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20 THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, 1939 THE WEEK-END On Bar6ens THE WEEK-END MID-WINTER COLOUR lag at expectation. The Exe valley road Open -Air CAR COUNTRY Acrostics CHESS BY BRIAN HARLEY Problem No 1,062. By the Chess Editor. BRIDGE INDUCING A FAVOURABLE LEAD A WINTER'S WEEK-END IN DEVON MOOR AND STREAM BY JOHN PROLEAU Climatically as far removed from them the Tells from the Kentish coast Devonshire shares with the moors of the Norfh the immeasurable virtue of having four seasons, of a "best time-' which lasts the better part of twelve 'months. At all times of the year you will find the countryside of the Tyne and the Tees worth driving a long way for.

and each time you will decide is the best, spring, summer, golden autumn and darkest winter, when driving light survives hardly more than half a dozen hours The Devonshire moors are equally amenable, and although the weeks when the gorse and heather are in bloorji be counted as the most obvious Itinerary Honiton Tiverton Winsford Wheddon Cross Exford Barnstaple Bideford Stratton Okehampton Tavistock Ashburton Exeter Honiton. best." there are manv more davs when A RUSE IN END PLAY BY A. E. MANNING FOSTER The following hand Illustrates a not un common End play," wdiez-e tihe leader i. put to a difficult decision.

Declarer, after elimination ol a suit, induces an opponent to make a particular lead which he, the Declarer, desires: 10, 9, 4 J.8 8, 7 2 7,2 's? 10, 9. 3 10. 5 8, 7, 3 ,3 7. 6, 4, 2 5, 4, 4 J. 6, 4 4 A.

9, 2 10, Score: Y. game: B. nil. the dealer. The bidding was: Z.

A. Y. 1 Spade 2 Hearts Spades 4 No-Trumps No bid 8 Spades No bid No bid B. No bid No bid After Z's Four No-Trumus showine three Aces, I do not like Trs immediate juxrro to Six tad.es." 2a inlHI bid might have been on lour cards wily and not necessaruy solid. But 1 the bid ding as it occurred.

A led the Kini? of Hearts, and when Y's hand was exposed on the table could see tnat the success of his contract deDended upon catenmg or successfully nnessing against the Queen of Diamonds. The trouble was that the 10 was missine and that the finesse might go wrong. From the fact that A had made a bold bid was in clined to place him with the Queen of Diamonds. However, he decided to take no unnecessary risk and to try what could be done by elimination. Winning the first trick with the Ace of Hearts, drew trumps and then took three rounds of Clubs, ruffing the third.

Now a Heart put A in. Having been brought up to believe that there is nothing worse than to gve Declarer a ruff in one hand and a discard from the other. A behaved like a perfect little gentleman," and did exactly what desired. He led the 10 of Diamonds and all was over. Actually, if he had led a Heart it would not have helped Z.

The discard and a ruff would still nave left him guessing as to how to manipulate the niamnnris nri hp a winter sky, hard steel under across would have been almost sure to have(B4, ch-HJ- B4 ch. If 1. B1. guessed wrong. In fact, he admitted tbat ha T-Wi 1 ij a i uir.ui.

uc iiulcu 13 win was not really bound to lead a Diamond.1 But he thought that he was. because any other lead looked werse If had held D. Q. 9. x.

the lead of the 10 bv A would i have set the contract. White plavs and mates In two moves. In all the diagrams published White plays trom the lower end of the board. OUR FIFTY-EIGHTH SOLVING TOURNEY No. 1,081 begins the tourney, which will consist of one original problem each week, and wlU run to the end of April.

Thz Obsikveb will award forty prizes of ten shillings each (divided in the proportion of numbers of entrants in two sections. A and B) for leading scores at the finish. Twelve novels will eo to other solvers for consistent ability. Competitors will announce their choice of section at once. Throughout the tourney solvers ln section will send nothing more than Whlte'B first moves which may be the comDosers' solutions or accidental ones; or they should claim that there ls no solution (such problems, however, are not aeuoeraieiy aoiverg in section a wm send the same; in the case of -a few problems, to be duly announced with special markings, some analysis of variation play will also be required or this section.

Prizewinners ln Tourney No. 57 to be given next Sunday) are debarred from SecUon ln the current tourney. Ordinary marks are awarded thus: each key (or correct claim of no soluUont of a three-mover. 20; of a two-mover, 10. If two keys are claimed, one correct and another incorrect, the solver will not score for that problem.

Solutions for corrections thereof) must be posted by the Thursday after publication of the problem (Saturday, for Eire, North Ireland, and abroad), addressed to the Chess Editor, The Observeh. 22. Tudor-street. E.C.4. who answers all Inquiries by post.

Solutions can be sent on halfpenny stamped cards, provided that Manuscript for Press written aooue tne adaress. ana tnat no comments or queries accompany the essential No. I.oel (B. Harley). White: on Q2: Qi on KBi: R's on QKt4, QB4; on QR4; Kt's on QKt2, KB7; on QB3.

Black: on on QBl on KKtl B's on K5, KRl Kfs I on QR2. KKt5; P's on K3. 4. Three moves. Two Keys.

20 marks each, (a) Kt Q3. (b) Kt3. Analysis of (al Threat 2. Kt5 ch. If 1.

QI. 2. Kta. If 1. R.

2. Kt 2. 04 ch. Quadruple B. xtj or Ra RKts ch VI or Viuaarupie alter tsB riv Kit Ph Ll nri OA rri rtr ICt B4 ch.

Triple after H-Kl by 2. RKts ch. Kta or 7. Two triples after Kt7 or Ra (distinct, because the captures on dif- ferent Bquaresl by 2. RKts ch, ch or.

rr3yS iSS or ao noi score separately, uie i White moves being fully included ln i larger choices, shown above. Marking. sec second moves, Total 57. I If 1. B4.

2 1 mnaiysia oi iuj. anui uireciis. ni.lnlimla of.Ar T) Tit i Q4 ch, ch or Kt R4 Triple after B3 by -2. Bs ch, Q4 ch or 5, h-. Included duals, after KtKs MK'sSd quintuple and triple 8.

Total 32. Grand total, for Section B9; for Section 40. hope solvers, to manv or wnom 1 wisn to le- turn hearty greetings, will forgive me for this unseasonable puzzle. Details of No. 1.060.

Section 72 solvers 70 correct. 28 full-marked to date. Section 135 solvers 127 correct. 53 full-marked to date. Game No.

1.333. Caro-Kann. (From the Championship of Costa Rica) wh. Black. QBS Q4 I Kl KB3 yrttvx.

Outierrei. 11 B4 12 9 Kit Black. Esqulvel. Kt Bch KKUS lei Oastleslf i 4 PxP a OB4 13 QS lai 14 Ql ft B3g 15 B3 Oh Kt 5 K.t Kt B3 6 Et 11 7 K2 lei 8 Q5 16 QR4 CJR3(hl 17 K5 B3 II) I Pip Kt Kt K4 Q2ldl 1BPXP BXP 19 Kt Q3 QR KKJ) 1 Castles VL ia. iiiLiyuuLcu iuns d6u uj "ua" master, Scnlecnter.

and lately revived Russia lb vt uiua A Aon i' (C) OflerinR the QBP. Which Black would "ise disregard, until his side was T. 5 1 dJd Siii J- AiJri now 17 Kt Kt5 Kn S. i i. v.

Ill A subtle move, the full effect coming after White's nineteenth move. Black should Dlav KR Kl. Instead (ll moves, au. a winning me ex- of the text, but 20. B7 would win easily Oi 21 or Kt ch.

and males next move. mm mm mk mmJL I I I i 1 "What is a Pseudo-Squeeze?" Thejor Q. Duals after Kt2. Kt QB3 tiifc wiai.Liiiciu icduci, The answer is that it is a sham squeeze, Whereas in a genuine squeeze the player hninin. i i in is 13 helpless, a pseudo-squeeze he not.iy White although he is led to believe that he is.

i- i kpv 2n: 4 rorcea wntre is past question one ol the loveliest in all the West country, and every time you come to it, whether from the north or south, you find something new in it you never saw before. You must drive very slowly lest you miss the picture of a single one of the river-bends. It is no great river, but in its short course it does not waste a mile. And this is the time of year to follow it, when there is nobody else there now and at a certain special time in late September, when the first yellow leaves have dropped on to the dark swirl of the pools. We went on beyond Exton as far as Pitt Bridge, for the sake of the twisting road, and then came back and followed the stream again to Winsford, where the road abandons it till it crosses it at Ex-ford and sees it for the last time.

And we went afield again in the heart of the moor at Simonsbath because we wanted to go on up to the top of the horizon near Brendon Two Gates, and we came back again instead of doing the obvious thing and carrying on to Lynton, because we wanted to reach Span Head. That is the way to drive about Exmoor. Or so we thought. Then came Barnstaple, that cheery market town, and the road along the two estuaries by Flemington and Instow to Bideford, and then, because the first glimpse of the Atlantic is always of good augury, over to Westward Ho and down the road past Clovelly Into Cornwall. We had dawdled an hour too long, and with the splendour of Dartmoor before us we had to miss our usual diversion to Hartland Point, but we were very well consoled in the end by seeing the vast bulk of Dartmoor rising against the eastern sky just as the sun made a last showing from an inspired break in the clouds.

Fold upon fold it glowed red in the Jong faint spears ot light, the high walls of a land unknown. At Okehampton we turned south and followed the road that skirts the foot of the moor. It runs high, at times not much lower than the top of the nearest tors, but the illusion of a rampart is never absent, the rampart round secret city. Cut Hill and Yes Tor stand up no more than a thousand feet above you, but they might be in a range of real mountains, it Is not easy to get tnings into locus hereabouts. Then comes Tavistock and the run the moor by Two Bridges to Ash burton, about the most dramatic twenty miles in all England.

You climb fast and steadily up to 1,000 to 1.200, to 1.500, just above Princetown. and then, after a few miles at the 1.000-fi. level, drop down to Dartmeet Bridge and a succession of violent hills, short and of the steepness known as side-of-a-house. On that stage you come to Holne Bridge, the Dart; and Holne Chase, to my mind the most beautiful place in Devonshire as well as Dartmoor. But vou need to have come over the moors to see it as it really is Our stnee ran from Ashhurton to Exeter, over Great Haldon, but it was too dork by then to see the view from the top.

COMPETITION No. 668. THE IDEAL STAFF We offer a Prize of Tbrpp Oninens jOI- an ideal statt trom the servants of fiction, to include (1) butler. (2! chauffeur (or coachman), (3) cook. (4) gardener.

(5) one other male or female. The valet is -not included owing to the rivalry between Jeeves and Sam Weller anemias. marM comocuurm No fioa- SSKSES lcT and mil.t reach the oltW r.nt lau-r than the first Polt "a Ule Saturday momma imiowme pubiica- The decision the Editor is final, and no corre- spondenrt can be enlerid into witt rejard to the the right to tublisii any attempt or solution Mibmnted. Each entry must bo enclosed ln separate 'eTc Sopi ma ta divided between two or more "cannot be remrned TORQUEMADA SO BE IT SOME SOLVERS. Mr Mtmm Moodv TTrw? Sou me WJ cf ford Miss G-lyn Landlord Manor SrtlKburv: Rev A.

Wowdhouse. Bucfc Miss I A Muir, Mizoah House. Cro marty Mr. W. E.

Matthewa. MS. East- lane, Wembley; Mrs. Barlow. The Chace Woodhous Eaves.

Near l-ouchbarouch, Mr. A RLimbaU 2 Dors-1-road. S.W llJ: Ml.ss I. L. CiLlJ.

JR. Qutt-n-rrjAl, Mr Hubert Hamilton olace, Briirhton Mrs. C. Hol low tt v. LoTa.TcjAa Sma.1: HeaLli.

Mr Etowrn. CaJdv View Tc Mi ss I ler 6 Wil-wBik. NWS. Mr John R. McLArpn.

Trie Jroxt- Way. Buxted Cecilia Leave Bae- ddile. Whitbv: Mr. A. Adams 56, The Chase Bromlev.

W. Morion. 1 9. Drlmsdvke-road. Hatch End: Mr.

T. R. Coombes Uandaff Oil hedxal School Car-oiflf; Mrs. A- Ross. en a veron.

Brora Mr U. P. Harctran, 148. u- 9a Ra ndol oti-road 9 rrji 3Ti hopeful 4a rvv 4, 44. 22 4.

4J, 41 rev. 43. g. 54 ac, 31 32 Nut-hatches sound an easy catch 35. Borrowed a bit of preface to til a closet 37 rev Bean of mixed letters 40 rev The man's a huzzy 43 rev Where doomsday may thunder and Lighten And little 'twill matter to AO rev 47 24 12 rev has an expressive head SOLUTION TO CROSSWORD No.

MS.1 COLOURED SNOW If there is white heat there is also white cold; but snow has something of the warm and gentle about it. Bret Harte (whose centenary we are about to celebrate), wrote of the "bedclothes of snow." and the blanket of snow is a common homely metaphor. The waters of the sea may be "carded like wool." The snow-flakes are of a softer, gentler substance. The height from which they fall lends them no' emohasis. Thev flutter down like a1 flock of white butterflies on migration.

You are scarcely aware that they settle. Thistledown that has shed the weight of its seed is hardly lighter to look upon. This way and that wav thev swav anri riance: but. like the lark descending, seem to hurry a little with a more direct in tention as they come quite close to earth. Yet they are fashioned of vapour," as Francis Argentine Thompson wrote in his marvellous lyric to the snowflake, and the crystals that we are shown under the microscope have forms that belong to a metallic beauty.

The poets nave inea riara to translate me lan of the flake into rhythm. The Latin poet broke all the rules of the hexameter by eliding a line with delabentis. and Robert Bridges tried a new form of metre for his description of London snow and marvel lously successful he was. His lines, disregarding syllabic similarity, have1 the very drift and patrol of the flakes; in their wayward succession: When men were all asleep the snow came flyins In Hakes falling on the city brown. and perpetually settling and loosely the traffic rf llie drowsy town To take another poet of Francis Thompson's question cerntnc the snov-flake: "who ham-.

mered thee, VrouRht thee of Argentine vapour' has never had a more scientific answer than the poet 1 gave it It is crystalline we have known that for centuries Its atoms fall into rcRular patterns of such variety that no snowstorm resembles a'io-her Some dclitrhted students have tnnt veTrs in rfr mn nhr.tr! nae spent ears in draw ing, pnotc- giapbtng. and investigating these curious and lovely designs; but the flake as kept the secret of its creation more stringently tnan me hailstone or than ice. The "process of the factorv is still a private posses- sion So light it is and vet so com- pact that its coldness is a source of warmth Tt fnrms a hnt-hni ice fnr ceorl and insect, and indeed for such mam- mals as the mice that flourish in the SnWS-tWh the snow melts in Siberia not only does the ground become many coloured as a prismatic crystal, but innumerable wings are born and, air is thick with the life that? the kindly snow has fostered. Snow is coid; but it is so retentive of air (which when prisoned is the warmest Ol a clothine tor a warm-h nndeH tninel that pupae, eggs, r.A,- tU i i sr nrvc- Liitr iimiihj iiieinseives. maintain uie in tne greatest comlort; hnlhc ill i yl rPTtS pessima.

ew things are lovel ler than snow, and few things more ugly when ii is luuieu ana pasted, wnen tne crystals are corrupted into dull ice or Sl4sh I 1,1 land the hedge and the fence are like black print on a page. You can road them at a glance If a covey of partridges, the closer packed for the cold, settles in a field, it is like a woodcut illustration. On the other hand, the snow may utterly annihilate the essence of a landscape. For example: as the east-bound traveller turns into the open by Ivmqhoe village, the plain as truly dominated by the great Down' of the Chilterns as. say.

Wall Street by the skyscrapers of New York This Down is a skyscraper II diri no! Ioac all that quality in the snow, but virtually disappeared. It did not scrape the sky; it joined with it. The sky was a little dirtier in colour than the hill, but that was all. It was like sea and sky on a day of low visibility You were hardly aware where one began and the oiher left off Both were part of free plain, that was no longer walled and palisaded What colour It is of watei crystallised by a slow and seriet process, and takes on some of the reflections of water. The sun.

even midday, will make a pathwjv of coloured light, like sea or lake leading to a setting sun. If brcnk a large lump in your hand is bediamnnded with every prismatic tir.l Towards evening its surface may be blue Artists have been mocked for painting it, as if it reflected the blue nf the sky, but there is no doubt nt all Ih.r in certain and sba.l- blur enougn to mane tne blue North as well vironment as any nnrthi rn its white winter coy Th colours of the crystals do in general coalesce into a exceeding the whiteness Ih ja.nl,,' i caide tluwer. breakers or lines or pnv tne cnaiK oeiow tne aowns lining of the fairest cloud, snowflake's birthplace or the in the Mature (Lalen6ar FtosI and snow no! 'rit listfi nd botrls of roses deeoruted iir Christmas tabids of Herefordshire January 17 hornes. The bushes horp quite lost their berried aecoTattOTLs. in one Though evergreens, both green and variegated, do much to relieve the general feeling of bareness in the winter garden landscape and are valuable on that account.

It is rather to those trees with ornamental bark that gardeners must look to provide a note of bright colour in these days of dull and leaden skies. It ls at this season when the garden is at its lowest ebb, more especially after the severe Arctic blizzards of a fortnight ago which checked growth and precocious blossom, that a few trees and shrubs with coloured stems and bark planted in odd groups or as single specimens on a lawn or on the outskirts of the garden proper, provide the most attractive and picturesque incidents. The willows are perhaps the most outstanding group of trees with coloured bark. Although as a race they are commonly associated with water, it must not be accepted that it Is only by the waterside that they will flourish, for they will thrive in any ordinary garden soil which is not too dry. Salix vitellina, the golden willow and its variety britzensis with wands of bright red are both charming trees in a winter landscape.

Hardly less lovely when they have the golden willow as a foil are S. the violet willow, and S. acutifolia with lovely purple coloured shoots that are covered with a waxy bloom. S. deci-piens, the cardinal willow, is scarcely less attractive with its rich red shoots, while S.

chrysocoma with yellow and S. nigricans var. viburnoides with blackish stems are both worth having as well as the two more recent Introductions S. magniflca, which is a little on the tender side, and S. hypoleuca with varnished deep crimson shoots.

With all these wil lows it is advisable to cut the plants back every second or third year in order to encourage the development of young growth to which the colour is confined. There is no need to emphasise the value and beauty of the birches for winter effect. Almost all of them deserve a place where there is room, including the common Bettila verrucosa, which. despite many newcomers from China, is still without a rival for winter beauty with its trunk and branches of silver white. The Himalayan birch B.

utuis, with creamv white Deelbie bark. Is always a delight on a winter's day, and the same is true of is. japomca, whose white stem peels to reveal a creamy orange under surface, and its two varieties called mandschurica and szee.hu-anica, as well as the beautiful B. albo-sinensis and its form septentrionalis, which have a striking orange brown oarx. lhese are perhaps the most noter worthy members of the race, but those who have the space can add the creamv white stemmed and orange branched B.

trmann, the Japanese B. Maximowiczn. and the blue birch B. coeruHea. which combines a pinkish white bark with reddish "brown branches.

No one planting trees for winter effect can afford to overlook those mem bers of the maple family known as the snake barked maples, whose numbers, with the recent recruits from China, now afford a wide choice. With their trunks and branches striped with conspicuous jagged blue lines on a greenish ground they present quite a striking picture against a winter sky. Acer Davidu and Forrestii are two of the most oulstand ing. but A. Hersii, A.

ruflnerve and the original member of the group named A. pennsylvanicum and its variety cr.vthrocladum. whose young shoots turn a bright crimson, are also worth having. isor should A. griseum be omitted from any list, it is one ol the most beautiful maples, with lovely mahogany coloured bark which peels off in large flakes to reveal an orange skin beneath.

Seen on winter day with the slanting sun strik ing its stems, it has no rival among coloured barked trees, unless perhaps the cherry named Prunus serrula and its form tibetica, whose stems when rubbed resemble nothing so much as a piece of richly polished mahogany. G. C. T. REPORT ON No.

666 LINES FOR A DIARY Most of the verses fall into one of two classes, the personal and the moral: here are one or two of the former: Good Year, My dear, (N.B. From m). (E. H. Here is a book, of little worth to-day.

But 'tis presented with belief sincere That, giving it your thoughts and deeds, you may Progressively enrich it through tiie year. (D. Inevitably, there is a good deal of Samuel Pepys, including the ortho graphical diversion ol L. H. If you would rival Samuel Pepys I've empty pages, hepys and hepys! Or I can quickly let you know The postage to Fernando Kpow! There are also the smaller matters, which r.

B. does not iorget: Though yawning spaces underneath each date May whistle for your entries till all's blue. At least confess that VOU aTJDreclate Knowing jusc wnen aog-iicences are due. A. R.

T. cannot forget the frailty of the faculty of resolution: Wnen winter comes again, you will have captured Time. Prisoned a crowded year of life, for you alone to scan. Shadows of passing things, both painful and sublime Or will you merely enter up th month of In any consideration of 1939 the less pleasing figures of the old year cannot be left out: Hereafter, in this little book, perhaps. You'll make a record of successive crises One will refer, we hope, to the collapse Of both Dictators and their damned devices.

(C.) We divide the prize between the senders of the two following: Herein you may Preserve your life in brief I And every day Turn over a new leai. (Felix Aylmer, Lawn House. St. George's-avenue, Weybridge. May each new day Kind you content About the way The last was spent i Marsha Join1-, '3H, i amks-niad Liverpool.

22) Solutions should be to the Acrostic Editor, The Observer, 22, Tudor-street, E.C.4, and must bear postmark not later than that of the Wednesday following the date of publication In the case of solvers resident in Great Britain, and not later than that of the Friday following the date of publication ln the case of solvers resident abroad, (Ireland counts as abroad.) The following rules cbould be noted sad observed: l. tki OramiH win gm exa ta junta iveri quarter to those solvers who ore most success' tQ "U1 ftcrostica set during the quor iiac in scs may do aivioea oeiween uiree lor moTe oomoetltors at the dlsoretlon ol the I Acrostic Editor, whose decision win be antd ln all In addition to Quarterly prises The win also gue an Annual nrlie of 1' Om.hu:: 10 to the oh-ers ho are most successful ln answering the also be divided. Marks tor the Annual PrUe wai lucn WAT- -I'm nnu man ut: wic uimue Wl one JDBTK IOT eACO WIOIC HCTOI- t.t wuwwj wjwcb. ana not, as in uie caw of the quarterly competitions, for eaoh upright or light correctly solved. 2.

One mark Will h. Hrn trrr imHvhr and for each light correctly solved. On alberaa- uve solution to cacn ngra may De sent ll oealred. 3. Solutions must be signed in capital letteri at the foot; by a pseudonvm ot not mora than 'its letters, which must on no account be changed, and the first solution, sent in in each quarter must be accompanied by the real name and address of the solver.

4. Solutions most be sent on poatoairda tram- erred) OT on half-sheeta ol TJAtepaper. -'o outer correspondence may be went on the Kim riteet at the solution. Competitors sending pleat should always give their name and address as well as their pseudonym, as pleas will la future often be dealt with through the post and not In the Acrostic Oolumn. 5.

5oIr.ert working in collaboration must seiCA in their solution over a single pseudonym, 6. Any solver wishing to alter or correot solution already posted must send the solution ot the whole acrostic In full, and not merelv th tm or nun 1J. be destees to change. 7. Lights consisting of the two letters of tihe uprights only are not used in Tux Observe ooin- pe-tltlans.

DOUBLE ACROSTIC No. 873. (First of a New Quarter arid Fortieth of the Year.) For clue IH say "Begins to-day." 1. One of Queen Mab's team Visioned in a dream 2. What men strive and toll to make A babe without a thought will take.

3. A little bit more That will add to the score. 4. Pindar, of elements, confessed I am the noblest and the best. DOUBLE ACROSTIC No.

TION. 872. -SOLU- af A spidistr ambl e'nnigh A ssuag eve addy -long-leg A NOTES. 1. R.A.F.

2. The biggest i fspioistra in trie worm in tneas tains ambit. 5. Anag. 7.

Whose grub-State is the leather-jacicet. Arnnsnp k. 872 (Last of th. Quarter and Thirty-ninth of the Year). Now you had best not flout Garb of the down-and-out 1.

May well save more than faces. Largely composed of aces Beloved of Grade Fields Hers to no other yields In willing loss set down The suburbs of the town. Seek Week. Hunger of man Sausage can. For those ln proverbs deeply versad Resembles Nov.

the I you may note, wore a wind-cheating coat. 3. 5. The A. E.

desires to thank many solvers tor Christmas cards and good wishes. The latter are heartily reciprocated. N.B. to New Solvers. Please read the rules carefully and keep a copy of them.

To Double Acrostic No. 872 (Rags and Tatters) eighty-one solutions were received seventeen correct and sixty -four incorrect. (Continued from col. 5.) 'Three Z. "Three rr Clv Cn.u ry y' iJovor Qnarfoc" TPt.oti urltV V'c niwnina Hi A of Four Spades." was too strong to pass.

he snoulfl nave caued six paaes. T. JT-nnrlnn 1 111 There havp been no changes' ln the laws of Contract Bridge since 1935. At Contract you cannot i score Deiow tne line lor more tricks man Tricks taken -for revoke penalty are scored exactlv Playing I Two Partner must not let" the bidding die short of a game contract. Holding a bad hand, the first response is A B.

A (Llewsburyl. Auction Bridge Dealer holding A. K. x. A.

x-- ne No-Trump iect 311 were ot ,5 Spade or "One I you call? Answer. There is no definite rule as to i-o irump Bias, out on tne noiamg vou I give I prefer an opening bid of One Spade SOME SOLVERS. Mrs. E. M.

Taylor, Dilhorne House, East-leigh; Mrs. Pyne, Maer Bay Hotel. Ex-mouth: Dr. Kathleen Vickers, 26. The Parade.

Epsom: C. L. Howard. 78. Crick-lade avenue.

Col. Parker, S.O 5. Head fort -place. S.W Mrs J. H.

Fjlle. Strath-more. MonU-DSe: Miss Telfer. 35, Lauderdale mansions, Mrs. Norman Edwards.

3. Primrose Hill-road. Miss Paddv Fnce. 13B, Copse hill. Wimbledon: W.

N. Hills. 10, Essex-road. Leyton: Miss D. M.

Charter and W. -N. Charter. Ijelchwarth H. R.

Gilieard. 9, Moor- land-avenue. Cllthe-roe Miss E. Barton, Brean House School. Weston -super Mare.

Miss Alison Malcolm. The Scboolhouse. Cromarty Mrs Maddox. 40a. Brownsville road.

Heaton Moor; G. Griffith. NoblehiU. Dumfries; P. Small.

50. Church-street. Brighton. Flower (SI Friendship FetterB '5 TO CROSSWORD No. 617 racesDtT an jc 1h1ur i I Ie i I PAR jV jo lr nt i pjufri- ou i er riTjaMn-i A I RBI Aljvj I es I the east wind, a tumult of grey cloud- ships scurrying before an Atlantic gale: or not so rarely as you might think, a Pale-blue canopy shot with the misty.

goId of a January sun. those dark brown I hills have a beauty all of their own. they owe much to their con- though it would be difficult to sajJ what. They do not stretch up so far into the sky as the Durham and Yorkshire moors, nor have they the same limitless horizons, but they have much deeper valleys, and their Hanks are steeper. You are always nearer things in Dartmoor and Exmoor.

in a smaller world though, in winter a scarcely less wild one. What you ln peat perspectives you gam in colour. I have never yet seen Dartmoor tharl ls in Mav 11 cnl Here is a leisure" week-end cruise out not lon- when Dt.von shrL, was rL.COVoring from the first of, the winter violences. It had not much I plan or purpose beyond the crossing! of the moors, but in the end we covered a good deal of ground, iured westward by the light of (he Atlantic sky. It tookj us lwo days and a half because we ii ana went DiirK io Lonaon ziu mi.c.v be tli mi' cumfortably a long 11 at Hon, tun.

where we branched otT the, London, road, on the wav lriv tsc vauev at iiverton. it is rocnt feature excep't the homeliness and quiet1 you linn on every road in Devon at this time of year. Is it onlv imagination that folk go about their affairs here with a distinguished absence Of haste as inlelll- gent folk should'' Or is it merelv that one nas been told tOO much about Devonshire placidity and that it is no more real than Sussex silliness? If it is an illusion it is a verv agreeable one. At Tiverton we came to the river and turned upstream with the familiar feed- CROSSWORD BY No. 666: ACROSS ryma President holds the clue I into a rajah's trouble Tre stands up.

the keeper Stands i.p to keep 1 1 v. a (. 1 1 riot dm.iKtj 6. but straight a Ilk -r: it- tern-11 in spile of having a vf ry cold A I of Pharisees and Southern 33 A 1'Ls Rt? olutionary inood with 14 The English presented 16 from visit-. ri- tl Aunt seplared her 51 she might pn.1.

ide a rl 42' Te SO ri 51 DOWN tomobiie Association causes i 3 is 1 i I 17 18 1 I 'so jf -fS 43 V8 f- 1 I i EVERYMAN'S" CROSSWORD-No. 618 rr-, clarer plays out a long suit involving dis- cards from his opponents. He places them in difficulties and hopes that one or other Sid U1eeahUrdiSCard 7r0n5 peS and thus establish a winner for him. It presumes a mistake, often a pardonable mistake, on tne part ol an opponent whereas the real saueeze Involves a nosi lion where an opponent must discard to his disadvantage. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Thanks to mv numerous eorresnondentq i Bid the New Kltcat (Hampsteadt Score, love.

the dealer, holding K. J. 9 R. 7. 6 3.

2: None: K. 4: c. A. Q. 5.

should, in mv opinion, bid "Three Spades." G. R. L. (Wimbledon). Score, game all.

2 bids "One Spade A. "No bid." holds A. 9. 5. 4: A.

K. 8. 7: O. J. 8 3.

What should be bid? Answer. Three Spades." C. B. I n-lrpr 1mH js Heart from his own hand when he should lead from Dummy. Attention ls drawn tn 1 tne error, but Dummy hag no Heart to lead nnai is me penally oer Answer There is no npnallv nlat-r can lead from Dummy any likes and he picks up the card led In error.

It is not; jjenauy caro. A. lLondnn. W1 1 -nnH rmr. Tf been decided by the Portland Club that a R.

T. C. iCambridKe). When Whn nlavr who is not the Declarer plavs two cards at once he has the right to say which he in tends to olav and the nlhsr rrt hm penalty card B. J.

1 Bournemouth I Smre. ffjim. ll- A. B. 60 dealt, and holding S.

A. K. J. 10. ft 5: x.

C. A. bid Four Spades." All passed, and a grand slam was hiade held Q. A. Q.

x. Jt. X. IV. W.

X. X. Knur clinn fi V.a hiH. jitve Answer. In mv nnlnlrtw hM Four Spades initially.

He should bid 'Two." should then call "Three (Continued In ool. 7.) Song of Tl)il6 Refugees Chorus of Holy Innocents. The Child Refugees: In this dark night of sleet and frost, If any be who still are kind, Help us, we pray you now, to find The thing that we have lost. The Souls of the Innocents We too were hurt by man's harsh pride, We too lost all at Christmastide. The Child Refugees: We have not lost a mighty thing, Only the years that should be ours, The drearnine years of sun and showers, The birds that talk, the trees that sing.

Do you still find them, down your way? And do the little children play? The Souls of the Innocents The way was dark. Our mothers cried As we set out at Christmastide. The Child Refugees When to the night you bar the door. When on your Tree soft candles glow, Ours are the footprints in the snow, We are the wanderers and the poor. We carry nothing but our fears, Remember nothing but our loss; Christ's mother stood beside the Cross, But we have none to wipe our tears.

The Souls of the Innocents We'll go with you to be your guide, And comfort you this Christmastide. Eiluned Lewis. I i i I 'i I 5o rr? i I IB i i a I i i Ira psl hn rm ri ri ST 35 ar 1 ACROSS I 20 Workman Somethin. missing 6 200 islands 141 The 14th of this line was the greatest, and the 16th the unlucklest 5i Busy corner of the garden i4j Expert 151 Cynic hare ianag. 91 A play: not a piece of machinery ilSl One kind of soldier (91 The monk in the animal 151 Mark of a northern borough 14) Italy in non-clerical guise 151 Potentate from 22 dn.

141 The country where they used to prowl around 61 English island (81 DOWN The tslry hero observes a rhythm IS) A small relation of the devil-fish 16) Pish 151 One of the Drs (9) Quantity In a painiul form IBI This note is shaky (61 Plight of the Sleeping Beauty nhen ihe Prince found her Hwo words. 7i The address of the Seven Dwarfs i9i Weather report thai may check the holi-dav spirit 181 A knot in a handkerchief may stitve this puipoae 'Hi -j 1 a a a it a i EMS is i I I A A CI A 'C ul I fw rr I 1 JJfer-H jj pj i i Iri eJp I r- A I 1 A i A 1 is i)i 1 i 1 IJ 0 ri-' 0 U) I fh i A IE 1 'i: I 'h I A () sr-4-- a pr- A 1 A LL I I I 1 1 I A 1. oTr rrr fi 1 I A I garden a flock of red-U'iugs from the North cleared off ei-erjy. 3 hou'y berry t'ithirr tiro dfij.t. hi onother blnrtbirds con id bp sfcn daiiy from the iriiidou'S hnrherrn r.

and So iras li'e Bur v-hai xrill happen if n'ni firm- 21 are repented in like menswe 11: a Inter 23. dntp' The blockade would be jb 1 1 1 3 1.