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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
Expert Shows How To Come Through
1955.
In the eternal fight against the smuggling of drugi into Syria, our correspondent describes a normal night's work of the relatively unknown, but highly efficient, Syrian anti-narcotic bureau
A NIGHT OUT IN SYRIA
"D
By CHARLES ANDERSON
OING anything to- the back of the jeep I saw night?" inquired a number of blankets, two A voice over the shot-guns "and several ban- BY OSWALD JACOBY
telephone which, from its doliers full of carridges · peculiar English accent, I Twenty minutes later we Namusing hand comes to immediately recognised as passed the control post on
mind whenever I
think belonging to Captain Ghas the main road to Turkey, about the Goldman Cup
Pair an Aboudani of the Anti- and I noticed that we were championship
Alfred Narcotic Section of the now followed by three Sheinwold, and I won recently Syrian Customs.
khaki-coloured jeeps
that
when the Eastern States Tournament was held in New
About
one of the shot-gain. four hundred yards away, sil houetted fainty against the lighter shade of skyline, I saw the nodding head of a came then another, and another.
(Stopt) yelled
For res
throw-
to
response, the six camels. suddenly wheeled in all dired- tions, and commened to race away across the stony ground. One Stop, or we.fire!" By eight o'clock, after of the camels appeared to trip My reply being in the
boulder and came York. When the bidding ended, negative, Ghassan continued: one of the roughest rides I over and I had to put the
"Well, get some sleep this have experienced in this heavily to the ground, hand down as the dummy, I
The others continued afternoon: pack some sand- country of bad roads, mainly it drive head-over-heels. was ready to trade Sheinwold wiches and a thermos, and
consisting of large stones race away" In
direction from the in for a stick of used chewing I'll be round for you about and deep holes, we arrived which they had comê...:
Fire!
From a dozen points came the Tour of shot- guns and the whistle of buck- shat Two of the carrols uttered human-like cries and sank'slowly
other down; the beasts were halted and turted back to the track.
gum and some okl bottles, (I should admit that I have since changed my mind.)
East's opening bid of
+
three diamonds was a typical strutout bid. In fact, East would have
made the same bid without the king of clubs. considering the Gavourable vulnerability, West knew that his partner had a bad hand, but he still wanted to get
WEST
NORTH 4QJ104 395.
• 10 3 4AQ54
EAST (D) AAK9GS2 873 VEQ
❤8 +AQ9
SOUTH
six_p.m."
Promptly that evening, a dirty drab coloured jeep pulled up outside my hotel, and I climbed in alongside my friend, who I noticed was armed with two re volvers, Glancing round at
CHESS PROBLEM
By S. CEDER Black, 10 pieces.
R
K197654 LEA
None
A 1076432
2
108732.
North-South vul.
East South West 14. Pass 34
Pats
Pass
Pass Poss
North Double
Double Pass Double Pass
Opening lead-K
White, 11 pièces, White to play: mate in two.
Solution problem:
at the village of Aazaz.
"Hop out" said Ghassan, "and we'll try and get some thing to eat."
A Scramble
Then followed a rounding "up of animals and drivers, under the pointed guns of the guards.
At ten o'clock, Ghassan went outside and I could" of animals hear him giving orders to the dozen men who had followed us in the three jeeps.
"What now?" I said, when he returned
"A little walk... I'll take the the guns, and you carry blankets.
His "little walk" was half an bour's scramble OVER huge boulders until, in the far dis- tance, reflected in the low lying clouds, we could see the lights of the Turkish town of Kills
soficed When we stopped,
не чете и few yards away from the goat track" which
Was
The Camel which had fallen down was found to have both front legs broken,
30
Ghassan took out his revolver and shot the beast dead.
Ghassan now give orders to unload the huge paniers which were suspended on the sides of each animal, and at the polat
tried to
of his revolution from
some
ket the dirty, villainous looking camel crew, but all of whom retain. ed a sullen silence.
Big Haul
"Effendi!"
out
one of the
called
suddenly
guards thrust his revolves "If one
now
the stinking mound
sheep-
skins, which had formed
the
two
major part of the cargo.
trick
A few minutes later he re- turned, dogging a long length
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served as the main artery be- Ghassan tween this part of Syria and into my hand crying:
Chavan
of the moves on inch, let him Turkey:
have it! and dashed placing his mon at various **** points along the route, so that it was infpossible for anyone or
thing to pass within yards of the without being observed.
After he returned, we made of steel chain behind him,
as "Chain 'em up!" he said smil- ourselves comfortable
as
WDS
the possible with the blankets, and lngly, It
all six of seconds before backs to a
great stone work
were chained I “VIETNAM boulder that had probably been camel-men
of "CAMBODGE" vomited up by a volcanic erup-gether, and put in charge ❘tion a million years ago,
ne of the guards.
Twenty minutes later a num- ber of ungainly looking packels were packed on one of uninjured camels; guards was placed in charge of.
disbanded
nded sheep-skans and The the dead camel until later, and Ghassan gave orders to marah,
to. yesterday's
ot%
to a game. His exploratory bid
1, R-KI, 1
2, F-BS; 1 KK6; 1
1
. R-Q3, K13; R-B4; 2. BxP; 2, K1XR; others; 2, Kt Ktz (ch).
of three "spades, as everybody at the table knew, was forcing for one round.
Under
these
circumstances
my double of three spades was a business double. If I had held a very strong two-suiter in the two unbid suit I would have made a cue-bid of four dia- monds to demand a takeout. I wasn't actually sure of beating three spades (I wouldn't have, in fact), but I wanted to in- opening dicate a favourable
lead.
The rest of the bidding was a nightmare to me. My partner took the bit in his teeth JP. parently misunderstanding the meaning of my double.
West
was delighted to double, and I resigned myself to a bottom on the board.
As it happened, Sheinweli had
He had a freak hand. understood the double but was to suggest a slam Still Willing
TARGET
E
R MA
C
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HOW KAJAY words of four
letters
or more can you make from the let- ters in the FARRES Un the left in making end) word the lez- teri in encl of the small squares may be used once only. Each word must contain the sarke letter in the centre square, and there must be at least one nine-
No letter word. In the list. pturats; no toreiz vardı: De оторет пате.
TODAY'S TARGET: 33 gords, good 45 words, very good; BA
excellent.
words.
on Monday,
כאי
talking or smoking." muttered my friend.
An hour passed, with only Craak, the "Craak, craak craak" of some frogs in
to break the nearby swamp. profound stillness of the moun- tain side.
**{stancia”'
One a.m.... I shivered, and Ghassan swore softly in Arabic 15 he rolled over on the stony
"Eats, he whis ground pered, and as quietly as possible we opened our packets of sand- wiches and thermos, passing the the next twenty mimites. delightful
pleasure of satisfying our hanger.
Two G.m
in
The moon had now come up and transformed the countryside into a fairyland of silver light.
had
solute. Even the Sence ab-
frogs
retired.
I was just on the YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Actuci aglet alate alga aloe nito CATA verge of dozing, when faintly,
clog from the direction of the fron LOGLE tau! celt cleat clea clot elout clue COAGULATE coal tier, came the "Too-hoo! colt calt gala pale geles gael gault "Too-hoo!" of an owl, gloat glue glut gonă lace lacet late
"Now!", cried Chassan, leap- ing to his feet
and grabbing
on his way to four hearts. For leat locate lout luce lute oculete
all he knew, I could have had ople sale tale teal tols tula.
far better hand for my
double; and in that case a slam
was quite or clubs
a
in hearts possible.
in
There was no problem
Declarer making four hearts.
had to lose a heart, a diamond. and a club, but nothing else.
♥CARD Senseks
North
The bidding has been?
East South West
1 Spade
Pas 2 Clubs Pass
2 Diamonds Pass ?
You, South, hold
463 va OK52 JAK Q10653
What do you do?
trace
A-Bid five clubs. You are willing to be in this game con- even if your partner has only minimum values for his bids. It ha hai extra strength, lorinding, two or more aces, ha will bid á slaza.
3
TODAYS-QUESTION":
The bidding is the same as ini the question just answered. You, South, hold:
AGNE WON (KEZ JAKJ65
What do you do?
Answer on Monday
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about Destwords today. The puzzle starte HERE
with BULLVAN and - enda with EISTEDDFOD. You have to get from first word to last by rearranging the words in such a way that the relationship ,betweeri Any word and the cus sext to 1 is, Roverned by one of six "rules.
RULES
1. The word may be
an anagram of-the word
that precedes it.
2. It may be a syno- nym of the word that Drecedes it
3. It may be found by adding one letter to, or Subtracting, one letter from. or charging me letter in the preceding word.
It may be associated with the preceding word in n'aying, ahzalim, metaphor, or association of ideas. 6. It may form with the - pre- ceding word "name of a well- known person, place, or thing in tact or Action.
6. It may be associated with l
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A typical sucession of words might be. Jack Horner Comer Hole Pole Pole Lore. Lord Murter Stream.
(Solution on Page 20)
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hundred pounds of opium; one
hashish flty pounds of snuff
and capture of (cocaine), gang we have been after for three months"
"Good shooting!" sleepily.
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