FOR
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By Galbraith
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1948.
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Check Your
Knowledge
TUESDAY, AUGUST 3
POCKET ČARTOON
By STELLA
by OSDERT LANCASTER
JORN today, you have tremendous quite powerful in Inter life. You are
you want and no out after it without mincing matters. Your opinions will be well-settled by the time you reach middle life and you are not Bikely to change them very much. You are broadminded enough to ict others go their own way--but you feel under no obligation to change your point of view to conform.
Even so, you can be the soul of diplomacy and will listen to any- thing anyone has to say, quietly and attentively. You will then speak your mind, letting the words fall where they may! You are somewhat Inclined to magnify the mistakes of while completely Ignoring others
any of your own!
You have excellent business executive ability and may
everything. You love the beautiful in music, literature and the arts. You wonen, particularly, are fond of fine clothes and will have ex- celicnt taste.
to show your
You are not ono emotions easily although they are dealing deep. When it comes to with the opposite sex, you are not one to fall in love easily either but once you do...watch out! You are, under these circumstances, lavish in your attentions and can be influenced against your best judgment,
have fo what the stars To find for
your tomorrow, select stora birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.
and become WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4
bul
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-Continue cnutian
matters in business anticipate good fortune in personal affairs concerning the affections.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-Push social and business ambitions with Initiative and you can make better- than average progress now.
If your interests are in real estate. Deal with your elders.
+
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Unex- pected news may efect a projected journey. Make a new and influential friend, perhaps.
ARIES
22-Apr. 20)-A!! (Mar. matters concerning the land and real Personal favoured now, changes estate are
offairs Improve also.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-Make decisions Involving minor and you
you may create a denite Im- provement in your outlook.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22)-New business can be simulated by enter- prise and initiative. A journey might increase
your prospects. SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22) -Be confident in furthering personal affairs and never underestimate your capabilities. Use them all.
TAURUS (Apr 21-May 21)~~A favourable day for all mineral pro- ducts of the land. Salesmen should be successful in Anding markets.
GEMINI (May 22-June 22)--An
procedure if you want to
"I regret to announce there will be a short delay, due to argent repal work on the lie. aitd your needn't thình Brilli Railways are going to organiza dny air liti fo Chipping
Campden."
BY THE WAY
by Beachcomber
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Professor
THINK it
insure have been Wart of Neudlitz) Parly start today is good business Hummingfuhl (bul It may success in some Important project. who said that all the evils of CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-
nre "occasioned by a CANCER (June 23-July 23)-An today A definite Improvement today complete unßnished business on hand active day in which employer and nexus of unresolved suppres-
common gion-urges.” tanployee
meet on rather than tacking something new.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 10)-Around and come to a mutually good good business success day, especially agreement.
but
AROUND THE WORLD:
Can
Trips to Take From London
By TEMPLE MANNING TEPLYING to a request for a list Ivat half a dozen or so places with- in about 35 to 40 miles out of Lon- don which should be visited by new travellers to that ancient city, wr found ourselves stumped.
There are few cities whose envi- rans have served so much and so often as the stage for some of the AL- world's most stirring events. most every place in every direction. has some great personage or event ronnected with it, so one might just
1. What is the meaning of as well pick at random, and contrive
played by "kosher"? of Chicago,
Edison
Wood. It is characteristic
T.
2. Where did Napoleon Bonaparte
3. Who invented the power loom?
a list that offers scenic beauty aud general historic interest or antiquity.
Ten-Mile Run
4. What name is given to the act"must" Hampton Court, a ten-mile
of the idle?
Ike Indianapells players that they -to-bl-right-up to the hill There
to flad fore, it was not surprising this pair the only one in the roun
no trump. to arrive at
surprised
me if
งา Wood hnd jumped to seven trump over Adams' bid of three no trump.
seven
would not have
When the dummy the situation loaked
less. West
monds and
It
down, went rather hope- din- had the spades,
East clubs stopped.
had the heart suit stopped. How- ever, the very fact that
they had
all four suits stopped proved to be their downfall.
Adams won the opening lead of the jack of diamonds
of throwing cargo lighten a vessel?
into the sea to
5. Between what nations was the Batilo of Trafalgar fought?
d. In what state is the Yosemite National Park located?
Answers on Column S
CHESS PROBLEM
By F. JANET Black, 3 pieces.
Was
in dummy with the king, and cashell the ace of hearts. When the queen dropped from the West hand. Adtims Agured that West had four of each
this of the other suits. If true, he knew that he would have West in a progressive squeeze.
the king of He continued with hearts, and West discarded the eight of clubs. But when the jack of hearts was led, his discard lurt. It he let go the eight of diamonds, run the Adams would proceed to
diamond suit, and on the last dia- Inond West would be squeezed again. He decided to discard the nine of clubs.
Adania
dummy's over to his ace of diamonds. West'a Is king of clubs dropped
then casheel
ace of clubs and came hand with the
White, pleces. While to play and mate in two. queen.
declarer then claimed tlic The rest of the tricks. Two hearts
Solution to yesterday's from dummy could be discarded
problemi: on the two good clubs in declarer's could ba hand. The losing spade discarded on
queen of illa- 1. R-R2, 1 monds, and dummy's ace, lting and
(ch). queen of spades were good for tho rost.
the
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Picturesque roadside caitage in Kew.
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
SIAM TO DEVELOP
RUBBER
INDUSTRY
Bangkok, Aug. 2.-The Siamese Government has announced a three-point programme to promote the development of the rubber industry in the southern provinces of the kingdom.
1. As its part of the pro- operative groups among the gramme to help rubber planters, planters, both for the financing the Ministry of Agriculture is of their operations and for the promoting the formation of co-marketing of their products.
QUIET ON ICE HOUSE
STREET
Ice House Street was quiet this morning, with operators waiting on the sidelines for bargains,
One effect of the control of hotel rates was to force down the price of Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels to $16 per share (done), a drop of over a dollar since the last trading day. There are buyers at $15.
Turnover on the Stock Exchange this morning
shores, Was 3,000 valued at $68,350. Transactions and noon prices follow:-
BHARES
BANKS
HK Bank
East Aria
INSURANCES
Canton
tnton
1110 Fire DOCKS, ETC.
K. Whert IN) Dock..
Provident ....
N. Pt. Whart LAND. ETC.
HK Hotel
BUYERS SELLERS BALER
Two Ministry officials have al- ready been sent to the southern provinces to discuss plans with plantation representatives.
the at
The Ministry of Communilea- tions will aid by promoting development of port facilities Songiliin (Singoia). The Ministry has announced that it is willing to private give port concessions to concerns to build up and operate of shipping facilities there. Much the rubber being shipped from Siam goes from this
this port, but consider- needed to at- able improvements are
use of the tract more extensive
by
Re- shipping companies, gular shipping from Songkhla would mean considerable savings in trans portation costs for planters in the south,
3. The third development will be the opening of # Provincial Bank branch
next at Songkhla month, which will deel largely with rubber planters. This bank is a semi-government institution.
LATEX EXPORT
Nat Lek Komes. Manager of the Thni Vanich Company, rubber ogents, who has worked with go- vernment officials in the rubber that at development plans, sald present Slam has very little rubber of grades 1 and 5, but plenty of 14 grades 2, 3 and
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Anyhow, my head is ringing with
from of thing this fort
ot world twilight
pseudophysio- if I ask my- psychobophomology. self twelve meaningless questions. I get no answer. And that is a sign of badhehaviourism and the Gestalt theory as exemplified in Narabin's "Circular Pre-Suppositions in the Ape-Mind."
Do you follow Krabzklau?
THE author of a book called "The
Analysis of Political Behaviour" talks of a portable psycho-galvano- meter to make physiological tests of personality-reaction, and says that "middle-class rivaliousness leads to a high frequency level of aspersive Jargon for jargon, I pre- remarks." fer the bureaucratie or Civil Service brand to the "scientific,"
Professor Spitta who is possibly our foremost authority on empirical symbol-reflexES in international sociological reconstruction, should not be quoted as a follower of Bur- haus.. He is rather a member of the school which includes McAncho- vlc, Boube, Korkleino, Jibbering, Smeldt and Professor Mrs Nechi- tomrat.
Mimsie Slopcorner
Leaving the Thames and heading should in another direction,
we
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Electric
Telephone
INDUSTRIALS
Cement STORIA, ETC,
Dairy (0) COTTONS
Ewa
43%
AUSTRALIAN
PRICES ON
UPSWING
Canberra,
government
.of
2.
He said that rubber traders are caploring the possibiltiy of export- Ing rubber latex, as there is a de- mand for this product because it are
rubber offers a wider range that
sheets in the manufacture of finish- ed goods. No Intex, however, has yet been shipped, he added, plaining that small estate who cannot afford the necessary cuuipment, are selling their latex to those having the equipment to turn it into sheels, which are then exported.-United Press.
OUTLOOK UNCERTAIN Washington, Aug. 2-The Depart- ment of Commerce's rubber Industry report says that the political news of Communist activity in Malaya
Asia and Southeast
makes the outlookc natural rubber production uncertain.
2. Prices Aug,
It says that Malayan production petrol, six other petroleum products, for the first four months of 1943
risen. and butter and cheese have
was at a sonsonally adjusted rate May Shipping freight charges have also gone up with the ending of Com- of over 735,000 tons annually,
production declined sharply from monwealth
subaldics, the April all-time record, but was the Commonwealth 2,500 tons higher than May 1947. according to Prices Commissioner, Mr M.
Shipments from Siam, amounting McCarthy.
to 33,000 tons during the same four the 1348 months. Indicated that The
Siamese total might be 100,000 tone. The report said: "There has been Malaya being talk of rubber from smuggled to Siam, where exporters can retain for their own use sixty percent of the foreign exchange -re-- sulting from rubber shipments".
Rubber exports from Indonesia during the first four months of 1048 totalled 117.946 tons, which included
Commissioner said petrol would be 1d dearer a gallon, diesel oll, £A2 higher a ton, and lighting and power kerosene d gallon.
morc
The new price of petrol-in-the capital cities is 2/84d. a gallon.
Mr McCarthy announced an in-
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Hall with its tapestries, the Siate visit St Albans, the modern succes. HE Hond-Towel for Foreign Vis!- ter, and id in the price of cheese at least 8,000 tons of·
2
Our 1st would start with a rent run out of London. The Palace,
pre- built
by Cardinal Wolsey. empted by King Henry VIII is some- thing to see. No wonder the much- married Henry decided to annex It. The Tudor Gate House (known as
tors League has suggested that Anne Boleyn's Gateway), the Great
sor to the ancient town of Verulan Mimsie Slopcorner should make Apartments and valuable art trea-
Her sures are worth coming from far to ium, founded right after the Roman tour of hotels as Miss Towel 1043, view. And the grounds with their conquest In A.D. 43. The cathedral riding an electric towel-horse.
"With the Olympic of onc
the oldest Norman mother said: centuries of careful nurturing, the is
Its massive Games coming and the Australian in Europe. ancient trees, the grape arbour, the churches
cricketers here.
I do so think it is famous Maze, all make the gardens lower and other original portions Important, and Mimste looks well one big delight.
are largely constructed
of Roman riding anything. Her father said: "It's not her good nature that makes Thames, 21 bricks and tiles. down the Further
her go on in this crazy way, It's her miles from the heart of London, in
Dickens' enthusiasts will want to
stupidity. Windsor and is castle, which has been a royal residence for more visit Rochester, 20 miles from Lon- than 800 years, so it just couldn't don, where the author lived, at Gad'c help being an arena for history. Hill Place from 1867 to 1870. It is Near the castle is Eton College, an ancient and interesting city of founded in 1441 by King Henry VI pre-Roman origin and has a won- and Magna Carta Island where the derful Norman castle as well as a keystone of English liberty was magalficent cathedral. The castle shaped . 1215. Surely that's enough keep is one of the finest examples of history for any traveller!
Norman military architecture in the country, and is the sort of thing that just fascinates little boys and milltary men.
Tail-piece
his
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CHARLES SUET has sent a
to morandum
In future, in breaking down says: the overall figures for global through- nut targets care must be taken to utilise simple English..
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE Answers
Replicas of Shields
is Egham, In Below Windsor whose parish church are replicas of
In the rolling Chiltern Hills, somo the shields of the 25 doughty barons 35 miles from London, is a place who forced King John to sign the
without any real historic Interest, Magna Carta. The site of the barons but just the same a "must. A 200- camp at Runnymede adjoins Egham logical park covering 500 acres of
While we're along the Thames, might be a good idea to put in at the rolling and is devoted, to the breeding and exhibition of wild such spots as Henley, scene of the annals, as well as a sanctuary for of Bt. Helena, great
annual Maidenhead, London's most river resort. Smart hotels, gay enfes one big delight, and old zoo hands
restaurants, beautifully de- Just can't tear themselves away. corated houseboats
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7. We are getting used to its ad-
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mash. (4)
elation wint put on immor tality" (Corinthiana), (0)
4. Ta i groke it gives you the cul-
minating point.
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A roan pool (anam.). (V)
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And hence one misster-pasION
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swallows up the rest" (Alexander
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his corner, (8)
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popular
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bright with
newer baskets, all sorts of river
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craft, especially punts, make for a suguests อ musical picture that comedy setting. Tho hanging woods Ciloveden, the river- front gardens just blazing with flowers, have made many a traveller Inger and so miss other and per- haps more Important objectiver. Nearby L A real picture-book village, Bray.
ZBW RADIO
HKT.
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6,14, Nad (London Relay "Much binding in the March" (übersi 8.45, Bongs from Foreign Lande sung by Jatake angedoorn (Bludło); 9. Orches- Iral Concert: Britian Composers; 10, "World and lioma News,(London Relay}{ 10.15, Weather Report; 1016, The Eng- Aish Theatre. No. 1: The. zdiradiaa Morally, Playa (BBC); 16.30, Danos to Joe Loss and His Orchestraj~21, Radio News Fan) (London Nelay}; 1249, Waa- ther Report and Closs Down,
"Oh, come now, Mr Weems—I haven't' oven got my gloves on yet!"
crease of 24d in the price of but-
old estalo per pound.
tons native remainder now es- He said that these increases fol- stocks, about 92,000
the rubber, and tate
to lowed a recommendation from the HOD
production, According committee. Consular advises, estate rubber pro- cost dairy industry's Higher prices for processed milk duction for 1940 csumated at 70,000 would follow later.
to 80,000 tons by the Dutch authori- These price increases, he said, ties, who had earlier expected 100,- were to cover not only higher pro-000 tons-United Press. duction costs,
sts, but also the with drawal of Commonwealth govern. ment subsidies- The withdrawal followed the country's decision the May referendum on prices,
United Press.
Become
Hides Important Siam Export
at
Bangkok, Aug. 2--Increased foreign demand, coupled with in- creased local production, has now made hides one of Slam's ranking timber, with rice, exports, along fin and rubber, a recent trade sur- vey reveals.
The northeastern provinces of
De-
U.S. CONSUMPTION Washington, Aug. 2.-The partment of Commerce announced, that the total new rubber consumpɔ- on in the United States was 08,010 long tons in June, compared with 87,100 tons in May and 85,100 tons In June 1947. It enld that June was the first month this year in which that of the consumption exceeded corresponding month of 1947.
The Department added thot In- ports of natural rubber amounted to 64,055 tons In June.-United Press.
INDUSTRIAL
RECORD
Canberra, Aug, 2-Australian manufacturing nclivities during and southern 1018-47 hit an all-time high, accord- Slam are
the chieting to the Commonwealth Statisti-
clan's bulletin today. sible for 40 and 40 percent respectician, Mr B. 5. Carver, said that Lively of the total output.
Jilde producing areas
and respon-
The Acting Commonwealth Statis- during 1040-47 the number of fac- Prices on the nearby Malayan tories in production was 30. porcent market determine the volume sent greater than the number in 1938-39. to Bangkok from the southern Output over that period jumped provinces for reshipment. Unless
prices in Bangkok we attractively 100 percent and salaries and wages high, hides are exported directly120 percent. to Mataya from the south.
EXPORT GRADES.
with
"Compared
1943-40, the number of factorios operating in
1940-43 increased by 3,500 or 12 percent, employment by 58,500 or
Export grades of Slam hides are eight percent, salaries and wogen classified in the following man- by A £31,000,000 or 15 percent, and
value
дет
of output by A£142,000,000
I Arsenicated cow and buffalo or 10 percent. hicks (known as butcher hides),
This expansion followed the de- which are cleanly shiven and well cline in factory employment and
framed.
2. Dry cow and buffalo hides, output during 1944-45 and 1945-40 from the wartime peak attainedt which are sun-cured. These are
not as well shaven and are of lower during 1943-44-United Press.
quality.
treated and wet.
3. Salted hides.
These are not
Into
Exchange Rates
Export packing is divided dry hides and wot hides in cases.
Tuainem was done for the local 'un- There are four lannories now in official exchange market this morning in
the following rate: operation In Bangkok, including one
Chinese dollars (per Chți m... owned by the Ministry of Industry, string, nole (per £3 In addition to the tanneries, there US dollars (per Usit) are four largo local manufacturers Gold bary (per tart).
Plastres (per 100). of shoes, bags and other leather, Simms, Licata tour 2005. products. United Press.
NEZ guilders - (pke 100),