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Some wars are fought by armies alone: others by the united will of a whole nation. Then every man, woman and child is a potential hero or heroine, A people whose spirit is unconquerable will produce deeds of gal- lantry which seem scarce- ly credible to those look- ing on.

A declarer should consider himself down the spade ace, West following fortunate when his only problem is with the three-spot and-East with the the correct "percentage play" of one deuce, What card should declarer suit. For now he enn stop worrying lead next? about n

a possible aqueeze or other

With all the hands exposed the abstruse coup and confine himself to answer is easy, but first let us con- elementary arithmetic. Unfortunate sider the piny that is usually made. ly, however, this "grammer school Most declarers at this point lead any subject" seems to be the weakness of spade except the queen, their obvious many adults. To-day's hand pre-hope being to drive out the king. sents a simple problem Unt is regu-The folly of their hope should be

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of such apparent, Suppose the second lead of any spade except the queen does drive out the now-unguarded king? What

The other defended does that do?

will still have the guarded inck, good for another trump trick.

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combination that will let declarer hold his trump loss to one frlek (when the king or inck does not drop on the nee) la Jx in one hand and K x x x in the other. And to

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The bidding is not important, al- though South's correct jump to four apades over one diamond is worth noting. The only point with which we are concerned is the fullment of the four spade contract.

West opens

the diamond dence (fourth highest of his partner's bid suit); East wins with the ace and returns the diamond queen, West's follow-suit play

ressures declarer against the parability of a diamond ruff, and now, with no heart losers and

only

one club that must later be conceded, declarer's entire problem boil down to the best handling of the trump suit.

Obviously, no trump lead (or any ather) can be made from dummy to

capitalize this possible bit of luck, it is vital for declarer's second trump tend to be the queen. Only in this) way can he smother one of the enemy's trump honours. It goes without saying at even when the jack was originally a doubleton, sub- ect to "smothering," declarer needs relatively high intermediate trumps to draw the two lower trumps stil held by the player who started with the king and three guards.

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An astounding rescue of cool daring has just won the hero of it the Distinguished Service Or- der. Lieut. R. H. Ker- shaw, No. 3 Squadron, South African Air Force, was piloting a Hurricane, one of a flight engaged on attacking the Italian aerodrome at Diredawa. In the face of strong A.A. fire the attack was highly successful, ten enemy aeroplanes being destroy- ed on the ground and many more seriously damaged.

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"I was just going to set fire to my machine and run into the bush when I noticed one of the pilots of my flight circling around and firing at cnemy troops to keep them away from me. never dreamed he would land, for anti-aircraft guns were firing at him continuously.

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"When I saw Kershaw had landed I ran as fast as I could and climbed on to one of his wings, but his engine was revving so hard that I was blown right off again by the blast from the airscrew. I then tried to climb on to his back and shoulders as he was taxi-ing back to the end of the aerodrome with the Italians. firing at us all the time.

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For sheer persistance in at- tack, the story of another South African pilot of the same Squadron, Capt. S. F., S. Theron, is remarkable. One day in March he shot down an enemy aircraft near Dagha- bur. Later in the same day the Italians attacked Dagha- bur aerodrome heavily. Licut. Theron bagged two of the C.R. 42's that came over.

Two days later, came the attack on the Italian aero- drome at Diredawn described in the rescue story above. This time Capt. Theron shot down another C.R. 42 and destroyed four Savoia bombers on the ground.

For these devastating at tacks during which he des- troyed eight enemy planes he

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and gave inspiration to the medical staff and the wounded lying round him." He wins the Distinguished Service Order.

The highest civilian award, the George Cross, has gone to a Fire Brigade officer of Bir- mingham, William Mosedale.

One night there was an in- tense air attack on the city, lasting for over twelve hours. An Auxiliary Fire Station was completely demolished by a heavy calibre high explosive and many Firemen were trap- ped, and civilians in an ad- joining house buried.

Fireman Mosedale immedi- ately began tunnelling and propping operations. He was quite oblivious of the bombs raining down outside, the vibrations

which alone of might easily have caused the wreckage to give way and crush him to death.

The first tunnel brought him to the control room. where he found there were

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Another type of gallantry, peculiar to his service of heal ing, was shown by a_Royal Army Medical Corps officer nt Sidi Barrani.

During the battle for this town, Licut: James Morton Muir, M.B.

wng severely wounded in the shoulder and pelvis by shell-splinters-which- hit the regimental aid post

car.

In spite of his wounds, he insisted on being propped up against the side of his car in a sitting position, refusing an injection of morphia so that his senses might remain clear for the work he had to do.

For about eight hours, al- though suffering immense pain, he continued to sit there giving direction as to the care of each wounded comrade who was brought to the post for treatment.

At last loss of blood made it impossible for him to sit up any longer and he was laid down, but even then he went on giving directions, and ad- vice until the last wounded- man had been evacuated. Only then did he consent to be placed in the ambulance -himself. His courage and un- selfishness "saved many lives

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still men whom he could not get out except by making an- other tunnel from another direction.

He did this with great dif- ficulty and again entered the control room. There he found live men.

One was dead, but He the others only injured. administered oxygen to them, and rescue_workers entering.. the tunnel after him carried them out to the fresh air above.

The entrance to the cellar of the private house was blocked. Mosednie directed operations for removing the debris, only to find that the cellar had collapsed. He took over himself, and by means of more delicate tunnelling work reached seven people. four of whom were still alive. Again he administered life- giving oxygen and extricated them.

Finally he tackled the cellar under the firo station, tunnel- ling as before. There he saved the lives of four men who also were given oxygen and removed to safety.

For twelve hours Station Officer Mosedale had worked unceasingly. He warded by saving twelve lives.

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