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BRIDGE STATE MAY SHARE IN THE COLLAPSE

BE FOOD

NOTES SHOP

A SAD DILEMMA

By The Four Aces

"Please

comment in your

To check food profiteer- ing the Government may consider using their pow

ers to buy up uncontroll- ed food-stuffs at a reason. atable price.

requests a Chicago column," reader, "on my sad dilemma. I play pretty regularly with the man who sat South in the accom-

Take a look panying hand. what happened:

South, Dealer

Both sides vulnerable

NORTH

EAST A87542

LOCAL

3 months

H.K.$ 9.00

6 months

H.K.$18.00

12 months

H.K.$36.00

3 months

H.K.$17.00

6 months

H.K.$34.00

12 months

H.K.$68.00

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SOUTH AAK 6 3

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The bidding. South

West

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Pass

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FOUR-ACES EVETEN

A $

"South let out an incredulous moan when he saw the dummy and didn't stop this weird keening until the play was over and he was set five tricks. Then he looked at me and asked How could you do this to me"

FACERDO {KINC 2 QUEEN1 JACK

AVERAGE Henase %

(Continued from Page 7)

must define the word traltor as "a man who refuses to betray."

Let us now draw up a balance sheet of the responsibilities.

A court of justice has been created to meet at Riom and judge

the Ministers I have just men- tioned, as well as Leon Blum and former Generalissimo Gamelin, for their guilt in neglectin- the military preparedness of the coun- try and none the less declaring a war for which France was not ready.

Let us suppose for a moment This is the result of the amazing that the defence attorney for one of the accused should rise and make this statement:

"black rc velations made of the market" speculation in foodstuffs, in which goods are changing hands like stocks and shares.

Middlemen

aro

to blame. have Their speculations

bean partly responsible for the in- crease in the cost of living.

Sir Douglas McCraith, chairman

Price of the Food

Investigation the ex- Committee, who made posure at Nottingham mentioned

nly speculation in canned and canned marmalade.

Seven Middlemen

toward him, and he would be called to accept the highest rank, which it was his nature to covet, whatever the circumstances.

And

his through

prudent silence he had covered himself in case of a miracle, such as another battle of the Marne and a Franco- British victory-in which he did not believe. In fact, if in 1989, or 1940 Germany had collapsed, if dis- Hitler and his band had appeared through suicide or had been shot, If our troops and the British

troops had paraded

as in 1919, who. through Paris, would have marched at their would have passed head, who under the Arc de Triomphe be- tween Daladier and Gamelin?

Marshal Petain that

"Marshal Petain presided over the High Council of National De-only man who

either way. fence from 1920 to 1990. He was Inspector General of Aviation from 1931.

He was Minister of War in 1934. He was, from 1935 to 1938, president of the power- ful Limited Council of Defence.

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"What did he do to straighten out affairs in his country? Noth- ing.

man

is, the could not lose

LORD WOOLTON

AND LEWIS'S

Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, will take an early opportunity of made in "Knowing better than any other replying to allegations

Commons by Mr. inferiority. the House of military aur

M.P. for what has he done to prevent the, A. McKinlay, Socialist soup

These were that the war from taking place? Nothing. Dumbarton.

of which the "And yet Marshal Petain held firm of J. Lewis, unique authority in France, far Minister was formerly chairman,

other that of the

was selling cooked meats when Its greater than military men or than that of any rivals had none. of the politicians.

A Ministry of Food official This man who now vaunts the stated: Canned soup, supplied by the

foresaw the calas- "Lord Woolton has no connec- manufacturer to the first mid.1 fact that he

permits Hitler, tim with Lewis's and has had no dieman at 68. 6d. a dozen, passeci trophe and who

congratulate connection with them since he conqueror, to through seven Intermediaries the

Any survestion that before it reached the public at him for not having desired this took office,

either in only Frenchman Lewis'

Glasgow conflict is the 14s. 6d. a dozen,

who could, if he had wished It, elsewhere, have had special treat- have prevented the declaration of ment is entirely without founda- war of September 3, 1939.

In

Canned marmalade imported at 8 d. a tin, was finally sold shops at 3s, fid, a tin. Three mid- dlemen had been at work.

Midland

"I pointed out! Soup middleman No. 3 sold and that four hearts; bought again as buyer No. 5, said was cold unless, Sir Douglas McCraith, East got a club ruff and took the diamond Ace in a hurry; and that These ramps were among those cold unless East investigated as a result of com- five clubs was

in Ace before 1 plaints

the North took the diamond could get a discard. I observed, | region. further, that neither one spade nor

wus no-trump

sound three contract; and that I had sidered it my duty to steer him away from an unsound contract in the direction of a sound one.

i

the

A food price official told con- "Daily Mirror" there were similar

complaints in the north-west.

"We have found as many Pight different middlemen," said.

"In this respect no doubt is possible. And if Marshal Petain believed the war would end with his country be the downfall of made a vital mistake in not warn- of ing the successive lenders France

the necessary, and, if the citizens as a whole.

"His responsibility is, then, in- that of the finitely greater than accused. And yet not only is he not seated on the same bench with them, as he should be, but his all-powerful position permits him to dispense with being called, even as witness."

and the con- The Impartiality science of the judges would be heavily taxed if they were to hear this plea. Fortunately for them, no attorney would dare to, utter

conclusion can be Another drawn from this account.

as

he

1

t

"For all answer, South. told me that he expected to find tricks when I made bids. He didn't ex-

Sir Douglas McCraith said pect to find one Queen and one was clear that the trouble was due $ 8.00 Jack in my hand. That was his to speculators intervening before final word on the matter, And goods flowed into ordinary trude

confronted with this channels. ngw I'm dilemma: Either I pass such a hand and let my partner play at a bad contract, or I risk an even worse disaster if I bid. Is there no third possibility?”

$10.00

Hong Kong, 10th July, 1941.

PUBLIC AUCTIONS

like a human adult instead

This

could and must stamped out, he declared.

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а

In abstaining from taking

question of war be position on the

or peace, Marshal Henri Philippe Petain calculated shrewdly from the point of view of his personal interest.

Wholesalers Only Plan

Of course there is a third pos- The Undersigned have received sibility. Your partner can treat

The Price Investigation Com- instructions to sell

you by Public

of a two month old chimpanzee.|mittee are sending these sugges- Auction on

Once he has bid three no-trump tions to the Ministry of Food. TUESDAY, the 15th. July, 1941.

over two hearts, he has shown his commencing at 5.15 p.m. full strength from at their Sales Room, No. 2, Con- naught Road, Central, 2nd, Floor, A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF POSTAGE STAMPS

also

One album with 4650 stamps (1100 British Colonies) Terms: Cash on delivery. LAMMERT BROS.,

Auctioneers.

Hong Kong, 8th July, 1040.

The Undersigned. have received instructions from the Liquidators and Others to sell by Austion on

there on he 1. Producers and importers to must trust you to indicate whe- be permitted in future to sell only ther game or Slam is in the hand. to wholesalers; Over four clubs, South should bid have clubs. Then if you "tricks" you will bid a Slam; and if you lack those tricks, you will pass at a reasonable contract.

five

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Yesterday you were Howard Schenken's partner and, with neither side vulnerable, you held.

A AJ 9 8

♡ K 10 4

ОКБ AAJ 9 8 7

Public

The bidding: Schenkea Jacoby

10

2. Pasa --20

You

Dbl. Pass (7)

WEDNESDAY, 16th, July, 1941 commencing at 11.30 a.m. at their Sales Room, No. 2, Connaught Road, Central, 2nd. Floor.

A Quantity of Ready Made "Dressés, #Sundry Furniture

and Sundries.

and

Rolls of Silk Ribbons. Copying Machine and Paper Terms: Cash on delivery.

LAMMERT BROS,,

#Auctioneers. Hong Kong, 15th July, 1941.

TO LET

MARBLE HALL, 34-36 Granvillè Road,double and single room with private bathroom and verandah, Also dressing room, beautiful

Malor

2. Wholesalers to sell only to retailers;

3. That only the addition of maximum fixed percentages of profit at the various stages be- tween original supplier and con- sumer be allowed;

4. Importers and wholesalers to be registered and Hoensed, and only licensed traders bo allowed to trade in foodstuffs.

It is urged that the Ministry should have power to take away the licence of a trader committing a breach of the Maximum Price Order.

be

also The offender should liable to heavy penalties, including

ANSWER: Bid four spades. | imprisonment. Your partner indicates un- balanced distribution and acute shortness in clubs by taking your double out That suits you all the better since your main strength is outside of clubs and therefore ought to be very useful to your partner. To "bid less than game scratches, Tisks missing a game,

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