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REICHSBANK WARNING TO GERMANS The Reichsbank has issued a current value in Hamburg of a pack warning to Germans not to rush of-20 being 100 marks (£2, 105.).***
Associated Press. the banks in anticipation of currency reform.
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ARE YOU SURE? ANSWERS
Questions on Page-9.
your pocket is no, safer than that held in the Bank, because the British
1. Sam Collins, original proprietor Military Government has not ap- proved any plan for monetary reform of Collins's Music Hall, Islington, from his tombstone in Kensal Green Cemetery. 2.
2. Eccelesiastical Court of Appeal. 3. All of them. Year- zro also
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1947.
BOOK SECTION.
REVIEWS
by
JOHN PUDNEV
..reports a paper chase..is
punch drunk with Gerald Kersh...quotes a 'Western'
NEWS
drab and the ordinary with signi- ficance. But 1 wish he would not found a school of polite augulsh.
Confessing in his introductory note that the uhort story is on exacting form which 1. have never properly practised," and that these
tales are presented DB "the by- produels of a novelist's career," the
rather pately performance.
Or is it some lunatle fringe is surrounded by a slice of life author gives advance warning of a in funny clothes which outside which is the story. of half a dozen London taverns, exists only as a memory in the neat filing systems of Mr Maugham's mind?
Some of these stories have a beginning and some an end. Mr Kersh's vivid and too fertile
CREATURES OF CIRCUMSTANCE, by Somerset Maugham. (William Heinemann, 10s. 6d.)
HE new Maugham collec- tion consists of stories written long ago, one story.
Most people I meet nowadays technique generally dispenses written during the war, and the live as much on their wits as on with the middle. others since its close. They are their rutions, and in their
They abuse the storyteller's smooth, engine-turned examples leisure pursuits might be cluss-
of the work of a great artist in ed as intelligentsia though it privilege, which is to buttonhole
mannera.
They are perfectly tional, conventionally There is not a word displaced, nor a word too many. They be long to the opulent side of life, proceeding with the case of a limousine conveying royalty.
The few moments after putting down the book are filled
with loyal and con- fused satisfaction not unlike
Anti- that climax which follows
a royal progress.
with would cover them conven- fusion to be called by such perfect, name.
MANY
Somerset Maugham's lant collection stated that he would *any not write more" stories. To Account for this new book, ha explains that he really wrote "not many moro but someone left
out them.”
con- the reader with
a tale which A has the compression of a poem and the impact of a novel, As Mr Maugham has slices of life, they never fail to nothing to fear at be realistic and convincing- their hands. though but, oh, that punch!
the magazines which
print his work may
have, if they continue
to bed him out along- side synthetic pre- fabricated romances
NINETEEN STORIES.
by Graham Greene. (Heinemann, &s. 6d:)
which satisfy what TF I were to dare to mock a they take to be a dreary and unam- bitious reading taste.
certain style of undertone
All that remains to be said is that every
The preface contains a spirit- story which follows the short, ed defence of the practice, of rather tetehy, preface has a which Mr Maugham is so em- beginning, a middle and an end, inently a successful practitioner, which is satisfying, almost un- but thoroughly and bf publishing short stories in usual, magazines. Not only does he triumphantly Maugham. defend the magazine as a mar- ket for a successful writer, but he has this genteel smack in the eye for the intelligentsia:-
leave
stot es
SAD ROAD TO THE SEA.
by Gerald Kersh.. (Heinemann, 8s. Gd.) "I have never pretended to be anything but a story teller. It
me punch drunk. has amused me to tell stories MR. KERSH'S 'new and I have told a great many. They arrive in a series of jabs It is a misfortune, for me, that
an occasional the telling of a story just for and hooks, with the sake of the story is not an straight left which has me down activity that is in favour with for the count stunned with Nevertheless, 1 the intelligentsin. I endeavour admiration. : to bear my misfortune
of this rough handling, fortitude."
after the thirty-five encounters provided by the book.
with
tire
Who, by all the saints and sinners in this suffering but is the. intelli- literate world,
Tiredness
comes inevitably
gentsia? Is it the thousands whether you have been clouted who switch on the Third Pro- clumsily or artistically. Kersh
in contemporary literature, 1 would tell myself that I was a sentence overdoing it with like this: "Directly he heard his landlady's: feet upon the stairs the elderly man with the grey shaven head began to lay his wet tea-leaves round the base of the aspidistra."
It ig ü shume to lift such a quotation from Mr. Grdam Greene, who is one of the must distinguished
writers imaginative
alive. The quotation, which comes from almest the best short story in the book-- "When Greek Meets Greek"-is an awful example of how the sub-
normal, ugly, all-too-human and un-
middle class have become the likeable characteristics of the lower
literary fashion.
Gridhinn Greene can sound all the undertones of our civilisation with asured skill, fle con
clothe the
I have nover, however, read a bad book, by Mr. Greene, and recommend these by-products as mostly up to the Greene standard.
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MITFORD wil Author NANCY
character of her own play one creations in the film of her novel, "Pursuit of Love," now being made in Hollywood.
NORMAN (London Belongs to Me") COLLINS, now finishing a children's novel, "Black Ivory," will soon be starting long novel centred In a London orphanage: Wans it may take three years to write,
to-Me"
And still on the "London-Belongs- theme, NOEL STREAT- FEILD uses a similar Idea but shifts the locale from Kennington, S.E. to a better adiress--May- fair, W. for her coming "Grass .in Piccadilly."
"This Other Exten," one of the first Australian best-sellers to be published 'over here was written by
school - gir) 17-year-old
started
CATHERINE GASKIN, it when she was 16.
QUOTES
FROM the book jacket af fellows
gramme, go to the ballet, puts objective, highly trained, "Western," "The Swamp of Car- Germany classics out of print by buying
books, pack the concert halls, or terse and hard. His great talent de," by Thurlow Craig (Hutchin- women
living and hard fighting ore com read with humble attention the lies in his assurance in delineat-5, 9s 6d.): "Love and hate, tough Each character bined in hls exciting and fuil works of Somerset Maugham? ing character,
blooded story of cowboy life in modern Argentine.", Quote from book: "Bite on that, my beauty, to
CHESS PROBLEM
By V. MAKIN Black, 11-pieces.
150
White. 12 pieces.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's
problem:
1. Q-K16, anu; 2, Q.-R. or Kt
mates.
Women Can Bet stop you shouting so." The gaucho
Aggressive nations like
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South 14
Wen! North East
Pass Pass
1
Pasa
2
Pass
Pass
1
BN.T. Pass
Opening-Q
arc
difficult to SAFETY plays
describe with all four lands in view, but when I show only two
of the four hands, many readers İkomplain that they cannot follow
Therefore. I can' the play well. only suggest that to get the full benefit of today's hand, you cover up the East and West cards.
should tho play
Ao D to
quite normal. The bidding is Under no circumstances North allow his partner to hand at three no trump, matter of fact, South's jump three no trump over two hearts should Indicato some heart strength. Now let's get down to the safety You have the East and play. West cards covered, and you can sco that declarer is missing six trumps.
His probable losers are a club and Ho wins at least two heart tricks. the opening spado lead in dum- of hearts. my and cashes the ace are among those whose Ile lends a small diamond from
Which
heart are devalued, while dummy to his king.
culinity is the socepted thing." If the hearts were divided three- patriarchal over-valuation of mas- should he lead from his hand?
it would be immaterial Dr Alfred Torrie, Director of Army three, Psychiatry, one of the contributors. whether he led the four or the Jack
of hearts. He would lose only two.
However, ...FROM "Tea of Service" (Graham heart tricks anyway. Watson Ltd. 109. 6d.): "A war the hearts were divided four-two, he
ing the jack. corespondent colleague of mine would lose three heart tricks by lead- in the desert, who specialised in writing descriptive stories with the human angle, once said to me des- patringly: 'Every time I write a Wal Hoare, Australia's only
FROM the Present Question" story, there's always tea in it. The women's bookmaker, says that women punters are botter losera (Chapenan and Hall, 7s dd.); "Man more difficult tea was to prepare, the than men,
can bet just as is not primarily aggressive to his more sure it was to appear." heavily, are more thorough in their punting methods and are easier to handle.
Heavily
Hoare began betting exclusively with women a year ago. He Eyes them a shade better odds than he would give to men.
"Many women bel in a big way," he told n reporter. "They are easier to deal with than men all that is needed is a little courtesy. And they are more thorough, Whether they study the form or follow hunches or omens,
Hoare declareci
that dreams had more influence on women than tips by the baker and the milkman, and added that women steered clear of short-priced favourites.-Associated Press.
Rupert and the Jumping Fish-
was neccesary because of "respon called hogs, Picture shows giant NANCY Ingenuity
able speculation" in the German press about
in bloom. 5. House, Ho calocokarias financial reform.
Lambert's Oska, Epsom, which be maid that there had been no run on longed to 12th Lord Derby, close Four. 8. Queen Victoria (Empress of India). D. Massachu- Betts.
the banica ret.
The shortage in Germany of metal coins, is on index to qualing about the worth of the marks felt by the Germana They are hoarding coins in the belief that they are of more -value than notes. To ease the con- poquent shortage of small change, the Military Government has announced that more coins in the one pfennig, ten pfennig and 10 pfennig denoral- nations are to be minted; the equiya Boston; 24, Ox; 25, Pow; 20, Sago. Jent of that value in notes being withdrawn.
CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzlo. Across: 1 and 0 Down, Out of the question; 7, Blind; 8, Tutu; 9, Legis- Inte; 13, Walla 14, Tat, 16, Armet; 17, Fall; 21, Offal; 22; Ergo; 23, Down 1, Oblation; 2, Ulex: 3. ******* Tight: 4, Onion, 6, Ettle; 6, See 1 But the cigarette, American or Across; 10, Swallow, 11, Largess; 12, English, is still the most favoured Alms; 15, Alx; 16, Aft; 19, Lab; 20, "currency" in Germany, today, the
AKUS,
AW-- I
DON'T FEEL
LIKE CHOPPIN'
WOOD
JUST KEEP
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Cap'n Binnade is watching for Rupert's return when he sees, little speck in the distance. which esce toward him, and very lon the little bear is standing on the rock beside him. Dless my soul.!! he cries. "I thought you started. out for sea serpents, and here you've brought back a merboy! You must let me keep this shell-boat among Amy treasures, Rupert. What a story I can tell the children about it 1" **They probably won't believe says Ruper. That won't matter. laugh the Capin. never do
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Tou
THINKING OF 'ABE LINCOLN---
HE WAS A WOOD-CHOPPER
They
deftly stuck the bar of yellow cap right into her wide-open mouth. "Don't forget that there is a dead man in the next room."
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
t. You can-cat.
this green
stuff with or without water and
with without
9. Not enough Bigers for Quarteta 7
[D. Cool
in o b. maytru, in A CAVITRI place.
13. le sought a golden elly. 18. Coeur - de-
Bun (three
Words)
17. M ..
orderen A
the result or
anongst a dozen.
disagreement
20. Merely a summary,, yet not
Without-Voluino.
4. 1210 H.A.F. officer in behina, in
the gateway.
25. Bounds as if the cows might
bo Bould
20, Little Alexander would seem
to have some grit.
CLUES DOWN
1. Smart to know if you expect
soma_ezga i
2. The Frenchman' may turn to
limo
3. There's a' check in ata, tem-
perature.
4. Below arst rate standard,
5. Bring a couple of saves in for
bum.
B. A swerve with no colour.
WELL--- HOW
IS LINCOLN
COMING ALONG ?
CH.
FINE
-ERNIS
The proper safety-play is to lead. the four of hearts, West wins, and when declarer gets in with a spado ruff, he leads the lack of hearto East wins this with the king, and North can pick up the nine of hearts Thus he loses only with his tem two heart dricke
Crossword
7. Time signals in 6 Acros
8. You'll And them in a whelk
atal 1
11, Bheepish outcoms, of putting
two letters in another.
12. Mother's completely lost her'
head 1
14. Dran to whom the race ope 15.—where facegoera go,
and
17. Tynnsported in some contrap-
tlon
18. In my view it's the. finish or 25. 12. bar legisistors after me to'
make mischier, perhaps.
21. Wheret thirsty people do not always get what they ask for these days!*
22. May well be a sign of unwel
come news.
23. Let the water go round.
By Ernie Bushmiller
HE JUST BOUGHT- HIMSELF A BUZZ-SAW
THE black dres and ele dumhers, as well as the wurala, nate to he lied in by wirers of this crossword. Four black squares And tour clue numbers have beep Inserted to give you a start.
As the pattern of black squares In symterlent. the left and right Brand Eden balance, and the the and bottom Julvex correspond. You can, therefore, all ju ten more black sideres,at once in turresponding within
Ar 21 in the third AvIDA CÂME from the end, the third Aprons clue from the beginning, No. 4, will oceny in the top half pent- tion corresponding with that of 24 in the bottom half. This means Chine will the down words from I sa 8 will start from the top line.
The puzzle can, therefore, be bullt un DY, combination of reasoblus, and the soilton of the clues.
No words of tea than three letters are used.
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