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PUBLIC AUCTIONS

The Undersigned have received Instructions to sell by Public Auction on

TUESDAY, the 24th June, 1941,

commencing at 6.15 p.m. at their Sales Room, No, 2 Connaught Road Central, Room 205, 2nd Floor

A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF

POSTAGE STAMPS

On view from Saturday

the

21st June, 1941.

Catalogue will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery.

LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 20th June, 1941.

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EVACUATION REPRESENTATION

COMMITTEE

A public meeting of all husbands and relatives of evacuates will be held at the Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room, on the 27th instant, at 6 p.m. to receive a report from the General Committee.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

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For particulars kindly apply to the American President Lines, Ltd., Agents.

Hong Kong, June 21st, 1941.

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES

now

NOTES

EXCELLENT TIMING

By The Four Aces

South. måde

TO CURE

EM

Here's a job for the Civil Servant to give him the right ideas on the use of power-he should wash the feet of the poor,

a'difficult Slam contract not by any unusual playMr. Philip Milner Oliver, of but simply by playing each card Manchester, suggested it. in his presidential address to the Gen- at precisely the right time:

eral Assembly of Unitarian and |*Free Christian Churches at Oxford,

North, Dealer

"North-South ̈"vulnerable

WEST

4 K Q 10 3 ❤ 9 2 06 4 AJ 8 7 3 2

NORTH

OA/5

A 8 5.4

OAK 10 7 3

4K 6

EAST

A ? 4 3 ♡ J 10 3 ◊ 4 J 6 2 496 4

SOUTH AJ 9.8 € ♡ K Q 7 6 OD 8

A 10 9

The bidding:

North East

Bouth

West

10

P488

10

Pass

3♡

Pass

44

Pass

4NT

Pass

5♡

Pass

6♡

Раза

Pass

Pasa

West opened the King of spades, and dummy won with the Ace. The Slam obviously depended on get- t'ng a 3-2 break in

TUSH CARD VALUES OF THE FOUR-ACES BYRNES

KING QUEEN JACK

AVERAGE HAND 67%

With this

trumps and on establishing dum- my's diamonds. The

only problem was to draw just enough trumps so as still

to

leave possible

the establishment

The insolence of power was a subtle poison, he said, and to the average .bureaucrat, the poor were not immortal souls, At the best they were interesting cases, at the worst a mass of statistics or confounded nuisances.

"The mediaeval church had a corrective 'for such insolence. Her great once washed the feet of beggars.

"The practice might be revived and the feet of the poor be wash- ed by our Civil Servants-washed in all the stinks und uncomeliness of poverty."

BRITONS LIKE ALLY COOKING

BILL

5-19

over

(felbloed by "The Bull Bruditate; Inc.) The honeymoon when the groom learne it takes more than love to fill a cottage.

الم

CHILD MILLIONS WAR 'CASUALTIES'

First casualty of the war was the education service, delegates at the National Union of Women Teachers were to'd at their annual conference "the Schoolmarmıs' Parlament"-at York.

Speaker was Miss H. R. Walmesley, who referred to the "destruction" to the 5,000,000. children in Britain. It was "something for which posterity will take the legacy," she declared. The conference unanimously demanded immediate restoration

Food tastes of Britain's of full compulsory education. allies now living in Lon-

don have not been forgot-

ten during the establish-

of the diamonds. ment of the big chain of though! in mind, communal restaurants

South drew two rounds of trumps

At one centre in Westbourne- terrace, Bayswater, the daily menu is devised on entirely con- tinental lines.

with the King and Queen. It was sponsored by the Ministry We are happy to be able to in-important to leave two low trumps of Food, says the "Even- form the Shipping Public that

in the South hand, since it might| arrangements

ruff diamonds ing Standard." have

be necessary to been completed which make it possible twice, and to ruff with an honour for us to rescind our previous it would cost a trump trick. structions regarding non-accept- Next dummy's high diamonds South ruffed a The Undersigned have receivede of Letters of Guarantee in were taken, and instructions

lieu of original Bills of Lading. third round of diamonds. Dummy to sell by Public Auction on

with the club Consequently. It is our intention' was then entered

THURSDAY, the 26th. June, 1941 commencing at 2.30 p.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Floor.

A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. comprising:—

Teakwood Bedsteads, Ward- robes, Chest of Drawers, Dressing Tables, Chesterfield Suites, Side- boards, Dining Tables, Chairs, Carpets, Rugs, Ornaments, Curios. E.P., Brass, Glass and Porcelain Ware, Ceiling & Table Fans, Cabinet & Portable Gramophones. Records, Filters, Oil Paintings, Pictures, etc., etc.

also

A FEW PIECES OF BLACKWOOD FURNITURE

and 1 Teakwood Dining Room Suite.

1 Mahogany Bed Room Suite.

1 Oak Dining Room Suite..

1 Beauty Rest Mattress.

1 "G.E." Refrigerator.

1 Surf, Board,

2 New Canvas Canoes.

1 Radio-gram.

1 "Philco" Radio.

1 "Emerson" Radio..

1 "Fada" Radio:

1 "Atwater Kent" Radio.

On View from Wednesday, the

25th. June, 1941.

Terms: Cash on Delivery. LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers, Hong Kong, 24th, June, 1941.

Just Received FRESH SUPPLY

...

of the best varieties of

RELIABLE & TESTED

FLOWER AND VEGETABLE SEEDS

from

Button & Sons Ltd., Reading.

Here, each meal time gather

gians, Czechoslovakians and Aus- trians.

to accept Letters of Guarantee King for another diamond, led by Free Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Bel- endorsed by approved Banks for dummy and ruffed by South. De- the production of original Bills of clarer then cashed the Ace of Lading in future as we have in clubs and ruffed a club with dum- the past, and our recent notifica- my's low trump. Only at this tion in the Press is hereby declar point could the trump Ace be ed null and void.

laid down to draw East's last trump. AMERICAN PRESIDENT LINES, LTD.

Hong Kong, June 20th., 1941.

THE CANTON INSURANCE OFFICE

LIMITED

Notice To Shareholders

THE SIXTIETH ORDINARY -MEETING of Shareholders will be held at the Offices of the under- signed on WEDNESDAY, the 25th June, 1941, at Noon, for the pur- "pose" of receiving the Report of the General Agents, together with a Statement of Accounts for the year ended the 31st December, 1940.

The Share Register and Trans- fer Books 'will be closed from the 11th June to the 25th June, 1941, both days inclusive.

JARDINE. MATHESON- & CO., LTD., General Agents. Hong Kong, 4th June, 1941.

TUITION GIVEN

EXPERT instructresses for ladies and young girls in music, short- hand, typing, bookkeeping and English", and French. Apply 24 Austin Road, Kowloon,

MISCELLANEOUS

The dummy's last diamond could be cashed for the twelfth trick. Note that South loses his contract if he draws three rounds of trumps at once, or if he pre- maturely plays the trump Ace, or if diamonds are tackled before two rounds of trumps are drawn.

*

*

*

The cook comes from Vienna, and refugees and British volun- tary workers cooperate in pro- viding continental dishes.

The secretary of the Wartime Kitchen told the Continental "Evening Standard": "The pecu- liar part is that more and more 100 'per cent. Britishers' are patronising our dishes each week

"They seem to appreciate vari- ous typical non-British dishes."

Monday you were Oswald Jacoby's partner and, with neither OFF THE RECORD side vulnerable, you held:

MAA 10 05

♡ 9 4

OK 8 4 2 4 3 7 4 The bidding: Jacoby

Schenkea 1♡

- Puss 34%

Pasa

Του 1A (7)

Maier Pass

"

ANSWER: -Bid three no-trump. You have a stopper in 'the' unbid suit, and can «best show the loca- tion of your meagre strength and. your-balanced distribution by going to no-trump.

Score 100% for three no-trump. 0 for any other bid.

Question No. 750

To-day you hold the same hand, but the bidding is different:

Jacoby

You

10/ **Pass INT Pass

What đó

Maler Pass

(Answer:

sto-morrow.

(Released by The Bell Syndi-

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ON SALE. AT ·

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