THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1948.
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delegation wap The Memphia headed by M. A. Lightman. Light- and Robert Appleyard! or Forest Hills, N. Y., won championship masters pair event in 1845.
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PORN today, your talent for quiet calm and seldom. If ever, lose your
leadership is marked. You do temper.. not bluster or shout, but make your However, you are not one to be
You 'n forceful wilt. imposed upon.
believe that wishes known by You set a fine example for young Heaven may help those who help concentrating on people, and they are usually enger themselves-but to follow your instructions. You self-help is a very wise Idea Indeed would make an excellent teacher. You have a good memory and an Fortunately, your sense of humour index mind, You are broad-minded type of is keen and you laugh your Why
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quite an early age. Your patience is unlimited and your aduptibility
to new people situations is highly flexible. are one to
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You wemen should wed ambitious men, for you have the vision and toward capabilities to help them fame and success in their careers.
To find what the stars have in select your and store for tomorrow. You birthday star and read the corres- be counted on in an ponding paragraph. Let your birth- emergency because you always keep day star be your daily gulde.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14
LIBRA (Bept. 23-Oct. 23)-im- portant business operations, especial- ly if they are concerned with con struction or mechanics are espectal- ly favoured now.
ARIES (Mar.
20)- 22-Apr. appliances and trans- Electricnl portation are the two fields which
most
right highly Invoured are
production assure now. Increase profits.
TAURUS
"Well, if you're still so jolly certain it's never too late for a friendly woord, why iton't YOU vo and talk to then about Tchaikowsky ? ↑
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
TWO elderly women went to SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nav. 22)--New
n Food Office in a provincial 21)-A (Apr 21-May friends and opportunities may bring
Those whose town the other day to make an fresh insight and broaden your good day for journey.
on regular trips inquiry. At the entrance they Lo maite work takes therm prepared horizons. Te
will find that opportunity beckons. found a gloomy official, wearing progressive advances.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23. Dre. GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-ran armlet. 221-Tact in both personal and you are optimistic and self-confident, business affairs is needed! today. then you may anticipate a new pro- will bring added pro- Think before you speak or net. Be jeel which
gress toward schleving your goal. patient and considerate.
LEO (July 24-Aur. 23)-Personal reactions must be watched carefully
"So it's come at last." said the woman. "No wonder he looks s0 unhappy." "What's come?" asked the second. "Cannibalism." And the first woman pointed to the on which was official's armlet,
"Food." printed the ghoulish word. Putting it in another way
CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)--- CANCER (June 23-July 23)-Ad- An emotional day when things seem herence to regular routine is your to go wrong no malter how hard best defence against a rather poor Compromise. it you must, to you try to be optimiste. Bide day.
avoid misunderstandings. Avold carelessness. your time.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb, 19)— The unexpected brings good results suiden trip, perhaps for business
bring increased ad- impulsive action is not to get you Trason. can
Into hot water. Be vantages now
friendly towards all. prospects.
VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-Aright Dame active day for you in which you may asset your personality and get desire most out exactly what you of life. Be progressive now.
and better
future
PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Don't take on too much new responsibility Moderation in all things will pay off today. Be cautious If tempted act hastily.
to
tactful
MIDWEEK BOOK PARADE
THE MIKE AND I By Stewart MacPherson (liome and Van Thai, 8/0)
the Cap Bon
and
EVERAL students of phatul- tological phenomena have asked me whether the old mermaids who carried the rubber model of a gas- works were real, or mere thought- projections. When I asked forth-
Ottersbody,
she said with a loud laugh. "What is reality? I see you now, but if I were not here I should not see you.
Would you be there? Should 'I be
here? Were you here
Was or there? Was either of us anywhere? Am I there? la your here my there? Which is here and which is there, and to whom, and when? If we are both there instead of here, where are we? Peninsula, We are Where is there when we are both now presented with a story which here? And where are our here or harsh and brutal and yet utterly there when we are neither of us sincere in the picture
"You win, It lays bare either here or there?" war's most grievous Dame Ottersbody." I replied cour- The day is August Bank Holiday of one of
devastation and teously. Sunday, 1030, and the place Tilburg tragedies-the Docks.
A mon, still under 30, has eritelty wrought on the minds and
from stopped ashore
a Canadian bodies of children. "The Sky
Red" has already been translated he has cattle freighter on which worked his passage from Montreal, into 11 langunges and one can only Manca fuera caballero
those who have de damas tambien scrulda, He counts his money and finds he hope it will reach
no lesson from 2. What langunges have
World War 11. Ficet he "breaks into
THE old. Spanish Romance tributed to the development of the slightly more than £2 to live apparently, learnt
on until
Lanzarote del Lago sprang un- Sircel as Britain's first ice hockey
The scene of Giuseppe
bidden to my lips when I read that in Northern Right away things did story is a small town reporter.
an American fim firm is to make a not work nut
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by Italy. One night it is visited
film about King Arthur and his Pherson planned, and to soothe the an American bombing force
mar. Round Table, with Mr Douglas landlady of a St Pancras lodging the railway station and the
Sir Lancelot. 1 Fairbanks as
As house he bad to take a job as a
main objec- shailing yards as its
their plays King Arthur' I shall have no straddled
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long could Mac- not for
manufactured shoes" and nor the shop manager the habit of gum quarter. For chewing, and within a few weeks smouldered: and survivors wandered A covered that the world is over-
Pherson suffer the "edour of newly is the wiping out of the houses and
and Calamity corner
the about amongst the
poorcr
the ruins
American engineer has, dis-
the
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Sir Arthur Elvin had been per-
rubble looking balancing.
The increasing weight suaded that MacPherson was
and pressure of the Antarctic ice-
or man to design and write Wembley's for relatives and salvaging any-
thing that had escaped the inferno. cap may tip the earth head-over- ice hockey programmes.
heels at any moment. The way to Here was his lucky break, and
Amidst all this chaos there are from that stage this "success" story, five homeless children whom Berio stop this, he says, "is "to blast the
Antarctic with written with the zest he brings to picks out to draw his grim picture ice in the
bombs."
restore This would the microphone, races through the of war's toll. This group-two girls balance, and it would cost only ten
which have lofted Mac- Pherson to the pinnacle of
willed little girl and a schoolboy of
curs to me, would be to prop up the sports broadcasting profession us
who had run away
with the world ils menлced half of quiz-master of priests' school to commentator and "Ignorance is Bliss" and "Twenty parents-band themselves together great buttresses of cement, treating
and it as a wall about to cave in. Questions."
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Sterling From Central Reserves For Burma
London, Oct. 12.-Britain and Burma have reached an agreement on the conservation of the hard currency reserves of the sterling area, the Treasury announced today.
HONGKONG
SHARES
The turnover
this chango $131,000,
Transactions
prices. were: une
Under this agreement, which covers the current half of the year ending on December 31, 1948, Burma will, in addition to having at her disposal her own earnings of hard currency, ba on the Stock Ex-able to draw on the central re- totalled serves of the sterling arca for hard currencies to meet her essential needs up to a total of
morning
and 13000
cloring
SITAKER BUYERS SELLERS SALES £2,000,000.
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Nationalisation
Stocks Touch
New Peaks
the stock
London, Oct. 12.-In market here today, two nationalisa tion stacks achieved new peaks British Electricity 3% closed 3/10. the higher at 112-1/16. while Transport 3
After totiching 100%. closed 1/16th higher at 108-3/16.
The agreement followed discus sion in Rangoon between represen- talives of the. Government of the Union of Burma and members of the British Embassy, representing the British Government,
Although Burma is no longer within the British Commonwealth,
is sull'a
she is a member of the sterling
area and therefore entitled to share the area's benents and central resources, D Treasury spokesman explained tonight.
"We have been negotiating for the past few months various agreement with other members of the sterling area whereby they would economice in the
opportunities they would make
of the gold And dollar resources of the sterling areo," the spokesman gold. "Agreements have been made with India, Pakistan, and | other countries, whereby they 'agreed on a definite figure for. a given period."
A CONCESSION
It was believed in London that Burma's allocation of £2,000,000 of burd currency from, the central reserves of the sterling neen repre- sented some concession to Burma. It appeared to be a little more (by Pernous £500.000 or so) than Burmp actually drew from the central re- serves during the first half of this year.
Well-informed Anancial circles saw several possible reasons for this relative generosity on Britain's part. If It encouraged Burma to export her rice crop, it would great- Although British Government by help the other members of the Stocks ended the day's trade at sterling gred, notably India and
.bert under their
prices. their | Malaya. The rice position in South- strength completely dominated the cast Asia has held up remarkably market.
un- well against all the polifical rest, but, as the staff of Hfe of many Dibew
millions of people, it justies nil possible safeguarding.
Elsewhere prices drifted on severely reduced turnover. Among Industrial slocks only steels, motors, coke-ovens, and road transport By reducing imports of other shares were really active. Breweries grains, bigger shipments of Burmese developed considerable weakness.
es, rice might actually save dollars. With falls of between Od, and 1/-, Oll issues had passing phases of strength. but could not retala them. Anglo-Iranian Oll cased 1/3d, to 165/- and Burma Oil was down 7-0 to 04/4-48.-United Fress.
Borrowing
Financial officials also mentioned the desirability of any action ten- ding to strengthen the forces of law and order in Durma.
SELF-DISCIPLINE
In one sense, even A rather generous limit might be a useful Britain, since any limit is better than none. In theory,
And safeguard to
Inflation
Burma, like any other member of the sterling area, is entitled to draw on the central reserves of the ster- ling pren for all essential imports from the hard currency areas.
in in-
Minneapolis, Oct. 12.A member
In practice, all member countries of the Federal Reserve Board of have agreed on self-discipline Governors said last night that one this matter, since the common reason for postwar Infintion is that terest of strengthening sterling and during the war the government "conserving the hard currency borrowed too much money from serves of the sterling area as a whole the banks.
is also the clear individual interest of each member country.
Mr M. S. Szymczak, of Washing ton, told 400 bankers attending the third annual Federal Reserve Forum that it is certain" that during the the nation did not reach "the upper limit of the tax burden that can be imposed without ham- pering the war efforts."
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For the same reason, this agree ment could not be formally linked with the question of compensation for, nationalised British property in Burma.
of
Any member of the sterling area has an unchallengeable right to a fair share of the central reserves for essential imports, Any owner nationalised property has challengeable right to fair compon- satton, but it was not regarded as feasible to link these two rights.
He said that government borrowing from banks increased its spending power through expansion of credit and money supply, and a general rise in money incomes occurred when the government spent Its Reuter, tundis.
1-in
With no
commensurate increase
an un-
the supply of goods and services PARIS RATES OF
upon which the people could spend their higher incomes, the result was
intensification of pressure prices.-United Press.
on
Big United States Maize Crop
official 4. Government" by
One of the best stories he has to tell is drawn, from his experiences
The children are resourceful and As a war correspondent in France after the Normandy landing. It self-reliant: they live by theft and concemis an American newspaper blackmail. The oldest girl becomes
1. It lies south of Cape Horn, "would a prostitute and the cne of 13 does man, Roger Green, who
South America and Is claimed by tread when angels were Elting their the cooking and the chores.
2. England. It is an Anglo-Saxon nails" Stow's story goes like
The fole of these youngsters who this: "Field Marshal Montgomery was must resort to banditry and a life, language to which Norman, French, giving a press conference at a secret bateful and vicious, in order to eat, Scandinavian, Dutch, Greek, Latin rendezvous one day in Normandy steep and, in short, ward off a slow and Celtic elements hava and Roger was seated, cross-legged, death is a violent theme. Yet it is buted. 3. The art of fine, elegant
and handwriting. faithfully, strongly Monly talked 'as handled, in the front row.
certain properly the those who have understanding of dancer moves about the with a ballet
qualifications. 5, Franz Liszt, G. A stage, avoiding questions he did not young mind under great stress.
person stupefled
excessive by want to answer and darting Into
drinking. No (Tomorrow-Record Review). red-herring topics with skill. one was getting much live copy unlit Reger conlod his head to one, side just as the Field Marshal inquired if there were any questions.
"'Yeah, Field Marshal', Roger, and the flesh of every British neck crept slightly, I wanna know when you guys are goin' to Ret crackin
You There was a hush. could have heard a flea breathing. In turtle-necked sweater and black beret,
Monty turned his eyes slowly
KNITORS FAZER SERVICE.
sat
in Roger's direction, like sixteen- inch guns on the Vanguard lining up a target. His face was taut, then It relaxed into a smile.
Well',, said Monty jauntily, 'I taven't got the foggiest darn Idea"."
THE SKY IS RED By Giuseppe Berte (Secker and Warburg, 10p3) This year there has emerged from the ruck of now fiction two novels paying homage in their own graphic and honest fashion to the fighting soldier in action. They were, John Prebble's "The Edge of Darkness" and Alexander Baron's "From The City, From The Plough
By Giuseppe Berto,
Valian Isoldier who was taken prisoner in
on
THE SATURDAY
AVANING POLT 370
Stay FWE
Washington, Oct. 12.-The latest estimates aro that the United States maize production this
will reach year
3,500,000,000 bushels, ensily surpassing the re- cord figure of 3,250,000,000 in 1040. Mr. Denis A. Fitzgerald, Director of the Food Division of the Econo- Inic Co-operation Administration, estimated that Europe would take nearly 450,000,000 bushels from tho current crop and About the same from the 1040 harvest-Reuter,
EXCHANGE
-xa
Paris, Oct. 12.-The following chance rates were quoted in the un- ocial market hete today:
Free
US$20 (xold piece). market 238.20 Francs,
Free market US$ (note), 313 France. Black market US$1 (note), 467 FraneR. United Press. ZURICH QUOTATIONS
following ex- Zurich, Oct. 12-The change rates were quoted in tila mar- ket today--a
Agentine Peso......
U.S. Dollar, gering. French Franc,
0.40 Swiss Franes, 3.00 Swiss Francs. 10,30 Swiss France. 6.02 Swles Franes, -United Pres!»
Indian Tea For Germany
Joint
Berlin. Oct. 12.- Tho Import-Export Agency of the Anglo-
Czech Trade Pact American Zones. of Germany has
With Pakistan ·
Prague, Oct. 13. Czechoslovakin has concluded a trado agreement with Pakistan. It was announced here today. The agreement will be signed in Karachi this month after approval of the two Governments.
Its provisions regarding Imports are already from Czechoslovakia being carried out, it was stated. Reuter.
Silver Unchanged
London, Oct. 12.-The pilco of silver today remained unchanged. at and (47á, sper, pounce. for spoi
forward-United Press.
bought $750,000 worth Indian tes, it was learned here tonighf.: The first delivery of the tea is expected to reach Hamburg from Calcutta during December.
Negotiations are in. progress for the import of $280,000 worth of spices from Indla-Reuter.
Exchange Rates
Business was done in the lors · szí~ offietal exchange market this morning
at the following Tales:-
Sterling pound noto (per ɛ1}
18.00
| US, dollar : (per (81)
Gold bars (per siel)
0.20 $13.00
10.90
23,00
FIC piastres (par · 100)|
Glam ticals" (per 100))
N
guilders (per 100)
GOLD YUAN
The Chinese gold yuan was quoted tr the open market this morning at 07 cente (longkang)' to one' yuan.