THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY You can
get into on
argument
on today's hand, starting right off with South's operting bid. Should he open with two spades or one spade? Personally I prefer the two spade bid because I use
ace-showing reponses to
the
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two-bld and I would like to know If my partner has the ace of clubs.
next The
should argument, North bid two no trump or raise He could not bid three apades? spades if they were using the ace- showing sytem, as that bid would show the ace of spades. Should he bid four spades? While I do not think anyone would criticise the bid, in this case, with most players four spades would show
trump support Food
and also
either a singleton or a king and
one.
If North had bld two no trump, do you think pass?
that
two
He should
East should not pass,
trump, might prove important for West, that clubs
pecially over
no
his partner, to know
should be led.
When West falied to open a club It looked
if declarer would have no trouble making seven. The natural way to go about it was to cash the ace and king of hearts, and nee end king of din- monds, then South might discard the queen of clubs on the queen of diamonds.
he did he would not even But make six, because the second heart be and
would second diamond
of clubs cashed. South should realise that
pult should danger and
trumped and tho
rounds of trumps.
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three
On the first and second trumps West discarded two diamonds, but five of if he had discarded the hearts on the third trump, de- clarer would have had no trouble in establishing the heart sult
The only way the contract could be held to alx was for West to
nine of clubs 'discard the
third trump.
on the
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6. In what part of the body is marrow found?
EXCLUSIVE 'TELE GRAPH' FEATURE
YOUR BIRTHDAY...........
By STELLA
samo
WEDNESDAY, MAY 26
If you were to take this BORN today, you have an extreme-
ly alert and aétive mind. You energy out into the business world or carve out a career for, yourself, are a no student and should be able
would be successful to make honours costly. Be careful you probably that your case in learning docan't But you would never be completely make you careless of Important contented unless you had your own detail.
Selence and mathematics home and family. You are the type who would be able to run both a probably will be the two subjects in
and marriage successfully. which you men will surpass. Both career these can be put to use in a corect too. during your adult life, too,
You women are excellent managers and will make fine homemakers You are naturally goy and effevera- cent. You like people and you will wont your home to be the centre of the social activity in your neigh
Because of your great bourhood. energy, you will be able to get a lot done without too much lost motion and most people will wonder how to manage so much in so little time! This seemingly effortless manage ment of your own home will make you a popular hostess.
You are intensely loyal to those you love, but you may be as intense. an enemy as you are a friend. You are inclined either to be all for" or "all
You person. or
against" might temper this condition with a little more forbearance. Your wit and ready and you must is quick invold saying cutting things or mak- ing so-called witty remarks that may hurt the feelings of others.
To find what the stars have "
your tomorrow, select store for birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day slar be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, MAY 27
BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-A good day to anticipate that promiseri-You can be confident of reason- 50 lave promotion if you have earned it. ably good returns today,
full confidence in all you do. Put your case before the boss!.
23)- CANCER (June 23-July
business pick-up and Watch for a on Improvement in the romance de- partment, as well! Sun la shining more brightly again.
in
LEO (July 21-Aug. 23)-If you aro diplomatic in handling personal affairs, then no problems
of any importance will arise just now.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Bept. 22)-Cun-
or those the boss fer with authority on a new matters settled to your entire sotia faction.
23-Oct 23)-You can make an important advance in your work if you use your initiative of your and secure the good-will associates,
LIBRA (Sept.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)—A good day for merchandising but one in which you should guard against Be patient and emotional upset. calm.
MIDWEEK BOOK PARADE
CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI By Carlo Levi (Cassell, 0/0)
POCKET CARTOÓN by OSBERT LANCASTER
“in some ways the place in the 18th Century equivalent of a pre-fab. It took 20 years to build and ruined the family for generations."
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
was
pro-
homes."
the tt
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
Heavy Selling Of
Cotton
Ended
New York, May 25.Heavy selling of cotton futures which took place yesterday disappeared to- day, although prices were still under the previous close. Exception was nearby July delivery which was relatively steady on small demand that met with 'limited offerings.
HONGKONG
SHARES
A slight slackening of in prices
registered by most
V1s
popular
Dr tho
Confusion prevailed in the market after the noon session over the export situation and favourable trop reports, result of which the market turned werker.
As a
Price clored two points higher to 17 points lower, any operators chose the akdelines, awaiting a cloarer picture, of Issues on the Stock E the export situation.
The market closed as follows- change this morning How:ver, Spot tin cents per lb.)..... 30.43 nominal * Cements and Watsons maintained May July the advances previously recorded. October
Turnover totalled $478,200. December
Transactions and
follow-
BHARES
BANKS
IIK Dank INSURANCES
Union
TIK Fire DOCKS, ETC.
noon prices March (1049)
RELLERS BALES
36.00
33.54-15
32.07
May
32.85
NUYERS
July
31.30
October
2008 nominat
2110
New Orleans, votion prices closed as follows:
770 703 180 778
spot
57.55
200
May
314y
157
October
3214 30
December
2311
24 1000 2324
March (10493
May
July
10% 1824
October
0.00
201
2411
K. Wharf (0) Dock .... Provident LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel IIK Land Sal Land Humphreys UTILITIES
Train Peak Tran
(D)
Htar Ferry
C. Light (0) ..
C. Light (N) .. Electric
Telephone (0) INDUSTRIALS
Coment
Hope
STORES, ETC.
Dairy (0)
2435
4211 40 43(XD)
300 / 43
40 40%
20
Watson (Old) : Bety
Wathon, (New) 37 5311⁄2 Lane
Crawford... 54.
COTTONS
Ewo
22
MISCELLANEOUS
Entertainment. 303%
30,20-4 23.50-3
31.83-D 32.50 uld
22.17 11
31.35
20.05
United Press.
BOMBAY COTTON
Bombay, May 23-loving prices for Jarlita, in rupées (
July
7.57
United Press,
200 G 461 800 401 10004043
1100 401
N.Y. FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
New York, May 25.-Today's exchange closing rates WCTO:- Argentine Peso (Omelas) US$0.2977 Argentine Peso Unomela))
foreign
2507
200
Australla
3.23
2900 57
Brazil
0503
.0223-1/4
Belgium
Canada Calle
England
02-3/4
0333
4.02-18/10
1800 25
France India
.0033
.3020
Mexico
2030
New Zealand
3.23-1/4
ΠΟΡΙΣ
0700
Portugal
South Africa
London Stock
Exchange
25. The
Sweden
Switzerland
Uruguay
Venezuela
Shanghai (CNC$100,000] Netherlands
Batavia
Singapore Hubgkong
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20) A good day for opening a new shop starting a new business; confer with partners on new plans.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)—A | THE last block of stone was
TH the better is definitely
used to make a bust of change for noticeable, be alert to all new
Boadicea. Then the gloomy Hirst was sent out for more. opportunities for advancement.
The critics, amazed at the Interest (Feb, 20-Mar. 21)-A PISCES powerful day for activity along all of the public in sculpture, project. Get
important lines of endeavour. Get phesied that a renaissance of art hand, and suggested that the a new plan in full motion now.
exhibits at the Plumpton Gallery 22-Apr. 20)-One should form a travelling exhibition. ARIES (Mar.
days. Keep moving But Foulenough, whoso business of those so-so to hold your head above water but motto, like that of the whale which swallowed Jonah, is large profits and don't try to swim against the tide.
21)-quick returns, rejected the surgea- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Events are about to turn very strong-tion with contempt. "Far better that purchase theso ty in your favour, so be prepared to the people should take full advantage of all opportun- beautiful things for their
he said. Ilies.
A second helping of stone
the monu- "MORE stone?" said
mental mason.
"Dyin' like flies up there, aren't you?" "I tole "It's you," and the gloomy porter.
said the art, not death." "Well," But because women were Byron's mason, "what do they do with
London, May the ail?" "The boss whacks it wiv n favourite theme and because
London 'ammer" sald more subtle problems of his mind me
Q the porter, "an then Stock Exchange certainly took around and behaviour revolved
ne shoves it in the gallery, and the dislike to Palestine and the Anglo- Vulliamy's chapter
American controversy, people what comes in laughs at it."
with the women, PART from the fring
LOVE is
ally Runnin' a mad'ouse, eh?" said the result that there was a substantial especially BYRONIC
We Here
find an A
British Govern- squad and the concentra- illuminating.
"It's art. Scufpcher, ment issues and lethargy in in- tion camp, dictators have novel analysis of the man who boasted that mason. "I tole you", said the porter, decline today in. methods of liquidating opposi- in one year he had laid out £2,500 patiently,
I 'ave, Don't make 'em? Inckels British Transport opened ex- tion. In 1935 when Mussolini on "the Sex"on girls with great like. Ever seen a statcher?" "Course dustrial shares,
black eyes and fine figures f
and all that." "Well, than," said the
dividend at 90- but lost 6ths and defled the League of Nations breed gladiators from."
porter. "Well, then, what?" shouted
Old Consols were Blessington, the Indy and sent his troopa to. blast
closed at 95-%. mason truculently To a certain
เค their way to
down 3/10ths. the Abyssinian Byron was in the habit of discours-nald the porter. "Busts repeated down 5/16ths, while War Loans were
Thus on the mason in disgust. "Ju mean
The only feature in the industrial capital of Addis Ababa, there ing with much frankness.
one such occasion he said: "Women ladies busts? Tell you what, you'll
section was American buying of Ano was one Carlo Levi, a painter, have been pointed out to me Bave the pleece in one of these
Electric Musical Industries, which doctor and writer, who did not beautiful who never could have in- days."
rose 1/0 to close at 21/3. feelings, from their approve. He said so and for terested my
expres countenance, or want of his trouble was exiled to R
A sion
woman's face ought
Asked why he had returned to the "Stone Age" village in Lucania.
to be like an April day-susceptible primitive province of change and variety...... Women house, ise said he had left a pair of Southern Italy.
were meant to be the excitors of all
(Morning paper.) that is finest in our natures, and the
commented 0 soothers of all that is turbulent and
well-known harsh. Of what ΟΙ
use, then, can G printer, "that's swell" Mean- handsome au
automation be, after
while, willing hands helped the two one has rot acquainted with a face Indies-down-from-the-hall-stand.
no change, that knows
though it
"We did feel foolish," tittered the of
"You causes many? This is a style looks I could not bear the sight of smaller of the two.
week." And again to Captain foolish." replied a passer-by, with Gronow the Dandy: "For my part, singular lack of courtesy. had I fifty mistresses, I should in the A cavalryman will course of a fortnight forget them all
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2. Two obstacles and
nothing
between us, how uncivilised.
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4. Approach. (4)
6. Bal and some footwear, (0)
U. Beyond the prime; (3)
7. eo. I'Across
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Pastoraj: Menarates:
Privaten: 6. Attire:
in
Down
in that barren gion, the peasant "lives out his motionless civilisation in re
in mote poverty, and
the presence of death."
"We're not Christions," they de clare. "Christ stopped short of liere, at Eboli." And Eboli, it should be noted, is many miles to the north of that village to which anti-Fascist Carlo Levi was banished.
He found his new neighbours were
a
for a week."
to
.and bless my stars for deliver- ing me from the hands of the little mischievous Bind God.".
In short, declares Vulliamy,
Left among the hats
loves on the hall-stand.
"Busta
were
ride anything
(Weekly paper.)
I knew a country officer
Who donned his best jodhpurs
no better than wretched beasts of "women are everything-and they To ride a towel-horse round the burden, left without hope and know-are nothing,"
ing neither sin nor redemption from sin.
ZBW RADIO
Programme
.
Summary:
0.01,
TOOM.
He'd touch it with his spurs, Crying
"Come
tere, pretty up DAC. And let us charge the foe," While his sweetheart hung around
his neck,
And would not let him go. Chorus:
Here we come galloping gaily. Lancers all in a row, etc., etc, etc. CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
"Christ Stopped At Eboll" is # moving chronicle of the author's ex- periences as a political prisoner amongst these creatures of the wild. H.K.T. It is also # plea that something should be done to rescue them from Children's Half Hour: "Beau Gerte" by P. C. Wren. Episode 9: "Flight into the "Wednesday their moral and physical disease, and Desert (BDC) 6.30. from a world ruled by magle, be- Serenade": 7.11'e in the Air Variety fore Communism steps in.
Request Programme: Presented by Buran Howard (Studio); B, World and Home News (London Relay: 15, "Health It is, perhaps, n test of one's Week: "The Female of the
Species" credulity to read of the lives led by (Studio): 0.30. "Paul Temple and Stevs"
1. "Othello, the Moor of Venice." these gloomy, obstinate and super- By Francis Durbridge (BBCTS) Episode stitious pensant folk. Typical 6: "Steve's Intulon"; 9. Jazz Octet z. A large wine bottle. 3. A gradual
the four прод of IBBCTS): 9.15, "
Increase in volume of sound. these was Guilla Venere, the woman Stage" Presented by Dr Rand (Studio);
is a section in western Lapland who cleaned and cooked for him 930, A Vocal Recite! by Joan Turvilla In his exlie home, Guilia was 41
Europe made up of the Arcile re- (Soprano) with Piano Accompaniment by Clara Stansfelst (Studio); 245, Marsk years old and had survived seven-
glons of, Norway, Sweden, Finland Weber and His Orchestra; 10, World and
and Russia. 5. The American In- teen pregnancies brought about by Home News London Teliy): 10.15,
dians. 6. Marrow is a fatty sub- Afteen different men. "She
Weather Report: 10.15, Cello Bolos; 19.30, was,"
stance enclosed in the interior of says the author, "like the beasts, a
Selections from Opera: 11. Radio News Reel (London Relay); 11.15, Weather Пe- Epirit of the earth." But she
the bonez. was port and Close Down. also feared because of her skill in the art of making philtres and love potions to give young girls.
She was, in fact, a sorceress who found it easy to wield immense power amongst people steeped in be- iefs, such as that which brought fear *for men-werewolves-who roamed the neighbouring hills night in search of human victims.
WA
BYRON
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By C. E. Vulllamy (Michael Joseph, 15/-) VAS Byron a sensual cpolist whose life is mainly Interesting because of his fervent and lawless amoristic adventures? Sonte would sny "Yes," but his latest blographer
is sceptical of that viewpoint
"Women,"
contenda Vulllamy, "were certainly of the utmost Im- portance to Byron, not only Instruments of passion, but also ac- pride and rovolt,..... cessories of Those who think. of him merely an in voluminous though inferior poot und a fervent though unprincipled lover have surely failed to under- stand on exceedingly complex, variable and energetic nature,"
THW KALLIMAT
UYAKING, FONT-
Swiss Captive
"Oh, papa, was there a prize in your packet too?”
Kars were very idle, awaiting the outcome of the South African general elections, but fin
shares
were firm.
Speculative buying in Brazilian rails caused a jump of nearly 10/- in Great Western of Brazil to 74/6 United Press.
Wall
Street
Cautious
New York, May 25.--Stocks closed Irregularly lower today a quiet turn- over. Traders kept to the sidelines,
develop electing to await further ments abroad and on the domestic labour front.
The General Motors and United Auto Workers C. I. O. wage pact was accepted favourably, but it failed to induce much buying only those issues affected by the agreement displayed strength.
und
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POUND. NOTE New York, May 25-The British Pound note rate in the hinck market here today was quoted at US$3.87,—United Press.
PARIS FREE MARKET Paris. May 23.-In the free
markot here today the U630 gold piece WAA quated at 18,000 francs.
The US$), note was quoted at 305,00 franes against the black market rate of 347 francs-United Prem
Rubber Exports From N.E.I.
Washington, May 25.-The United States Department of Commerce today reported that rubber ship- ments from the Dutch-controlled urges in the Netherlands East In- dies during the first three months of this year totalled 62,790 matric tons, and estimated that probably another 35,000 tons were exported from the Republican-held regions during the same period.
The Department said, the Dutch- controlled
breas exported 13,374 metric tons in January, 16,349 In February and 22,873 in March United Press.
RUBBER FUTURES
New York, May 15-Rubber futures on sales totalling 215, contracts. closed 33 points lower to 35 points higher
The evening-tip operations in contracts after an additional six notices
Klay
had been issued against it dominated the early trading.
21.85 nominal
Pricen closed is follows:--- tay (in cents per lb.). 21.63 traded June
August July Beptember October
Automotives rose slightly. Railroad November stocks led the decline. Bethlehem December United States Steel were down January (1040)
Yourter slightly in the earler Steel section. March
The June mixed. Chemical stocks were Texas Company led the mild decline July In the Oll group.
totalled Transactions
4.
shares.
Of 1,108 Issues traded, lower, 250 higher, and changed.--United Press.
1,020,000
061 wero
101 un-
NEW YORK METAL
MARKET
Apat
21.65-75 traded
21.60 nominal.
21.50 bid
11.35 nominal
21.35
21.15 bid
21.15 nominal
21.30
21.15
21.15
21.15
22.23 nominal
**United Press.
MOVEMENTS OF BULLION
Washington, May 25. The United Staice Census Bureau today reported buillon movements for the week ending May 5 as follow: Gold Experts
Conada Venezucia
Утопсо
US$10,037,547
5,829,62
Neverlands East Indies Philippines
7,000 379.103
percent
Gel" Importa
US$
136,81%
Mexico
65,348
or Honduras
10,040
184015
New York, May 25, American 093 Antimony, grade in bulk of carload lots, r.O.D. Canada
Taxax $0.33.
Tin, grade AM (10.8 percent Nicaragua
higtier) $0.04.
Tungsten, powdered (in dollars per It Panam
00 to 99 percent) $3.90.
Colombla
per Equador
York
Chile
Wolframite. Chinese (in dollars shert ion unit-ore containing Tungsten Trioxide) duty pald F.O.D. New $0.20/31-United Press.
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Lending Agency's
Life Extended
Washington, May 25--President
Tru-
Argentina United Kingdom
Switzerland.
Faudi-Arabla..
Australia
South Africa
Northern Rhodesiais.
$300 1.015656
09.12
874.420
91,037
5,049,703
35,753,018.
Total gold "exporte:-US$12,044,815,
Total gold imports:—US$83,026,829,' Silver, exporty during fie, samo, period
man today signed a bill extending the totalled UR12 while imports amount
fife of the Itecanstruction Finance Cured to US$1303252-United Press,
poration for six years with an addi itonal two years for liquidation. Under the present law the agency would have expired on June 30.
new uct per-
it to continue lending
ret
until June 30, 1954.
operations
Exchange Rates
Hunftions was done in the local un
The capital stock of the RFC was official change market this morning at.
cut to US$100,000,000 from US$350,000,000. the following los:
D
The new law authorises the agency to Chinees dollars (per CN91 m.) }... buy up to $15,000,000 worth of preferred Sterling notes (per stocks of insurance companies. It also US dollars (per Us provides that whenever, accumulated nyt Gold Bars (per tael)
UB$250,000,000 the Pastres) ($42°~100) Income exceeds
NZ guilders (per 100) balenés mist be paid into the Treasury.
Blem ticals. (per 100) -United Press.
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