THE
CHINA MAIL
Established 1845
Registered Offices -
House, 12, Dea Vœux
Central, Hong Kong,
Telephones:
Windsor
Road,
20022--Advertising Doyet.
20011-Business Dept.
20022-Editorial Dept. 33963-The Editor.
33993-Sub-Editor.
Cable Add: "Mail, Hongkong" Code: Bentley and A.B.C.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
LOCAL
3 months
H.K.$ 9.00
6 months
H.K.$18.00 H.K.$36.00
12 months
OVERSEAS (including postage)
3 months
6 month.
12 montha
All subscriptions
and
H.K.$17.00
H.K.$34.00
H.K.$68.00
Are
strictly
prepaid, and all cheques, postal orders should be money
The News. made payable to paper Enterprise Limited. CONTRIBUTIONS:
for
or
All contributions must bear the writer's
artist's signature, not
publication purposes unless desired, but as a sign of good faith. The publishers do not Accept responsibility for the return of manuscript, draw. ings or pictures unless a stamp. ed addressed envelope is sent together with the contribution.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB
BRIDGE NOTES
THREE OPPONENTS
DRAFT PROGRAMMES and
By The Four Aces ENTRY FORMS for the THIRD
"Whenever I play with him," EXTRA RACE MEETING to be
said a friend of ours recently, held, weather permitting, on SA-referring to another bridge play- TURDAY, 12th and MONDAY.] er, **I feel that I'm playing
three opponents." 14th April, 1941, may be obtain against ed at the Secretary's Office, Ex- sympathised when we
hand: change Building; the Club House, the Hong Kong Happy Valley; Club: the Sports Club; and the Stables, Shan Kwong Road.
Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 3rd April, 1941.
By Order,
C. B. BROWN.
Secretary
Hong Kong, 31st March, 1941.
THE HONGKONG ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Issue of 600.000 new ordinary
shares of $10 each.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Register of Members of the Company will be closed from 1st to 515 Apul, 1941, both days! The Undersgard have received | inclusive, during which period 19) instructooth, fun the liquidators. ¡ Transte, of Shares, can be aegist afte others T N by Public
Auction oft THURSDAY. the 3rd April, 1941
2. Con
Secund
Colmeneag at 2.30 p.m. at the Sales, Ham, No
Road naught Fle, Room No. 205
Central.
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
comprising:
Hat-tands, Glass Cabinets, Che-- terfield Couche, and Armchan: Gramophones, Printes, Table and Hail Lamp, W.it Clocks, Pictures Ele the Heater Stord Desks and Chans, Pocketer, Carpets, Rugs. etc. ele
Damng Talk Dining Chares. ! Sideboards, Det Chockey Glass Ware, Tea Sets, Cutlery, Cooking Penals, etc, ete
Teak Wardyober. Steed and Teak Dressing Tables, Steel and Teak
beds. Sede Table Chests Drawn, Linen, etc., etc.
A
also
ده
Fine Selection of Blackwood
Furniture and Curios
aut
Two Radio Sete
10
Tent a Carpet One Tientam Bog
Two Rolls Luther Cloth
1 Rollantes Carnea in Case
1 Agfa Caneta "Karat" 35
E Kons Vion. New
On View from Wednesday, the
2nd April, IMAT
Catalogues will be issued.
Terins: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Auctioneers,
Hong Kong, 29th March, 1941.
لانا
Leteel
By Order ul the Board
of Director's GIBE, LIVINGSTON & CO., LTD
Agents. Hong Kong, 21st March, 1941.
CHINA
& LIGHT POWER CO., LTD.
Notice To Consumers
THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 31, 1941.
RADIO P.C. WHO GUARDED 7 PRIME MINISTERS
12.15 p.m.-Short Service of Interces-
slol.
12.30 p.m.-Songs by Stuart Robertson
(Baritone).
12.40
The Spanish Lady (Hughes). Limehouse Reach Proctor-Gregg).
With Orchestral acc.
A Bowl of
Murray).
Punch (Mortimer
anct
Song of the Buccancer (Mortimer
and Leonard).
Command
Scores of photographs of crowds thronging Downing Street have ap- peared in the last five years.
With Orchestral acc. Wo
Aldershol p.m. The saw this
Searchlight Tattoo, 1930.
In nearly all could be seen a Massed Bands of the Aldershot and tall, unassuming man in a black
Eastern Commands
1.00 p.m.-local Time Signal.
1,01
Programme p.m.-Aussian The Don Cossacks Choir.
The Gate, Festival Dance
An Old Waltz; A Storm
Russian Vagabonds Balon Orch)
(Nists
hat, apparently one but
never very
as
of the crowd far
from the
Metro-
a at
Minister being mobbed. with
black hat is The man in the P.C. Albert Edward Hinde, known throughout "A" Division
"Nobby," politan Police
on duty plain-clothes officer the Foreign Office arches, Down- ing Street, for the past five years. Now he has retired at the age of 46 after 26 years in the Force.
Every Minister who has ever knows Downing Street crossed
he has stored him, in his mind (Grets-up significant comments made by successive Prime Ministers during the crises of recent years.
West. Dealer
Neither side vulnerable
Q 10 7 6 3 AK 8 2
4K QC 3
AA 85
KJ 94
10 AQI02 J987
V
7 6 4
W
0
8 6 4 3
S
The Imprisoned Cossacks
chensky).
62
A 2
QJ95
KJ 9 7 6
4 A 10 4
The bidding.
West
North
Fast
South
The Don Cussacks Choir
1
DI
10
Dbl.
Russian Potpourt) Michallowsky)
Pars
Pass
20
Dbl.
Pass
ZA
Pass
2NT
Pass
l'abs
Pass
HIDO CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES WYETEN
West opened a low space, and defender managed to get the tour spaces and three diamonds before surrendering the lead to poor South. North just raised his eye- brows, considering! himself quite polle
from to refrain criticising his part- And South. kept friend, silent because he
ACE. KING
QUEEN 1 JACK.....!
AVERAGE, IA to Pa
1.
pur
knew that North would be unable
The Don Cossacks Choir. Polka Oira' (Russian Air), Rando A La Turka (Mozart), Russian Balsiaika Orchestra Aljoscha's Song
Dobrynja
(from Nikititsch'- Gretschaninoff) Two Okd Wedding Songs
chaninoff !
Caucasia (Appolitoff Ivanoffi
Husstan Balalaa... Orchestra
Throughout the Abyssinian
crisis, the Abdication, Mr. Eden's
3.30 p.m.--Reuter and Rugby Press and resignation, Munich, and the out-
Announcements
1,45
break of war his eyes were wal-
p.m.-Dance Music by Maurice ching the crowds.
Winnick and His Orchestra.
Fox-Trots My Heart's In Old Kil
Jarney
Across the Great Divide. Słow
Fux-Trot A Couple of April
Fruk
"Munich" Crowds
Mr. Chamberlain's return from Munich called out the greatest
Fox-Trol-- Muonburn Onlin Any mob he has ever known.
thing Coes')
Fox-Trois- A Rendezvous with
Dream film Poppy") The State of My Heart Waltz--
To-night"
That was the only occasion, he
a says, that the crowd, stretching right back into Whitehall, surged
Who's Taking You Home Up to the doors of No. 10 itself.
the wrong "We usually know un when he gets into the Street," Fox-Trot My Capri Serenade,
"I Fox-Trot Did I Remember? (film he says.
suppose it becomes 'Suzy'
second nature to spot him after a
There's itune.
never rough- house. We have our own methods of dealing with doubtful charac- ters.
2.13 p.m. Close Down
to understand that he himself WRS 5.45 p.m.-Indian Programme. the guilty one.
South's double of one heart was the best way to show up Eagl's psychic bid, North's heart hold- ing should have made it obvious that the best suit in the North- South hands was hearts.
He held
lour to the Ace-King, and South had enough length and strength to double an adverse heart bid!
Notice is hereby given that the C: pany & standard changes will
North was correct in taking out be increased as Hem 17th March.
South's double of two diamonds. [ I t 1941, by adding a
cent.
but he wie, decidedly at fault in surcharge to the amounts charged bidding
ile knew two grades. {for electricity con-uned for light-Fabout South's hearts, but South
ing and power as per meters remi¦ dadu i on and after 24th Aprif. 1941. should The existing reale at discounts hert
1 14 N
at karce.
By Order of the Board of
Duectur,
D. W. MUNTON,
Mager
know about his North therefore have bid we South would have raused compact which
to to, heatt
jvarelui play would fulfill,
*
*
✡
you WITC
2. Wald
Hong Kong. 8th Match, 1941. Laacoby's probing and, with neither
ndfulnerable, you held:
UNION WATERBOAT
CO., LTD.
Notice to Shareholders
1
The THIRTY-SIXTH ANNUAL
AKJ9 7 3 2
KA
A KJ 3
The bidding:
Jacoby 17
LA
Almer You P'uss 14 Рина (7)
Achonkem
l'ass
ANSWER: Bid four spades.
The Undersign'd have received, GENERAL MEETING OF instructions W sell
Public | SHAREHOLDERS will be held at: Auction en
the Offices of Messrs. Dodwell & There should be a fair play for Co, Ld, Hong Kong and Shang- this contract even if your partner |
has a minimum opening bid; and hai Bank Building, on TUESDAY,
you might at their Sales Reum, No. 2, Con- the 15th April, 1941, at 11 any weaker bid by naught Road, Central (2nd Floor), for the purpose of receiving the leave him unable to accept your
THURSDAY, the 3rd April, 1941
commencing at 5.15 p.m.
LA VALUABLE COLLECTION OF
POSTAGE STAMPS
Terms: Cash on Delivery.
LAMMERT BROS.,
Austioneers. Hong Kong, 31st March, 1941.
TUITION GIVEN
EXPERT Instructresses for ladies and young girls in music, short- band, typing, bookkeeping and English and French. Apply Austin Road, Kowloon,
MISCELLANEOUS
FOR VISITING CARDS
and
24
neatly
promptly printed, The
Newspaper Enterprise Ltd., Wind-
܇ ܕ ،
Report of the General Manager together with a Statement Accounts for the year ended 31.¿ December, 1940.
the
of
The Transfer Books Company will be closed from 1st April to 15th April, 1941 both days! inclusive.
DODWELL & CO., LTD.,
General Managers.
24. March, 1941.
WARNING
Business Houses
аге
invitation to game.
Score 100% for four spades, 60% for three spades, 30% for two no- trump.
Question No. 678
To-day you are Merwin Maier's partner and, with neither side vulnerable. you hold:
▲ K J 9 7 2
♡ Q 10 4 2 0 0
The bidding:
6.30
o m Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions.
Tunes in Swingtime, 6.32 p.m.-Old
Darling Nellie Grey
Maxine
Swanee.
Few of the states.en, diplo- Sullivan with Orchestra, mats, ofetals, and pressmen who know by sight the "plain-clothes Teddy Foster and His Kings inan in the black hat" knew his
Swing
name. But he was courteous and all at what he calls Maxine Sullivan (Vocal) and her helpful to
"pneumonia corner,”
Nobby" Hinde has seen and Teddy Foster and His Kings of guarded the comings
Amie Laurie,
Orchestra,
Old King Cole,
Swing!
A Brown Bird Singing. Dark Eyes.
Maxine Sullivan (Vocal) with Or-
chus lia,
1 Juve A Lassie
Music in the Russ Morgan Man-
11 Vocal
Avalon
Val Rosing and His Swing Stars. Alive, AliveŬ!
Al and Bob Harvey (Vocal Duet)
Orchestra.
7.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News.
7.15 p.m.-London Relay-Talk: 'Work-
ing Together."
7.30
and goings Now Prime Ministers. of seven
Government he is retiring to u service job "not far from Down- ing Street"
Programme p..An Orchestra
with Paul Robeson (Bass),
Fairy Tale (Heykens)
Tom Jones and His Orchestra. Deep River (Hurleigh).
Paul Robeson (Bass) with Plano, Islamey --Oriental · Fantasy
ktreff ›
New
(Bala-
Symphony Orchestra cond by Eugene Goossens.
Love Song (film 'Sanders of the
River"},
Paul Robeson (Bass) with Orch.
and Chorus.
Speakeasy--Cuban Dance (Genster).
Odeon Theatre Orchestra. Canon Song (film 'Sanders of the
River).
HE FINDS WORK- HOUSE HAPPINESS
Haunted by
night-fear, ??
Leicester
widower
and
loneliness seventy-year-old with £3 a week pension and £1.500 in the found happiness and bank has companionship in the workhouse, He is paying "28s. a week "board and lodging."
1
The man's wife died in the in-
Paul Robeson (Bass with Orch, firmary of the Institution follow-
Mediterranean (Bar.).
and Chorus,
ing an illness some time ago and now he wants to end his days in New Symphony Orchestra cond. the building which was her last
by Eugene Goossens. 8.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An-
nouncements.
0.02 p.m.--This week's programmes 8.05 p.m.-Reginald Foort at the
gan.
ar-
1
Keep Smiling! (Reginald Foort's
Signature Tune-Foort). Medley of Daly's Favourites.
home.
No one but afficials in the office knows the identity of the man, who lives the normal life of the Inmates,
"To disclose his name would be against the spirit of the thing," the Intro: A bachelor kayi Villa: Master, Mr. A W. Ramsay, told a Bohemia: Leander; Under reporter. "He was destitute of the Deodar; You're in love. home comforts, although not des- titute of money, and that is why ho came here.
8.15 p.m.London Relay-Hi, Gang!" 9.00 p.m. London Relay-The News. 9.15 p.m.-London RelayQuestions of
the Hour.*
9.30 p.m.-Compositions of Llext. Hungarian Rhapsody No, 12.
Mischa Levitzki (Piano). Consolation No. 3.
AJ 3
Malar
Jacoby
10 24
herebyi
You Pass 14 Pass (?) What do you bid?
Schenken
Pass
(Answer
Natan Milstein (Violin w. Piano, Les Preludes-Symphonic Poem.
London Symphony Orchestra con-
(Released by The The Hong Kong Dollar Directory, cate, Inc.) should be made at the Offices of
Bell Syndi-
by chit book.
sor House, Des Voeux Road, Cen-warned that all payments in con-To-morrow.) tral Telephones-20022 & 20011. nection with the 1941 edition of
CAN AFFORD TO BUY ́the publishers, through the post or
REACH THOSE WHO
THROUGH
No one Is authorised
to visit
"This sort of thing helps to re- move the stigma of an institution, a stigma which has porsisted since the time of Dickens."
Mr. H. C. Mansfield, clerk to the Public Assistance Committee, the that the told
committee
ducted by Albert Coates, ratepayers were not losing By 10.00 p.m.-London Relay News from keeping the man, who was getting
Home-by Howard Marshall.
good accommodation. 10.15 p.m.-Songs by Lipa Pagluight
(Soprano).
'Rigoletto Gilda's
nome (Verdi).
Aria: Caro
'I Puritan' (Belllai). Son vergin Mezzosa, Qui la voce tua soave.
With Orchestra.
“The China Mail" offices and collect money on be- business is over, London will not 10.20 p.m.-Brahms-Sonata in F Ma-
THE PAPER THAT GETS
INTO THE HOME "Earliest with the Latest”
half-of-this publication,
THE PUBLISHERS, The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. Windsor House.
ONCE BITTEN- "I hope that, when this ghastly make the mistake they did last time and be in a hurry to lend. money to those who are now our enemies." Mr. W. G. Halll, a shurcholder, at the annual meet- ing of the Westminster Bank in London.
jor, Op. 99.
1stTM Mov.; Afitgro vivace, 2nd Mov,: Adagio affettuoso. 3rd Mov.: Allegro passionato. 4th Mov. Allegra' molto,
Pau Casals ('Cello) and Mieczy- slaw Horzowski (Piano). 11.00 p.m.-Close Down, ·
ZOO LION 16, DIES · Pat, one of the London Zoo lions, has died of old age,
He was sixteen and, like his mate Doris who survives him, had been "at-the-Zog-sinec-1928. They..... were presented to the Gardens by King George V, who had received them as a gift.
They had twenty-five, cubs, in- cluding one set of "quins."
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.