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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1969.

We can always keep on as we are the other side certainly won't risk a nuclear collision !

BERLIN

Cummings

London Express Service.

Pago 5

A READER

from Montana writes: "The six of clubs was opened and our opponente had Ave tricks in the bag quicker than you could Jack Robinson." Needless to

BRY

Bay four hearts was a lay down and I wonder if you would comment on, what woa Wrong with our bidding?

"Should North have gone to four hearts by himself, with two suits unstopped? Should South have bid three hearts rather than three no-trump?"

The answer to both his ques- tions is. No. North should have

WEST AJ94

NORTH 473

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EAST

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SOUTH (D) #AQ2

QUOTE THE GHOST OF PRAGUE

by Judge ( Temple-Mirls talking to schoolchildren watche ing procedure at Blackwood County Court, Monmouth- ching-

THE

E newspaper is the link between Justlee and the public. The British. Press in the

best Press in the world because

it is honourable and accurate.

اول سے

Ar Justice Stable

IN

January, 1946, I

was sitting in my hotel room in Prague trying to work out what my day's routine was to be. The job of a special

in

Norfolk Ames in gauling a correspondent young man for two years for wounding his fiancee wher, she brake their engagement:-

a

on

foreign capital is the whole a pleasant

You could have controlled one; you know most of worth

FOSFACIE it you tindi the the

resotation to accept a broken

A young woman five times to

people

engagement. It is no Justifica-knowing, you have a tion for a young man who stabs front seat at most of the say that you loved her. important happenings, and your contacts are

by Air Vie Marshal W. L.

Study at the Air 31inistry,

Einburgh-

Freebody, Direetcar or Work varied and interesting.

THERE EN

Kolbing

---

polire correspondent writing in Headlight, the lorry drivers Journal-

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War aftermath

bad NO

AL this

time particular was In for morale as misuse or Prague

different ten. The main street show- waste of men's efforis.

ed signs of recent bombardment, were starved of the

food was

scree and Roads, petrul unobtainable.

Theoretically Czechoslovakia DOAD safely campaigns have had a provisional government, R

little effect "regular ¦ but there had been no elections drivers and none at all so far yet, the Communists sevmed the funalle minority of to have grabbed the four most dangerous drivers is concerned. intuentiul ministries, including Safety propaganda 1s tone Ministry of Home Security genteel. A large poster saying: and the Army, there were "Only a b fool will over warns

Russia Sellers take on this bend," might have everywhere, and strong rumours some effect.

hat the secret police were quietly arresting tion-Com- by Mr T F. Davis, the unids on the excuse that Clerkenwell mugstate:

they were wartime

35

WHEN I started work people used to be able to work from 9 am to 1 p.m. without tea, coffee, or a smoke. Prople now seem to have lost their capacity for work.

1

Uş

120

of

collabora-

News from home

1 Was sipping my ersaiz Tee when the post arrived,

17 was a disappointing post

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

[]

12

Venue of a minor storm. (0)

Liable to be lying. (5)

Beauty spot pattern? (4, 4)

Was concerned, (5)

Sally, of a kind, that is.

(8)

11

No-goods. (7)

13 Supporting

the

book-

makeral (7)

15 Get neit from uncle, may-

be. (0)

Troubled by sickness? (5) Married, (8)

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}

I

21 Lunatic refuge. (0)

20 Give up interest, (5)

4

15

6

DOWN

1 Fall-out? (5)

2 Sign of omisalan. (6)

3 Galeway in Preston. (7)

4 Summary not quite exact.

(0),

5 Pass other cars?

lakers don't! (0)

By DENNIS BARDENS

ENNIS BARDENE

London penalis who has worked as

Fentura writer on several news- papers and magazines, ite Has Correspond

sarved as a Snecist

Crucho Slovakia Seanal navia, Bonin and the UB.A.

Me has voiled the 80% sound documentary tarian. Foput, and was the best editor the television magazine. Panarima.

a reporter and

He is the author of a number of books. the Intest beina a biggraphy

Anthony 91 Bir

Iden. Portrait of & Statesman,

persecution,

few dreary, Ladly stereotyped living or escape hand-outs frum Government for the contagion of anti-Semit- departments and one postcard ism spread 11ke wildfre through

The postcard, the occupied countries. from England. with a Sevenoaks postmark,

was brief and to the point:

国产

Suicide note

The execution yard, with its steel door, had three machine- gun emplacements and the wall opposite was pitted with bullet. holca.

I had to see the appalling dormitories, the piles of human ash from the crematorium, and, a card-index of the Inmates which had been kept by one or two specially favoured prisoners. But this Index was not complete. and Jews cavecially were often Ignored for records purposes, as being of no account at all. Mrs. Hall featured nowhere on it. Il was, however, quite certain that nobody would have been seri cx- from Terczin to Oswielen cept for exécution. Later in- quiries confirmed that this was

So,

Torror plan

I

re- who

and objects which I had handlest her thoughts and emotions, shall never know. But I do know that when it happened, I was wide awake and intensely aleri.

Mrs Hall's two dresses thut which she had been wearing when arrested, and that which Was sent on to her were Cora- dow'! go to frordinate In despair, she left a suicide returned to the Jewish

in Prague, not for note in her room, together with munity trouble in the matter, but as you happen to be in Prague, her passport and identity papers reasons of courtesy, but us

Or had could you find ON: wildt's and a few belongings. She fill- routine which was calculated to unknowingly acquired?

terrorise stil Mrs Hall tried to contact me? happened to

Lillian ed a humble fibre suitcase with demoralise and MTS

a few odds and ends of clothing, further those Jows

Or is it simply that "I I The last address 1 kart ia c/o

such Mr O

number and deposited this with her mained.

animate" things

us fur Husinecka, Prague."

iriend Mrs O. in Husinecita.

niture and objecta much a My inquiries, completed, I Then she joined a convent on

postcards, are not "Inanimate" the outskirts of Prague, using wrote to Sevenoaks that Mrs

but become charged DID IT REALLY HAPPEN? and dismissed after all, another napie; but it is certain Hall was dead,

those emotions of that the Catholic nuns knew of the matter from my mind. Sad with the

around them; for we know that it was One circun- as the case was, ber

inanimate

really objects are and tragedy among many, and I was stances

of universes teeming

atomic of being more energy, and not dead things, s were willing to not conscious

shocked distressed by it than shield her.

Her plan, it by the stories which at that we once Imagined.

had time one heard on every hand.

e transient thing we think, per- At that time pae had to dis- perhaps this unhappy woman, fectly. She was courage people from recounting whom I had never met, trane- happy the their experiences, because while mitted to places

It was a reasonable request, fost for yo inany friends had touch with each other during the long war years. The name of his missing friend however sounded Jewish to me and the tragedy which had engulfed the Jewish populations of Europe under German occupation way imagined, mere not, as some propaganda,

terrible this not know

convent but my map

but

reality. I did street Husinecka showed

£1

It to be near the

Explanade Hotel.

Neglected

The block of Bats in Husinecka was comparatively modern, but merketed and starved of paint, The hall was crowded with proms, garbage cans and emply bottles, and despite the time of day almot dark.

DID IT HAPPEN?

seems, worker

At

a morbid obsession which was decidedly unhealthy and made any readjustment to normal life more difficult.

Gunthat

and stayed. there a single confession might give undetected until 1944, when I reef, repetition could become was raided, for some reason, by the German S.S. All the sisters were arrested and never heard of again. As for Mrs Hall, her real identity was established; she too, was arrested. I was shown two postcards she had written after her arrest. Ong I returned to the Esplanade was written from Terezin, and Hotel and retired 10 bed. My asked simply for a dress and

room was a large and comfort- her spectacles to be sent to her.

able one on the third floor. I found the number I sought,

The

other-ominously was furnished in modern style and although I had to strike a match written, from Oswiciem, the huge t by a chandelier; a bathroom To see it. Afler Incessant ring- camp In Poland where Jews was attached to it, and next to ing of the bell, there was in were exterminated in hundreds my bed was a small table will elaborate drawing of bolts, the of thousands. This card, her a reading hump. elanking of a door chain and the

last message, said: "I am well." doer og ned slowly reveal in the half-light, an elderly grey- haired lady who in some vague way seemed familiar to me,

Nervous, strain

♫

Loft a trail

con-

So

At two o'clock in the morn~ ing I was awakened instantly by What I can only describe as the I had not the heart to tell sound of a gunshot inside my -at- Mrs O. that she might, in an head. In that, instant, my She was, indeed, the friend of excess of affection, have encom- tention was concentrated on the missing woman, and asked passed the death of her friend: particular part of the room- nie Inside Immediately, nollon- for by her own admission she just near the door. I didn't see ing me into poor and dingy had visited her at the convent anything, I was simply sitting-roum..

walking with her selous of something there, every week,

Convent gardens. much so that I could even tell through the Hud this been noticed? Was 1e height. Every instinct I had this the reason the Germany told me that this was Mrs Hall. raided the place after leaving I guldbear thing. but the the nuns unmolested until 19447 whole room seemed prevaded by tension and sadness; there Incidentally. while reading was an overwhelming impres Mrs Half's card from Oswielem, sion of a presence, latent on I had a curious sensation of conveying something to me. wir was platy was that Mrs being watched, so much-so-that- wus in such a state of 1 turned my head quickly and nervous collapse that she might involuntarily, as though expect- almost be said to be mad; buting to see somebody beside me. who could speculate as to the At last-as there were no more struins she had undergone dur- facts to be had thanked Mrs war? Besides, she O. for her help, and went off to looked Jewish, too, so through- seek permission to visit Terezin, out the war had presumably, the camp where Mrs Hall was waited for the knock of Nazi first imprisoned. persecutors before being drag-

Once I had seated myself, 1 was then subject to such barrage of uncontrollabile talk that could only wait for it to subside before putting specific questions to her.

Q.

ing

the

Under-ged off.

G Get out of the way? (8)

10 Unassailable, similar

Gibraltar? (0)

12 A Herod who wouldn't

go? (7)

And now probably, she was equally pursued by fear for she to was also, I guessed, of derman origin. In this immediate after- math of war with all the pent up hatred of Germany released

let

13 Surface quality, as it were

(6)

14 In act in fact; (8)

Sudden cold

But this degree of compre- henalon on my part depended on faculties not easy defined: neither my right nor sound" confirmed the unreserved con. viction of my other senses.

In a sweat' of fear, and with My visit to Terezin was a considerable effort, I reached melancholy affair. This huge towards the

roading lamp and hud switched It on The room was red-brick military fortress been isolated by the Germans inordinately cold colder

than and used on a half-way house normal. The light dispelled the between the slave labour compa tension somewhat, but it did Gra- and the extermination camps, net "disappear suddenly, As prisoners arrived, they were dunlly, Imperceptibly,

the nt-

at last Czechs of Gorman origin who had Hyed peaceably as divided into two sets, those who mosphere of the room seemed dllizers for years were sublect might live and those who would to ease, the electrifying menace to much terrorism.

10 Landori Lane, (B)

not,

17 No doubt she does have

A

1.

crazy morning sometimes! (5)

The story which emerged was this.

H--we will call Mrs ker Mr. Hall, although' that

Evidence

But even

at Terezin, €0,000 done to death, and

62- Jews were was not her name-wES

FESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Wasp, 4 Wran-year-old widow who had been their pathetic remains, crema gle, 8 Ache, 9 Hass, 10 Operlag, 11 Solo, 12 Dude, 14.Erasure,living in a bed-riting room in fed, were in some casos kept in as evidence 17 A-nise, 10 Doggo, 22 Oppossum, 26 Rees, 27 Rend, 28 In-Itial, Progue and oking out a living cardboard packeis· 29 Elec, 30 Toga, 81 Chasten,82 Loan, Down; 2 Alorum, 3 by doing odd jobs of sewing and until the returns had been an

Report, Passes, Whole,

• Nines,

· boon (abcepted 7. Lunar, 12) monding. Doce the war with to Dado, 18 Didu, 15 Urge, 10 Bros, 18 Char-ate, 20 Ordeal, 21 Germany started, she knew that authentic by, the Naxl author

- she could not hope to make ties in Berin. t dem Galpha 23 Punch, 24 Sates, 25 Melon..

JA

and

ds

in implieit

the atmosphere faded. At last. I was able to got: out of bed, turn on the main ght, and read until the fear and horror' of, that moment had gone.

strango

What had happened?. Had I been more over-wrought by my experiences that I had realised? Had my jobeonscious mind, untraminolled by sleep, */ unbur= danad Itell1öf some · finpression.

Perhaps, then, emotion is not

I had visited

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+975

Both vulnerable

South

West North East

1.

Pazz 1▼

Paid

1 N.T. Pasa 34

Pats

3 N.T.

Pat PIRA

Pass

Opening tend-§ 5

passed to three no-trump and South should not have bid three hearts.

South had a much better bid

at his disposal over North's. Uarce damonds. He should have bid three spades.

This bid could not be read as showing a spade sult. South had not bid one spade over one heart. It could not be read as a slom try. South had merely bid one no-trump. It would simply say, "Partner, I don't want to raise hearts or rebid diamonds and am afraid of the club suit at no-trump."

With that information North would have bid four hearts and I would have had no letter,

♥CARD Sense♣♦

Q-The bidding has been: North Eart South Wett

Pass

Fasa Pass 4N.T. Posa

SN.T. Pat Pasa

1

4+

5

You, North, hold: 4KQ365 VAS OKT 103 JAG

What do you do?.......

A-Bid seven diamonds. Four- partner has shown that your side has all the sees and there is no reason why you should not bid the grand slams yourself sinco you have such a strong speda salt.

TODAY'S QUESTION The bidding has been;

South Korth East

Pass 2+

YES NO

West

1 24

Pass

Pass You. South, hold:

?

Put

a trick against your choice in the, eo above,

-(London Express Serolen). (The answer is on Page 18)

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