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BRIDGE NOTES

BRIDGE SWINDLES -

NO. 24

By The Four Aces

East and West cooperated in a very neat Bridge Swindle in the hand shown to-day:

12 month.

OVERSEAS (including postige)

3 months

South. Dealer

Neither side vulnerable

7 6 2

6 months

12 months

R.A.F. UPSETS SHIPPING

GREAT DIFFICULTY IS BE- ING EXPERIENCED BY THE GERMAN SHIPPING TRADE WITH SWEDEN OWING TO THE DELAYED ARRIVAL OF COKE AND COAL FOR RE-TRANS- PORT ON SWEDISH SHIPS BRINGING IRON ORE TO GER- MANY.

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A Q 3 8 3 2

7 6 5 3

10

♣ A 19 € 4

The bidding:

Schenken

Jou

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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED

ANSWER:

Incoly 20

Maler

1 bl.

(7)

Pass.

The spades

to

risk

are too shabby for you

a rescue bid. You must rely on your partner to hold a good suit for his vulnerable overcall,

10 7 3

O AQ 9 8 5

4 3

4J983

N

Q 10 5

12

K 84

J 9 6 2

W

J74 3 Q 7

◊ K 2

5

10985

A K 4

A Q 5

◊ 10 6

AKJ 6 2

The bidding: South West

North

1

Pass

2NT

Pass

10 3NT

East

Pass Pasy

Pass

HIGH CARD VALUES

OF THE FOUR-ACE3 ÜYEYEN

FACE EKING

QUEEN:1 JACK

AYEKLAR MADE - M

West led 1he-1 three ol spades. and East's Queen forced out South's King. South then fed the ten of dia. mands. knowing that to take the King would allow South to win four tricks.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN South naturally hoped that both that the ORDINARY YEARLY

the King and Jack of diamonds GENERAL MEFTING of HONG KONG TRAMWAYS LIMITED were in the West hand, although

be

will be held at the oflices of he realised that East might Mesars, Jardine, Matheson & Cholding off. He led the six of

d. Hong Kong. on TUESDAY, the 25th day of February, 1941, at diamonds without having decided

12 o'cork noon, to transact the what he was going to play from ordmary business of the Company,

AND NOTICE

HEREBY IS

made the dun.my--but

up

his

ALSO GIVEN that the REGISTER | mind quite promptly when West!

OF MEMBERS of the Company | played the diamond Jack. will be CLOSED from MONDAY. the 10th to TUESDAY, the 25th February, 1941, with days inclu- sive.

By Order of the Board

W. F. SIMMONS,

Secretary.

That play was a beautiful bit

see

of cooperation. West could enough diamonds in his own hand and the dummy to tell what had happened on the first trick.

To

be

Hong Kong. 1st February, 1941. play a low diamond would

useless, for South would realise that either he could not pick up all of West's diamonds (if West

WARNING

Business

Houses

are

Eust

had both honors) or that

But the Jack

was lying in wait. hereby

warned that all payments in con-

of diamonds made it appear that West had started with the King- nection with the 1941 edition of Jack-3 of diamonds ond The Hong Kong Dollar Directory finessing the Queen would bring

should be made at the Offices of

the publishers, through the post or by chit book.

in the entire suit.

that

So South crossed his fingers and played Dummy's Queen of dia- monds. East pounced on the trick

the

No one is authorised to visit with hie King and returned offices and collect money on beten of spades; and South found

himself able to make only eight- tricks.

half of this publication.

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Question No. 629

To-day you arc Merwin Maier's partner and, with both sides vulnerable, you hold:

J 10 9 4 3 2

5 4

6

4 Q JD $

Maler

The bidding:

Jacoby 10

D.

You

(?)

Schenken #O

Dbl

What do you bid? (Answer tomorrow.)

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