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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY

JACOBY

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Expert Shows How To Come Through

1955.

In the eternal fight against the smuggling of drugi into Syria, our correspondent describes a normal night's work of the relatively unknown, but highly efficient, Syrian anti-narcotic bureau

A NIGHT OUT IN SYRIA

"D

By CHARLES ANDERSON

OING anything to- the back of the jeep I saw night?" inquired a number of blankets, two A voice over the shot-guns "and several ban- BY OSWALD JACOBY

telephone which, from its doliers full of carridges · peculiar English accent, I Twenty minutes later we Namusing hand comes to immediately recognised as passed the control post on

mind whenever I

think belonging to Captain Ghas the main road to Turkey, about the Goldman Cup

Pair an Aboudani of the Anti- and I noticed that we were championship

Alfred Narcotic Section of the now followed by three Sheinwold, and I won recently Syrian Customs.

khaki-coloured jeeps

that

when the Eastern States Tournament was held in New

About

one of the shot-gain. four hundred yards away, sil houetted fainty against the lighter shade of skyline, I saw the nodding head of a came then another, and another.

(Stopt) yelled

For res

throw-

to

response, the six camels. suddenly wheeled in all dired- tions, and commened to race away across the stony ground. One Stop, or we.fire!" By eight o'clock, after of the camels appeared to trip My reply being in the

boulder and came York. When the bidding ended, negative, Ghassan continued: one of the roughest rides I over and I had to put the

"Well, get some sleep this have experienced in this heavily to the ground, hand down as the dummy, I

The others continued afternoon: pack some sand- country of bad roads, mainly it drive head-over-heels. was ready to trade Sheinwold wiches and a thermos, and

consisting of large stones race away" In

direction from the in for a stick of used chewing I'll be round for you about and deep holes, we arrived which they had comê...:

Fire!

From a dozen points came the Tour of shot- guns and the whistle of buck- shat Two of the carrols uttered human-like cries and sank'slowly

other down; the beasts were halted and turted back to the track.

gum and some okl bottles, (I should admit that I have since changed my mind.)

East's opening bid of

+

three diamonds was a typical strutout bid. In fact, East would have

made the same bid without the king of clubs. considering the Gavourable vulnerability, West knew that his partner had a bad hand, but he still wanted to get

WEST

NORTH 4QJ104 395.

• 10 3 4AQ54

EAST (D) AAK9GS2 873 VEQ

❤8 +AQ9

SOUTH

six_p.m."

Promptly that evening, a dirty drab coloured jeep pulled up outside my hotel, and I climbed in alongside my friend, who I noticed was armed with two re volvers, Glancing round at

CHESS PROBLEM

By S. CEDER Black, 10 pieces.

R

K197654 LEA

None

A 1076432

2

108732.

North-South vul.

East South West 14. Pass 34

Pats

Pass

Pass Poss

North Double

Double Pass Double Pass

Opening lead-K

White, 11 pièces, White to play: mate in two.

Solution problem:

at the village of Aazaz.

"Hop out" said Ghassan, "and we'll try and get some thing to eat."

A Scramble

Then followed a rounding "up of animals and drivers, under the pointed guns of the guards.

At ten o'clock, Ghassan went outside and I could" of animals hear him giving orders to the dozen men who had followed us in the three jeeps.

"What now?" I said, when he returned

"A little walk... I'll take the the guns, and you carry blankets.

His "little walk" was half an bour's scramble OVER huge boulders until, in the far dis- tance, reflected in the low lying clouds, we could see the lights of the Turkish town of Kills

soficed When we stopped,

не чете и few yards away from the goat track" which

Was

The Camel which had fallen down was found to have both front legs broken,

30

Ghassan took out his revolver and shot the beast dead.

Ghassan now give orders to unload the huge paniers which were suspended on the sides of each animal, and at the polat

tried to

of his revolution from

some

ket the dirty, villainous looking camel crew, but all of whom retain. ed a sullen silence.

Big Haul

"Effendi!"

out

one of the

called

suddenly

guards thrust his revolves "If one

now

the stinking mound

sheep-

skins, which had formed

the

two

major part of the cargo.

trick

A few minutes later he re- turned, dogging a long length

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served as the main artery be- Ghassan tween this part of Syria and into my hand crying:

Chavan

of the moves on inch, let him Turkey:

have it! and dashed placing his mon at various **** points along the route, so that it was infpossible for anyone or

thing to pass within yards of the without being observed.

After he returned, we made of steel chain behind him,

as "Chain 'em up!" he said smil- ourselves comfortable

as

WDS

the possible with the blankets, and lngly, It

all six of seconds before backs to a

great stone work

were chained I “VIETNAM boulder that had probably been camel-men

of "CAMBODGE" vomited up by a volcanic erup-gether, and put in charge ❘tion a million years ago,

ne of the guards.

Twenty minutes later a num- ber of ungainly looking packels were packed on one of uninjured camels; guards was placed in charge of.

disbanded

nded sheep-skans and The the dead camel until later, and Ghassan gave orders to marah,

to. yesterday's

ot%

to a game. His exploratory bid

1, R-KI, 1

2, F-BS; 1 KK6; 1

1

. R-Q3, K13; R-B4; 2. BxP; 2, K1XR; others; 2, Kt Ktz (ch).

of three "spades, as everybody at the table knew, was forcing for one round.

Under

these

circumstances

my double of three spades was a business double. If I had held a very strong two-suiter in the two unbid suit I would have made a cue-bid of four dia- monds to demand a takeout. I wasn't actually sure of beating three spades (I wouldn't have, in fact), but I wanted to in- opening dicate a favourable

lead.

The rest of the bidding was a nightmare to me. My partner took the bit in his teeth JP. parently misunderstanding the meaning of my double.

West

was delighted to double, and I resigned myself to a bottom on the board.

As it happened, Sheinweli had

He had a freak hand. understood the double but was to suggest a slam Still Willing

TARGET

E

R MA

C

} T

HOW KAJAY words of four

letters

or more can you make from the let- ters in the FARRES Un the left in making end) word the lez- teri in encl of the small squares may be used once only. Each word must contain the sarke letter in the centre square, and there must be at least one nine-

No letter word. In the list. pturats; no toreiz vardı: De оторет пате.

TODAY'S TARGET: 33 gords, good 45 words, very good; BA

excellent.

words.

on Monday,

כאי

talking or smoking." muttered my friend.

An hour passed, with only Craak, the "Craak, craak craak" of some frogs in

to break the nearby swamp. profound stillness of the moun- tain side.

**{stancia”'

One a.m.... I shivered, and Ghassan swore softly in Arabic 15 he rolled over on the stony

"Eats, he whis ground pered, and as quietly as possible we opened our packets of sand- wiches and thermos, passing the the next twenty mimites. delightful

pleasure of satisfying our hanger.

Two G.m

in

The moon had now come up and transformed the countryside into a fairyland of silver light.

had

solute. Even the Sence ab-

frogs

retired.

I was just on the YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION. Actuci aglet alate alga aloe nito CATA verge of dozing, when faintly,

clog from the direction of the fron LOGLE tau! celt cleat clea clot elout clue COAGULATE coal tier, came the "Too-hoo! colt calt gala pale geles gael gault "Too-hoo!" of an owl, gloat glue glut gonă lace lacet late

"Now!", cried Chassan, leap- ing to his feet

and grabbing

on his way to four hearts. For leat locate lout luce lute oculete

all he knew, I could have had ople sale tale teal tols tula.

far better hand for my

double; and in that case a slam

was quite or clubs

a

in hearts possible.

in

There was no problem

Declarer making four hearts.

had to lose a heart, a diamond. and a club, but nothing else.

♥CARD Senseks

North

The bidding has been?

East South West

1 Spade

Pas 2 Clubs Pass

2 Diamonds Pass ?

You, South, hold

463 va OK52 JAK Q10653

What do you do?

trace

A-Bid five clubs. You are willing to be in this game con- even if your partner has only minimum values for his bids. It ha hai extra strength, lorinding, two or more aces, ha will bid á slaza.

3

TODAYS-QUESTION":

The bidding is the same as ini the question just answered. You, South, hold:

AGNE WON (KEZ JAKJ65

What do you do?

Answer on Monday

Y

DASS

'00. will dad'

Sterary TOUR

about Destwords today. The puzzle starte HERE

with BULLVAN and - enda with EISTEDDFOD. You have to get from first word to last by rearranging the words in such a way that the relationship ,betweeri Any word and the cus sext to 1 is, Roverned by one of six "rules.

RULES

1. The word may be

an anagram of-the word

that precedes it.

2. It may be a syno- nym of the word that Drecedes it

3. It may be found by adding one letter to, or Subtracting, one letter from. or charging me letter in the preceding word.

It may be associated with the preceding word in n'aying, ahzalim, metaphor, or association of ideas. 6. It may form with the - pre- ceding word "name of a well- known person, place, or thing in tact or Action.

6. It may be associated with l

EMBER BIGHT

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HARDING

NEW

TREAT

BOH

TRADE

the preceding word tha utle in the action of a book-play, or other componition.

A typical sucession of words might be. Jack Horner Comer Hole Pole Pole Lore. Lord Murter Stream.

(Solution on Page 20)

the

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hashish flty pounds of snuff

and capture of (cocaine), gang we have been after for three months"

"Good shooting!" sleepily.

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