local violèrice is increased.

The success of the Anderson Jacoby's partner and, with nei- chelter is due especially to Its ther side vulnerable, you held: nooh behaviour against earth

movements, it is a flexible struc- ture, and in many instances has been shifted one foot by a near explosion without the occupants being hurt. A concrete

AJ 3

♡ K J 5 OK Q 4 2 Q J 7 3

The bidding:

You Schenken Рава Pass

Måler Pass Pass (?)

Jacoby

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or brick under- Teakwood Dining Room, Bed Room, Drawing Room and Office ground shelter which will resist Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Ward- such a big earth movement must robe Trunks, Chesterfield Suites, be made much more strongly, be- Curios, Ornaments, Pictures, cause It is more rigid and less

unable to "give.” ANSWER: Bid two no-trump. Clocks, Cutlery, E.P., Brass, Glass flexible and is and Porcelain Ware, Gramophones One remedy for this drawback is Since your partner is fourth-hand & Records, Electric Lamps & to arrange that underground con- his bid must be sound, and you Heaters, Cooking Utensils, etc.,

etc.

also

A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture and

3 Bed Room Suites

1 Dining Room Suite

1 Portable Typewriter "Reming

ton"

1 "Agta Cine Projector 16 mm.

A.C./D.C. 110-220V,

On View from Thursday, the 13th February, 1941,

Terms: Cash on Delivery,

LAMMERT Onos,

Auctioneers Hong Kong, 11th February, 1941.

FOR SALE

crete

or brick shelters can safely show your "maximum should be surrounded by an air pass." space one or two

feet wide, so

no-trump;

that the earth movement due to Score 100% for two local explosions will not act direct- 70% for two diamonds: 60% for ly on the wall but will expend It-two clubs; 20% for three no-trump; self in" flinging earth into the 0 for any other bid. cavity.

But ló return to the bomb-rb- sisting shälter, Its underground

Questión No. 638

To-day you hold the same hand

walls should be 6ft. 6in. thick but the bidding is. and the floor should be ft. thick. This is to keep out bombs You Maior Jacoby -Bébenken that have penetrated the ground PASE

Рава

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Рабя sideways and bbrrowed under! (?) 'the floor of the shelter,

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

(Released by The Bell Syndi

It is possible to make a rough estimate of how much material would be needed to make such shelters for a substantial fraction cate, Inc.) of the population in the most im- portant and dangerous places, say. for 8,000,000 persons. For this,

Some 530,000,000 cubic feet of dustry is about 7,000,000 tons, ahd concrete, 4:075,000 tons of cement,

suers to be no good

there

HỒNG, KONG DOLLAR DIREC- TORY 1941 EDITION—On sale at all Bookstalls and at the Offices of and 625,000 tons of steel would reason why its production should the Publishers, Windsor House, be needed. These quintities are not have been expanded by to Des Voeux Road, Central. Tele- nct extraordinary The annual per cent for such an important phones: 20022 & 20011,

output of the British coment in- object.

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