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MARITIMES
JOHNNY HAZARD
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By Frank Robbins
"FELIX KOUSSEL"
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ARRIVALS
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From Halphone SAILINGS
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via to Japan
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Ervices
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crub we bought from Rus- sin, who didn't want it, to sell to America, who doesn't want it and is sending it back to us, who don't want it, should be sent back to Russia for despatoh, via America, to us.
Suct says that it is sent back direct to us from Amerles, there will be no machinery to deal with it, but that it shop- keopers and public can be told that it
It was sent back through" the normal channels mentioned above, there will be more chance of keeping it in warehouses until it can be sent to America again before being returned, via Russia, to us for the third time.
Short detective story
A
cloudburst set minor a whole street awash. Marginal note
the
casualties on the roads has apparently appalled the people who, hitherto, have always con- soled themselves with the re- flection that this is "the price we must all pay for progress."
now await statistics proving
these accidents that all due to the criminal stupidity and collabness of pedestrians.
THE Agure of nearly 21,000
were
DUMB-BELLS
YOUR' FARE, LADY!
YOUR BIRTHDAY ·
IF
FRIDAY, JANUÁRY 12
FLATTERER!
THAN
TO MR
JACOBY
ON BRIDGE
The twenty-first in the series of lessons in Cantonese to be broadcast over Radio Hongkong by Mr S. K. Lee will be given [this evening at 0,30,
11. Dung(2)·yut(1)–(3) jun. wait a moment.
To
Exemplos: "When" and "Then"
(2) Ngaw (1) moh troen (3) gaw(2)-(3)jun-(1)ve, (2)kut bay-
For the guidance of listeners (2) teen (a) (a)ngaw. When I had
we publish
ngow
below
a summary no money, ho gave me money. of the lesson, Summarica for subsequent
3. Gaw(3)~(9)jun-(1) shoe, (3)- lessons will be
(2)molt taeon (2) published k
bay (1) the China MailĮ "(2) kut Thon (nt at tima), every Tuesday and Friday for had no money to give him. tho duration of thin ndio feature.
Lesson 21
"When" And "Then" (Refer to pago 46, "Cantonese
Simplified") Vocabulary.
wun (1). To look for.
(I)howng. A building. A
107. (1)che. Time.
105. arck... 100.
firm.
Το
100. (3)jun. A moment. 109. dung(2), ("ung" as in "hung") To wall. Class. Grade.
110. (J)eznu. Suomi, Then, Thero-
Use Board Entries To upen. Thus
Best Advantage
By OSWALD JACOBY VERY experienced player Is E
famlar with the problem of not being able to get to dummy quite as often as necessary. In more
to
to
such hands It is all the important to use every entry
best
advantage. dummy Equally, it is important for the defenders, in such hands, to steer the right declarer away from line of play. Today's hand shows By STELLA how this sort of thing can be
done by a wlly defender.
TF you
are born today, you home and children. You of the are efficient, business like fair sex are exceptionally fine and practical. You have modern home makers and mothers. It is quite likely that you will make ideas about things and like to
you
of West
opened the deuce
was finessed hearts, the Jack
East thought long and from dummy, and East won with
finally hit upon the seven of anxiously about his return and diamonds (the best choice).
the ace.
South played low, ond West won with the queen of diamonds. West returned
diamond,
Conversation:
1. A. (2)Nay wun (2) been(1) - gaw(3) ah(3) Whom do you want? 2D, (2) Ngaw wun(2) (1)Chun reen (1) -iisang (1). I Want Mr Chen..
3. A.
hul(3)-jaw(2) (a)?bu) (1)ngun-(1)hawng. (3) may faan(3)- (1)in te has gone to the bank and hasn't came back yet.
4. D. (2) Kui ray(2) ~ (1) ntico (1) – fann(7)-lat ah (3)7 When will he bo back?
5. A. (2) Kut (3)dzau fuarı(1) -
will be (1)lai Tok (3). Ho
(2)may
вооп.
back
6. Thing(3)
định{2} yut(1)-(3) jun lah(1). Please wait ⚫ moment.
7. B. (2)Ngaw (2) moh (1)alee- Combinations:
Kaan (3). (1)m dung (2)-duk(1) (2)- 1. Wun (2)
No time and iseen(2). To try to kut lok (3). I have make money, (to seek money), can't wall for him.
2. Wun(2) (1)yun. To look for somebody To visit somebody.
B. (2) Kui faas (1)-(1) lai gaw(2) - 3. (1)Ngun (1)hawng. A dank, (3)jun-(1)ce, (1)m-goy (1) (8)nay
(2) nga (3)wah (2) kul - Jee(1) 4 (1)hee (1)alice. Always.
wun (2) (2) kul lab(1). When he comes back, please tell him I'm looking for him.
(2) Yau (1) shea. Sometimes. (2) You (1) sheo gaan (3). To
A
г
have time.
12) Yau
have time.
1. Gay (2)
(1)shee-(3)ħna. To
(1)ahee? When?
0. Nes(1) (3)jun (1)shee. This moment of time. At present.
10. Gaw(2) (3)jun (1)abeo. That moment of time. When. Then.
D. A. Hoh (2) laht (1). Very well. 10. B. (1)M-goy(1) (2)nay, Thank 11. A Hoh (2)-(3) wah 'lok (3). Not at all.
(To be continued)
DEBATE OVER NEWSPRINT
The British Government has been accused of being more interested in cigarettes and movies than adequately sized newspapers for the public.
BARRISTER was walking
Lord Balfour of Inchrye, opening a House of Lords through Belgrave-square at
see them put into action, In- what is called a "good match"
debate on the critical newsprint shortage which has forced a.m. on an August, nor inventions of all kinds intrigue but this does not necessarily He saw a man in shirt-sleeves
and you
like to develop mean that it wouldn't be a love
British popular daily newspapers to cut down to six and На
are match, as well. signalling from a doorway.
sate them commercially. You
dummy played low, East played four pages daily, charged the Government with being approached, and the man said,
Since you are highly intuitive, the ten, and South won with There's a dead horse in the quite shrewd and are consider- library. Help me to get it out, ed very astute in sizing up a
it is likely that your first im- the ace. Now, of course, South "unsympathetic" to the problem. pressions are the right ones. had to get over to dummy with He added that some Mem- So the barrister and the man situation or closing an impor-
Business is strictly Learn to follow them for the hauled the dead horse down tant deal.
The stars
a trump to discard his losing
centred on fallure to provide more dollars to buy newsprint from Canada,
Lord Layton referred to
the
of
me
the stairs and into the street, business, and you will not let best results. Your dreamps also diamond on the king of hearts,bers of the Labour Party possible. .international allocation
prepared for "some degree are likely to be significant. Pay when he did so, West naturally wanted to "shut down the and said that unless the US. was
bc restraint" there would of spades on press altogether." played the Jack attention to them. have given you excellent health
that South the trump
led to Criticism
material change in the situation and if you take care of it you dummy's king.
for a number of years-United Press. should live to a ripe, old age,
Declarer discarded his losing in the best of spirits,
To find what the stars have diamond on the king of hearts, store for tomorrow, select as planned, and wondered what
Let your birthday star and read the to do next. If the jack of spades corresponding paragraph, your birthday star be your daily guide,
"How did this happen?" asked anything interfere.
"There the barrister.
Was ទ However, there la another dance here last night," said
the man. "Oh," said the barrister. side of your nature which is on At that moment a French sailor entirely different picture. At leaned from a top window of home, you are exactly the op- the house and threw his hat
indulgent and to the pavement. The barrister posite--rather
It is caid, "Was this horse his?" easy-going. Remember "No," said the man. "The horse sometimes necessary to be stern exercise disciplino even was dead when it was brought
with those you love. A large In." How did the barrister know
part of your life centres in your that the man was lying?
(See Page One, Col, V.)
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(Dec. 23-Jan. CANCER (June 22-July 23). is a week
correspondence end for If your rest and relaxation. Spend behind, take today to catch up Write those lettera some time with a close friend with it.
now. enjoyably.
AQUARIUS
Mont-Louis THE phrase "A voice like a town-crier," caught my eye. For I never hear one without
(Jan. 21-Feb. thinking of the Tambourinaire
19) Take a short trip with a of Mont-Louis, who came shouting down the street after have not visited for some time. frlend to some spot which you three days of continuous rain. The gutters were roaring and swirling with
eaves were
PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 20) and the Perhaps this is the day for over into
the roadway. The official, hold-children's party. Plan it care- and it will be a huge ing an enormous umbrella in fully one hand, proceeded to read from a paper which he held in the other. The gist of his mes- was that the inhabitants sage
requested were
to
conserve
INTELLIGENO ESTESTS
Neck and neck
By T. O. HARE
***THIS SCARun's scores in our
inter House champion ship (Association Football) Brd as interesting as any you have published," writes the hand of Orenadier Lodze. **Like many other schools, wo have four Houses, each of which plays one grine against Bach of the others. TELS senson all the games produced different scores, while in no game Gld either side score more than two goals.
*** Our houses are named Alexander, Hercules, Hoctor und Lysander. On the basis of two points for a win and on point for a draw, all scored the same number of palate. On gosi average, how- ever, Hector won the chara-
ptonship while Lreander
the wooden spoon. Becured
Can you dedpoe the result of the game between thes Two House
(Solution on Page 12)--
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24-Aug. 23)———- friend or write a
Attend you may have been neglecting. the theatre or a movir
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"The British press have been scrounging round the world to try to pick up little parcels here
Lord Layton,
and there," sald chairman of the News-Chronicle and The Star.
Lord Balfour, deploring the lack of newsprint which forced newspapers to cut
reserves
CROMWELL BUST WAS MOVED
A Bust of Oliver Crom- foreign dispatches to "something like half an inch" each, called well, usually to be found on for a Commonwealth conference its pedestal in the House of
out to share
Commonwealth
lower waiting Commons production and dollar purchases
hall, will have to spend some of newsprint.
time in the gloom of a atoreroom.
He
also asked the Govern~ ment to request a United Na- tions study to draft recommen- dations for an distribution.
equitable world
It was put under lock and key after it was seen to have pedestal. on its been moved
among ONLY THREE MONTHS There was a flutter
officials, with the disappearance Lord Rothermere, chairman of of the Stone of Destiny fresh in the Newspaper Proprietors' mind. Association and chairman of the
to be the
Later, a ladder, rested against Daily Mail group of newspapers, the bust during cleaning opera-
for criticised the Government
tlons, was stated Canadian breaking
newsprint
"culprit." contracts, and said there now was difficulty in trying to get a new contract signed.
SECURE THEN
were an "honest" card, it was
Although the Ministry of and a triang
Works still held the theory that SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)- vital to return
finesse the nine. It West were with a child
"We have negotiated for every the bust was disturbed during false-carding with the jack-ten, Plan an outing
you can and
bring mutual Souta had to rely on the club ton we can get from Scandina- cleaning although not neces enjoyment. How about Д
via," he said, "and we must sarily by a ladder, one of the remember that should an emer- eustodians at the House said: museum trip?
as in 1940, wel After a brief huddle, he led geney arise, the ten of clubs from dummy should be cut off from Scan-
dinavia as we were then, and wej a finesse. and let it ride for
"It was quite secure when I tried it in the morning. There West couldn't be sure what the should have nothing bat situation
could stockpile in this country-70,000 was, but he
with nuts. were two fixtures, make a pretty shrewd guess. He lons.
I don't think it could have been therefore played a low club on
"It would mean that in three moved by a cleaner's ladder." dummy's ten-without the months there would be no newa-
were in- slightest telltale hesitation.
papers in Great Britain."
Commons officials Lord Rothermere urged, on elined to speculate, although one a lot This play steered declarer in strategic grounds alone, that a remarked: "There are the wrong direction. The club 12 months stockpile be kept on of people interested in Crom- finesse had succeeded. Surely, hand in case hostilitles break well,"
White, 4 pieces. White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's 18 problem:
B8
R (either) 1, ĐXP.1 (ch); 2, B-B3; 1...KXB; 2
CROSSWORD
19
12
18
19
220
Across
Advicstable falion. ()
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My departure upset the eclair. 15 Yeast nas been responsible Toz more than one. (8)
Some people might call it a close shavo. 14, 83
He may teach you to catch trout.
(51
BATO
14 Horo you have company
Prance, (3)
5. A resin worth a lot of money, ta
11 Famous phylclan who led the
Prench Revolution. (8). The messure of a chin 1001
of January for exercises Kt-K6 (dis ch); I... K-K7:18
with the British Navy.
TC-
The squadrons, totalling 20 planes and 175 men, will main at least until the autumn, atated the Admiralty.
The airmch will study Bri- tish naval air technique, re- ceive instruction ·with tho
Royal Navy piloto and operate
2, BxP (ch); 1... others; 2, KI-K4 (ch).
Check Your·
Knowledge
1. Name the largest diamond, with British squadrona. It Is over found.. intended that the squadrons
2. What was Columbus seck-
shall go ofeat during the sum- | Ing on his voyage to America?
crubso of the Home
mer
Flect;
The visiting squadrons aro 13,100-ton from the
aircraft Carrier
fox- Karel Doorman, merly HMS. Venerable. They have British planes. No. 000 Squadron, with
Fury
3. Where was the Uncondi tional Surrender Conference (World War II) held?
4. What is a champignon?
5. When dild the United States acquire Puerto Rico?
fighters, will go to St Merryn, d. How doca a baby bird
Cornwall. No. 4 Squadron, with crack its shell?....
Fireflies, will be based at
Eglinton, Northern Ireland.
(Afineste on. Poga ̈13) |
yours. I hope). (6)
19 On the Der you have to go fur-
ther down. (3)
20 off this through being discour
toota (9)
21. That's the tune i te) **
23 The Daily Express has many of
there (8).
Down
1. Borso that tells its master what
to do (8)
s. This comici JUL meaning
acoro. 3)
the right play was to repeat the club finesse rather than try a trump nesse that might not even be necessary.
Of course West won the second round of clubs. He then led a third club, permitting his part- ner to ruff. This set the con tract at once,
I West had wOD
out,"
BACHELOR
SOLDIER
the
of the House By permission authorities services are held Cromwell occasionally at the monument outside the Palace of Westminster.
Ministry of Works men are examining the pedestal in read)- ness for the replacement of the bust.
the first Private Frederick Shef-
The bust-which faithfully round of clubs, declarer would field, of the Queen's Royal reproduces the wart on Crom- have made his contract. Re-Regiment, stationed atwell's face-is regarded as one gardless of West's return, South Guildford, has not taken a of the most valuable in the could get to dummy with the
House.
queen of clubs in order to take holiday since 1929. the trump finesse.
He is a bachelor, his relatives live in the Guildford, ares, and after 42 years service he has
POCKET CARTOON become so used to the Army ho
MABG
does not wish to have leave стоп for day, He is 60, and
joined up in 1908.
he
When he told Viscount Mont-
gomery of his mervice, the Field- Marshal said, "You have served longer than me."
500,000 TIMES ROUND WORLD
-IN LONDON
Passengers
totalling
4,840
"Chuck" Sheffield pas million travelled twelve and a half thousand million miles on soldiered in India, Bermuda,
.and the
Gibraltar, South Africa, Pales London road services tine and France (where he was Underground during 1930, Lon- wounded
in the First World don Transport announce." War). Eo still drilis wookly---|
Toml mileage travelled by. shows
to
and
and
With which the rest train. 182.
of plante. including
Guz
mountain tobaco. (6)
Split pea. (3)
Tie sin and set fire to 15, (0)
6. A method of calculation
symbols. (7)
DX
11 Norma could have been one,
you sep. (8) 1:
14 Musical Instrument. (6)
15 These grounde barbour vein, 463 10. Buated in spus choo. (1)
19 You only soi a side view ớt, this
dio. (9)
Natura
"Who does he think he tamkha cost of living?
Kangen Kerrers decoder.
up the younger passengers en London Transport according to his regimental-in the year was equal to half a ant-major-and alvois na||
nually.
KLo now looks after the million Umea round the world.
Of the travellers, 3,400 ihillon library and regimental Institute at his ckpot and sleeps in a bunk were carried by central buses, with photographs of old 90 million by Underground, comrades who long ago left the and 657 million on trolleybuses. Army.
himg
as with longer T-
Two soldiers
More than 30 million gallons
used to run rice-Sergeant George Hamall- of fuel oil wore
ton, aged 70, of the Irish Guarda, buses and couchta, but and Irivale Nick Carter, aged 310,000 gallons of petrol. 68, of the KSLI, who both london, Transport Joined in 1900-ta¥¤ Knoopilly | 740,000 tons
electric curren
only
Mand malco
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