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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1932-

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

The following hand is an inter- esting example of showing com- mands for alam bidding. Lay the hand out and study it before you read the bidding and play..

48.5

♥ None

•K-Q-J- 7-6-3' A-Q-9- 7-3

AA-Q-J-9

J-10-9-7-3

*10-8-2

(NORTH) 6-4-3 ₪8-6-4 +10-8-

5

Denler- K-J-5- [SOUTH 4

AK-10-7-2

A-K-Q-5-2

• A-9-2

26

The Bidding.

21

North and South were vulner able;. East and West not vulner able. South, the dealer, opened the contracting with one heart, West bid two dinmords. It is quite apparent to North that, with his hand, four hearts can be made.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Appeal to the League

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.i

Sir-It is proposed to send the letter given below to the Secretary- General of the League of Nations by the next air-mail. All those who are sufficiently in sympathy with the general tenour of the let ter to wish to be associated with it nro asked to write to that effect at once to Dr. E. L. Allen, Church, Kowloon.

The Secretary-General, League of Nations, Geneva.

Union

The

Sir, I beg respectfully to sub- mit to you herewith the views of that section of public opinion in Hongkong and South China which regards with increasing anxiety the situation which has arisen of Iata in the Far East.

"While not claiming to be in possession of any information which would enable us to judge better than others on the issues at stako, we are the sentiments of those throughout the world who, whatever their opinions on the Japanese case against. China, are yet convinced that she had no right to prosecute it by arms in flagrant violation of the Covenant and the Briand-Kellogg Pact, and who re- gret that the League has not found it possible to assert more emphatic- ally that such a breach of interna- tional morality was not to be toler

Remember that in the one over one system first hand does notated. open unless holding a rebid. North might even correctly feel that there would be five hearts in the hand, but as his hand containa only one command-the ace of spades-fe cannot bid over three hearts. This simply invites the East now game, and not a stam. passed and South went to four hearts. West then bid five clubs and North. bid five hearts. Let us atop to repson it out in this manner. Why did not South, at hig first opportunity, bid four hearts to show that they could make five? Simply because he held only one command. When East bid six clubs, Sath enn safely bid six hearts, as North has shown additional strength,

to

"We realise the difficulties with which the League is faced at the moment, but we wish to draw nt- tention to the 'serious consequences for the future of any weakness now. Chinese opinion is near to the point of abandoning any hope that justice and security are to be obtained by trust in the League, and the fact that Japan has been allowed to forestall the Lytton Re- port and present the world with a falt accompli by the recognition of well give tho Manchukuo, may

to death-blow to that hope. We

to the League appeal,

all by

means in maintain its power the sanctity of inter- national obligations. Much is be- ing made of the necessity for con- sidering foreign interests in China, but we submit that nothing could be more inimical to those interests, as well as to the peace of the world, than that Chinese feeling should. be permanently embittered and that Chinese opinion should become con- vinced that only as she can arm. and threaten war on a great scale will the rest of the world be willing to do her justice.

Wost bids seven clubs which North and East passed. South now knew that he could not bid seven hearts as they had a losing club trick-North having failed show command of two suits.

However, if the bidding had been South one heart, West two diamonds, North four hearts, you enn see how easy it would now be for South to read his partner for "But as we desire justice for: the ace of clubs and the ace of China, we wish it equally for Japan. spades. But as partner failed to Bhe feels the need for an outlet show these two commands, South for her surplus population, as well must now be content with doubl-as for markets and raw materials for the development of her indus- ing the bid of seven clubs.

ΟΣ course, it is a beautiful tries. We do not recognise in such sacrifice bid on the part of Easta situation any ground for armed and West, as they will go down action against a weaker country, be faced. only three tricks or only 400 if but we urge that the existence of doubled, while North and South such a situation must could easily have made a smallWe can envisage no solution except along international lines. Those islam at hearts.

nations which are at present in possession of thinly-occupied terri- tory and natural resources must bo willing to consider these not as a LATE MRS. TO MING. private estate but as a trust to be

KUNERAL AT POKFULAM

ON SATURDAY

administered for the welfare of the world as a whole, being ready to admit to n fair share in these ad- vantages those young and growing peoples which are less favourably situated. We therefore wish to put it on record that wo as indivi- duals would welcome action to that end by the countries to which we

The funeral of the late Mrs. To Ming, widow of the late Dr. To Ming, of Canton, who died at her residence at No. 6, Peak Road, at belong." the advanced age of 86, took place on Saturday afternoon.

Followed by a long procession of cars bearing relatives and friends of the family, the remains, in a motor hearse, were conveyed to the at Chinese Christian Cemetery Pokfulum, where the interment followed, the Rev. Mr. Tso per- forming the last rites.

Drg. The chief mourners wero Coxion To, Herbort To, and To rela- Tat-chiu (sons), and other tives, including a large number of

grandchildren.

Among the mass of floral tribu- butes sent were noted many from ollicials of the former and present regimes at Canton.

SALESMAN SAM

E. L. ALLEN.

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