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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
July 18, 1941.
DONALD DUCK
By Walt Disney
THREE DOLLARS!
THREE (DOLLARS)
TWO DOLLARS!
OKAY! THREE!
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"Swing" Hand
SWING of 2,400 points on a single board is enough to decide almost any team-of-four That was the case in the recent Van- derbilt tournament in New York, with the hand shown below playing the role of both hero and villain according to the point of view.
Both sides vulnerable.
Team-of-four match.
Total point scoring.
North deater.
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tract could be defeated, and surely a double, "placing" the spades for South's guidance, would match.
crease the defenders chance. More- over, there ability that East would not be able was the strong prob- to stand the double, as indeed he could not, North's prompi redouble put East-West in the position where) they had to lose an enormous num-- ber of points either by standing pat or by ruming to five hearts.
Excellent play on South's could have produced two extra tricks part ni a four spade contract, but inas- much as this would have involved almost double dummy technique, It
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tract should have been reached and, even more questionable, that it would
been made it West had not dis- closed the spade situation. The con- clusion, so far as it affects this' table, i must be that East-West took entirely too much action on their very meagre resources.
At table. No. 1, the bidding pro- the l-fated East-West team, here
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It required only reasonable Ele- fenge to hold East to six of his cight heart tricks and thus he had to pag the suleidal penalty of 1,400 points. The fault here must be divided fair- ly evenly between East and West.
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At the other table, the partners of sitting North-South, did just badly, reaching a seven diamond contract! West doubled and North had the unmitigated nerve to re- double. The contract was defeated wo tricks for 1,000 points. Thus the teammates sitting North-South at the first table and East-West až the second table, collecte: 2,100 points on this board.
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punishment except for the, atrocious co-operation of his part- ner. South refused to be shut out with his very for hond, and though a leap to four spades entailed con- siderable risk, appeared to be the least of all evils. It was West who put his own team in jeopardy by doubling the four spade bid Grant- How should this hand be bid, and Ing that he could expect better how should South play it at a two hearts from Enst, it was still highly notrump contract if West opens the questionable that a four spade con- club ten?
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The Blitz Comes to Fleet Street
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By Ritchie Calder
Never once, through- out the blitz, has any of the national newspapers failed to come out. Some- times it has been a be- lated edition, but the tradition has been un- broken. And the same is truo of the provincial papers.
Yet it is still possible for country readers to write in indignantly; "From my shelter, I heard continuously all night and enemy planes flying over. yet all I find in my morn ing paper is a brief ac-
count
"
That brief
account probably meant newspapermen going out into Hell, being injured, falling into craters, being knocked out by blast and crawling back through wreckage and falling bombs to catch the coun- try edition.
Once, before they were seasoned, newspaper staffs used to go to shelter when the spotters gave the "Flicker"-a lamp that. flashes in every. depart- · ment when the bombs are dropping in the immediate vicinity. Now, with the windows bricked up, they just carry on at their desks, ignoring "Jerry."
They go home in the morning, often, to find their own homes bombed and all they possess de- -troyed, and just mention it as a piece of gossip when they return to duty the same night.
Some of us are the Blitz- Bloodhounds. Wherever the Luftwaffe goes, we must fol- low. When London was be ing pounded in September, the only way to get Front Line stories was to be in the Front Line and that meant sharing day and night the lives of these ordinary, but incredible people of the back- streets. It meant patrolling the blitz at all hours.-
It meant sleeping --1- though "sleep" was often an exaggeration in every type of shelter (and, believe me, I did take shelter I)-Ander- yons, surface shelters, big community shelters, where every race and type herded together, the Tubes and luxury shelters of de luxe hotels. That was when I discovered that "pluck" was often just funk in disguise.
Most often, it was a case of "putting a face on It" be- cause otherwise you might look silly-as I did when I crawled out from under a bar in an East End pub to find the unperturbed Cockneys laughing at me, although the bomb had dropped only 5 block away.
Of course, I had my tin hat, but sometimes it wasn't muchi use. For instance, one night I was making a tour of shel- tera with Father Groser, milltant, indomitable, tireless clergyman of the East End.
It was one of the bad nights, but Fathor John went striding along, throughout the black-out and blitz, his Cassock flying and his white. hend uncovered. Every time a bomb dropped he told me it was a door slamming in one of the wrecked houses. When a building collapsed, he sald
It was the demolition squad working late.
And all the time he kept
well-known London columnist
on talking about water get- ting into the shelters, or how he could get Mrs Brown away from London, or how to persuade the Enst Enders to pay less than a penny for a cup of tea, without them thinking it was charity. Ten feet ahead of us, a mighty spark leapt from the foot- way. "An incendiary bomb," I suggested. "No,"
said was, eighteen inches long and John, “a, splinter." So it weighing a pound,
It was then I took him firmly by the arm and said: "Why don't you wear a tin hat, John? If you don't, I can't. It isn't done." Coolly he said: "I can't wear a tin hat. My people have not got tin huts. If I wore one, it would make me different from them." So both of us had to finish the night barehended.
Within a month, I had been out in twenty-three blitzes. Since then I have
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"It didn't." I replied. "Don't be silly," he said severely, "It must have landed just here.” And for ten minutes argued, quite heatedly, as to what I had done with that bomb. Presumably it had "touched off" in the air. But that warden had to account for it somehow in his return.
We journalists may count ourselves hardened campaign-- ers, but we realise we are mere amateurs compared with these matter-of-fact heroes of the civil defence.
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A colleague, was in the thick of bomb-incident. He was groping his way through a mesh of fire boxes, with the bombs dropping around, and pretending to be a hero, when he fell headlong into a fresh-made crater. As he was elimbing out of it, a warden leaned over the edge and demanded: "Where's your identity card." "What
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lost count. But in my off- time I have been the first to take cover when the sirens went. Why? Because I have a. "suicide complex." I would not deliberately commit sui- eide, but, when there is a job to be done, my life isn't my own responsibility.
That nasty smear-on-my- waistcoat is the reminder of the night I "pinched the bomb." The biftz had based into silence and I was alone in a deserted street when. suddenly,
there
was the whistle of a stick of bombs, one, two and a third-by the sound of it-coming straight for me. 1 dived into a puddle. There was a terrific. explosion and. I waited for the build- ings to collapse on top of me.
Nothing happened. I pick- ed myself up rather sheepish- ly to be confronted by a panting warden. "Where did that one land?" he demanded.
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the hell!" exploded the journalist: "Do you think I came down with the bomb?"
The regular "Blitz-blood- hounds," whom I encounter in cach new Blitz Town, include American journalists. One of them. after he had been dug out of the cellar of his bomb- ed house, said to me, "Can-I- call myself a 'Londoner' now? I've been initiated!"
That has been one of the compensations of our job in: the Battle of Britain. We haven't been just reporters standing outside the event and recording it.
We have been part of the event. We have been initiated into the "brotherhood of the blitz"-into that "we-are-all- in-it-together" fellowship of the ordinary blokes, with whom we have shared the risks and lived the "story."
The Front Page has become the Front Line.
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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN THE SOCIETY ASKS YOR
$32.000
in 1041 to meet the increming needs of sick and dentitute children in Hongkong, against which the Income to date is $10,000 only,
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