JACOBY SECRET AGENT
ON BRIDGE
Odds Favour Spade
Finesse
VALD JACOBY
BY DAWALD
THE theme of today's hand is
the same an that of yester day's. Your contract depends
on making all the tricks in sult where you miss four cluding both the queen and the Jock.
lond
West.
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1958.
He Founded A Fifth Column
A
Then Tore It Apart
PRIL 3, 1954, was an eventful and disturbing
day for a number of people in different parts of the world. Although there was no apparent connection between those people, the impact of a happening in Australia rocked them all on their
heels.
ond
valuries
Their troubles started In the vice of the Soviet secret service, when he not only tere wide open the This time the contract is cablo ofce at Canberra, seven spades and after winning an employee of the Soviet Em- Red network in Australasia; he in an ordinary Inid the train to the mosi sonich- the opening lead in your own baasy sent off
ace of commercial code, three identical ing inquiry ever conducted in lay down the
cables. The messuge he dis any country into Russian espion- spaden and drop the queen from patched caused an obscure mer age methods.
chant banker in Milan to leave
Should
down the his dusty backstreet office you lay ding and try to drop the jack geek an urgent Interview with u high omcat of the Italian Com- munist Party; an important agent la Dakjorta, capital of Indonesia to send
cable to on urgent Shanghal; and a well-known French scientist, working on ca alomie profeet, to retire hurried ly to the lavatory, lock himself eublele for over an hour, then go home for lie day.
WEST
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NORTH ARTD
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EAST
4352
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10988
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South
14
30
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5 NIT. * Pass 74
West North East "Pass Pass 1 A PoEx
5+ Pass
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also or should you go over to dummy And - finesse against East?
The only information at your disposnt that West is one of the best players in the world and if he held both queen and inck he would be just a bely to drop the queen as to drop the jack.
In
this
The scientist's colleagues sold he seemed very tipset. But his Hindisposition was not duc
something he had eaten. cause of it was fear,
đậu The
The two red-bound of the official report efter at inquiry dwart all the other books my shelves; they contain on more than 100,000 words. The Commission said that Petrov and his wife Evdoksia were "wft- nesses of the truth." and "found their accuracy to be of a high order."
Im-
in
Petrov held a far more portant postien in the Soviet opy system than Gouzenko Canada and other detectors alse- where. In 1847, under the name Vladimir Proletarsky, he was responsible for "positive Intelli-
By
All three men had received the same curl message="Petrov- has defected with occuments." To them I meant thai their roles in the 'Soviet spy system were known, or about to be gence operations in Europe In he held the rank of Lieutenant- kilown,to "the ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ́Aisaallan the Sremmd-Directorate-of-the-Colonel and.....his wife that authorities,
Cominileg of Informatica In Major in the Soviet Inteligence. Moscow. In 1949, he was trans- Vladimir Mkhailovich ferred to the M.V.Dthe Mini- When Petrop decided to leave the ser- stry of State Security. In 1930,
Lt.-Colonel John Baker White
mathematics case
•
BY THE..WAY.
by Beachcomber
trenele for give?
The delinite
destination. They
«row on earth," asked the The only snug is that many 11 magistrate, "could you people want to go to some delates that you must go to mistake Gummy and Anes-c againattasie should have warned you." should use the railways, Eas', True, the chance of specific two-two break 14 slightly enter than that of a specific three-one break but there Is 1 second paint 10 consider.
There is nothing inherently
ip wrong with playing cricket
bowler hat and plus fours,
(Headmaster of a Devon
school.)
"I didn't faste f," replied the What next? man, for fear it was glue, 1 Was doing carpentry, not cating." "You might as well ray," said the magistrate, "that Give Weat the singleton queen you had been eating instead and he would have had to play jt, Give him the doublelon might just queen-Jack and he as well have played the Jack Hence the odds in favour of the nnesse now become almost two To one at it should definitely be taken.
♥CARD Senses☀
Q-The bidding has been: North
South 1+
1
East Poss
2 N.T. Pass 3
West Pass PASS
3 N.T. Pass
?
You, South, hold:
438 VAR
AK865 4K843 What do you do?
T
or
Ties
was thid Nominally, Petrov
In the Embassy in secretary Canberra. His real task, with the uI assistance of representatives the Soviet news agency, was to set up a Fifth Column in Australia; a Fifth Column
and engage in both espionage subversion; a Fifth Column Australiers to betray joyally,
☆
of
their
SEC- Petrov had considerable cess. From some of his contacts he got information "in the dark" Sariet espionage term mean- ing the obtaining of Information from a person without that per son's knowledge.
you woulu have refrained from lasting the of doing carpentry,
ja not a mortal sin, but it
One of his failures was a live would lead the spictators to ly and afirective young woman treacle" Blue for fear it was
man suspect that the game was not who was assistant secretary to the "Not at all," said
being treated with becoming the Australian High Commiss- "When you eat you want it 16
seriousness, There was gh Ioner in New Zealand. She her Car- be treacle, et glue. In
vice
Vers" ceaslun when un umpire come joined the Communist Party on pentry it's wonder
bring on to the held at the Cval, not leaving the WAAF in 1944. you con ever
in the mistumary long white and had resigned in 1948 having Sourself. to do anything," sald
night-hirt, but in diving boots,lost belief in it.
| the magistrate,
I only want to help
a dinner Jacket and a busby.
1 turned out the Was But she did not know that in
diappy in his home life, and was trying to rul himself of his cars, "frustration."
*
that suggested which use the new motor- ways, on which there will be no fa passing speed limil, Hould
not
be
allowed to stop us stopping A
gistrar, has charge of secret pay- ments to Communit Party
members.
་
to take them back to the Soviet Union, hit the headlines all aver the world,
There were other equally dramatic aspects of the case that did not get into the news.
Door-keepers, chauffeurs, even office-clozners, are in fact_trust- ed-outside-contact-men, dealing with the agents in the field.
The public demonstration at Other political police
ages the airport against his Jegalised the kidnapping was staged by the operate under the cover of Tass news agency.
N.T.S.--The Russian Union of Solidaris the mast active and implacable enemies
of Soviet Communism. And on his way home or of the unsuccessful
he kidnappers also defected: knew the punishment for failure. Petrov and his wife also know full well the price of defection. tian; the wife of a senior official. Today, tonight, and for the rest of their natural lives, they mum four journalists; two university be under the constant guard of professurs; three scientists, one-
The network that it was pro- posed to build up in Australia included four, government obi- cials in responsible posillons with access to secret informa-
a
Ninth for whose
on security work; the employee the Australian security police. of another and non-Communist Only thus are they safe from embassy; three businessmen; a
of the the vengeance. telephone engineer working in Oldel-The Ninth Section
Diversion," government offices; the secretary Terror and and another official of a cul- headquarters are
in Moscow's turn society; two, women active Lublanka Prison.
"peace" campaign; in the
foreign-language teacher inter- ested in pro-Soviet friendship" trade union organisations; two officials and an aircraft pilot ex- perienced in making long-dis- lance inter-continental lights,"
Why did Petrov suddenly de- elde to: defeel?
Was his wife a willing ally, or did she just falloy her husband's lead? Was it the threat of recall to Moscow. where his superior officer, Berla, had been executed three months earlier, that made up Felcov's mind for alm?
1947 she had been listed in the secret Sovic tes as "No. 7. Member of the Communist Party -girl." She was "in the Nel" without realising it. Asked by an de-agent in 1950 to betray official
Was the escope carefully secrets, she refused to do so.
planned? Or did he have a this plan point out, logically or joke. I use it to please my-
illustrated sudden revulsion against his way enough, that
eng cannol self, and to annoy the women more clearly than ever before of life? simply drive on and on, Apart novelists. It is only since the standard technique
of petrol began to shove in pains and to Sovlet spy service. from Tunning out there is the question of coming and interwes with a preposi-
creates Jamis
A-hid five or six nostrum depending on your partner. He should have at least 18 potutar And you have 14 and a five-card
Bult.
TODAY'S QUESTION Instead of bidding three no- trump your partner has bid four clubs. What do you do in this Case?
Answer Monday
CORRESPONDENT plores my use of the pun But critics of and says it is the lowest form
Fetrov's detection
✡
of the
The answer to all those ques-. tions is still locked in Pelroy's own mind. But the dramatic cvente that followed his defec- tion, when Soviet secret-police
to some.Cead-end such as the tion and to split infinitives A medium-grade offelel in on seashore. The answer is surely that I have enjoyed Immunity embassy or trading establishe very wide circular roads so that, from Invitations to the cocktail ment is, In fact, specially "ret-control- as in a racetrack, the millions parties organised by Art and trained espionage or cars could go round and Craft to boost masterpieces,ler" with the raak of Lieutenant- agents sent specially from Mos- round and round and round So, naturally, I am unrepentant, Colonel in the political police. cow attempted to drag Petrav
a kote. boycotted, and happy.
His wife, nominally a junior re- and his wife into Canti motoring became
an acroplane
(All Rights Reserved)
ROUND-UP
"PRIVATE DERBY"
EFT behind at their depot in Derby by the Sherwood Faresters' - 1st Battalion, now in Jutore, Molnya, Is "Private Derby"-thu ram which in the regiment's mascot. When the battalion left for Malaya curlier this year, shortly after the new rum mascol had been presented by the Duke of Devonshiro, il was stated that they might send for' the ram later, if the Malayan elimate proved sult- able. "At present a sculled home esánat be offered Private Derby' In Malaya," said an officer at the barracks, "The battalion is still engage on jungle training and are likely to be moved around a great deal."
'STATION BATTLE"
THE
1
TUE Vicar of Murekingion, near Uttoxeter, Staffe, has asked the War Office to help the villagers in their attempt to reverse Bri- tish Nullwhy's decision to close their station on September 15.. Ex- plaining is call on the Army, the Reverend Oswald Edo said: "Last December several hundred troops moved into their huge new barracks thowpiece of the British Army at the foot of Marchington eliff, from where it is only 10 minutes' walk to the stution. Every Friday evening I watch the troops running through the village to catch the diesel to start their week-end leave. It grieves me to think that soon they will have to run two-and-a- half miles to the next station at Sudbury, instead of the present one mile to Marchington station." Uttoxeter Rural Council and Marchington Parish Council also are strongly opposing the decision to close.
WOULD-BE WRITERS
ML. A. G. Strong, cartoonist, actor, singer and schoolmaster. who became world famous as novelist, short story writer tutd pat, once advised would-be writers: "Writé if you want to, but get u safe job and be sure of your bread and butter first." He said that it was seven years before he had a short story accepted for publication and added; "1 then had quite a number accepted, some of which I had sent in before and which had been rejected," Among Mr Strong's best-known novels was "The Brothers," of which a film was made after the Second World War.
TOWER BRIDGE
HEAVY insurance policy against damage to Tower Bridge hos been taken cul by American film producer Kevin McClory- who helped the late Mike Todd make "Around the World in BD Days"-so that he can make a film in which the bridge is the een- tral "character." He is the first film producer to obtain permission to shoot in, on and around the bridge. The production, "The Boy and the Bridge," will also be fimed in Covent Garden and along some of London's historie streets.
LONGER LIFE.
E Rolls Royce Dart, the world's most successful turbo-prop engine, may soon get an extension to its lease of life wideh will enable airline operators to claim it na the safest aero engine ever made. Alrendy It is allowed 1,800 hours-about nine months operation-between major overhauls, and development trials are now taking place with the Dart 500 and 610 engines to extend this "life" to 2,000 hours, the highest engine life ever approved Fur- ther trials are to proceed to 2,500 haura. British European Air- ways have 230′ Dart engines In regular serylce.
CHARRED REMAINS
TIMBER and tiles charred in the Great Fire of London in the days of Charles II have been found during office building in New Bridge Street, near Fleet Street, joining Ludgate Cireuz and Roman Blackfriars Bridge. Other relies found include a bronze coin, 1,800 years old, with the figures of Romulus and Remus. Thirty feet down, three wharfs of chalk and flnt were discovered. It is thought they were used by cul barges on the Fleet. River, possibly in the reign of Queen Elizabeth 1.
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