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I was surprised to hear s man remark the other day that he rarely

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meets a good bridge player among DIRECTIONS TO CHINESE C.P. women. 1 do not agree with him, for it has been my experience that in playing friendly bridge the women I have met have, on the whole, boeri better players than the men.

I think, however, that there is a general impression among men that women are not such good players na their own sex are, and possibly the men do not exert themselves to play really well when playing with

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PEKING May 10th.

The unruly behaviour of certain units of Chiang Kai Shek's army at Tainan, over which the Comman der-in-Chief obviously exercised no real control, has revived interest here in Communist activities with- in the Nationalist organization and the Legations have come into posses-

I find that women are easier to sion of a most illuminating docu- play with. They do not make surment which goes a long way to prising calls, as I have frequently wards explaining the spirit mani- found men do, and they give more fested by the Red elements in the information to their partner con- anti-North expedition. This is cerning their hand.

copy of a report to Moscow by a certain Gorbatink, of the U.S.S.N. Military Intelligence Service, re- rently sent from Shanghai.

"The army of the Nationalist ja disintegrating," Government

As a whole, I have found men are more selfish players than women, because they usually want to pin the hand themselves and endeavour to prevent their partner from doing 80. Their calling, therefore, is fre-Gorbatink writes, and Communist quently very misleading...

cells have been organized in all the units. There are two or three regi- ments only which are without Communist cells and remain faith-

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I know one man who is a very

sists in calling a weak suit on the Assumption that his partner must be strong in it, and then is very annoy- ed when he finds his partner has not got the suit and deplores the fact that the hand does not come up to his legitimate expectations "1

Chiang And The British According to this agent's Chinese informants, he goes on to say, Chiang has been on the verge of asking for British military assist ance in the event of a Communist rising against bin in the Shanghai area, but has been "successfully restrained by a group of generals who are allied with the Chinese Communist Party and the military agents of the US.S.R. The Han-

documents which Gorbatink claims to have received, is in an equally difficult position because its author- ity is undermined by Red influence.

Men are usually very pleasant players; probably they are too chivalrous when playing with women to be unpleasant, but women, too, in general, I find keep their temper. It is not the good, but the bad, players who show annoyance. Iakow administration, according to good player's partner makes a mis take the former usually has the wits to repair the damage to the best of her ability, but a bad player loses her temper and her head-thus making a bad situation worse. Game More Important Than Stake. A woman plays for the game's sake and, even if she has been used to playing for high stakes at hor club, she is content to play for small stakes in a friendly game. I have, however, noticed that men are not always content to play for any sum lower than their usual stakes, and,

This report makes it clear repent- edly that a Communist coup d'état might overthrow the Nanking ré pime at any moment and that de- lay has been occasioned by no other Great Britain might give material assistance to Sun Chuan Fang if the Kuomintang were replaced by the Communist party, which would result in the complete repression of Red endeavour in the areas govern-

consideration than the fear that

if they have to do so, often appeared by the Nationalists within which to lose interest in the game.

When Man Ara Careless.

the Communists now work freely. Gorbatink says further that, had it

In a friendly game men are some-not been for the opposition of the times very careless Recently a many Nationalist generals who are in allied with the Communists and good player revoked twice succession in the same hand, an un-friendly to the Soviet agents, forgiveable lapse, and another man cheerfully, but evidently absent mindedly played an aco from dummy on the king from his own hand.

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Chiang Kai Sher would long since have tried to come to an under- standing with Peking. There is every reason to believe that this document, which, is not available for, publi-tion in full, is genuine and Gork ink seems to write with authority.

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Men make extremely "dashing" calls and; in my opinion, are too ford of doubling. If a woman calls high, one can usually depend upon her having cards to justify her call, |-- In connection with this and with - but one has not always that com- the recent Tsinan incidents a set forting assurance from men players of resolutions of the Executive Obviously it is a misjudgment on Committee of the Third Interna the part of the hostess to put a poor tional ought to be of real interest player at a table where the players to those who fatuously believe that caused the first change in the hats Dan London...2135) nom.

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Several women Salvationists at P.&O. Bank, organ Die Rote Fahne (the Red

Fast Arix enjoyable as possible. There are Flag) of March 8th, 1993. A great tending recent, devotional meet- Canton Insurance). exceptions, but these women should part of this document is made up ing at the Central Hall, West Onion Insamc.1342 buy, 342 sa. realise that to show their impatience of the usual tiresome Bolshevik minster, had abandoned the old North China insa, 140 way. amounts to rudeness,

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They wore, instead, bats of the The age of the players, does not extent,, injected into it for propa- greatly affect play. I have met ganda purposes. A close reading maine blue straw, but designed on young girls who play as well as dow. of the resolutions will, however, re-modern lines, almost like cloches agers, but it is among the women veal some very interesting passages. with small brims of the same width who are past their twenties where note that Red barbarities

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