WEDNESDAY,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1948.
FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS
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high you enjoy, you will, eventually, bo- B degree or executive ability and come unhappy and frustrated good judgment when it comes to your daily work. Learn, carly In Inancial affairs. This is fortunate, life, to balance things so that you for you are not as aggressive along will have an inner satisfaction with other lines as you might be. You your world. have creative and arise talents, but you will have to develop them assiduously if they are to become outstanding, enough to creato career.
As a hobby, your musle, writing or
lot painting will give you a
of personal satisfaction and pleasure. You find it difficult to put in the hard work necessary to this type of carcer, when you Bad it easier to make money in more conventional channels, such as commerce.
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Inclined to be quick-tempered, you must learn to control this carly In youth. Temper and tempera- ment--is something you can very well do without. Affectionale and loving, you are sometimes too easily Influenced against your better judg- ment by those you love... Solect your close friends with care; Esten to their
then suggestions but follow your own decisions. They are usually the right ones.
To And what the stars have in Unfortunately a strictly business store for tomorrow, select your career will not, in all probability, birthday star,and read the corres-
Let paragraph.
your satisfy you and unless you devoto ponding part of your energles to the things birthday star be your daily guide.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER, 18
or fraternal 11 benedicial
SCORPIO (Ooh 24-Nov. 22)- TAURUS (Apr. 21-May. 21) - Love and romance are favoured to-
Personal matters
very -day.
go well indeed, Concentrate on them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov, 23-Dec. 22) Watch all actions with cares that the minor opposing forces operating today cannot touch you.
CAPRICORN (Deg. 23-Jan. 20)- The fair sex can be an important influence on your life today. All contnels with them should be tact- fully made.
(Jan. 21-Feb. 19)— AQUARIUS General merchandising, especially that which is of Interest to women such as clothing jewellery, etc. is
favoured now.
PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 21)-Love and romance are more than nor- mally favoured. It planning A wedding, this might be the day.
ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 203-Con-
Social organisations societies may bring Influence into your life.
GEMIŅI (May 22-June 22)The amusements and Trivolities of life have a. definite appeal today. Romance and marriage are favoured.
CANCER (June 23-July .22) A day of conflicting Issues, so instigate no major change. Make future plans, but don't execute them jush now.
LEO (July 24-Aug. 23) Con- centrate on affairs pertaining to the front. Romance and domestic marriage are favoured just now.
VIRGO
(Aug. 24-Sept. 22) —–
Artistic professions are favoured. It In the entertainment feld, things should go exceptionally well,
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct, 23)-An fileting conditions make decisions excellent day on which to marry or diflcult, so be very careful and to announce an engagement. Love thoughtful on all major issues. and romance definitely hold sway.
MIDWEEK BOOK, PARADE.
PETER CHEYNEY NEEDS NO RECOMMENDATION
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FOR THE BUSINESSMAN
TRADE TALKS
DEADLOCK
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London, Nov. 16.-Britain's talks with Poland and Yugoslavia for trade in 1949 are at a deadlock because of disagreement over the question of com- pensation for British property nationalised in these two countries.
WALL STREET
PRICES MOVE
HIGHER
New York, Nov, 10-The-stock market moved higher again today. buoyed up by a wealth of good earnings statements and favourable corporation reports.
It is said that Poland wishes to spread over approximately 10
years the payment of compensats
tion, but Britain has so far in-
sisted on a much shorter period.
It she agrees to the Polish proposal she would find it difficult not to do the same in the case of Yugoslavia. She needs Polish exports, par- ticularly foodstulia, she needs those of Yugoslavia.
for more than
It is believed that Britain would be more willing to extend the trade agreement for 1949 beyond one year If the Poles would agree to more Some preferred Issues: took a speedy payment of compensation.
Informed Bourcea Woollen Prior
in Lontion beating. American
believe Britain will hold out in both Preferred stock slumped 10 points.
Steel Leading
josues showed cases until
which a compromisc, fractional losses, with. United States she really considera satisfactory, is Steel down ths..
renched.-Reuter.
Rail shares moved a little higher,
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IT is good news, but I forget
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It I know anything of thai en- of comparative thenling branch
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AMONG my letters was one from a Cornishman who is angry at Cornish habit of inventing names. He instances my reference some time ago to the "non-existent village of Tretoothpic." Now had a shilling for every mile I have
in Cornwall I should walked beggared by income tax in no time. Tretoothple is an unimposing hamlet in the old Marengue land. No road lends to it, but you take the footpath from Polblotto, and it is a mile or two cast by north of Zirran-in- Treblithero,
THE
$2,000 from the previous transactiori,
proved sentiment."
Exchange, membership for $52,000, up was another factor: behind the im-
PARTIAL
Transactions amounted to 1,009.00 RECOVERY IN
shares.
Commodity markets also favoured the upward trend. Cotton finished unchanged to eight points higher.
Dow Jones averages at the close of the session stood as follows:- 30 Industrialo 20 Ralls
15 Utilities 40 Bonds
RUBBER
New York. Nov. 16.---Standard rübber futures today, closed 25 to 30 points lower on sales totalling 71 contracts.
176.20 54.85 -33.18
No. 1 rubber closed 30 points 90.44 lower on sales totalling 86 contracts. United Press.
HONGKONG SHARES
Business done on the Stock Ex change this morning totalled $240,- 000.
and noon closing
Transactions prices follow:-
KHANES
BANKS
HK Bank
Fast Atla
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DOCHS, ETC.
Provident
Shel Dock
LAND, ETC.
S'hat Land
UTILITIES
No pea-pushing at Wembley INSURANCES Committees Gorsedd
and
Aber- Ygdyswrlllatwiny bananer have been informed by the
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Olymple Secretary of the Games that pea-pushing with the nose has not been included in the such sports athletic contests, since are not likely to consolidate inter-
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in- national friendship, This young man he is still under tended to enter a woman pea-pusher. Mrs Hafod, to compete against Evans 30s the former cipher clerk in the the. Hearse and the sharp-nosed Military Intelligence Department of Swede named Snorrekoping, who the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and
is tough-very Curtain to expose the Kremlin, the DETER Cheyney
is a Politburo. and Russia's ambitions in 1. Which air ds/more free from tough. If your cholee.
thriller which blends exeltement to her warld offensive, bacteria, forest air or air outside
sinister
well- and' a degree the forest?
plotted mystery, then you need thon. "DARK ΠΟ "further WANTON" (Collins 8/6).
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2. When is the moon in perigeo seck bridge In the country is played and when in apogee?
in the restaurants in New York.
Between sessions of a tournament,
or after the evening
session, tho restaurant, gang will drop in at a and of course bridge hands are the tople of conversation."
At Trader Tom's steak house in New York the other night, we were Wo talking about falee-card playe all agreed that the falso-card in to- tiny's hand should not have fooled anyone. It was further agreed that game should not be made, either in a ault or no trump, but nevertheless
it is the type of hand on which A game should be bid.
-eight
Went opened the diamonds and East won with the ace South played the queen, Bear 10 mind that North and South had bid both apadès and hearts. The diamond opening looked good East, and he was innxious
to
3. Name a few citrus fruits.
.4. What .Ig equivalent Glauber's salts. Why is it so ca ed?
to
world's largest proportion of blonde b. What two countries have the blue-eyed people?
(Answers on Column 3)
CHESS PROBLEM
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establish the sult while he still had the bee of clubs for re-entry. There
wisia possibility that he had
the
heart, suit stopped, and being
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in spades, he hoped that his partner
had that suit stopped.
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With all this on: his mind, he let the queen of diamonds fool, bim and
back with the seven came diamonds. Of course, declarer won this trick with the king, ran five spades; four hearts and the Jack of diamonds, and made five no trump.
East should have realised that declarer held the king-queen-juck of diamonds. Otherwise his partner would not have opened the diamond eight. It was easy to count that the eight was not fourth-best. There- foro it must have been the top of nothing, which meant that the three missing honours were in the South, hand.
had correctly read
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South
By C. WEYDING Black. 4 ploces,
Walta, pieces. White to play and mate in three. Solution to yesterday's problem:
1, BXP, any: 2. Q. 8. or Et mates.
club would have brought a high from West, clubs would have been continued, and, before South got in for the king and jack of diamonds. the lead, East and West would have) and recalled South's heart bld. East eashed four clubs and the ace of voull have known that he should, diamonds, setting they contract one lead back the ace of clubs. That trick.
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The market steadied slightly, fő- day, the partial recovery being associated mainly with the feeling that the decline had been overdone and that the market was stronger technically.
Factory demand was revived on substantial scale, with a few dealers reporting the best demand from manufacturers for the past few weeks, The demand was attracted by low prices and reports, that rubber in warehouses. 'is now com- manding a one cent premium og n result of the tie-up in deliveries resulting
Enst the from
Coast BUYENİ BELLENS SALES
51930 shipping strike.
The opinion was expressed that the rally could carry further, but most observers are still leaning to 1074715 the bear side as far as the long
term prospects are concerned,
Prices closed na follow- Standard Contract Rubber.
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January (1949)
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February
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March
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August
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his nose, in it was ho whose revelations of the was no-balled last year for trans- It carries the Cheyner stamp on every page.
There's the poker- vast network of 'Soviet espionage in axing the pea with
one of the most skewer-fashion, and thus propelling INDUSTRIALS faced Everard Quayle, most secre- Canada Ted to tive of secret agents....Vincente sensational spy trials of modern it down the high street of Karlstad,
at the history. Callao, dance band jeador
Franc fashionable Cockatoo, making over-
Tail-piece
His book describes. His boyhood __lo the Juscious Aurora
diffident and the AN Anglo-Australian Council is to how to play Bons of the average Russian cluzen. English cricketers on known as the Practical Virgin) ... and always in the background But when he went to join the staff cricket.
the Kiernan juggling with, explosive in- of Colonel Zabotin in Ottawa formation in the shape of a list of impact of a free way of life was war criminals who have escaped the too much for him and one day he Allied dragnet.
Antoinette Brown, more familiarly ordinary living and working condi- A be established shortly to advise
You'll probably be no stranger lo Cheyney's special brand of suspense, "Dark and fast and furious netlon. Wanton" has it all at top speed without n let-up.
THIS WAS MY CHOICE By Igor Gouzenko ⚫(Eure & Spottiswoode, 10/6)
Kravchenko, Victor Russia's author of that remarkable book, "1 Chose Freedom," and Igor Gouzenko have both been guilty of treachery-- In the Sovict's eyes?
been These two men, who had
to serve drilled and disciplined Communism, had the courage and, unlike many of their fellow country- men, the opportunity to rebel.
Like Kravchenko. Istor Gouzenko has emerged from behind the Iron
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1. Forest air, with 23 to 28 per- cent fewer bacterio. 2, The moon is earthi In perigee when nearest tho
farthest and In apogen when it is away from the earth. 3. Citron, lemon. lime, orange, grapefruit. 4. Sulphate of sodium. Named after the dilibovarer, JR. Glauber. 5. Norway and Sweden;
escaped the Embassy prison' OUTWARD MAILS
divulge the plotting which was going on behind its walls. His story is a stern warning to those who may have been lulled into complacency by Commullsm and ifs beguiling propaganda.
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Services readers. In particular, will be interested to find an Order which Stalin,
Commander-in- Chief of the Russian Army, cir- culated to units immediately after the surrender at Rostov,
It read:
the
com-
"Having surrendered Rostov, Red Army has besmirched its banners for centuries. The monders had every opportunity, to save Rostov yet they falled. I have ordered all commanders immediately responsible removed from their posts and, their ranks reduced. We must learn from the enemy. In order to raise the standard of disipline in the Red Army I order the formation of penal battalions for officers and penal companies for the ranks. The:
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N.Y. FOREIGN
EXCHANGE
New York. Nov, 10.
(Unofficial)
Argentine Peso (Official) at
Argentine Peso
Uniem otherwise stated, registered elow 10 articles and parcel posts
than the ordinary minutes earlier mail, Tr. matis close before 10 ani, registered and parcel posts close 8 pm, on the previous day. Malis Are closed at. Kowloon Central Post Omee, hair an hour earlier than the GPO closing times.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17 Closing Times By Air Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow, Tangtan, Pelping Amoy, Taipeh and Swatow 3.30 p.m.
Manila.
Closing Times By Bex
and Batavia, 3 pm.
MacassNOVEMBER 1S
Closing Times By Air Canton. (Kowloon CPO)
-am.. noon, 2 pm: (CPO) 8.30 am 11:30 am.. 130 p.m. Shanghai, 0.30 am (reg); a.m. (ord). swatow, and Amoy. 9 am, treg); 930
a.m. (ord). Manila, 10 am.
Lluchow. Amoy Shanghai, Kunming.
Nanking, Hankow, Tsingtao, Pelping, Bwatow and Chungking, 3.30 p.m,
Calcutta,
Bahrein, Karachi, Rangoon,
Calro, Alexandria (Nairobi, Johannes- burg and Marseilles via Alexandri Rome and London, (Kowloon CPO) 4.30 p.m. (GPO) 5 p.m.
Singapore, Balavia, Colombo, Bangkok,
Sydney and Auckland, 5 p.m. penal comparties will be stationed in Japan, p.m. the front llocs in order that the
Closing Times By Bea gulity officers and men may redeem Sandakan, 10, a their fault with their blood. Second-Shanghai, 10 am.
Swatow, p.m. ly, I
of Japan. 2 p.m. order the formation
to be com- Bangkok, p.m. restraining companies'
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19 posed of trusted detachments of the
Closing Elmas By Air NKVD armed with machine guns. will These restraining companies'
be
stationed behind weak and spiritless regiments with explicit, instructions to shoot to kill if re- giments show signs of faltering from their front line positions."
(Tomorrow-Recorded Music)
OAB and FLOUNDER
!
Canton, (Kowloon CPO) 9am. noon,
3 pm. (GPO), :0.30 am, 1130 km., 1.30 p.m.
Shanghai, 8.30 am. (reg); 9 am (ord), swalow and Amoy, 9am." (reg); 9.30,
*a.m.-Ford);
Shanghal, Nanking, Hankow,Tsingtao, Pelping, Swatow, Amoy and Talpais, 3.30 p.m.
Manis, Honolulu. USA and Canada,
p.m.
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18.70 nominal
19.11
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10.35
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18.45 United Press.
London Stock Exchange
London, Nov. 16-The London Stock Exchange today ruled steady and brightened ofter lunch as a re- sult of the possibility that the sensa- tional Investigation Into the un- savoury allegations involving minor Labour Ministers might result in from The sweeping
government 0400-2% power in the 1950 elections. 400-14
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POUND NOTE
There was selective buying of in- dustrial shares, especially electrical equipment, but road transport shares saw a fresh exodus of speculators and lower prices.
There was considerable buying of gold shares, with numerous rises of eixpence or
Consolidated more. Goldfeld rose 10% pence to 54/4
anticipation of a good annual re- Oils were irregular with strong
Nov. New
York,
10-The
Britain pound note was quoted in the unofficial market here today at US$2.05 United Prest.
the
ZURICH RATES Zurich, Nov. 10-The following change rates were quoted in official market here today: U.S. dolar Blering
-xa
3.03 Swiss Francs -Unlled Prem.
11.48
High Prices For Superfine Wool
Sydney, Nov. 19.-English and ennunental buyers paid high prices Tuesday for superfine Mering wool at the Sydney roles.
on
Five bales of this type of wool sold at the rate of 123 penca per pound which is a record price for the season in New South Wales. Other prices on Tuesday ranged from 100 and 115 pence per pound. Full clearances were made, at full lovel.Associated 'PresS.
Exchange Rates
Business won dorie in the local' un- omols) exchange market this morning 14,50
at the following rates; Sterling pound note iper
UB. dollar (per #1), Gold bare (per teel), PIC plestres (1per:100) Start Stenia (per 100) NEI" guliders, (per 100) Gold your
£1
port.
buying of Royal Dutch which caused a rise of a to 24% sterling, while some other oil issuez cased-United Press.
NEW YORK METAL MARKET
New York, Nov. The follow[rsg prices were quoted in the metal Market here today:-
-ion
Iron ore 15% percent; Iron) delivered lower, port Lake Superior, per short US$6.33 Cooper. Electrolytic, Export) TAB.
New York, per in
23ts cents Zine, (Prime Werter, New York) per 10.15. cents
18.15 cents. Mangandeej '(Electrolytio, "09.0 percent Manganese) delivered cost of "Mjanty
31.00 cents sippi River
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16.
Seeds And Oils
New York, Nov. 16,
US$110.00
| Carlor seed, per long 'don,
FO.B., Brazil
| Cation seed, per long, toes, F.0.B. Memphis mayanidi
Flax aved, per bushel
7.0.11, Minneapolis
303 DA | Linseed oil, per lb. in tank
1.00
car. F.0.1. New York 20.30 Peanut nit, per Ib, roi..
$333.00
New York
6.00
27.3 cents.
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