1941-04-29 — Page 10

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PUBLIC AUCTIONS

The Undersigned have received instructions

sell by

Public to Auction G WEDNESDAY, 30th April,

PASTERAAPNETng at 10 30 a.m, at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Plen

BRIDGE

NOTES

SHOWING A MAXIMUM

By The Four Aces

"Please comment on the bidding of this hand," writes a Baltimore fan. There must be something wrong with 1:

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

A7653 2 V 4

◊ QJ 3

AHS 4

A 10 9

N

A Q 4

K1076

Q8 3

09662

175

W

E

GAB73

S

194111

AKIN

A16 2

1

QJ 2

1 A 3:

Wend

Fay

Noth

ZA BA

Part

fams

Pars

153

A Quant ty of Radio Sets, Kits, Loud Speakers, Eliminators.

Other Accessories. Chargers and

1 Bag Seal

3. Tron, Cametr

(0

Hub Caps

jatel

A Quantity of Furnduer and Sundries.

Term Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS.

Auctioneers. Hong Kong 28th April, 1941.

ENTRY FORMS for the FIFTH;

The Undersigned have received

by EXTRA RACE MEETING to be instructions to sell

Puble

held

Auction o

FRIDAY, the 2nd May. 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No 35, Hankow Road, Kow]DOH

(weather permitting) SATURDAY, 10th May, 1941 may be stamed from the Secretary's ONE ". Exchange Building: the! Ch.b House. Happy Valley, the Hong Kong Club; the Sports Club, and the Stables, Shan Kwong

Roz 4.

Entries close at 12 o'clock NOON on THURSDAY, 1st May. 1941.

By Order,

C. B. BROWN,

Secretary, Big Kong 28th April, 1941.

TO LET

The hiring.

South

WEB.1

The band makes eleven tricks. these ought to be a

of. way getting to gmar Hogy”m

HIGH CARD VALUES

FOUR-ACES SYSTEM

ACE... KING.. 2 QUEEN.1 JACK....

TOTAL WAME de poen. Da Add Maren & Th

th

We think North 12 the hand too weakly. This Arst Les prob

one? spade might well have been two clubs, with the in- tention of raising

or a

spades later {|}, But having bid only two spades, he should have hastened to show his maximum holding for this weak spades hd by jumping to four Lover South's rebid of three hearts.

Such a

Jump would not show Slam intentions

very fine hand or anything else that might drceive South. North's fest res- ponse of two spades had already made it clear that his hand con- limited amount of strength. The jump Rom. Drawing Room and metained only a decidedly Furniture, Ornaments, Curios, wouki therefore show only Callery, Poreclam. Glass, Brass hund which was at or and Metal Ware, Gramophones &

upper limit possible for a single Records. Electric Table Pans & raise. Lamps, Pictures, Clocks, Cooking! Stove & Utensils, etc.. ele.

also

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE comprising:

Bed Room. Teakwend

Dining

A Few Pieces of Blackwood Furniture. and

Daing Room Stiles.

2 Bed Room Suites.

2 Treats Carpets.

1 Blackwood Silver Cabinet.

{ "G.M." Refrigerator Terms: Cash on Delivery.

On

View from Thursday, the

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OFF THE RECORD

HOSPITAL, QUIET!

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 29th. April, 1941.

near the

South cannot be criticised for

to go rensing

three i on past spades. North would have bid the hand the same way with the same distribution but no high cards. And then South would lose at feast

diamond

three and

clubs.

one

10 14 **

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

held:

♣AQJ983

AK 10 7 ОКБ 4 0 o

By ED REED

The bidding:

Binchefonn

14 ZA

Yon Jacoby

23% ឆឆម Pass (7)

10-27

"What's SHB got that I haven't; got?"

'Here's Luck

EWO BEER

Tel. 30311

Schenken

Pase

II

the

ANSWER: Bid four spades. your partner has a rebiddable spade suit there should be an ex cellent play for game in hand. To bid only three spades ¦ would risk a pass by partner.

Score 100% for four spades 70% for three spades, 0 for any

other bid.

Question No. 702

To-day you are Merwin Maier's side partner and, with neither vulnerable, you hold:

4K 10 7 8

♡ K 6 4 2

06

4 A JD 8

The biding:

Hajer

Betophen

Разв

Jacoby

You

16

(1) What do you bid? (Anawer Monday.) To-morrow).

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All girls who drink will have to carry official "cocktail cards" if a Bill being placed before the California State. Legislature is adopted. The sponsor of the Bill proposes that girls be forbidden alchot unless they register.

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These members of a watching duty found the cloaks of "Macbeth" and "Henry IV" Ideal for keeping them warm during their stay on the top of the premlacs,~(Copyright, Fox.)

THE BLITZ PURSUED THEM

(By A Special Correspondent)

THIS IS THE STORY of the family the blitz everywhere pursued. North, south, east and west they went the blitz was sure to follow. They were bombed in trains, hotels, farms and relatives' homes. Then, in despair, they returned home to join the fire watch.

And Cost of this "bombed out" tour was £500. they were in more raids than friends who stayed put.

Before the blitz, father, mother and two daughters, all of inde- pendent means, lived in a town on the Bristol Channel.

after

Ing trains. Mother cut by glass.

ROUND TEN-Fight stopped. Got home to find no bombs had fallen within a couple of miles of the it all the time they had been run-

aing into bombs elsewhere.

They quit Bristol first raid there. This is a round-by-round story of their fight to dodge the Luft- waffe:

ROUND ONE.-A bomb fell in the back garden in a south coast town, blew in all their windows.

ROUND TWO.--Caught by sec- ond Bristol blitz while bound by train for the Midlands.

YANKS ARE THERE

ROUND THREE. Two nights Among the thousands after their arrival in the Midlands, of Americans now serving Birmingham was attacked. 'Planes passing over their hotel unloaded with our Forces are some nine H.E.S.

who have thrown up good +jobs and left wives ROUND FOUR. Machine families.

A daughter was cut by flying glass.

gunned in train on way to new home in an East Midlands re- sort. ROUND FIVE.-Mine struck the docks at a west country town. Next night a raider, pursued, jetti- soned its bomb load.

In Time

ROUND SIX. - Arrived in Sheffield just in time for the blitz.

Relatives there had written: "We rarely hear the siren. here."

Father, hit by shrapnel went to hospital for a week,

ROUND BEVEN. - 'Daylight raider, jettisoning bombs, scored direct hit on farmhouse which the family had taken in North Mid- lands,

Family were out--for a walk. BOUND FIGHT On way back to their Bristol Channel home they were held up for five hours No girl would be allowed a by attack on a train, 、. drink until she had shown the bar-

her card.

and

how Nobody knows

many United States nationals are fight- but Mr. Robert ing at our side,

of the president Hutchinson, American Eagle Club in London. said that there are perhaps 8,000.

"1. think even that may be a conservativa. estimate,' Mr. Hutchinson told. a roporter. "They aro sentimental, about England.

"Most of them are serving with the Canadian Army, but two or three are in the Canadian Navy as ratings. Some are members of the Free French Forces."

1

DANES MAY HAVE NO GAS

The Danish Government -- h announced that stocks of coal are so low that gasworks in all towns:- ROUND NINE-Caught in all-in Denmark will probably be un Inight raid at Bristol when chang- able to supply gas.