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WEST
A
74 CK 97 6
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EAST AA5 2
1985 43
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NOUTI AKQ10 8 3 VAR 2
South
0754
AK
The bidding:
West
North
Past
Pass
Pass
1148
Pass
20
Pass
100
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3NT
Транк
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dust-covered face with his per- spiring hand. And water too pre- clous to be wasted washing.
was a battle being planned, yet with absolutely no fuss.
He returned to the main camo, which meanwhile was packing up.
dark we
marched-long
Despite the primitive conditions After the atmosphere of that mess was lines of armoured cars, radio cars, trucks and much what you find in a club in Bren gun carriers, Pall Mall. It reminded one of the motorised artillery. polished courtesy of the officers in that dugout in "Journey's End."
Again it was a stage show and unreality. In the dim moonlight our unlighted vehicles, rocking over the hummocks, seemed more Somehow every correspondent | like a fleet at sea than British who has
the been among front-line soldiers going out to meet troops, whether in frozen Finland Germans. Still it seemed like a or burning Egypt, has had the play when U radio car swerved feeling that it was a scene from a toward the command car with a play rather than reality. So it pink feld message giving the seemed at this desert meal in the news that seven Germant tanks full of the fighting.
which had comẹ through the bar- rler were now in the area we must
imme-cross.
We did not see those tanks, but
Dinner was brief and diately afterward we motored with the column leaders to H.Q.—sim- ply a radio truck in which the they saw us, for at midnight when officer commanding the forces on we paused for a rest before the escarpment lived, worked and dawn attack the tanks came up, traveled, His home was a bunk took a few ineffective pot shots at alongside the radio,
us, then raced away when the British guns replied.
*
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a
We sat in the sand beside the radio truck while the commanding officer marked a map and out-
his lined for each
But the mission of this British commander mission. He asked ench how he desert torce was to fail that day, intended to carry it out and some- for morning brought a raging times suggested modifications, sandstorm which reduced visibi- Again it all seemed unreal. This lity to a few yards. The desert
becomes an eerie place in such a storm, for the goggled men you dimly see walking about through the swirling sand look like shapes seen by a diver at the bottom of the sea.
South to If he were interested in a game, play the hand at four spades, he could bid three no-trump or which only very good defence our diamonds. Fallure to make
could beat. The
either of these strong bids The British force had split up actual contract of indicates that he has a minimum into three columns for the dawn three no-trump hand
illsuited to no-attack, but the Germans eluded should have been
them in the storm. One artillery beaten rather bad-
unit which had taken up a posi- tion a few hundred yards ahead to guard the trail had the worst fortune. German armoured cars— fast, powerful, hard-hitting affairs
FACE31 KING 21 QUEEN JACK
which trump play.
for pass. 30% for 20% for three
Question No. 779
ly, but a swindle Score 100% brought it home.
jfour diamonds. "West opened the i no-trump. five of clubs, East's Queen forcing out South's King. South then led a diamond to dummy's King, and East decided To-day you are David Bruce not to Win the trick. Dummy Burnstone's partner and, with continued with the Queen of both sides vulnerable you hold: diamonds and East played low
once more.
"But now nine tricks were in Declarer abandoned the sight. diamonds, much to East's chagrin, Spades were attacked. East taking the Ace and returning a club. South took the club Ace and ran four spades and a heart in addi- tion to the two clubs and two diamonds already won, Was East's face red!"
AA 4 10 3 2
♡ K J 9 4
07
1A (7)
♣ A 10 6 The bidding: You Behenken
Pass
Burnstube INT
What do you bid? tomorrow.)
Maler
Pass
(Answer
came upon this unit and, before the British could see whether they were friendly or hostile. poured in a volley which destroy- ed one gun and set the truck afire, mortally burning two men, Then it disappeared unharmed.
The
lieutenant who brought back the remaining vehicles and the dying men was grief-stricken. There was a simple burial in the sand.
That is what "our patrols were again active" means. It is mech- anised guerilla warfare. When on the offensive the tactics are practically identical but on a for larger scale, and a column which meets an enemy does not hit and (Released by The Bell Syndi-run away but tries to umihilute
A rather neat swindle, but East really should have seen it coming. East should have won the first cute, Inc.)
diamond trick und returned a club. He could tell that South could win only five diamonds, probably two clubs, and about one heurt before surrendering the lead again. If South had three club stoppers or both the Ace and King of hearts, there was probably no way of defeating the contract.
C
A
you
were Oswald
Saturday
Jacoby's partner and, with both
sides vulnerable, you held:
AK 4
♡ Q 7 6 3
OK 8 3
Q 7 6 2
The bidding:
Jacoby
Schenken
TA
Pass
Του INT Pass
Maler
20 30
Pass
Pass
2NT (7)
Puss
ANSWER: Pass. You have told your story and your partner has refused to take encouragement.
him.
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