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DOUBTFUL NO-TRUMP
HANDS.
[BY. HUGE ELLIOT.]
I have said that any hand above the average, with three suits-guard-
OCEAN ACCIDENT AND GUARANTEE CORP'N.
REVIEW OF YEAR'S BUSINESS.
A STRONG POSITION,
The Fifty-seventh Annual Gen- ed, might be considered as a poten...) cral Meeting of The Ocean Accident tial no trumper. For this purpose and Guarantee Corporation, Limit- the guards must be reasonably ed, of which Messrs. Gilman and efficient Guarded suits would be K, x, x: Q, Ko, I, or Q. x, x, x: Co. are the local agents, was held Kn, 10, x, x. With Icas strength on April 24th, at the offices of the than this, a suit cannot be reckoned Corporation, 38-44, Moorgate, E.C. 68 guarded and the high cards cannot then be counted" towards making up the no-trumper.
Mr. E. Roger Owen (the chair- man) who presided said: The assets stand at £8,340,934, an in- crease of £19,872. The total re-
Sometimes an initial no-trump can be bid when only two suits are guarded. There are two types of bands on which this is sometimes venue for the your amounted to done, and often not very wisely. £7,091,315, a decrease of £290,085. The first type is with a long minor The net premium income, after de suit, securely established, and an outside one. In the old days of duction of re-insurance, amounted ordinary bridge, this was always to £8,784,833, a decrease of £205,515 regarded as a no-trumper; but in as compared with the previous modern auction the case is different, year. Interest dividends, and and many of the best players prefer rents amounted to a not figure of to bid one in the minor. suit.
£300,435," an increase of "£5,360 an compared with the previous year.
The second type is of this nature: A. K. x, x 3: I, II x: A, X, X, There are three possible courses for the dealer to take with this band (1) To pass, (2) to bid one no-trump, (3) to bid one of the suits of A, K, x. As regards these three alternatives No. I ought at once to be ruled out. A hood which contains half the Aces and Kings in the pack is not a hand to pass
on.
If one of the A, K, x suits is a fainor suit, many players would bid that. With all deference I think they would be wrong. On such a hand the player is quite likely to be left with it; and on a hand so much above the average I should prefer to be left with one no-trump- than with one club when I bad only three clubs.
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Warning The Aversgry, Moreover, how can the subsequent bidding go on this hand. If your partner takes out the one-club bid into one diamond, you will call a no-trump. The adversaries are then warned against leading either a club or a diamond, and they are more likely to find your weakness than if you had bid one no-trump straight away. If your partner bids a spade or a heart, you would probably leave him; but if he has only four of his suit, the hand would still be better played in no-trumps. I he has five he will probably take out an initial bid of no-trumpa Thus by bidding an initial one no trump there are more chances of winning the game than by bidding one club, for the hand will either be played in no-trumps or by your partner with five of a major suit. You avoid the risk of playing it in a bad minor suit, and in a four-card major suit.
to
Claims paid, including provision for outstanding losses, amounted to £1,231,849, being 622 per cent, of the premium income and 60.4 per cent, of the premiums earned dur ing the year. Commission agents, expenses of management, and alterations, repairs, etc. (exclu... | ...« sive of taxes), accounted for 43,79, being 35.7 per cent. of the
in taxes, in- premium income. cluding income-tax deducted at
Corporation source,
paid £223,00%, equal to 3.3 per cent. of the premium income. This com pares with £69,079, being 37 per cent. of the premium income, in 1928.
the
After making the necessary pro vision for unearned premiums there remained an underwriting profit of £283,580, out of which £100,000 was transferred to profit and loss (£25,000 from the fire department and £75,000 from the accident de- | partment), and the balance wai added to the fire and accident funds.
The premium income of the fire department was £341,98, a de crease of 28,857 as compared with the previous year. The department. experienced a favourable year. The claims paid and outstanding amounted to £163,087, representing
loss ratio of 47.7 per cent of the premium income and 47.4 per cent. of the earned premiums.
The net premium income at the accident department was £6,443,594, a decrease of £296,658 as compared Claims, with the previous year. including provision for putstand, ing losses, amounted to £4,068,755.
After making the necessary pro- there remained an, underwriting Tision for unearned premiums, profit in the accident department of £210,633.
The matter is quite diferent with
High Standard Of Service, a long and established minor suit and an outsidé aco, Here it will The extension and improvement frequently happen that the game of our world-wide organization are can be won in the minor suit, but continually under our thought and not in the no-trumps. No doubt it attention. The Corporation trans- is often the other way round, but acts a wide variety of classes of the no-trump is a gambling bid business in many countries and has Gambling bids are often excellent, set up a high standard of the ser- and I am far from deprecating vice to our policy-holders in every them; but when you have's chance country.
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THE PRINCES' AFRICAN
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WILD COUNTRY-AND NO FORMALITY.
The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Gloucester have been spending busy days together lately
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JULT 1STE, 1928, .. Ba........$1,285 . Do., London...Eldi noma. Chartered Banka stižži bay,
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in the study of reports, maps, and | Marenutile Banis,A. &B... £36, nom. plans, and in completing the arrangements for the four months' tour of Africa which they are to make in the autumn.
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P. & O. Hanks............................. a m. favour of a purely-gambling chance.
East Asia Banks ......$75 nom. . Your partner will take out
Canton Insurances......$640 ml, minor suit, if he possibly can; and
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SINGAPORE, July 8th. yet announced, but besides the fangtas Ingoro. $50 nom.
Chins Underwriters ...82§ sol., 2, 15′ ma he cannot take it out, and you are Cases of Europeane bitten by Royal brothers there will be an
three personed | 24mm Fire Iuriranose.... 35 buy. left with your minor suit, the posi- land makes are rare in this coun- equerry, two or
Kong Fire Ina.............. Sizzi nom. tion is quite satisfactory-far better try, but so far as venomous rea servants, and possibly one of the
Dongleses, camera 130g sol. than being left with one no tramp. znates are concerned they are al- Prince of Wales's secretaries.
HK. Bummbosta Further, if the adversaries slowly most unknown. A European lady
Owing to the climate and rough HK. Tog force you up in your minor suit, residing in Singapore is just re. state of much of the country that Indo-Chinas (Fra) 335) bay.
Da (el) you may end by getting doubled; covering, however, from a bite sus the Prince wants to see, his staff
$70. buy. when you have a chance of making tained while bathing at Batu and the officials of the Colonial Bhell Transporte 100% O the contract, or (short of that) a Feringri, Penang, which was very Office have had to pay particular Waterboat........
$20 nom. probability of saving the game at nearly the cause of her death, & attention to transport arrange Benguata
#FLOTAsli buy. low cost, and with a certain score long and critical illness having pre- mente, and the Prince himself Kallan Mixing Adn.in....63j. nom. of four honours in one band.
probably recalling his Indian tour, Langkats (combined)..... a. 1250 20m.
Do." (gingis) min...Tia, 5.30 xOM. Authorities Who Difer.
It is said that two native fisher. when he travelled thousands of
The: 2,45 bay. men were bitten in the same locality miles through wild and rough coun- Bhat. Explorations
3 nom However, opinions differ about some time previously and both try without a single stop through Shanghai Loans mun
$4.86 bay. these types of hand which I have died. The bite of the more dan-mechanical breakdown-bas ̈ ex-
17/6 nom. described. It is right that they gerous REA snakes takes effect pressed a desire that only" British Tranch Mines
***....$1864 buz. should differ: for there is no certain within twenty minutes, and pro- cars shall be used. At the most five HR & K Whats
$40 bay. means of deciding such points; duces paralysis and other grave CA will carry both personnel and R.K. & W. Docks ....
China Providents w.....15 buyi there is no crucial test. They are conditions-Straits Times.
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Hongkewa The Prince and his brother will w Engineerings Tls. 3 nom. instances of that large class of hands which a player is compelled to judge
leave England by boat in the first
Shanghai Docks ......107.buy, week of September for Mombasa. Two Lotions .........Tis, 8.55 bay. for himself; for the authorities will
The cars will meet them on arrival Onentale CationsTL, $1 all advise him diferently. Nor is
by train at Nairobi, and will 8. Cottons (old)..... 17. Sit nom. this to be in any way deplored. Bridge would be more amusing if
take them immediately up-country De. (new)......The. 27) nom. the authorities, differed far more
through Kenya, Tanganyika, and H.K. &8. Hotels........... $3.90 buy., 9.15 sel. than they do. If all authorities
Uganda
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366 buy, & m. One of the main objects which the Shanghai Lands .......... agreed on every bid, auction bridge several ways, but the actual cause Prince has la mind in making the Humphreys Estates.
125 bay. would lose the whole of its enter of the trouble remaina, to grow tour is to study conditions of EH. Realtion. 18 28,
„$14) DON tainment. It would simply become worse with each succeeding attack. native life and to see the uncivilis K. Tamway #25 voly 24) sa, a question of learning the jeuz de If, on the other hand, you take aed and wild parts of the country. Pak Trams (old)
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SURE REMEDY FOR IN- DIGESTION.
*CESS
Tawards the end of November.
Where a band is good enough for water after eating, you not only he has arranged, therefore, to dis bidding either one no-trump or one stop the immediate pain instantly, penge with as much formality as ol major suit, the preference but you also remove the cause of possible in order to get quickly should usually be given to the the trouble. Bisurated Mag into the heart of the remote re- major euit, but there is no general neria is a complete treatment for Bions. rule. If the band has a singleton indigestion, neutralising
Though, no doubt, the Prince or great weakness in ona suit, a acidity, preventing food ferments will be asked to perform several strong preference should be given tion, and soothing, healing and functions while in Africa, he wishes to the major suit. But if there is strengthening the infamed stomach to reduce this side of the trip to a no marked weakness, and the major lining, which has become raw with minimum suit is a poor one, no trumps is the the action of harmful acids. · All better call, In actual practice, | over
the world you will find the party will journey through where either can be called, one finds Bisurated Magnesia used by Rhodesia to Capetown, where the a good many more hands on which people with a tendency to stomach Prince and his brother will spend. the major suit is best than hands weakness, and among them not a Christmas with the Governor- on which no trumps is best. The few experienced medical men. General and the Countess of decision rests upon the two points, Bisurated Magnesia is sold by Athlone. They will return to Eng- as to how good the major suit is, all chemists in both powder and land in January.jon and what features of weakness there tablet forms. Get a package, to are in the no trumps. With one day. It is the one sure remedy suit completely absent the no- that ends digestive ills where they trump call is hardly ever right. start quickly and completely,
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