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READING THE
BIDDING
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South, Dealer
Both sides Vulnerablð
NORTH
AK 7 6 3 ♡ 4
EAST
A 9 CAGG
0 10 8 7 3 2
KQ10 7
OK 6 4 AJ 5 4 3 2
WEST
A 10 5
KQJ 109 QJ9 A9 G
SOUTH
AQJ84 2 0 3 7 3 2 O A B 48
The bidding: South West
3 A
#y l'ass
North
ZA L'ass
East
317 Puss
A bomb fell into a 500- gallon oil storage well. It did not explode. But it might have done so at any moment.
William Máson knew that He did not hesitate. He volunä teared to empty the well.. Quickly he got to work in`n pump house 12ft. from the well. He finished the job.
An hour later the ploded, demolishing house.
bomb ex- the
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Mason, process hand, of Salford, has been awarded the George Medal.
Two orderlies of a hospital train at Bristol, who carried out rescue and salvage work in the face of a rain of bombs, receive The British Empire Medal. Orderly-Sergeant
Arthur Hill and Ordérly-Private Arthur Saun- ders were on night duty when the train was set on fire.
Ran Amid Bombs
The coaches of stationary trains on either side were blazing,
A man lay Injured 500 yards
The two Arthurs got a stretcher
"South thought a free rebid of away on the railway line. three spades was ample on hand that was a minimum open-l'and ran to the spot, at times hav- ing bid in high-card strength. ing to fall flat to escape blast. North didn't see how he could They found the man uncon- give more than one free raise on à hand containing only two Kings and ten small spot-cards. Who was right?"
South
North was right, and was wrong. It's true that South's hand was close to a minimum in high-card strength, but correct reading of the bidding would have informed him that there would be a good play for game.
Certainly North's free raise should have indicated "four trumps, probably headed by the King. Furthermore, West's bid and East's raise indicated that the opponents held at least eight (and possibly nine) hearts be- tween thent. Hence North could
most. Very little more WHS needed in the North hand than
scious. Negotiating many obstacles, they carried him a quarter of a mile to the station.
DIES IN
20-FOOT OIL PIT
A policeman was lower- have only a singleton heart at ed twenty feet into an oil pit in a vain attempt to four trumps to the King and a Save the life of William singleton or void in hearts. George Spencer, 4, of Maidstone Road, Ruxley, near Sidcup, Kent.
If South had drawn this infer-
ence from the bidding, it would have been up to him to bid four pades, There would be no point in bidding only three, leaving it up to North to bid a game which would not be so clearly indicated to him as to his partner,
you
Yesterday
were Merwin Maier's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you held:
AK J7 3 2 (7 85 2
◇ JA
The bidding: Maler
973
1 A
20
Jacoby 24 2♡
You Разн (7)
Schenki Pass
ANSWER:
Bid two spades. 1 The free bid shows that you have | some items of value, for with a worthless hand you could pass.
Score 100% for two spades. 40% for three spades, 10% for pass.
Question No. 802
To-day you hold the same. hand, but the bidding is differ-. ent:
Maler Jacoby You Schenken
1A
Dbl. (?) What do you bld?
Monday.)
(Answer
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BRITISH PRISONERS OF WAR FUND TO-NIGHT at 9.30 P.M.
The Massed Bands of The Royal Scots and of The Middlesex Regiments will give a Concert in aid of the above Fund on the ground of the Hong Kong Cricket Club at 9.30 p.m. TO-NIGHT.
Everyone attending is asked to buy a pro gramme with badge from the Lady Programme Sellers either on the ground or beforehand..
Refreshments, alcoholic and non-alcoholic, will be served throughout the Concert, the pro- ceeds of which will go almost entirely to the Fund
and so
Gather your friends and come and
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