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July 18, 1941.

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CONTRACT How to Play BRIDGE How to Win

BY JOSEPHINE CUL

"Swing" Hand

SWING of 2,400 points on a tract could be defeated, and surely single board is enough to decide a double, "pincing" the spades for almost any team-at-four match. : South's guidance would not in- That was the case in the recent Van ove

crease the defenders' chance. More- derbilt tournament in New York, ability that East would not be oble

there was the strong prob with the hand shown below playing to stand the double, as indeed he the role of both hern and villalu-

could not. North's prompt redouble according to the point of view.

put East-West in the position where they had to lose an enormous nin- ber of points either by standing pat or by running to five hearts.

Both sides vulnerable.

Team-of-four match.

Total point scoring.

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and, even more questionable, that it have been made if West had not dis- Would closed the spade situation. The con- clusion, so far as it affects this table, must be that East-West took entirely too much action on their very meagre resources.

At table No. 1, the bidding pro- the ill-fated East-West team, here 'ceeded:

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fense to hold East to six of his eight heart tricks and thus he had to pay the suicidal penalty of 1,400 points. The fault here must be divided fair- *ly evenly between East.und West. East's preemptive heart bid was anything but good, despite his ex- treme length. Had he not been vul- nerable, there would have been logic In his attempted shut-out, but as it was, the risk was too great. Even 80, however, he would hav

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of his part- ner. South refused to be shut out with his very fair, hand, and though a leap to four

spades entailed con- siderable risk, it appeared to be the least of all evils. I was West who put his own team in jeopardy by doubling the four space bid, Graut- ing that he could expect better hearts from East, It was sill highly questionable that a four spade con

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10 re- Berve double. The contract was defeated two tricks for 1,000 points. Thus the teammates sitting North-South at the first table and East-West at points on this board, the second table, collected 2,400

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The Blitz Comes to Fleet Street

By Ritchie Calder

Never once, through- out the blitz, has any of the national newspapers failed to come out. Some- times it has been a be- lated edition, but the tradition has been broken. And the same is true of the provincial

papers.

un-

Yet it is still possible for country readers to write in indignantly; "From my shelter, I heard enemy planes flying over continuously all night and yet all I find in my morn- ing paper is a brief ac- count.

That brief account probably meant newspapermen going out into Hell, being injured, falling into craters, being knocked out by blast and crawling back through wreckage and falling. bombs to catch the coun- try edition.

Once, before they were seasoned, newspaper staffs used to go to shelter when the spotters gave the "Flicker"a lamp that flashes in every depart ment when the bombs are dropping in the immediate vicinity. Now, with the windows bricked up, they just carry on at their desks, ignoring "Jerry."

They go home in the morning, often, to find their own homes bombed and all they possess de- troyed, and just mention it as a piece of gossip when they return to duty the same night.

Some of us are the Blitz- Bloodhounds. Wherever the Luftwaffe goes, we must fol- low. When London was be- ing pounded in September, the only way to get Front Line stories was to be in the Front Line and that meant sharing day and night the lives of these ordinary, but incredible people of the back- streets. It meant patrolling the blitz at all hours.

It meant sleeping -- al- though "sleep" was often an exaggeration in every type of shelter (and, believe me, I did tako shelter)-Ander- sons, surface shelters, big community. shelters, where every race and type herded together, the Tubes and luxury shelters of de luxe hotels, That was when I discovered that "pluck" was often just funk in disguise.

Most often, it was a case of "putting a face on it" be- cause otherwise you might look silly-as I did when I crawled out from under a bar in an East End pub to find the unperturbed Cockneys Jaughing at me, although the bomb had dropped only n block away.

Of course, I had my tin hat, but sometimes it wasn't much use. For instance, one night I was making a tour of shel- ters with Father Groser, militant, indomitable, tireless clergyman of the East End,

It was one of the bad nights, but Father John went striding along, throughout the black-out and blitz, his Cassock flying and his white head uncovered. Every time a bomb dropped he told me It was a door slamming in one of the wrecked houses. When

a building collapsed, he said

it was the demolition squad'. working late.

And all the time he kept

well-known London columnist

on talking about water, get- ting into the shelters, or how. he could get Mrs Brown away from London, or how to persunde the East Enders to pay less than a penny for a cup of tea, without thom thinking it was charity. Ten feet ahead of us, a mighty spark leapt from the foot- way. "An incendiary bomb," I suggested.

"No." said was, eighteen inches long and John, "a splinter." So it weighing a pound.

It was then I took him firmly by the arm and said:

"Why don't you wear a tin hat, John? If you don't, I can't. It isn't done." Coolly he said: "I can't wear a tin hat. My people have not got tin hats. If I wore one, it would make me different from them." So both of us had to finish the night barcheaded,

Within been

A month, I had out in twenty-three blitzes. Since then I have

On

"It didn't," I replied. “Don't be silly," he said severely, "it must have landed just here." And for ten minutes ፕሮ argued, quite heatedly, as to what I had done with that bomb. Presumably it had "touched off" in the air. But that warden had to account for it somehow in bla return.

We journalists may count ourselves hardened campaign- ers, but we realise we are mere amateurs compared with these matter-of-fact heroes of the civil defence.

A colleague was in the thick of Д bomb-incident. He was groping his way through a mesh of fire hoses, with

the bomba dropping around, and pretending to be a hero, when he fell headlong into a fresh-made crater. As he was climbing out of it, a warden leaned over the edge and demanded: "Whdre's your identity card." "What

the Trail

of Air Raid Stories

lost count.

But in my off- time I have been the first to take cover when the sirens went. Why? Because I have a "suicide complex." I would not deliberately commit. sui- cide, but, when there is a job to be done, my life isn't my own responsibility.

That nasty smear on my waistcoat is the reminder of the night I "pinched the bomb." The blitz had based into silence and I was alone in a deserted street when, suddenly, there was the whistle of a stick of bombs, one, two and a third-by the sound of it-coming straight for me. I dived into a puddle: There was a terrific explosion and I waited for the build- ings to collapse on top of me.

Nothing happened. I pick- ed myself up rather sheepish- ly to be confronted by a panting warden. "Where did that one land?" he demanded.

the hell!" exploded the journalist. "Do you think I came down with the bomb?"

The regular "Blitz-blood- hounds," whom I encounter in ench new Blitz Town, includo American journalists. One of them, after he had been dug out of the cellar of his bomb- ed house, said to me, "Can I call myself a "Londoner now? I've been initiated!",

That has been one of the compensations of our job in the Battle of Britain. We haven't been just reporters standing outside the event and recording it.

We have been part of the event. We have been initiated into the "brotherhood of the blitz"-into that "we-are-all- in-it-together" fellowship of the ordinary blokes, with. whom we have shared the riske and ived the "story."

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR

$32,000

In 1941 to meet the Increasing needs of sick and destitute children in longkong, against which the Income to date is $10,000 only.

In order to continue its work, The Society ap peals for the balance of

$13,000 before the close of the financial year on 31st October.

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