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OKAY FOR ME!
UNCA
DONALD!
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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
AND
How to Win
-By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON-
New Method Is Equally Safe
"DEAR Mrs Culbertson: Our little "Will you please analyze this situa- group has taken up the new tion for us and compare the two methods of the Culbertson System and, generally speaking, has found methods of bidding?-RD.L., New
them
very* satisfactory. However, York."
we do not always get good results It is quite true that under the with the new procedure in the mat- old rule, which demanded a first response of two notrump on a hand
ter of two-bids. This hand gave us
A AÐ
VA K 108 G OAKQ84
a lot of trouble in our lost session, such as South's, the final contract
North dealer.
would properly be only four spades, North-South vulnerable.
easily makable. It is equally true, however, that under the new sys- tem (which calls for a suit response If the suit is as good as K xxxx, Q 1 x x x, or six cards or longer) North-South should niso stop at four spades, with this bidding:
South West Pass 24 Pads Pats PAIL
K4
N
AQJ
J72 AKB4
♥ งดง
W
0 1063
S
QJ107
A 10870 63 2
♡ 43
96
G5
"Our bidding (1 sat North) pro-
eèeded:
North East
Senth
2
Pasa 24
Weat Pass
10 PAR
4NT Pass 60
Pasa Pass
Гала Pass Pass
*Culbertson 4-8 Netrump convention,
North East
2♡
44
Pass Pau
Раза
The difference lies in the absence of a four notrump call by North. The latter should feel that a two hear!' opening, followed by a three diamond bid and then by a spode raise, adequately and fully describes his top-card strength and distribu- tlon, and guarantees a maximum of over four spades, no slam is in pro
elib. If South cannot bld again one spect; hence there is no need for the high investigating measure of four
To-morrow's Hand Rubber bridge. Both aides vulnerable. South dealer.
"We managed to stop short of slam, but still had to take a loss on the deal. West opened the club dumnly. My
partner cashed the spade ace, but then had to gues how to get back to his own hand, Unfortunately, he guessed wrong. cashing two hearts, then ruffing a third heart. West over-ruffed arid East's spade queon was still good. Of course, Bouth had ruffed a diamond, he could then have dropped the two high trumps on one trick and fulfiled the contract, but this
and continued with the ACC; rifnal notrump.
was
"Som". guess,
of us thought that under the old system, in which South would first have to answer with two notrump, the final contract would be safer. This bidding would bor
North East
212.
Fa
Bouth INT
Paik
L'ABB
FASS
AK?
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N AJ 100 W E 64 4974
AA8
J.58 10963 072
K088
KQ54 AJ 104
How should East-West defend against South's three notrump con- tract
JUNCTION
SHARKSKIN
July 30, 1941.
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WHAT Was This Woman's SECRET?
WE
JE know that Helen of Troy was beautiful enough to have one of the most famous battles in history fought in her honour, and we could certainly do with some- one to-day whose face alorie could launch us a thousand ships. But what no one can quite make up his mind about is whether or not the lovely Helen was also a drug addict.
Here and there a frag- ment in her story seems to point to the fact that Helen definitely was.
For instance, in the Odys- Bey, Homer tells us that when Telemachus visited Menelaus (Helen's lawful husband) in Sparta, the remembrance of Ulysses and other warriors acted very depressingly on the assembly, so Menelaus or- dered a banquet to be served and Helen herself prepared the guests a pecullar drink.
"And Helen, daughter of Zeus, poured into the wine a drug, Nepenthe, which gave. forgotfulness of evil.
"Those who had drunk of this did not shed a tear the whole day long, even if their mother or father were dead; even if a brother or a beloved
HELEN OF TROY
is the woman,
In this article, MARCUS HOLLYSTONE will help you to know her a littlo botter
son had been killed bafore their eyes by the chemy.
"And Holan, daughter of Zeus, possessed this wonder-
ful substance which Polydam- na had given her; the wife of Thonis in Egypt that fertile country which produced '80 many balms, some beneficial aid some deadly."
*
MODERN science says there.
is only one substance in the world capable of acting in this way, and that is opium -the vehicle of morphin.
Its characteristic effect af- ter, habitual use is a state of complete indifference towards everything except oneself.
an-
This description from Homer has enabled doctors and historians to make other guess: namely, that Greek warriors consumed Nepenthe before battle, in order to dull their sense of danger.
Only the "initiated"the Heroes made usc of It. Surely, then, Helen had pre- pared this opiate at other times and other occasions for. her confidants, from her store of Egyptian drugs,
AN
ND while we are on the subject of drugs, don't make the mistake of thinking the Stone Age was as simple as it sounds.
Relics from the Stone Age -the epoch of the lake dwel lers some 4,000 years ago— found in the Swiss Lakes, In- clude not only poppy seeds but also capsules of the pop- ples.
On examination, these have proved not to be primitiva wild popples but the culti- vated oplum poppy itself.
So they knew a thing or, two about Nepentho even be fore the lovely Helen did!
According to an official report released for publication by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, the combined values of the Colony's Imports and exports of merchandler during the first half year of 1941 totalled $689,8 millions (£42.6 millions) ns compared with $746,1 millions (246.1 millions) in the first half year of 1940, and $571.0 million (£35,1 millions) in the first half year of 1939,
In terms of local currency the total visible trade of the Colony decreased by 7,5 per cent. in the first half year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940, and increased by 20.8 per cent. us compared with the first half year of 1939.
In terms of sterling the tota? visible trade of the Colony decreased by 7.6 per cent. In the first half year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940, and increased by 21.4 !- per cent, as compared with the first half year of 1939. Imports of merchandise amounted f In terms of sterling values Imports to $387.3 millions (£23.0 millions) of merchandise decreased by 7.7 per in the first half year of 1841 as com-cent, in the first half year of 1941 as pared
with $419.0 millions (£25.9 compared with the first half year of millions) In the drst half year of 1940, and increased by 20.2 per cent. 1940, and $301.0 millions (£18.5 as compared with the first half- year millions) in the first half year of of 1939; exports decreased by 7.4 per 1930; whilst exporis amounted to.
to cent, in the first half year of 1941 as $302.5 millions (£18.7 millions), compared with the first half year of $320.5 millions (£20.2 millions) and 1040, and Increased by 12.7 per cent, | $270.0 millions (£18.0 millions) res-as compared with the first half year
pectively,
of 1030..
In terms of Hongkong currency imports of merchandise decreased by
7.7 per
per cent. in the first half year
of 1941 as compared with the first half year
of 1940, and increased by 20.7 per cent, as compared with the first half
year of 1039; willst exports decreased by 7.4 per cent. in the first half
year of 1941 as compared with the first half year of 1940,, and in- creased by 12.0 per ent, us compared with the first half year of 1039.
STOCK MARKET
REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary, Issued yesterday is:
Buyers
H.K. Govt 4% Loan 07.50
H.K. Govt. 3% Loan (1934) 94.25 H.K. Govt. 314% Loan (1940) 84.25 Bank of East Asia $75
Canton Ins. $225 Chinese Estates $101 Mocso Electrica $18
H.K. Fire Ins. $165
Sellers
Electrics "O" X. Rts $22,25 -Electrics Rts-$11.10-
Docks $15.70
Sales
Providents $5.00/65 Trams $10.90 Lights "O" $5.00/80 Lights "N" $1.30 Electrics "N" $21 Electries Rts. $11 Macho Electrics $10.30
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