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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

On board the vessel there were

CONTRACT COLONY DEFENCE other keen-eyed men, their night

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The Bidding. The bidding proceeded along various channels but in nearly every cane resulted in South play- ing the hand at a three no trumu contract. In two or three casos North played the hand at five diamonds, which can be made by correct play.

paign.

The Play.

OPERATIONS

REPELLING ENEMY INVADERS

CLOSE WATCH

Since noon on Tuesday morning, and until 9 a.m. to-day, Hongkong, so far as the milltary authorities are concerned, is at war with a foreign invador,

glassca searching the sea for any- thing the powerful beams of light from above may have missed.

An out-going linor, bound from Hongkong to Shanghai, gave four or five sharp blasts on her throaty whistle'as she came abreast of the searchlights.

"Elevate Number Three", sald| the quiet voice.

"Elevato Number Three, Sir." replied the telephonist.

One of the beams; in answer to the unseen command; slowly reach- ed into the sky, and the ship was allowed to pass unhindered.

She passed in darkness, but oven taken to 800 then care was

of water bo- that no stretch hind er in front of the unknown ship remained unseen.

She was not playing in this game while the civilian of "make believe."" Nightly, population has slept, the forts guarding Lyemoon and Sulphur Channel have kept incessant watch. Searchlights have turned night into day, and keen-eyed men have manned their posts, watching for invaders from the sea, and listening for invaders from the air.

Everyone is serious in this game of "make believe". One day it may become real.

The steamer passed into the blackness beyond the range of the searchlights and her port and star board lights gradually disappeared. A miasma of uncertainty des- cended over the scene. Everyone know that something was to come. what? And when? And But whence?

Tho questions were soon answer-

ed.

hoe SAT

1932

As a 'plane soared over the city yesterday morning, well above the clouds, the man in the atreet was not to know that it was an enemy, or that it had scored a hit in Dea

One of the beams momentarily Voeux Road before it was "brought down" by anti-aircraft ganmen, picked up a white object on the sou who, manning the "archien fired,below, speeding at all the speed one not shrapnel, but photographic of H. M. destroyers is capable of, around the corner of an island. bullets.

No littlo Importance was attach-The searchlight wavored and then

to held fast. ed by the military authorities

Every detail of the "enemy" des- the part the Hongkong Voluntoor Defence Corpse would play, and cor-toyer stood out in bold relief, even tain sections of the Volunteers took to the waves which curled over its part in the "war". Many of the bows as it aurrie:1 to get out of that defonce electric lights were manned dazzling, dangerous beam of light.

A Verey light, the colour pre-!| and operated by units from

determined, went up from the ex- H. K. V. D. C.

Just after 8 p.m. on Tuesday,amination ship. She, too, has seen the invader, almost simultaneously Major Atkinson escorted

with the discoverer above.

A quick instruction, and the gun crews sprang to the posts. gun was already trained on the skip below.

the

ware

When no trump was the con- Press representative up the hill tract, Weat invariably opened the Ride to one of the forta guarding four of hearts on which East play- Lyemoon. An Indian guard, ed the queen, and it was now upstanding stiffly to attention in front to the declarer to plan his eam of a barbed wire gate, challenged

If he took the frat heart

the party. trick with the king and succeeded The officer advanced and gave the In winning the diamond finesse pass-word, and the guard opened he would have no trouble at all the gate. Past the barracks, to a in making seven odd. Two ar point where the visitors were re- three optimistic declarers at-lieved of cigarettes and matches by tempted to play the hand that way another guard. Matches and were sadly disappointed. dangerous things to have around More cautious declarers played an ammunition dump, it was point- low on the first heart trick, thereby ed out. planning to have the suit stopped on the third round, so East would have no more hearts to lead even though he did hold, the king of diamonds.

High above the gleaming search- However, that little plan also went wrong, because lights, more keen-eyed men watch- West refused to play his ace on theed the sen below from an armoured second heart trick, allowing de- observation tower, reminiscent of в. clarer to hold it with the jack. war-time "pill-box. A quiet voico Then, when the diamond finesse now and then gave an order, and of the telephone lost to East's king, he still had the gruffer voice another heart to lead and all of attendant answered. West's hearts were brought in. "Traverae Number One!"

"Traverse Number One, Sir." And a searchlight, which had picked out in bold relief every line and detail of a gleaming shing Junk, left its mark, and commenced its stendy swing to and fro, search-

At the Forts. Then another stiff climb and the party had reached the actual for-

incation.

The only South player to play the hand correctly for the best result was Mr. L. R. Ayres. After taking the first heart trick with the king, he decided that the breaks were against him and that it would be well to abandon theag every cranny and nook in the falands, and missing no one inch diamond sult entirely.

of the sua below..

Accordingly he entered dummy with the queen of spades and led the nine of clubs towards his own hand. When East played low, Mr. Ayres played the deace and West won-with the king. He realized that the double fincase would pro- baly lose, but West could do him no damage by being in the lead

once.

To make game by this method of attack, he need only and either the king or jack of clubs in the East hand, which was a much safer gamble than to depend on the location of the king of diamonds - single card.

West returned a diamond, but Mr. Ayres wisely refused to finesse and took the trick with the ace in dummy. He played the king of spades, followed by the eight of cluba, nessing the ten spot. He took in the ace and queen of clubs, and the ace and jack of spades, conceding the last three tricks to the opponents.

Thus he took four spades, three clubs, one heart and one diamond to make a three no trump contract and scored 105 for tricks and 300 for game, five points more than his partner could have made at five diamonds,

Systematically, without hasto or confusion, every light acted in perfect harmony. It did not seem possible that even of those lights could miss anything floating on the son below, but oven that was Insufficient.

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Nothing is impossible, and even the best of searchlights might fail. So yet another beam traverses that stretch of water through which every liner must sail to enter the harbour of Hongkong.

And if the second light, by some enough, there is another, and an- miraculous mischance, Is not other, and another. Nothing that cannot enter Hongkong by daylight can enter by night, without being

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Down below, in the gun pits, the gun crew stood silhouetted against the reflection from the dazzling brightness on the surface of the ocean.

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Everything Was breathlessly still and quiet, except for those oc- casional quiet commands from the Observation Queer, and the replica,

War-time Conditions.

Out at sea the lights of a small vessel twinkled. She was the Ex- amination Vessel, her duty the ex- amination of every ship before it was allowed to enter the port.

Tho

This was war time and for a ship to try and enter Hongkong without leading lights was suicide.

The roar of the gun as it let off (Continued on Page 13.) -

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