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JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
The All-revealing Double
Mrs Culbertson: The en- "On the lead of the diamond are closed hand offers one more South discarded the club. Jack, and lesson on one of your favourite topics, West was squeezed. He let go the which is 'do not double slam Liis unless you have the setting tricks seven of spades and Scuth then ready to cusi.
cashed the ace, king and nine of spades. On the last round, West "North-South vulnerable: 80 part-again was squeezed. This time he threw the heart nine, which al- lowed dummy to ensh two good heart tricks, the club ace of course
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ly have taken the club finesse for his thirteenth trick. This, especial- ly if West had the gumption and foresight to hold his three spades and his heart stopper, and to blank| his club king. As it was, since he hart marked himself with the club king, he could not afford to blank it. "Yours truly, L.L.F., New York,"
I have written so much, and so "Admittedly the bkiding was on often, on the subject of the hop-skip-and-jump order. South revealing double of slam contracts, the all- probably could have made far that any comment by me, over and better bld than an abrupt leap to chove those made by the corro- alx notrump, and if North chose to spondent, would be superfluous, bid k have selected diamonds rather than notrump. But that is not the ques tion. It wus West's double thint showed declarer the road to success- ful play.
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Yenan Prepares Plan For Collaboration With Kuomintang
By ROBERT P. MARTIN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
· SHANGHAI, Aug 12 (UP),-Chinese Communist quarters hero hinted to the United Press to-day that the Yenan Com- munist border region government was laying the groundwork of a plan for continued amicable relations with the Kuomintang in the future, especially in the post-war reconstruction period.
The Yenan regime governs sections of Shansi, Kansu and Kuomintang collaboration are being made in these areas.
Ninghsin provinces, and preparations for future Communist-
Communist sources revealed that the recent meeting of the Central Political Council of the Communist Party in Yenan drew up a political platform, of which one of the chief. planks was a resolution pro- viding:
Firstly, that of the total number of candidates in a given election, only one-third will be Communist Party members and the remaining two-thirds will be members of other partles and
non- partisans;
Secondly, if members of the Communist Party are elected heads of government organs, the Party will guarantee that two-thirds of the officers of. any such organ would not be Communists,
ACUTE PROBLEM
Although the first pro- vision is nullified by the fact the overwhelming majority of voters in the border region are Communists and would vote as a block, thereby de- feating the split vote for the non-Communist candidates,
the second provision tends to offset one of the chief pro- blems facing the Communists. This is the fact that Com- munist domination of govern- ment-organs and administra tive bodies is so strong that the Communist Party's claims that it is more democratic than Chungking's Kuomintang has little meaning. This problem was acute when I visited Yenan two years ago, and according to Communist sources it is still of major importance.
Communist sources say ad- herence to this two-point resolution throughout the Yenan border region would tend to disprove counter- charges by Chungking that wherever the Communists gain political control they also assume complete administra- tive control at the expense of other party members.
BASIC DIFFERENCE* One of the basic differences between the Kuomintang and the Communists throughout the war has been Chungking's claim that wherever Com- munist guerillas operated they have attempted to establish an administrative organisation which gave allegiance to Yenan rather than to Chung- king. This created the fear 'that in time the Communists might become more powerful. than the Kuomintang,
Communist sources say this. claim has been disproved by the Communist platform guaranteeing to minor party members representation, and positions in the government.
Whether the platform will actually be carried out, and whether it would have any effect on futuro Kuomintang Communist relations. will be. shown only by developments. `PRIVATE PROPERTY · The Communist platform also seeks to allay Kuomintang suspicions that tho Com- munista ara planning con- fiscation of property. In an- other resolution the Party promises to "develop exten sive Industrial production and
!
commerce, encourage estab lishment of private enter- prises, protect private pro- perties, welcome investments from outsiders, promote free- dom of trado, and develop handicraft industries and co- operatives."
At the same time, the plat- form indicates the Communist party's determination to main- tain its basic programme against largo tenancy and absentee land ownership. It also contains a plank in which the party promises to pro- tect, "in sections where dia- tribution of land has been made, the property rights of farmers who have received shares, and, in sections where no distribution has been per- formed, the property rights of landlords, on condition of reasonable lowering of land rents and readjustment of relations between farmers and landlords." All this is sub- jeet to wide interpretations.
ANTI-JAPANESE FRONT The platform reiterates the Communist determination to
carry on the anti-Japanese war in close co-operation with the Kuomintang, utilising all re- sources and man-power avail- able. However, the platform declares that such resources and man-power would also be utilised "for the defence of the border region" against ail encroachments, indicating that the Communists would not accept passively any anti- Communist effort to crush the Yenan government.
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The platform advocates in- ternal reforms in the judicial system, including abolition of "flesh punishment," ances of honest political ad- ministration and punishment for corruption. It also id- vocates state ald in the form of tools, fertilisers and secds
furmers, reclamation of waste land. enforcement of a 10-hour working day, improvement of the standard of living, or- ganisation of a taxation sys- tem under which all taxes would be in proportion to the size of property holdings or incomes, and promotion of health.
The platform urges guar- antees for freedom of religion. speech, assembly and press, and welcomes all foreigners travelling or living in China for religious, cultural, dustrial purposes,
Midnight Patrol
PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE Further, extract from the diary of a journalist now in the Army.
the moonlit
the silent fir trees look like those ink-blot pictures we`. used to make when we were very young-black, jagged and bizarre, All the stars are out:
We are on Night Opera- tions. It is necessary for us to learn how to move after sunset, in the dark or the moonlight, when every path 18 strange and every shape is monstrous.
At night you have to keep belly-to-earth, and crawl on your knees and elbows, nd- vancing as n cat advances, hind foot to fore-foot, not breaking
one unnecessary inch of fresh track.
"This Is Grand" When the occasion de- mands it, you must know how to freeze into absolute stillness.
Out of the darkness hoarso voice says: "This is grand."
We know that voice. It belongs to the man called 'Old Jeddup:
sergeants say to him. "Old "Hold your head up!" the
Jeddup, why don't you?"*
He walks with a loose. hundred pounds; sita with limbed slouch; weighs two
every muscle relaxed; lies liku a dropped chain,
He is generally regarded as lumay; his hands,
like bunches of bananas, look at once stiff and soft and inert.
The officer wants to sev How far any
man miny
get
or in-
without being detected crawling, ducking and shun- ning the deathtrap of the naked skyline. "I'll go," впун Old Jeddup.
Not A Sound! "Take a gander at this," says the Lad from the Ele- phant and Castle, who is 'de- veloping a weakness for the North American accent. "This is gonna be good."
"Where is he?" asks the Schoolmaster-for Old Jed- dup has disappeared,
"Quiet there," says the of- ficer. We listen, straining our cars;
the and watch heather with
tense
eyes. There is no sound. Not a sprig moves.
"When's 'e gonna start?" whispers the Lad; and some- body whispers back; "He went ages ago, towards that hill."
The hill swims in bright moonlight. A weasel could never get across it unob- served. But the earth has swallowed: Old Jeddup.. Five minutes pass. Ten minutes.
The officer twiddles hia fingers. Where is Old Jed- dup ?..
He comes up suddenly out of the ground, big and silent as a cloud of smoke, and says: "Ow's that?"
He has been over the little. hill, through the moonlight across the skyline, round the gorse bushes, and back.
"That desorves a prize," says the officer. "What werd you before you joined the Army?"
"A poacher,.says Old Jed- dup.
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We got back to the hut, at midnight. "Anybody
want this?" says Old Jeddup, pull- ing something from under his blouse.
It is a dead rabbit,
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IRAN INACTION WORRIES ALLIES
(By “Reuters” Special Correspondent)
CAIRO, Aug. 12-Although the Soviet and British Min- slons in Teheran have acted energetically and on parallel lines in an effort to bring home to Iran the menace of Ñazi penetra- tion, it is not yet clear that the Iranian Government appre- ciate fully the dangers of the situation.
For instance, according to re-j liable though unofficial reports, the Iranian Government have compared the total numbers' of Germans and Britons in the country without taking into ac- count the fact that Britons are mainly old residents employed in oil-fields and like work, whereas the Germans mostly recent arrivals of the
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Portugal's Credits
Freed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (Reuter).
well-known fifth-column stamp.-A Treasury statement "unfreezing" that the licence was
assets in the
United
The Soviet Government, engaged Portuguese in a life and death struggle with the States says Nazi regime, have made it plain to sued after Portugal "gave appro-... Iran that it refuses to tolerate any printe assurance to this Government. weakening of Iranian neutrality The order of June 14 freezing which would permit afth column ac foreign assets was accompanied by a tivity in the rear of its armies,,
presidential statement The British have been no less posi-exemptions whenever they undertook Portugal and five other countries promising. tive. It is hoped that the Iranian Government will
to use the exemptions to help the heed these friendly but earnest warnings and give evid-axis. ence of its goodwill by expelling the Sweden had since received similar Russia, Switzerland, Spain, and Nazi agents. These agents are exemptions but Finland had not yet
noi
ting
self
During the last few days, however,
as much against the Shan him- done su as against Aliled interests in the Middle East.
A general licence exempts tho Government and Its Bank more Germans have been reported on nationals under
and Portuguese their
way to Iron,
certain The situation [from President Roosevelt's freezing conditions
Portuguese assets in the United States are csilmated at about $100,- 000,000.
must, therefore, be considered as still order of June 14, giving rise to some disquiet,
Warnings Brushed Aside TEHERAN, Aug 12 (Reuter),—| There are no fresh developments in Iran as a result of the present inter- national situation.
Newspapers emphasise Iran's neu- trality in all circumstances. They also strongly deny recent foreign press and raido reports on the sub- ject of German experts and tourists
Iron.
Government claim that foreigners are under strict control and that their activities and profes- sions are known to the police. Con- sequently, there is no danger, polen- tlat and otherwise, to the state from their activities,
Commenting on Mr Anthony Eden's recent speech in the House of Com- mons, the newspapers point out that) Tran_to-day-is-not-the-same-Iran-of 1914 to 1018 and therefore the warn- Ing is out of place.
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Japan Speeds Training Of Seamen
SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" TOKYO, Aug. 12 (Domel),-Iu order to meet the growing demand for higher
scamen by Japan's wartime merchant marine, the Minis- ry of Communications is planning to open a special high secmen train- ing institute which will train middle class seamen for nine months. The graduates of the new institute will be given the same status as the graduates of the Nautical College.
Meanwhile,
in order to train middle-class scamen; a short Institute for the training of higher scomen will also be
to opened admit the youths who have finished the fourtir year course of the middle school and train them for one year. The graduates of this institute will be given the same qualifications as the graddates of middle-grade mer- 'cantile marine schools.
course
SINGAPORE IS
HOT SPOT FOR NEXT NEWS
Nows).With the Far East becoming
SINGAPORE, Aug. 12 (Central)
the cynosure of attention American,
British and Australian journalists are flocking to Singapore rendy to Dash
newa to the world,
hot
ni
Arrivals in the past week include Leland Stowe, John Shaw Young of the N.B.C., Frank Gervast "Collier' and other American magazines and O. D. Golingher of the London "Daily
A group of "
newspaper- men is arriving from Palembang on August 15 and Royal Gunnison who recently
visited Chungking. scheduled to reach Singapore soon from Australis.
is
In addition, practically all-well- known news agencies have repre- sentatives in Singapore.
Conscripts' Training
To Be Extended WASHINGTON, AUK. 13 (Reuter). The House of Representatives has ree'ded tentatively to extend con "ripts training 18 months-beyond une original year.
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