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August 1; 1941,
By Walt Disney
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CONTRACT How to Phy
BRIDGE
How to Win
JOSEPHINE GULBERTS
Sizing Up a Discard
ISCARDS must be judged on clubs, a fact carefully noted by de-
bages, depending on the with decided then and there
skill of the player who makes the that he would not rely on club weak- discard. A novice throws away any ness in West's hand!
card that does not promike to win al The diamond king was cashed, trick. The expert proceeds along then a spade was led to dummy. logical lines. He knows that if This time West let go a low heart he discards from a certain suit, he and East "loudly signalled with the
ay heart ten. Declarer discarded
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"shows up" his partner, who may heart on the diamond queen, cashed have a Anessable queen or jack in
Hence, when an expert the heart ace, then ran off the rest that suit. seems to admit weakness in a suit, of his trumps. With one trump re- the chances are very strong that he mining, declarer also had the K-J-5 ean well afford his discard--in other of clubs. West was reduced to the words, that he still has the suit stop high diamond and the Q-10-8 of clubs. The diamond six, heart seven, and A-0 of clubs were kept in dumny. East's hand did not mat- ter, except that he had the high hearts.
ped. Note how this affects the ex- pert play of a deal such as the fol- lowing:
Rubber bridge.
South dealer,
Both sides vulnerable.
AJ 10 7 3
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Q1084 S
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The biddingi
South West North 14
Pans 4N T PRES 74
Enst 3 A
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*4-8 Notrump Conventies. South's hand qualified as a mini- mum two spade bid, but, since it; was a miniinum, South preferred a one-bid. After the jump raise, South located the missing two aces hy using the 4-5 Notrump Convention. Even with this information, the final
a grand slam was a distinctl leap to
but South was that sort of stretch, player.
West opened the diamond jack. Declarer wan and cashed the ace and king of trumps. On the second round West discarded the deuce of
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Now declarer led his last trump,
and poor West had to surrender, could not discard the diamond without setting up duminy's six- spot; hence he reluctantly gave up the club eight. Thereupon declarer led low to the club nce, buck to his cushed the juck for the king. and fulding trick.
It is
be feared that many de clarers would lose this contract by finessing to the K-J of clubs, par- tilarly after West's low club dis card. This declarer shunned the finesse particularly because of that discard!
To-morrow's Hand
North-South vulnerable. Rubber bridge.
West dealer.
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A QJ 10
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AKB VQ8542 0.092 4QJ6
VAKJ63
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Occupied France
T 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 pièces of France to be found in the French provinces.
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MOST INTERESTING
TO ME of all I heard is the complete ignorance of Parisian events in which the inhabitants of this little town are kept by their temporary over-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
which newspapers, merely print what the Ger- mans either tell or permit them to print, are almost en- tirely boycotted. Their sale is derisory,
But the B.B.C, broadcasts in French are a howling suc- ce84. Although it is forbid- 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.
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IN THE LITTLE PRO-
VINCIAL TOWN from which my news comes, General de Gaulie's request that all French men and wo- men should mark their belief. in his causo by staying in- doors on New Year's Day, was obeyed by practically the entire community. "Perhaps ∙ono saw half a dozen im- beciles on the streets that day," I was told.
The local sport seems to be cutting German telephone wires, the individual penalty
· for, which, if caught, is death; tho collective penalty an. eriormous fine. This particu
·lar amall town has fines Which
already run into millions of Tranes, 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 bu telephone at all, sinesses; people don't use the
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My information confirms reports brought back to this country by British bomber pilots, that whenever British planes fly over by day, the
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people come out 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 pumpa, and hang them up alongside those of the Nazis. Result: loud laughter which panzer- divisioned the Germans out of the restaurant.
Such conduct baffles, and, to some degree, dispirits them. The old racial inferi- ority-complex is set working overtime. They are puzzled.
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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 Vichy Berlin collaboration 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 Guinna, 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 penal settlement at Devil's Island. Actually, Devil's 18- lund 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- sely settled low plateau ex- tending about 125 miles. At the edge of this zone is a range of hills 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.
"French Guiana has long -been considered a blot on South America," the Googra- phical Society sald, "All three Gulonas have been among the most difficult re- glons of the continent to. colonise, but of the three, the French colony has shown the
least progress. It is also the lenst 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 tempera- 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."
French Guiana might be- come 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 arcas 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- modities, among them some which could be produced loc- ally, from neighbouring coun- tries.
The colony has only four accessible ports: Cayenne, the
Laurent capital; St
du Maroni, St Georges du Oyn- pock and Regina. None can handle large vessels.
Land communication with neighbouring Brazil and Dutch Guiana (Surlanam) is practically non-existent. There are no rail-roads. Vir- tually all communications with interior points are by river. In recent years, French Gulana has been linked to the other Americas by plane. Pan - American Airways makes, one stop weekly at Cayenne with mail and passengers.
The early history of the colony was marked by strife with the Indians, French, Dutch, British and Portu- geac. The colony changed hands several times until 1814, when the French esta- blished their sovereignty."
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