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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1932.

CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

The following interesting hand came up in a duplicate contract match. South was the declarer, and by clever play, made his con- tract of six odd

8-6-5 0-8-6-5

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The Bidding. South opened the bidding with one club. West passed and North bid three clubs. East bid three diamond and South went

to five clubs. North then bid six clubs which became the final contract.

The Play.

West had tho. opening lead and led the top of his partner's suit the king of diamonds-which was won in dummy with the ace, East playing the seven and South, the declarer, playing the five. Two rounds of clubs were then taken, on which Enst discarded the deuce and three of diamonds, South fol, lowing with the deuse and three of clubs, and West with the four and Beven of clubs.

FORTY YEARS IN

HONGKONG.

REMINISCENCES OF FR. SPADA

Exactly 40 years ago, on Novem- a small band of ber 1. 1892, Catholic missionarica set foot in Hongkong, their destinies the pro- mulgation of Christianity in the Far East, and the succour of the poor and needy.

To-day, one of them, Father G. M. Spada, of the Rosary Church Kowloon, will celebrate the first Maas of his forty-first year in the Colony, a record of untiring and unselfish service. broken only once by a short visit, to Milan, the home town he left so many years ago.

Popular with all classes and creeds, Father Spada will be the recipient to-day of the congratula- tions of overyone who knows him.

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"So you have come along to hear about my 40 years in Hong- keng?" Father Spada naid, greet- ing

representative of the Press yesterday evening. eyes twinkled, "I'd have never known about it myself if.I hadn't seen it in the paper the day," he said.

other

It seemed rather inane to ask whether he noticed the difference in the Hongkong of yesterday and to-day.

was no

"Ilongkong in 18927" he re- peated, "It was a small place in those days, and there Kowloon. Forty years ago Hong kong had a native population of. 230,000 and perhaps 5,000 Euro- peans. Thero were a few houses in Kowloon, and a small village at Yaumati.

"Just before I came here the Peak tram was opened, and people were just beginning to build stop of the mountain. Des Voeux Rond was the Praya; all the buildings on the harbour side of that street to-day

reclaimed land.

are built on

"Nearly the whole of Kowloon is reclamation. As a matter of fuct, most of the low-lying land in the Colony has been taken from the sen

It is a great work, and is not near completion yet."

Boxer Rebellion.

Father Spada was asked if he

The only chance that South had to make his contract was to find the spades evenly distributed, and to find the king of hearts in the East hand. His next play is a small apade from dummy, which is won by South with the ace. Two more rounds of spades are taken, stripping North and South's kande of spades. A small club is then led and won in dummy with the ten apot, East dropping the alx of dia- monds. The four of diamonds is returned from dummy, East cover- Ing with the ten and South, de-recalled the Boxer rebellion. liberately lose a trick, discarding the three of hearts. East is in the fead and if he returas a diamond, the declarer will discard the small heart from his own hand and trump in the dummy with the jack of clubs. The only y for East to make is to lead small heart, which the declarer allowed to ride to the dummy's queen which holds the trick. The lust four tricks are good in the declarer's hand-that is the three trump and the nce of hearts.

By deliberately sucrificing a trick In order to get a position play, South has made his contract *Ix cluba.

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"I should," he replied whimsi cally, "indirectly the Boxer Rebel- lion was responsible for the open- ing of the Rosary Church.

"When I first came to long- kong. I was gent juland to learn Cantonese. the first three years was stationed in what is now the New Territories--Chinese territory then, of course, Then, in 1895, I was called to duty in the Colony, and for five year worked in Hongkong.

"The outbreak of the Boxer Re- bellion in 1900 brought a Regiment of British soldiers to Hongkong and they were stationed at Kow- loon, near where the Church stands to-day. About 200 mem- bera of the Regiment were Catholics, so it was arranged that each day I was to go acroga to Kowloon and conduct services for them. There was

Church then, but a large hall in a real- dence served for the ригрове. Actually there was no trouble in Hongkong during the rebellion. A great and wise Viceroy, the famous Leung Cheng, ruled over the Province, and the whole dis- trict was free from trouble.

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away into the interior. Nearly 10,000 men are idle at 011 with a flock of some 200 Father Spada's face grew more dead, hundreda each day, wore Rochdale where between 40 and 60 people. From a humble begin- sober 18 the two outstanding buried where Kennedy Town now mills are affected. Workers went toning in 1900, the Catholic the milla as usual to-day but on munity of Kowloon has increased ascertaining the new rates operat to the present day to 5,000. ing returned home.

"The Rosary Church was opened in 1006, and the Presbytery in 1907. Before that time I used to come across daily from Hongkong in a small launch, which used to land me somewhero

near where the Kowloon godowns are to-day. Kowloon was still mostly mud flats, even in those days.

The stoppage is almost complete in the Bolton area where there are 220 milis, employing 18,000.

con-isasters in the history of the stands, and the grave diggers Colony were recalled to him. tolled day and night. Pray that

Hongkong never

receives similar visitation.

It is expected that many of the mills will continue for some time as they are carrying large stocks of yarn. The Bolton mills are mainly engaged in specialities-Router,

The new rates of pay were based "I remember the day the Kow. on reductions of 18.64d. in the £lloon-Canton railway was opened, and were expected to settle the dia-

20 years ago. Kowloon and Hong pute which had rendered many kong took a holiday to celebrate mills Idle during October.

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The Great Plague. "Yes, I remember the Great The big typhoon was 11 years Plague, he said quietly, "It was in later, on September 18, 1906. '894, two years after I arrived There was no warning, or na here. It Wag terrible...Hong-premonition of what was to come.

ong was desolated. Nearly all It swept down on Hongkong quite i 'he shops were closed und de-suddenly at 8 o'clock in the morn- serted, and, for over two months ing, and by 10 a.m. everything was undreds of victims fell dally to quiet again. Yot In those inter- the scourge. It was no respec vening two hours over 20.000 persona, Europeans and people lost their lives. The whole hinese alike were gathered in Praya was a mass of dead bodies, te folds, and it swept the Colony and the harbour a pool of corpsea. from end to end. Thousande fled (Continued on Page 15.)

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