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CONTRACT How to Play

BRIDGE

How to Win

By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON

"Common Senzo" Not Enough

WE all know bridge players who disdain "fancy conventions," in- isting that common senzo" is the key to every situation.

It would be interesting to see these ployers would solve problem faced by South In

following deall

West dealer.

Both sides vulnerable.

490 4

how

the

The fact is that South' did have available, a conventional bid that made guessing unnecessary,

His overcail in the opponents' sult, viz., mand to North that the bidding must two diamonds, was an absolute com-

be held open until

was reached. Home was nse to this cue-bla is an Interesting

logic North, had to bid something with his miserable holding, and knew that his three diamond bid could not be mis- obvious

the North's example of pure,

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South

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If South had not available to him a convention which insured that, his partner would keep the bidding open until the best contract was reached, he would have been in a terrible wonder what the advocates, common sense methods

would bid over the Pade

with. South's hand? Surely they could not take the clairvoyant view that North had Kome club support, but no heart support, and jump to either a game or a slam In clubs. Whatever "stab bidding" they, decided to do would be, with the heart sult, and if do probably they ventured as far as game in that sult they would be doomed to great disappointment, because, despite the tremendous strength of South's hand, not even four hearts could be made against, reasonably good defense.

But all this worry about South's; bypothetical trouble is unnecessary.)

construed. It was an cavious message that he could not bid any suit of his own and that he had nothing but a long line of diamonds,

will be noted that after Sougi had given his original command about keeping the bidding open he could

slowly thereafter. only three hearts, certate bid |

that he would have another to show his club sult.

three hearts North again had to find a bid. and this time the only conceivable response was three

four club bid put another. The

burden

on North, but, as a good soldier, he "went along" and raised to ave There was no responsibility on his shoulders for any of these bids. South went to six purely on his own decision.

Due to good breaks, declarer took 13 tricks. His real victory, however, consisted in reaching the correct contract,

Match-point duplicate. West dealer. North-South vulnerable.

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GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE

Duefuted by King Pintures Syndicate

The Nazis usually send out only pictures, of attacking Gorman troops or pictures of battlo successes, but hero is one that was dispatched to New York bearing the follow- ing caption, passed by the Berlin consor: "Gorman troops propare a position to most powerful Soviet tanks somewhere on the Russo-Gorman front. When oven Goebbels' propaganda machine makes such an, admission, it is a good indication of the difficulties which the Gorman armies have to face in this struggle with Russia.

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A further episode from the not-so-very PRIVATE LIFE OF A PRIVATE THERE comes into the

hut one of the most feared and hated men in the Battalion-the Striped Sergeant.

He is feared and hated, not because of any in-. trinsic unlovable qualities. Simply, he is an. Instruc- tor of Physical Training.

So we shun him. We fear him. We wish him

elae- where.

When he next comes into the hut, Siberia puts on his blackest scowl, which is some- thing very black indeed, and suddenly remembers a press- ing engagement.

Charlie the Chancer, in whom the seeming injustice of P.T. has been simmering for many months, cries:---

"I'll go to the C.O:! I'll go to the War Office I'll join the Blasted Foreign Legion!

"They can send me to the Glasshouse! They can take me out there"-he points in the direction of the Y.M.C.A. "and. fill me full o' lead. But I won't do no more P. ruddy- T. to day. Now 1'?

"Take it easy," says the Striped Sergeant, mildly. "You're not going to have. any P.T; to-day.

"Instead of lounging round the camp next Wednesday afternoon, guess what you're going to have?"

"What?" we sinking hearts. -

ask, with

"A nice cross-country run. What are you looking BO down-hearted about? It's not a proper run. Only three miles.

"I'm going to break me lege wiv an iron bar," says Char- lie the Chancer. "They can gimme fifty years in solitary ruddy confinement, and a mil lion strokes of the cat. I'm` not running,

"I got a weak heart. I got a bad foot. I got short wind. I got one leg longer than the other I'll shoot mo tocs orf.

will ro sick. I'll go,absent I'll send a ruddy petition to Parliament. I'll write to me M.PUB

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"You: ain't got no M.P."

"Oh? So. I ain't got no M.P. I write to every newspaper in the ruddy coun- try. I'll bite me knee-cap off. BUT I WILL NOT RUDDY- WELL RUN !”

Next Wednesday. he runs.

*

A three-mile course is map- ped out. We parade. The officers are there, too, in flan- nel trousers and cricket sweaters--even the fattest of all the officers, who looks like three men rolled up for trans- port in something knitted.

An' N.C.O: fires a blank round. To everybody's 08- tonishment, everybody else starts vigorously, laughing. and whooping, as if this were fun.

Sergeant Dagwood, run- ning like Nurmi the Finn, forges ahead, casually biting

GRIN AND

a broken nail as he flies. Siberia, panting like Black Bess in her last furlong, gal- lops furiously.

The Bridge comes and goes. The road slides under us and. back. We make it. We finish.

Our disgust is mitigated when we observe. Charlie the Chancer, with a triumphant smile, waiting for us in the enclosure. He has come first. in the Battalion.

"It was nothing," he says, The. Striped Sergeant, having witnesses to prove it, puts him in the Report for cutting two miles off the run short cut: Charlie swears that there is no jus- tice on earth..

on:

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now,"

- says the Striped Sergeant, "a nice sur- prise. Tabloid Sports! One mile, one. 100-yard sprint, high jump, long jump, put- ting the weight, throwing the grenade!.

"Every man to compete in all events Boy, boy, boy, boy, boy, boy!-is Jerry's face going to be.red!!!

"Prussian" mutters Char- lie; the Chancer.

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Finns Threaten Important Soviet Supply Routes

(War Commentary by “Annalist")

first

LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter)—Two, important supply routes between northern and western Russia would appear at glance to be threatened by Finnish advances, to the River Svir between Lakes Ladoga and Onega claimed by the Finnish and German High Commands.

The exact point at which the

Finns have reached the river is Thai Teachers

not given nor is the strength of their hold clear, but if the ro- port is true; the advance is of some importance. Stalin Canal, the main waterway link between the White Sea, and. Western Russia; follows a channel of the Svir botwcon Lakes Ladoga and Onega. The railway south from Murmansk crosses the Svir.

Exhorted

Defence of Fatherland

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH BANGKOK, Sept. 8 (Domet) -- Thalland is prepared to cope with any eventuality... Colonel Prayur Education and concurrently Assistant Bhumorn Montri, Vice-Minister of Minister of Foreig Affairs, declared In a speech at meeting of school teachers here, to-day.

It is evidently the hope of the Finns besides severing theso com munications which would be a blow He said that these engaged in to the two ways into Russin of Allied educational works should make supplies to join up with the Ger- children realise that Thailand is de- mans to the cast and southeast, of fermined to maintain the strictest Leningrad (where the Nazis have not neutrality no matter how the interna- yet arrived, according to the latest tional situation in Europe and Asia Information from Moscow) Inally to my chld Tholland be compelled to fulfi the premature boast of the Sho

Should. Nazis to have encircled that import-defend her neutrality, all people in- ant Baltic port.

cluding school children should be

Not

that even this junction, when prepared to do their best for the made would cut off all the Russians defence of their fatherland, Coloner

Montri said. northern port from the interior. There is still Archangel, which has AL

a:good railway running due south to FRENCH PATRIOT

Moscow, 250 miles from the nearest German,

SHOT BY NAZIS

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Moscow Remains Silent

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" Moscow up to now is silent on the

VICHY, Sept. 8 (UP)The oc-. Finns reported advance which ap cupled-zone morning newspaper "Le pears on the surface to dispel doubts Phare de la Loire" to-day published as to whether Marshal Mannerheim In his recent Order of the Day in- ant of the city of Nantes, Marin announcing that an inhabit- tended his troops to continue

Pirier, was shot by the Germans on offensive baitic alongside their Ger August 31, He was charged with man "allies" after having reached niding French war prisoners to es- the Karellan Isthmus, the former Soviet-Finnish frontier.

cape into Free France to join General

The Isthmus lies on the oppsite de Gaulle. side of Lake Ladoga to the Svir

River.

About the Svir, other Finnish

forces began, an offensive four days BRITISH WAR

·ngo-it-now-appears-against- Petrozó- vodks, and it secros to have carried them with surprising speedin dimcult forest country past that point to the Svir.

the

Petrozavodsk, which lies on eastern bank of Lake Onega, is: not taken.

It is reasonable to suppose that it

ORGANISATION FUND

the Finos have lu fact reached the Help Bombed Civilians in Britain

Svir, the Russians have withdrawn their line between Lakes Onega, and Ladoga whilst obviously keeping guard over, the Murmansk Railway

Old clothes of all descriptions.

and the Stalin Canol parallel with are badly needed for Men,“ the earlier withdrawal in the Karelian. Isthmus,

Women and Children In the

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Ring Round Leningrad Bombed Areas in Britain. Such LONDON, Sept. 8 (Reuter).- gifts will be received by the special German announcement says; B. W. O. F... c/o Government that a mobile division supported by House, during office hours. the Luftwaffe, has reached near east)

a broad front and has Mondays to Fridays from 9.30 town of Schluesselburg on a.m. to 4 p.m., allowing for Ladoga

taken Lake Lado

The Germans claim that this.com- Lunch Interval and Saturdays pletes the gap in the ring round from 9.30 a.m. until 1 p.m. Leningrad, which is thus cut off from

all communications by land.

Schlussselburg les 25 miles east of

Leningrad.

Japanese

Imprisoned

As A Spy

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" NIIGATA, Sept: D (Domel)-Tha Prefectural authorities were informed on September 8, by the Foreign Offee. that Mr. Tomezo Kosaka, 39-year-old wireless. operator of the 08-ton Japanese fshinte boat Myoko Maru died from an Illness on August: 25 in a Vladivostok hospital shortly after being released from the Soviet prison where he had been confined for nearly two years

Kosaka was arrested on October

14, 1930 when a Soviet patrol boat stopped the Myoko-

Ashing

engaged in

Imprisoned at first, on, a charge, of violation of Soviet territorial waters, Kosaka,was · later.

Of the Marling Province,

a rre-arraigned on

charge of espionage

be was sentenced to four

guilty,

prisonment on August 27, 1940m

Later he was transferred to Νονού sibirsk in Siberin, where he became seriously li released him he Soviet nullcrition

view of and at the request of the Japanese authorities. He returned tokylän "vostole, on August 148 after b (16-ANY gruelling train Journey, «He died terri days later. He was scheduled to sall for Japan on August 27

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