THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
SIDE GLANCES
POCKET CARTOON
By Galbraith
EXCLUSIVE Telegraph' fEATURE
YOUR
BIRTHDAY..
By STELLA
by OSBERT LANCASTER
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
ARCTIC BÍRALĂVICE, INC. T. SL REG, LE. IL PAT, OFF,
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They've boon fighting for a wook, no when the dashed out today with a grip i thought auro. I had a house for you-but it was only laundry!"
• McKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Safe Six Is Turned Into Seven Hearts
By WILLIAM E. MCKENNEY
THERE
VHERE are 40,000,000 cord play- ers in the United States, and I Ruppose every one of them plays at least once a year in a charity event. In January Mrs Ralph H. Schel-
Harry J. lenberg and
Fishbein, who run the Mayfair Bridge Club in New York, put on a game from which all entrance fees were given to the March of Dimes. I played with Nick Minuskin, chairman of bridge tournaments for the March of Dimes. Nick and I had won the tournament.
Today's hand came up. On the opening lend of the diamond threc, Nick played low from dummy' and Enst, feeling from the bidding that the ace of diamonds would be
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Nick made the correct play of the seven of clubs, trumping in his own hand with a small heart. Then he laid down the ace of hearts, picking up East's jack. He went over to dummy with the ten of hearts and ruffed another club. The six hearls was overtaken by the seven `in dummy, and now the ace of clubs
was laid down.
When
the jack dropped from the East band, Nick discarded the six of diamonds. The ten of diamonds was discarded dummy's hith club, then the queen of spades was led. East refused to cover, declarer let it ride and thus made seven.
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Check Your Knowledge
1. Give two other names for the flower Rose of Sharon.
being one who performs his acts of kindness as a regular part of living. Much of the good you do, may never bo losown to anyone except to those whom you give help.
PORN today, you are enough of the talk about "doing good" so much as
Individualist so that you must always adhere to your own ideals and plans if you are to succeed. To follow the advice of others against your own best judgment can bring misfortune and unhappiness. How- ever, you are also enough
You will make all kinds of per- of the diplomat to know that you
can fonal sacrifices for thoro you love, listen attentively to others; learn Your own family is very close to something new, perhaps and stil! you, but you also have the embrac- go right ahead with your own Ideas, ing love of all mankind in your
Ideas, heart. If You are good at analysing others hea
you marry, it will be and seldom make a mistake when it someone whose idealn ara as lofty comes to Judging character. There as your own and who will help you I spiritual side to your nature in furthering your Ideals.; You are that needs full expression. If to not one to be demonstrative In
Do trained, you might wish to enter the showing your affections and this is Church. But the chances are that often mistaken for aloofness. you will devote certain part of
To find what the stars have in your life to the welfare and help of store for tomorrow, select your. others, thus expressing your spiritual birthday star and read the corres- nature and still remaining part of ponding paragraph. Let your birth-. the outside world. You are not one to day 'star bo`your daily guide.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 3.
GEMINI (May 22-Jono (2)-A Food tune for making new plans, signing contracts, and getting a pro- ject well started. Step up produc
tion.
CANCER (June 23-July 23)-A deal may bring you an unexperied proft today If, in the past," you have played things exactly right.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Flest really good day of the month for you, so take full advantage of what it can bring. Ask for and get what you want now.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)—Minor changes, probably for the better, are on today's schedule
full so tuke advantage of them now,
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Any handleaps brought about yesterday by competitors should be easily done
away with today. Make good pro- Kress.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-A progressive day where in the good 4. What is the national summer overbalances the bad. Be optimistic game of England?
and you can proceed admirably.
3. Name three countries that have
an important river called' Don.
4. From what is mother-of-pearl obtained?
5. What is meant by the abbrevia- Lion 410?
0.
For what are tanbarks used?
Answers on Column 5.
MIDWEEK
GREAT MORNING
By Osbert Sitwell (Macmillan, 15/-)
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 22) An all-around favoumble day. Business and personal affairs now dovelall advantageously, too.
CAPRICORN (Dec, 23-Jan. 20)...... Being too adventuresome right now is inadvisable. If you are conser- vative, all will run along very well Indeed!
on
"I'm warning you for the last time-one more attempt to sabotage the 'Andante' and I purge the wood-wind"
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
T
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
H.K. Stock Exchange
Has Active Session
The renewed buying interest which first became noticeable in Ice House Street yesterday kept up this morning, leading to an active session.
Hongkong Banks are still
climbing up; so are Wharves, N.Y. FOREIGN
Telephones and Cements. Large parcels of Shanghai Lands changed hands at improved rates.
Turnover for the morning totalled $1,027,000. Transactions and' noon prices follow:-
SITARZI BUYERS BELLENS SALEB BANKS.
IIK Bank Ear! Asin INSURANCES
Underwriters DOCKS, ETC.
K. Wharf (0) Dock....... Provident LAND, ETC.
HK Hotel
JK Land
S'hai Land...
Humphreys
UTILITIES
Tram
Peak Tram
EXCHANGE
New York, June 1-Foreign exchange closing, rates today were:- Argentino Peso (official) US$0.2677. Argentine Peso, (unofficial) Australia Brazil Belgium
Canada
Chile England
Franco
India
2003
A
0005
03-5/3
4.03-1/4 00:35 3025.
2001
9.23-1/4
2165 140
ศ 744
+
184
180 1100 165
Mexico
New Zealand
0700
Portugai
South Africa
Switzerland.
2414
2000 * 11
100 31
Peru
Sweden
Uruguay
Venezuela
Shanghai (CNC$100,000)
Netherlands
020 3000 5.00
11000 ** 0.
500 0.10
2414
2374
24 400 0 24
Batavia
Singapore
(Old)
"M
500 € 22
Star Ferry
131
C. Light (0)
2140
C. Light (N) ..
1500
Electile
1934 8012
2000
Macao Electric 2015
Telephone 09
INDUSTRIALS
Cement
Rope STORES, ETC.
Delry (0) ..... Watson (Old) Watson
HE new dynamic method of growing vegetables, by im- AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) pregnating the soil with boiling Judicial divisions
important business matters can assure you of hot electricity, will mean eight adequate profit on a job.
or nine-hundred crops a year. It is objected by superstitious countrymen that this will wear out the soil in no time. The reply from Whitehall is that we can always import more soil MISCELLANEOUS from abroad, in exchange for agricultural machinery.
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Be practical and avoid lusions. If you are clear-headed and factual in your approach you can progress now.
ANIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)---A deal, opened today, should bring excellent results, provided you do not antagonize a member of the opposite
LCX.
TAURUS (Apr. 21-May Prosperity oppears just around the
21) next corner and you are making the turn! Be diplomatic, to one of the opposite sex.
BOOK PARADE
Centipede's eggs in shell
TALKING of food, it was not sur
prising to read that "Fish Of The Month Is A 3lb. Roach," and that "A newly arrived centipede at the Zoo laid fifty eggs." Halt an egg for each foot. Can no way be Borracks. He writes as one
to who found
make them
edible? had an entry to the inner regimentat world and who was also a friend omelette with dried centipede's oppe.)
(Tomorrow: How to make and contemporary of tho future Field Marshal Viscount Alexander
TO less brilliantly executed of Tunis "the Notes Lift Hand Right
Hand" and "The Scarlet Tree," this third volume of Sir Osbert pre-
DUMBBELLS Sitwell's
A MONTH AGO I WAS CRAZY ABOUT GEORGE NOW I DON'T CARE FOR
HIM A BIT · AREN'T MEN CHANGEABLE ?
CHESS PROBLEM
By L. L. KUBBEL Black, 11 pieces.
White, 10 pieces.
White to play and mate in two.
Solution to yesterday's problem:
1. Q-R4. 2 .. X-K: 2.
Kt others: 2 Q-K8 (ch); } QQI (ch); I ... PRS, 4: / B-K13
CROSSWORD
Across
1, itą a gamma that could make
rable into
B. Something you try to dodge
when youou and crich-up willi in later year.
191
. The man in possession. 101
'11. Cupolished. 181
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14. in 'n' way pator gets this thi
WAY. (8)
15. Looka Uke the test word in beda.
20. Often precursor to a touch; (4) di, le makes the tanker duo. (9). 22. Opriously can't be loss, tõi 73. Ted. 7)
Dawn
1. In song it describes the morning
and the day. (0)
2. A broken up home. (8)
3. Exact. (8)
5. Return call (
4. Тепло (8)
0. Noel by himself seem upsat (4)
Taken from the open terrace. (8)
10. It's a kind of club, (8)
12. Anagram of 10. 14)·
15. Bkeleton framework, (9)
10. Bries depot the tram returns to.
*_*).
17. Looks close in ons aren. (4)
16. Member of the Upper House, 14) 19. A dish and what a dust co
Colution of vesterday's pussię. -- Aeros and 5%. Bleeping BERKLEED. THIS
Vita: 12 Lesbarts 17. · Military Pounde Cat Sandpaper: 2
15. Ofteil_5.
Frenta
is
120, Bay
autobiography
sents, if anything, an even more" dazzling picture of a re-created age an ago when hopes were buoyed high, but unfulfilled.
Brit Tuesdales Welling greatest soldier
ton".
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HALL
By B. H. Liddell-Hart
(Carsell, 10/6). How did it come about that, after their lightning break-through in 1940, the Germans gave the bulk of the British Expeditionary Force the opportunity to reach Dunkirk first?
an
Prodnose pricks up his ears
CONFIDENT that a quotation from Shakespeare, made during a speech in a public hall, unlicensed for drama, might be said to con- situte G breach of the Act of 1183.
r Prodnose, is organising a corps of be given common informers, These men will a special allocation of England-and Europe-had never
round petrol, so that they
travel been so prosperous and gay as in
breaches
the country to discover 1911 and the two subsequent years,
of the law at meetings. Young
Mrs Wretch has promised her help families from
of An answer to that baming questo "stamp out the scourge of quota- affluence, such as Sitwell and his tion has been given by Hitler's own
tions in unlicensed halls." brother officers of the Grenadier generals In conversation with Cap- Guards, would find themselves in taln Liddell Hart who, in contact vited to as many as five or six cn- with Germany's military leaders at tertainments
night. In Porlio- the end of the war,
men
a
ment an ambitious programme of
Social reform had just been carried through, and old age Pensions and Insurance schemes had removed the most bitter-spectres that haunted
the poor.
able to
gather their evidence and opinions
on strategy.
Field Marshal von Runstedt stated Fuchrer's direct order that Kicist's categorically that it was The
armoured forces should halt on the Aire St. Omar canal.
"I questioned it in a message of
aro
to
That last lump of stone
FOULENOUGH determined to let
But
the public decide for Itself what thought it was a cannon-ball, then the round lump was. If anyone cannon-ball It should be. Failing that, it might be a fossilised dino- sour's ekg found in the Gobi Desert, In Western Europe there had been
or "Abstract Thought," by Szisko. war for two generations, and protest, Runstedt told Liddell Hart, wise by a very no
the matter was settled other- the youthful Sitwell was able to "but I received a curt telegram indy
learned American rellect in his study of history that reply saying: The armoured divi- lady, who was buying for the Car-i political
and religious expression sions
(Missouri) Art Museum. This thage was unfettered.
remain at medium lady There was, indeed. artillery range from Dunkirk". Von the stone, cried out like a night- Miss Woshabocker on seeing no hint of the sorrows and terrors Kleist himself has said that the or- bird surprised by a trapper. that lay in fornt of the most highly cultured races of the world.
"mode no sense". When lie runic stone!" she said. "But there Yet, Sitwell belonged to a doom- ignored it and sent his armoured should be
ancient
writing on it. el generation, to a military element curs to cut the British lines of "It is very
said Foulenough, that was to be wiped out by a war
retreat, he received a more empha- "In this late light. Come tomorrow, which would bring the death or
the order to withdraw behind the madam. You will see it better." disablement of two million of his
canal. It appears that the ban was
The lady promised to return, and fellow-countrymen.
not lifted for three days, and then the evening was spent by Foulenough it was only infantry units which
In carving with his jack-knife mys- terious signs and symbols on the stone.
than
*
and
der
This book is in three parts. First-
the
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Answera
Ιπ the course of his expansive were allowed to complete. the oc- and glittering chronicle of those pre-cupation of Dunkirk-afier. the World War I days. Sir Osbert Sit- British had gono! well's arilatic prose style-at once elaborato
precise is no less social history. It reveals praisal of the men who built up the 17, thore. la Liddell Hart's own ap- the Arst glimpses of the modern
German Army and directed it in acts: of music, painting and of the Russian Ballet. As in the previous battle. Secondly, there is a search- military volumes the graces and oddities of ing analysis from relatives inevitably overshadowed viewpoint of Hitler's rise to power by his eccentric father and also and the development of armour in
Aaron's Beard and St. John's acquaintances
warfare. Thirdly, and by Wort. are portrayed with modern
2. Cricket. 9. Russia, Eng- to vision and vigour whether against far the most interesting the land and Scolland. 4. From the the background of London, Alder- general reader, is the Nazi generals'
inner surface of the shell of the pearl shot, guard duty et Buckingham own account and criticism of the oyster. 5. Quarto, a sheet of paper Palaco
folded to make four leaves, or eight and the Bank of England, Russian campaign, of the German or abroad in Sicily and Florence. resistance to the Allied invasion of pages. 6. They supply the chemical Normandy and, finally, of Hitler's | for tanning leather. They come last desperate gamble in the Ar-from the oak, chestnut, hemlock and dennes counter-stroke.
other trees.
In this work, which is difficult to overpraise, readers with recent or present links with the Servlees will revel in that considerable part of Sir Osbert'a narrative which com- cerns his Army career at Aldershot, Pirbright, Purficet and Wellington
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London, June 1-Anglo-Iranian Oll surprised the London Stock Ex- change today by reporting doubled carnings for 1947-18,584,857 com- pared with £9,824,030 the previous year. This
well-kept secret, for the bears, in recent weeks, threw the shares for sale on the strength of the Palestine disorders, Since the dividend was unchanged at 30 percent, the shares advanced only 2/8 at 182/0. idle day.
This was the sole feature of an Cape selling of Kaffis losses were small. dried up early in the day, and net
Tia shares were up sixpence to 1/ on the increase of the tin price.
-United Press..
Hongkong
0501
4,03-1/4
2705-1/4
2400
$300
2010
2100
3762
3785
4750
2490
Unked Prers.
POUND NOTE RATE New York, June 1-The British pound tiole was quoted in the untomcial market here today at US$2.84.-United Pres
PARIS FREE MARKET.
Paris, June 1-In the free market here today the US$20 gold plece was quoted at 10,500 francs.
Tho US$1 note was quoted at 300.2 against the. black market rate of 242 franca-United Press
ZURICH MARKET
Zurich, June 1-The following rate were quoted in the unonicial exchange market here_today!~~~
Argentine Peso
U. S. Dollar
Sterling
Ew. Fr. 0.75
11.20
United Press
NEW SYNTHETIC
RUBBER
Detroit, June 1.-The United States Rubber Company research director, Dr S. M. Cadwell, today announced the development of now synthetic rubber whose resistance lo abrasion "exceeds by as much as 30 percent of the best natural rub- ber compounds. It performance in tyre tread promises to be superior,
to
berthing we have ever known
Dr Cadwell said the secret of the improvement was in the develop ment of chemicals which permitted polymerising at low instead of at high temperatures. He described the process at a meeting-of-the-De- troll Rotary Club-United Press.
Gilt-edged securities drifted lower. BLACK PEPPER
CHINA
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS
New York, June 1-China prices are as follows:
Cassis
Aniseed oil, per 1b. F.0.3.
New York
oil per b. F.O.B. New York Tung all, in per
MARKET
New York, June 1-lack peppar
futures closed 100 points higher with no
Lales reported.
Prices closed as follow:-
July **** September
October
produce December
0.75/00
302/23/50
January March May
(1049)
60.00 bid
42.00 48,00
40.00 μ
44.00 nominał 43.00
43.00
United Press
15. FOD. New York 20. 02/02 SUGAR FUTURES
Sandalwood, In drums de-
оп
Dending
quantity & quality Agar agar per lb.
New York Beryllum, 10 to 12 percent),
per ton Molyddetum 100 percent)
per ib........... 0.45
BRISTLES
...
one higher on
13.78 nominal
New York, June 1-World BUEAT futures closed three to four points lower 3.00/3.10 on sales totalling three contracts.
Domestic mugar futurer closed paint lower to three points 16.00/10.00
sales totalling 43 contracts. Prices clowed as follow:- CONTRACT NO. 4. July in cents per b.)
March (1949) May
Bristles, F.O.B. New York per lb. as September follow: Hankow, regular assort-
ment
September
3,10 nominal
July
Shanghai, regular
Trente 22. 2.50 Chungking regular
pasort-
assort.
menta
Tiantain, 26' shorts Tientsin. 23' regular
N.Y.
2.70 4.10 lect
0.60 nominal -United Pres.
RUBBER FUTURES
New York. June 1-Rubber
SPOT (World)
SPOT (Domestic)
4.10 nominal 4.14 FF 5.40
United Press.
New York Cotton
Market
New York, June 1-Prices in the cot- ton market closed as follow: SPOT (In cents per lb.).. 38.83 nominal
July...
October
December
futures March (1049)
closed 22 to 32 points higher on sales May totalling 08. contracts,
Prices closed as follow:- June in cents per lb.)
July
October
37,00
$4.73
54.50
31.00
The New Orleans cotton market closed
follows:---
SPOT
21.07 nominal | July
21.04 nominat
October
December
March (1949)
July
October
22.41 nominat
August
22.07 bid
September
21.07 bla
November
December
January (1940)
21.00 nominai 21.77 bid
May
February March
21.72 nominal July
Ami
21.82
May
Jurig
7157
July
21.32
August
Spot
21.53
United Press.
LONDON PRICES
London, June 1-Rubber futures closed
1/4 to 6/10 higher.
Prices clored an fallow:
Junto. Ein pennies per Ib.)
July
September
October
November
December
January (1940)
February
Marc's
13-11/16 bld
13-11/10
13-13/10
13-13/14
13-13/10
12-15/18 2-15/10 12-13/10 United Pres.
October
38.00
36,03-0
33.70-01
13.00-0 32.91
32,78
20.50
United Press.
1. Closing
Bombay, June Zarilla in rupees):-
July
September
prices for
-United Press.
Adjustment In
Tin Prices
London, June 1. Tin circles here today expected an adjustment In the United States and Bolivin tin prices no the United Kingdom price rose to 2500 for Malayan Nigerian tin.
and
The present United States con- tract price is 90 cents a pound, which is equal to the former United
| CHICAGO | GRAIN Kingdom price.
PRICES
Chicago, June 1-Chicago Board of Trade closing prices were:- WHEAT (price per bushel)
May 2.33-3.31-1/4
Cinta 233-1/4
July 3.32-1/8-2.32
CORN
July 1.93-7/8-4
May 2.17-1/4-1/2
OATS
May Da-1/8-1/4'
July 84-7/8
-United Prets.
The new British price represents
In at US$1 a pound.--United Press.
Exchange Rates
Business way done in the local un- official exchange inarket this morning at the fallowing tales:
Chinese dollars (per CN1 m... Sterling notes (Der £1)
UA, dollars (per US$1)
Gold bars (per tan))
Plastren (pur, 100)
1 Sism ticals (per 100)
NEI guilders" (per 100)
15.00
328.00
11.50 23.70