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August 1, 1941.
By Walt Disney
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CONTRACT How to Play
BRIDGE
By JOSEPHINE CU
How Win
Sizing Up a Discard
ISCARDS must be Judged on Hubs, a fact curefully muted by de- varying bases, depending on the dare, who decided then and there skill of the player who makes the that he would not rely on club weak- discord. A novice throws away any ness in West's hand!
card that does not promike to win The diamond king was costed, trick. The expert proceeds along then a spade was led to dummy. more logical linca. He knows that if This tinte West let go a low heart le discards from n certain
he and East "loudly" signalled with the
}{scrkel ten. Declarer "shows up" his partner, who may heart have n finessable queen or jack in heart on the diamond queen, cashed that
eril the heart nee, then ran off the rest when an experi sufi.
Hence, scums to admit weakness in a suit, of his trumps. With one trump re the chances are very stron: that healing, declarer also had the K-J-5 West was reduced to the can well afford his discard-in other clubs. words, that he still has the sult stop-high diamond and the Q-10-9 of ned. Note how this affects the ex- clubs. The diamond six, heart seven, were kept in pert play of a deal such as the fol- and A-9 of clubs Jowing:
Rubber bridge.
South dealer,
Both aldes vulnerable.
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The bidding:
South West North Eart
1 A
4NT 7A
Pasa BA Pass
l'ass SNT Pass PARA Pase 4-5 Natrump Convention.
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South's hand qualified as a mini- inum two spade bid, but, since it was a minimum, South preferred a one-bld. After the jump raise, South located the raissing two aces by using the 4-5 Notrump Convention.
with this information, the final leap to a grand slam was a distinel stretch, but South was that sort of player.
West opened the diamond jack.) Declarer won and cashed the ace andi king of trumps. On the second round West discarded the deuce ot]
dummy, East's band did not mat ter, except that he had the high hearts,
Now declarer led his last trump, and poor West had to surrender, The would not discard the diamond
without setting up dummy's six-
spot: hence he reluctantly gave up
the club eight. Thereupon depincar led law to the club ace, back to his king, and cashed the jack for the fulfilling trick.
His to be feared that many de- clarers would lose this contract by finessing to the K-J of clubs, par-
ticularly after West's low club dis card. This declarer shunned the Anesse particularly because of that discard!
To-morrow's Hand
North-South vulnerable. Rubber bridge.
West dealer.
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Count-the- TELEGRAPHS' everywhere:
Philip
Jordan
Darzitete Kina Trazziren Myrdesin, for. WALT DISNE GDI
gets some first-hand news from
Occupied France
HAVE JUST HAD
FIRST-HAND IN- FORMATION (in a way which I much regret I cannot divulge) of life in Occupied France.
This information has a special interest and im- portance, because it comes from a little provincial town and not from Paris.
News from Paris is fairly frequent in Britain, and tells only of what is happening in the capital, which, like all capitals,
more
or less represents nothing but itself. As the heart and soul and back- bone of Britain are to be found in the provinces, so are the same anatomical and spiritual pieces of France to be found in the French provinces.
MOST INTERESTING
TO ME of all I heard is the complete ignorance. of Parisian events in which the inhabitants of this little town are kopt by their temporary Lover-lords...
They had never, for in- stance, heard of the last November 11 anti-German demonstrations in Paris, when German machine-gun- ners opened fire from the top of the Arc de Triomphe on an unarmed crowd in the streets below.
They know little or nothing about what is happening in any district of France other than their own. I imagine that goes, for the whole of oc- cupied France. On the other hand they know a lot about what is happening in Britain, Africa and the United States.
And
for
this reason, French newspapers, which merely print what the Ger- either tell or permit them to print, are almost en- tirely boycotted. Their sale is derisory.
mans
But the B.B.C. broadcasts in French are a howling suc- Although it is forbid.
cess.
den to listen to them, the midday and the evening broadcasts have a tremendous audience, and what is said in those broadcasts is passed on with all the mystery and ra- pidity of a bush telegraph.
* ★
IN THE LITTLE PRO-
VINCIAL TOWN from which my news comes, General de Gaulle's request that all French men and wo- men should mark their belief in his cause by staying in-
doors on New Year's Day, was obeyed by practically the entire community, “Perhaps one saw half a dozen im- beciles on the streets that day," I was told..
The local sport seems to bo cutting Germantolophono wires, the individual penalty for which, if caught, is death; tho collective penalty an enormous fine. This particu- lar small town has fines which
already run into millions of Cranes. And no doubt it will have more.
Life as a whole is almost normal, except (and a very big "except" it is) for the presence of German soldiers, The enemy, on the face of it, interferes very little, except with the local newspapers, printing and engraving In- sinesses; people don't use the telephone at all.
✰
My information confirms reports brought back to this country by British bomber pilots, that whenever British planes fly over by day, the
people come co into the streets and wave to them. They do it in front of the Ger- man soldiers.
Germans, having no sense of humour, simply don't-un- derstand how on earth any- one can welcome. a bomber. which, at any moment, might * lay an egg on you.
The French have, a witty genius for irritating people. The Germans have been pret ty well driven out of the local restaurants. In this way. Whenever they came in they used to unbuckle their dagger- adorned belts and hang them on the wall. So the French used to come in with belts adorned with bicycle pumps, and hang them up alongside those of the Nazis. Result: loud laughter which panzer- divisioned the Germans out of the restaurant...
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Such conduct baffles, and, some degree, dispirits them. The old racial inferi- ority-complex is set working overtime. They are puzzled.
AN
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ND about invasion of Britain. It seems that only the youngest and most fanatical of Hitler's soldiers view an attempted Invasion with anything but dismay.
Interest in
French
New World Empire
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UP).—Uncertainty over the status of the French colonial empire as a result of the collaboration Vichy - Berlin agreement has attracted new attention to possessions in the Western Hemisphere.
The largest of these new world possessions, and the only one on the American continent proper, is French Guiana, a colony covering 34,- 740 square miles. More than one-third of the colony bor- ders on Brazil.
French Guiana is the best known because of the famous perial settlement at Devil's Island. Actually, Devil's Is. land constitutes only a minute fraction of the colony's rela- tively vast expanse. It is coastal situated along the
fringe. This fringe consti- tutes one of the natural paral- lel belts which roughly divide French Guiana into geogra- phic zones beginning at the ocean front and extending back into the interior.
- Unexplored Plateau Beyond the coastal fringe, according to a report of the American Geographical So- ciety, is a marshy area 15 to 25 miles wide.
The next zone is a low hilly. area, and beyond this is the largely unexplored and spar- low plateau ex- sely settled tending about 125 miles. At the edge of this zone is a range of hilla approximately 1,200 feet high and along the Brazilian boundary lies the 2,500 foot Tumuc Humac range of mountains.
The climate is hot, humid and monotonous. There are two rainy seasons from May through. June and November "through January. February
and March are dry.
long
"French Gulana has been considered a blot on South America," the Geogra- phical Society said. "AR three
been Guianas have among the most difficult re- gions of the continent to colonise, but of the three, tho French colony has shown the least progreRS. It is also the Icast suitable for habitation as well as the least known,
Development Retarded
"The difficulties result from an unfortunate combination.
of physical, political and so- cial conditions. The great amount of low, swampy land, the continually high tempern- tures, the heavy rainfall, the dense vegetation and tropical pests have all retarded de- velopment.
"Since, however, the three Guianas (French, British and Dutch)--have-similar-physical conditions, the differences in social and economic status must be largely due to factors of colonial and governmental policy."
come
French Guiana might be- an entirely different type of colony, the Society's report said, if money were available for the development of modern sanitation systems and adequate communication facilities. The colony is not without valuable natural re- sources, the report points out.
Natural Resources
Among these are gold, for- est products, coffee, cacao, and sugar. In addition, the colony has great grassy areas which are well suited for cattle raising.
Despite these assets, how- ever, agriculture is poorly de- veloped and the colony is re- quired to import many com- moditics, among them some which could be produced loc- ally, from neighbouring coun- trics.
The colony has only four accessible ports: Cayenne, the capital; St Laurent du Maroni, St Georges du Oya- pock and Regina. None can handle large vessels.
Land communication with neighbouring Brazil and Dutch Guiana (Surianam) is practically non-existent. There are no rail-roads. Vir- tually all communications with interior points are by river. In recent years, been French Guiana has linked to the other Americas by plane.. Pan-American Airways makea onc stop weekly at Cayenne with mail and passengers.
The early history of tho colony was marked by strife with the Indiana, French, Dutch, British and Portu- Reso. Tho colony changed hands several times until 1814, when the French cata- blished their sovereignty.
LANDMARK DAMAGED Lambeth Palace, London, anciont home of Archbishops of Canterbury, mot this fate when Hiflor- mon flow over British capital in recent raid. This shows chapel of palace, where bombs' fall hoaviast.
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10.35 Dinah Shore in a "swing" Programme.
11.00 London "Makers of I-
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STOCK MARKET REPORT
Hongkong Stock Exchange Official Summary, lasued yesterday, is:
Buyers
H.K. Govt. 4% Loan 97.80
H.K. Goyl 34% Loan (1934) 04.50 II.K. Govt 33% Loan (1040) 84.50. Canton Ins. $223 H.K. Fire Ins. $105 Providents $5.70 Lands $33.75
Chinese Estates $101 Lights "O" $5,70 Electries "O" Rts $10.60
Selfórs
Electrice "O" X. Rts $22.25 Electrics Rts $11:10
Macao Electrics $18.00
Sales
H.K. Govt 3% Loan (1034) D Wharves $91
Macno Electries $10.40
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