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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1955,

JACOBY

ON BRIDGE

South Missed Boat

In This Game Hand

W

TARGET

T NE

TAC

Y

U

Tour

BELDETE

or more va του

letters in chr #gunea on the tefz Y In making enth word, the letters in each of the

KIDAİ BEDart, may be used uner Duly. Each word wrus: contain the barge letter in the, centre BERATE; KİNG there must be at least one nine-letter word in the Hat No plursin: 'nd foreign words 100. proper

TODAY TAR- 13 words: Food: 18 words Peru, good; 18 words, arpellant Soinuen on Monday,

eyelet lace laces lacy

By OSWALD JACOBY

YESTERDAY'S. SOLUTION: THEN West led the king ACETYLENE ale angle cantle celt contal elan elay clean cleat atale of hearts. South looked becs enlace at the dummy in great distance lancer lane ate laten laten een leant fret tent neatly tale tale "We missed | tcal appointment. the boat." South announced; As experienced players know, South meant that he wanted to be in a slam con- tract.

his

It's hard to blame South, for

but reaction.

the slam obviously depended on being able to draw the trumps without loss. This would be possible if broke in the "not- the trumps

fashion-three da mal"

one hand and two in the other op- ponent's hand-but the odds are only 2 to in favour of such a break In a healthy minority of cases, the suit will break worse than 3-2.

Moreover, the 3-7 break is a favourite when you have no in- formation at all. When an op- a takeout double ponent makes and then raises his partner's re-

NORTH 4633

24

Nona AKQ953 J1065

WEST

EAST

❤AK 1063

AJ1098 ❤Q7762

8

AQ94

832

762.

SOUTH (D)

VAKOTA

954

J104

South West North

+37

East-West vul

Раха

Esat Double Redbl. 2 ♥ 3

4+

P235 Pass Pass Pass Opening lead-❤ K

sponse,

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. MARI Black, 9 pieces.

HONOUR FOR THE

'ENGLISH MAJOR'

By J. W. TAYLOR

EASANTS of the Italian pipes they pointed vaguely to a

PEAS

and

Oft he went again village of San Martino mountain.

high up over the village still keep in touch with the eventually found a great spring "English Majur” who

the

be with enough

water for

but the came the only British Free fields and the village,

was huge cistern which

sup- man of San Martino, for

posed to catch the flow had they will never forget the broken long ago and the lead

rotted. man who 10 years ago made pipes had

Major got busy, Miracu- the water taps work and

miles and miles of pipes fountain play.

were duly appeared and they He is Mr Larry Somers, laid for a new piped water

Soon he was able to of Erdington, in the Mid- supply. lands

inform Sen Martino that It happened like this.

When Major Somers later Colonel, arrived in San Martine he thought himself fortunate to have cotaired the only house available with a piped water supply until he turned on the taps." All

he got was mud. In the square children

Ere-

Tous

the taps would

gush and the foun- tain would play, whereupon the authorities decided that this should be witnessed

en masse

by the whole village at a specially arranged festa, –

Another Fiesta

几个

This was a real worry to the

llcked round the fountain, that swite Alogers.

.

Major, for he many times had the horrible thought-What if the fountain won't play at the would not ping. Indeed, the The

crowded into children had never seen it play the square on the great day. and the women had to carry They were tensed and hushed. water and queue up for it at as the water was turned on. a single tap near the far-off And hey presto! the taps gushed Naples Aqueduct,

cheers) and (thunderous

the When the Major asked how fountain played. Soon the without children were dancing round it. long they had been piped water, the citizens shrug- As for "the English Major," ged and smiled. "A long time, he was the mast wonderful signor" So off into the moun-

man this side of San Martino tains behind San Martino went mountains. Particularly when he the Major to trace the inade went on to pay expert athen

attention quate water supply. He found to the sanitary

arrangements the pipes high up riddled with throughout the village. He re- 1, Q-KA. 1 Kt x P 2 holes by peasants to irrigate the volutionised the system. RQB3 (dbi ch); 1. K-12. fields. He got them repaired Kt others; 2. R-Q3 (disch) and his taps worked. But still 1

BX P (ch): 2, RX Bthe fountain was dry, (dis ch); 1. P-Kts; 2, R

White, 7 pieces.

White to play: mate in two.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

AS (disch),

When he asked, where they got their water from before the

BY. THE. WAY.

by Beachcomber

THE election campaign will be drowning man clutches a straw.

THE election campaign will be draw tock a

a corps of experts. A series special articles, printed in a coloured supplement on hand woven paper, will tell you how

good pull at it. sighed, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief covered with race- horses, and handed the flask profuse thanks He back with

the sult that has been bid against has been studying the question 66 the film-actress ingratiate

him. As a matter

for many

Innocent.

on

This called for another fiesta in the Major's honour, but a very special one this time. The head man was there in full re- galia and officials had put their moth-caten

out-dated uniforms adored with tarnish- ed gilt

"the Then

English Majer, acclaimed by one. and all, was called forward and ceremoniously presented with the parchment scroll of the Freedom of San Martino.

Public Fed Up With Strikes

said

By John

the

got

my

McKenna

London.

ERTAINLY there was a General Election cam-

"What is!" askod the tulepaign in progress. If you looked very hard you could |even see traces of it here

and there.

to register your vote at the sox- then moved away down the cor called polling-booth-

ridor, humithing "Flossie is the These it isn't unreasonable

giri for me" articles are .being to think that he is very short in written by Mrs Multitude, who On the Croisette at Cannes

LL handsome men," technique vote-registering of fact, it's of

and they unreasonable after such bidding

years, to expect a "normal" "break" "in

illustrated by diagrams, ingly, are slightly sun-burned." charts, graphs, and actual

Very likely photo-

replied the spade sult.

graphs the registering of

But you've mansrajah. When the hand was actually vote by a genuine voter. Mrs things confused. It is played, declarer ruffed the open-Multitude will also answer such Indian blood." ing heart lead, and took two questions as "Can I vote for rounds of trumps with the ace two or more rival candidates?" and king. West discarded the "Must I vole if I go to the deuce pf diamonds on the second polling-station?" "Can I cancel trump, and South turned a bright my vote later on?" And so on, rexh He had missed a boat, but Prelude to a holiday (1) not the boat he had been talk-TE boat-train glided smooth- ing about. He was going to losely out of

Victoria Station. his game contract, "

In each compartment the pas

ugly looks, sengers exchanged South switched to diamonds, but East carefully waited until as they settled down. In a first- class corridor a gentleman stood 'the third round of that suit to at an open

ruft.

window, swaying Then the defenders could slightly, as though about to take two hearts and two clubs, faint. He is unwell," said selting the contract two tricks. perspicacious lady. A kindly

South should have assured stockbroker half rose from the contract by playing a low seat, and at that moment a faint cry of "Brandy: Brandy!" WE trump from both hands at the f

heard The stockbroker, as to second trick. East would win the the manner born, whipped a trump but would be unable to

costly flask.

his pociter, ...from

his

Least likely of places to find these at

traces, however, was in the headlines, Occupying the space was news of strikes and more strikes.

"My complexion" said he. "Oh. Do Indians tan more easily than us?"

The maharajah sighed," "No,"

"They don't tari he said. all.".

"Well, but you're tanned, and because you you said it was were an Indian,”

"Pardon

me"

said maharajah. “I think I see

the

a

rajah I know." And off he went, Spring song for a glutton Sweetly the blackbird sings.

High on the bough But I would rather

Listen to a com. "Swe-e-es Swe-e-et?"

But I would rather eat.'

lead a heart, since durnay's and proffered it to the sick And you can't get butter from last trump would be able to ac-traveller, who clutched it as a a blackbird. cept the ruff.

If East ied a club, instead, West would take two club tricks, but the contract would still be safc. South could surely regain the lead, draw the rest of the trumps, and run the diamonds.

VACARD Sertseķ♦

Q-The bidding has been: Korth

Eist South West PASS 1 Spade Pass

1 Club

2 N.T. Pass

You, South, hold: AKQ753 WK9 4A6 $K642

What do you do?

A-Bld three. clubs. If North can show support for spades, you will go to a siam in spades. Otherwise you will jump to five no-trump to invite "a alam in clübs of no- trump, whichever, partner prefers,

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding is the same as in the question just answered. You, South, hold:

6K 10752 WK 1978 476 MQ8

What do you do?

Answer on Monday

Across

1. These ocean moTO-

menta Bound

Y

DARTWORDS

OUR Dartwords

puzzle todaz et START ·

od to a STICKY sinti, and you make

that sticky fellow, tHERE

LIMPET, in the middle

of the circle. To do this

you have to rearrange

the other 48 words in

the circle in such

a

way that the relation- ship between way word Rad the one next to 19 is governed by one of Bis rules.

RULES

1. The word may de en anagram of the word

that precedes it.

2. it may, DO A synonym of the word that precedes it,

3. It may be found

by adding one tetter,

to, or subtracting ons

letter from, or chan 10g one luttar in the

preceding word. 5.

4. It may be associated with the preceding word in: 1 SAYING. simile, caetaphor,`ot assocÍN JOS of ideas.

6. It may form with the pre- ceding word a nape of a well- known Demon? place, or thing in fact or action.

5. it may be associated with

14. Impetuity

quite

a dash Aurosa; (4), M

of 19

CKLE

ETON

PUN IDARE

FADE

SIGNS

SINA

WICK

LIMPET

PROW

GL

NESI

EWOY

PUREIJOAN

the preceding word in a title or » in the action of a book, play or other composition.

A cypical succession of words might be. Bina Bst Cricket Grace Darling

Racing.

(Solution on Part 20)

CROSSWORD

Chopped-lip aristo 15. Dota this come aft HANE

crată 1 (6. B)

7. Ho's talker, rather

“shan a doer.; (10)

E. For alwayä "often

repasted. (5) '..

9. Were all in this

system together. (5).

10. Approached - an-est,

with Ned chatside. (8) 11. Ierevalar Ats—but not ""

necosarlly at the tailor (8)

12. Make proud,^(8) ***

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15. Parachuted VLPS!

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1. Mangrove lent '(anag).."

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יי

2 Bouth East in the

Obaldean town. (5)...N

s. This kind of note has ahint of strope sction behind 15,- (8)-2*

• §. These give you sineN,

surprisingly }{(6)

Wearly 1101

another clue." (12)

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11, Boring in the Duet

13, BUDDIT. (5).

1. Achool with bone HOURLANACHES

Nearly 5,000 Scots coal miners had stopped work without the backing of their unica They were dissatisfied with the creases they had been given under a new wages structure,

The men of the

National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers struck in the zation's main ports. They were involved in a dispute with the other,

the and older dockers' union, the Transport and General Workers, on, a strictly inter-union matter.

A strike of workers eu ire British Oxygen Company had repercussions on the country's automobile industry, putting thousands of its anployees out of work. The oxygon workins wanted more money,

There were ominous rumblings from the Associated Socisty of Locomotive Engineers and Fire- men indicating that they were Tot

about happy

way negotiations with the Bettich Transport Commissions were going and that their postponed strike - which would have paralysed the rition's transport system- might have to be

realised.

Nasty Jolt

Then there were the 200 or so stewards of the liner Queen Mary witho abandoned 700 pas- sengers, newly embarked, to a sandwich and cofee supper use they wacked a night And Britain's reputation es a maritime

another power took nasty jolt when 2,200 Scots shipyard workers delayed the trials of a new cargo lines by going on strike.

Chancellor of the Exchequer

against

R. A. Butler, warned in an election specch

the effect such rikes would have

an the gational economy

who

But the only really hand- hitting speech came from Tom O'Brien vice chairman of the powerful Trades Union Com

warned the dockery that they would victimist the public and stocato base-in- dustries over nothing more than a "hostile inder-untory dispute? if lay struck,

Just how red up the public was with strikes, a partknilarly the prevalent unofficial variety was indicated t by a series letters to The Time". One

Workers wi refused to join strikan biri dispopad xxx penalty

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