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'THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 10, 1940.
Please Don't Jump To Conclusions
London, May 15.
The Conservatives gave Labour a beating in Bri- „tain's latest, municipal elections, but that does not necessarily moan they will capture the Gov- ornment next year,
་
That is the view of cautious observers on both sides
of the fence yesterday as they looked over full | returns from Thursday's voting for Councils in 420 English and Welsh boroughs: The Councils handle local Government functions. Both parties had campaigned | with 1950 in mind. The British Press Association's fina! uneffi- cini tabulation of the results for all boroughs shows:
Clandestine
Presses Discovered
Athens, May 14.
The Conservatives' captured the largest number of Council, neats and were the only faction to score.n
n net gain. They wound up with 1,056 of
scats
to at stake the
A secret Communist printing 8. --- Indeggmcients-i.. 041.
107 ni Cumrerpeess, in cellar reached by a $565.00
rupe Tadder down a 10-feet 385.00 Company in General Meeting munists. 11
Their net gain of 805 seats-shaft, was today discovered by may from time to time deler-432 gained against 27 lost-com- the police at the Piraeus, the mine."
pares with net losses of 715 for port of Athens, the Athens news 205.002
Labour-85 won against 000 lost agency reported tonight. Among By Order of
-and of 60 Independents, 21 for the first, to visit the cellar was 125.00 of Directors,
Liberals, nlue for Communists. Sir Charles Wickham, Chief of The tabulation for London the British Police Mission to 40.00
show that Labour got more, seats Greece. but the Torles alone mado a net gain.
Still Ahead
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Liberale got none.
The cellar was situated in the ancient quarter of Kokkinin, below the house of a Communist printer. Labour's seats were 739 to In I were hand pressen, said to be the Conservative's 610, Com- of German make, Heaped around muniata 11. Independents' four. the presses were piles of subver- eive papera and pamphlets, some The Torles' net gains of 20 of them including articles signed seats-272 gained to three lost by M. Nicholas Zachariades, the Greek Communist stoed against net lees of 202 for head of the Labour-eight
gained
270 Party, and by other Communist lost--and
for the seven
Com-leaders, the agency report nald, munists.
broke Independents
"Kizospactis," the official news- Communist paper of the Greek even.
Labour gave up six of London's Party, which appears clandestine- andly, was printed on these presses. 28 boroughs to the Tories Anished with a reduced lead of the report added.—Router.
17 to 11.
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Outside London, where conlt- tions were in the field and some loyalties were hard to trace, the: control situation was complicat-
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"BANDIT KING" HOLDING OUT
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Palermo, May 14. Labour lost from 16 to 19 of the Salvatore Giuliano, aged 28, 302 Councils outside London to "Klug of the Bandits." with Conservatives or others. These handful of armed desperadoes, is included Leicester. Newcastle still holding out against, an en-
Southampton, -- Associated cirling force and
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The foren soldiers and police. which had closed on Giuliano's
UNDERGRADS IN FRACAS
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Sixth Race Meeting,
SATURDAY, 21st MAY, 1949.
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BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By Shepard Barclay
“The Authority on Authorlikes?
EXACT FEATURES SHOWN
Lot 5-Hearts
to South's' 4-No
ace-measuring Blackwood
IT IS sometimes amazing how Trumps, which was meant as an exoct is the information given by the bloding of certain hands.
may disclose serles of bids
Use length of suits, and on ensuing slam convention call- of one type
then
or another tule
Ʌ the
held
Puzzled momentarily about his ut lead, but knowing either South's minor suits might be dis- astrous, it dawned on him all of sulden that his own partner
1
of honour, the must have the heart Q. If North, П five-card major and two eld with That is especially so when cue- aces, also had the Q of his suit, bidding of sees or blanks, or else he should have opened the bid- Blackwood convention answers,
ding. And
if South held the Q. the tell everybody
he might hav supported certain the layer who player
of putting the slamı hearts instead of faels. The Anc eagerly may, through examining into No Trumps. the volunteered evidence, figure out infallibly what should be a safe opening lead in such a situn tion.
SAT3
II A 9 8 6 4 D 103
CU 3
S.Q 0 5
N
HQ 10 5
SJ 10 9
&
W EHX 732
S
a
were,
So East led a heart without
His preference for qualm, his 2.
hat suit was also caused partly by the Inference that the unbid spaces mu
must surely be at least
as they doubly stopped, else the contract would not have
With
the been in No Trumps.
North was doomed as soon as he tried the diamond finesse and lost it to West, heoris
heart Tead.
ruining him. Against a slam was easy.
Tomorrow's Problem
SAK 3
DK 75 CJD 2
DJ 9
C 754
S K 4
KJ
DAQ 8 6 2
CAKJ 100-
(Dealer: North.
Both
side:
vulnerable).
Narth
Esst
Bouth
Pass
Pass
1 D
1 H
Pass
2 C
Pixé
2. H
Раб
3.C
Pass
H 0 3 2
3 NT
Pass
4 NT
Pass
D10 3
5 H.
Pass
@ NT
са
to
West Pass SQ J ́ 10
0 5 4 2
HQ 4 DK QB 4
CJ 5 3
N
$ 0
spade,
HJ 10 8. W.EDJ754
S
S 8 7
CK 10 9
HAK 87.5 DA
(Denior:
East. North-South
Having bent a keen ear to the duty at hand, East had North's holding sized up in a most acci- of rate way.
say nothing South's. For one thing, he knew vulnerable). rebiridable hearts, North had
If West injects an interfering auction. during the doubless a five-card sult, from spade call
ito Q, how should the fact that they were called then leads twice. In addition he knew North South seek maximum results in had two arcs, from his response his 6-No Trumps?
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A BRITISH Crossword PUZZLE,
Smooth.
Across
O Place of pll-
grimage.
6 In addition.
. Fall.
11 Pluck.
12 Summary.
14 Deeds.
16 The
best.
18 Command.
19 Grain huska. 20 Cement mot-- allically, i
24 Deserve. 25 Vehement speech.
20 Pitcher. 27 Substantial. 20 Fault.
Saturday's Crossword
GACROSS-1 Mavis, 4 Averse,
19
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1 Locally, 2 Frolic.
3 Wan,
4 Chooses. 3 Ogre. ¡7. Revised. 10 Couple. 13 Books,
Down
14 Naval rank.
ndenco in.
18 Had con
17 Bubsequently, 19 Ran away. 21 Terrible. 22 Uncomnion. 23 Inclination.
Cement, 20 Aware, 80. Grouse, 31 Extent. 32 Meter")
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