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CONTRACT BRIDGE

By W. E. McKenney

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1932.

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.

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The Bidding. South opened the bidding with ene club. West passed and North bid three clubs., East bid three to five diamond and South went clubs, North then bid six clubs which became the final contract.

The Play.

West had the 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 East discarded the deuce and three of diamonds, South fol-- lowing with the deuce and three of clubs, and West with the four and seven of clubs.

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FORTY YEARS IN

HONGKONG,

REMINISCENCES OF FR. SPADA

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Exactly 40 years age, on Novemi- of 1. 1892, a small band Catholic missionaries 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 Mans of his forty-first year in the Colony, a record of untiring and unselfish service, broken only once by short visit, to Milan, the home town be left so many years ago.

Popular with all classes und creads, Father Spada.will be the recipient to-day of the congratula tions of everyone who knows him.

"So you have come along to hear about my 40 years in Hong- kong?" Father Spada said, greet- ing representative of the Hie Press yesterday evening. eyes twinkled, "I'd have never other known about it myself-if I hadn't seen it in the paper-the day," he said.

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

was no

"Hongkong in 18927" he re- pented, "It was a small place in those days, and there. Kowloon, Forty years ago Hong- kong hud a native population of 230,000 and perhaps 6,000 Euro- in Kowloon, and a small village pesna. There were a few houses al Yaumati.

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

lund.

"Nearly the whole of Kowloon

fact, most of the low-lying land in the Colony has been taken from the sea. It is a great work, and is not near completion yet."

Boxer Rebellion.

Father Spada was asked if he recalled the, Boxer rebellion.

The only chance that South 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 emall spade from dummy, which leis reclamation. As a matter of won by. South with the ace. Two more rounds of spades are taken, stripping North and South's hands of spades. A small club is then led and won in dummy with the ten spot, East dropping the six of dia- monds. The four of diamonds is returned from dummy. Fant cover

"I should," he replied whimsi ing with the ten and South, de- liberately loses a trick, discarding cally, "indirectly the Boxer Rebel- the three of hearts. East is in the hon was responsible for the open- lend and if he returns a diamond,ing of the Rosary Church. the declarer will discard the small "When I first car to Hong- heart from his own hand and trump kong. I was send to learn In the dummy with the lack of Cantonese. For the first three clubs. The only play for East to make is to lead a small heart, which years I was stationed in what ia the declarer allowed to ride to the holds the dummy's queen which trick. The last four tricks good in the declarer's hand-that is the three trump and the ace of hearts.

are

By deliberately sacrificing a trick in order to get a position play South has made his contract Bix clubs.

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now the New Territories-Chinese territory then, of course, Then, in 1895, I was called to duty in the Colony, and for five years worked in Hongkong.

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

rest- then, but a large hall in dence

purpose. served for the Actually there was no trouble in Hongkong during the. rebellion. the A great nud wise Viceroy, famous Leung Cheng, ruled over the Province, and the whole dis- trict was free from trouble.

London, Oct. 31. Colton spinning is practically at a standstill in the most important diatricts of Lancashire In quence of the strike of operatives over the proposed wage reduction. are idle cat Nearly 10,000 men Rochdale where between 40 and 50 mills are affected. Workers went to

ning in 1900, the Catholic the mills 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.

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Colony were recalled to him.

Then after the soldiers left,

the in terror from the Colony, for severn! civilians asked that the link with another part of

Into the interior. Away services be continued, and we kept world."-

with a flock of some 200

Father Spada's face grew more dend, hundrede each day, were the two outstanding buried where Kennedy Town now tolled day and night. Pray that receiver ! Hongkong nover The Great Plague.

similar visitation.

"The big typhoon was 11 years "Yes, I remember the Great Plague, he said quietly, "It was in later, on September 18, 1906. warning, or no '894, two years after I arrived Thers here. It

terrible...long-premonition of what was to come. Nearly all it swept down on Hongkong quito long was desolated.

he shops were closed and de-suddenly at 8 o'clock in the morn- serted, and for over two monthaing, and by 10 a.m. everything was undreds of victims fell daily to quiet again. Yet in those inter- respec- voning two hours over 20.000 the scourge. It "er of persons, Europeans and people lost their lives. The whole hinese alike were gathered in Praya was a mass of dead bodies, ta folds, and it swept the Colony and the harbour a pool of corpses.

(Continued on Page 13.) 'rom end to end. Thousands fed

"The Rosary Church was opened in 1906, and the Presbytery in Before that time I used to come across daily from Hongkong in a small launch, which used to near whore land me somewhere the Kowloon godowns, are to-day. Kowloon was still mostly mud flats, even in those days.

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

"I remember the day the Kow The new rates of pay were based on reductions of 19.81%d. in the £1 loon-Canton railway was opened, and were expected to settle the dis-20 years ago. Kowloon and Hong kong took a holiday to celebrate pute which had rendered many

the great event-our first land mills idle during October.

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