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| permitting), at HAPPY VALLEY in SATURDAY, 2nd November, 1940, commencing at 2,00 pm.
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By The Four Aces
Crinde Doesn't Pay!'
No: 15
We'll help the members of the by announcing Crime Club' that South committed the crime on the hand below. The MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE
bidding was a trifle optimistic but No One without a badge will be not censurable; and the opening But South admitted to the Members' En-ead was favourable.
forsook the straight and narrow closure, Such must be
worn path of Bridge virtue; throughout the duration of each Meeting in such a manner as to be readily identified.
and
South, Dealer Neither side vulnerable
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FOR SALE
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◊ Q7632 * 85432
♡ A KQ J 10 9. 0 8 4 ✩AK
The bidding: South
West
North
East
10
Pass
1A
Pass
A♡
Pass
GV
Pass
6V
Pass
Pass
Pass
West opened the ten of clubs, not dreaming that a diamond lead would have stopped South dead in his tracks. - South
won with the King of clubs and drew the ad- verse trumps. He then led, a low spade, West duck-
HIGH CARD VALUES
OF THE FOUR-ACES SVITEN
KING 2 QUEENI JACKIN
THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 28, 1940.
BLONDE KILLED BY SIREN SLAYER
SIRENS WERE SOUNDING the "All clear as a twenty-three-year-old blonde, Jean Brown, was lying murdered in her basement flat at Plymouth. People sitting on the stairs above heard nothing of what happened in the flat.
The dead woman was discovered-by a man who lived in another flat-lying fully dressed on the floor near her bed. She had been strangled.
had
Deputy Chief Constable W. T. Hutchings, with other C.I.D. offi- cers, searched all night for clues.
The woman, unmarried, lived in the flat for two years. She was known P5 "Blondle" Strange.
She had a two-year-old daugh-. ter, Pentela, who was with rela- tives in the town.
Most of the evening she had spent in a public hous, leaving at 10.15 wiii a sailor. Polles visit- ed barracks. questioning men who had been anywhere near the fl:1.
A friend said: "Jean was with me till she left the public heuse, Shortly before the 'All clear
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TO GAOL SHIP
THU War Ends Armoured vehicles and 100 police carrying rifles escorted ten buses con- taining 150 interned men sounded she got up to leave with a sailor.
for part of a 130-mile "As she went past the door two journey from Londonder other sailors id seme hing and,
The sailor ry to Strangford, County one stroked her hair. with her seemed to object to this | Down. and told, the two others to come outside.
The men were on
their way from Londonderry gaol to a 5,000- "All of them
anchored prison ship,
in went into the ton passage and toon afterwards Strangford Lough. They will stay Jean came back. She said there in the ship until the war ends. was going to be a fight and she wanted to go home. She went back into the passage and did not return."
Afraid Of Dark
Before she left she told a bar- ed, and dummy maid that she was afraid to go won with the home in the dark because there Jack, A club to were so many "roughs" in the the Ace put South in for another spade lead to- wards dummy. But West ducked again, and dummy won with the Queen.
PRTÁL, MALUS OF PACE OS
· ́ÉTÉRADE HAND 67%
Now South's only chance was. that the Ace, of spades would drop, so he led a low spade from the dummy. But West won with the ten of spades and led the Ace. South rutted, of course, but had to surrender a diamond later on, thus losing the Slam.
What was South's crime? De- cide for yourself before reading
.on.....
South committed his crime No ono la authorised to visit
when he draw the third round of offices and collect money on be- trumps. He should have foreseen:
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the possible need of getting back- to his own hand from the dummy. Correct play is to draw only two. trumps and then lead a spade. Dummy wins and South gets back by leading the third trump at this point. Another spade is ducked by West again, and 'dummy wins and returns a club to South's Ace Now South can lead spades for
streets."
Police are attempting" to ac. count for the woman's move-
Soldiers and policemen guarded. the route from the jail to the bar- racks, where the prisoners were sorted for the journey to Surang- ford.
All streets near the prison were closed by barbed wire en- tanglements; people had to show Identity cards; streets adjoining the prohibited area were barri- caded.
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Prisoners, and police armed with ments from the time she was rifles, sat in alternate seats in the seen to leave the public house buses. Before and after every bus to the time she died-only ten was a police tender full of armed: minutes according to the policemen, surgeon's estimate.
Anti-British songs were sung by
The flat is only 300 yards from the prisoners, but people in the the public house..
streets were silent as the buses, Mrs. Elizabeth Gulliford, who passed,
above that in. The interned lives in the flat
men-suspected which the murder was committed, leaders of an outlawed organisa- said: "I was sitting on the stairs tion-will soon be joined by 104 during the raid alarm and heard others now in Belfast gaol no one go into the flat below." A-man has been detained.
BLACK-OUTS IN MANCHURIA
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")
A.R.P. EXERCISES ARE TO BE
By ED REED.third time from the South hand, HELD IN HARBIN AND PING-
YOUR NAME ENGRAVED ON THE HEAD OF A
PIN 254
"Must you. endorse your checks on the edge?”
Here's Luck
EWO
SAVING
BEER
Tel. 30311
and West can do nothing to de- feat the contract.
Saturday you wero Howard Schenken's partner and, with both aides vulnerable, you held"
AQ 7:6.4 V: J'
OK-9 6 3
Q10 A 2.
The bidding: -Behenken
1♡
Uurnstone You Jacoby
Dbl. (?)
ANSWER: Bid one no-trump. This bid shows moderate strength and support for any suit but hearts. If your values are not shown at this point, it is likely that you will never again have a. safe.chance to show them.
Score 100% for one no-trump, 30% for pass.
Question No. 549 ..
To-day you are:Oswald Jacoby's. partner and, with both vulnerable, you, hold:;
KIANG PROVINCE TOWARDS THE END OF THE PRESENT: MONTH, SAID THE "MAN- CHURIA DAILY NEWS" YES- TERDAY.
Preparations for the black-out! must be completed by this week- end who the Hghting equivalent of every house will be inspected. Inhabitants have been warned to be prepared for air raid signals which may be sounded at any time in the next few days.-Havas.
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Everywhere he went Mr. Churchill was quickly recognised and given a most enthusiastic reception. Crowds gathered around him shouting "Good old Winston."
"Cheer up, We are winning." wns Mr. Churchill's remark to sides, one East End woman. His tour had not concludert when the alarm was sounded: He stayed: for a tine in the East End be fore returning to Downing Street,
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