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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934.
CONTRACT BRIDGE
By W. E. McKenney
Solution to Proviona Contract Problem.
A NEW LEAGUE COVENANT
(Continued from Page 6.) tenance' of peace and law and order, is to further this process in the interest of the community as # whole.
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
[Continued from Page-8,); Nobody's sure. Don't the boat families always have a black sheep, and don't some of the meanent, most lowdchen people imaginable have children that are perfect Now just as it is essential to models? The only thing to do have the whole community pro-with children is to keep them. We haven't heard much about nounce upon actions which affect healthy and touch them mannera. paychle bidding of inte. Good alt its members, whether it be in They're bound to make their morals players have about decided that, town meeting, state, legislature, or for themselves," while they can win occasionally congress, so in the community of with a paychic bid, they lose too nations it is necessary to provide ofton. In addition, psychic kid- adequata and pertinent Instru- Amy did not carry the argument. ding usually breaks down the monta to deal with matters that farther. But in the days between morale of your partner. He never are of genuine international Im her own home coming and that of
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Then, my own observations have Statos participate in this supreme-mother's frank statement of uncer- been that if you do sit down and ly important method of interna- tainty when she had any time to beat a pair by good play or good tional dealing-the conference think at all. She had a great deal bidding, they are usually satisfed method without becoming in- to do and she was glad of it, for. that they have been outplayed-volved in international policing again there was a lapse in mes- but if you put in a paychic and against disorders? By stating sages from Howard and Professor beat thom, they are usually pretty daduitely the limits of Its commit Ellert, and the suspenso was hard. mont. It has already done this. All of her Marburg friends came so far as the present Administra- to see her, excit and amused by tion is concerned, in the statoment the baby, some of them exceeding which Mr. Norman Davis presently curious as well. ed to the Disarmament Conference on May 22, 1933, This statement has been quoted so often in the nove columns that it le unneces- sary to quote it here. It is to the effect that the United States will not allow itself to become the accomplice of a nation which goes to war in violation of its solemn agreement to resort to pacife means of settlement Instead of to promised to war. We refrain from any action tending to defeat the efforts of the League BUTUNLOCK
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And as bridge is still a game, 1 believe that, while it is a pleasure to try to trim your oppon- ents, you should leave a pleasant Impression at the bridge table.
A prominent Cleveland attorney snys this is the hand that cured him of psychic bidding. He sat in the West position.
Of course; the no trump bid was a psychic and the heart out unfor tunately was very weak.
The Play
North's opening lead was the ace of clubs and when it held, he continued with the eight. The tea was played from dummy and South won the trick with the jack. The queen and jack of diamonds
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cashed by Bouth. South then led the jack of hearts, which hold. He played the king of clubs, Woat ruffed with the four of hearts, and North overruffed with the oight.
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She had to parry and evade their questions as well as she could, but she was glad none of them even remotely suggested that it might be Jane's child, not even Miss Rosa, who commented that!. anyone who took a chlid to raise was surely a glutton for trouble. The baby was growing, becoming! active, noticing light and move mont and taking on the plak and! white curves of a healthy, proper- infant. But still she had no name and Amy would not give her one. I "Il wait for Heward to choose! it," she said.
Amy had come home late In August and it was late in Septem- bor and the first semester of the college year had commenced- with much uncertainty and con- fusion as to the geological courses. when, one morning, very early, the telephone rang. Half asleep Amy reached from her bed and put the receiver to her ear. The connection was bad and someone was talking very fast, atammering the words, and at first she couldn't make it out. Then she heard!
"Darling, darling, darling!" came the Taraway rushing voice, "hurry, Apeak to me, I've been nearly crazy"
where
"Howard-Howard--oh are you, where are you?" (To Be Continued.)
for salf-interest than for peace, and is dangerous if pursued under dangerous circumstances,
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North led the ace of diamonds of Nations to preserve or enforce on which South discarded the sixpence whenever we agree with the of spades. A small spade was re-other nations as to which is the
Now there are just two ways to turned, South won' with the queen
This afeguard gulity power. and led the ace of spades. clause, that we shall, in the last deal with this problem. One is to He then played the deuce of resort, decide for ourselves is join in the race in armaments and spades which North trumped with after all hardly more than the insist upon the right of supplying the queen of hearts. The king of other nations have reserved for any and all belligerenta with the diamonds WO8 returned, Souththemselves in the Covenant of the materials they need in war, trumping with the ten of hearts. League under the rule which second to none, in order to force
back up
policy by a navy West was forced to underruff with requires unanimity for such grave other nations to respect our right the five.
decisions as these.
to be the arsenal for each or all of The seven of clubs then was This is what has been termed them. The other way is to re- played. West ruffed with the negative neutrality," that is, seven of hearts and North won the neutrality which refuses to regard ounce insistence upon those war- trick with the ace of hearts. Ho guilty nation as a friend but time rights which would lessen the returned the ten of diamonds nevertheless does not undertake efforts of the League to prevent or which South ruffed with the king to punish it. It seeks to avoid check war among its members.
Article XVI of the Covenant of hearts. West again being forced involvement in measures of force should be revised to grade the to underruff with the nine of and yet to exert its influence hearts.
against an outbreak of economic responsibilities of nations in the It would not North and South made a grand anarchy. There are those among be difficult. An "optional clause"
was here indicated. slam against the two-heart bid, the international lawyers who could be signed by those nations setting West eight tricks, doubled.think that the refusal to aid is in which agree to help each other to itself a dangerous departure from
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