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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1940,

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VOTE IN

By" WINDRUSH".

BRITAIN

months has not been Inspiring. The most striking event at

The Conservatives have' been ope the beginning of the month in

of the most ineffective opposition, parties in Parliament In the British home politics was the publication by the "NewsThis does not mean that the This "Nows Chronicle" boll, memory of the public. They have Chronicle" of its Gallup Poll Conservatives are in. In private combined with other investigations thrown away opportunity after conversation the Conservatives which gave much the same re opportunity of demaging the Gov- 12, Des Voeux' Road, Guntral,

on the way people would vote are not nearly as optimistic esults, has caused a vigorous new ornment; the last was their failure Mezzanine Floor,

Gallup stir in the general pre-election over ground nutr they appear in publie." кома кома,

at the General Election.

Polls have been unreljüble in the excitement In Great Britain today,

Very few people feel much con- Telephones:

This showed that 38 per cent past. They were wrong over, the People have noticed the New Editor in Otraf.. 24354 Intended, to vote Labour, 48 per Truman election (though not as Zealand elections with Interest.fidence in, or affection, for, the Reporters & General Office 32312cent Conservative, 13 per cent far out as is sometimes aupposed). They now have also drawn their Conservative chiefs, except for the Australian | Mr. Churchill. There is wide- (four line)

Liberal, and one per cent for other But the method of taking these conclusions from

spread fear that a Conservative Parties. The porcentage voting polls has improved. In the re-elections.

Why should, the mass of the victory, may meen unemployment Subscription Rates

Labour has fallen considerably, cent Senatorial Election. In New HK$18.00

and the percentago voting, Con- York the straw volo gave a pre- people vote Conservative and of one or two million people,

Certainly the HK$36.00

servative has risen since the pre-diction which proved very accu- against Labour?

Conservativo Jëndership in recent A Certain Swing rate. HK$72.00

vlous polls.

certain Yet, that there,ils a swing away from Labour: nobody can doubt. A very large number of people have lost confidence in the Government since devalua- tion. It may be that any Govern- ment in Great Britain at that time would have been forced to de- value. But the Labour Govern- There are "wild" 'cards-cards†ment played.ita hand in the worsi which may be called anything possible way. It shouted po loud. you choose-In both versions. ly that it would not devalue, that The jokers are also wild, but when devaluation came, it could the Salinas game has only twc not avoid losing Zaco. jokers and Mra Reilly demands four

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MEIK To Avina wile of E van Met the Kowloon Hus- Peter Alex On 13th 1948.

Dreamber

SETTLEMENT IN INDONESIA

Lo

Canasta Came, Caught On And

The United States, that land of giant enthusiasms, has just produced a new one which has swept from New York to San Francisco with the fury of a forest fire.

1 is

card-game called Canasta (with the accent on the secona syllable), and It has trans- cended all records since Cul- bertsons, with hia genius for publicity allied to his genlus for systematisation,

contrael pu! urlige on the world map years ago.

Ladies' Invention

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the

Mr. Vyshinsky is said

The original flame was kindled have arrived in Paris from New York looking very picas-n Montevideo (called memorably by Mr. Churchill Monty Viddeo proclaiming "I am

Monte- el bul

and by its inhabitants Inous. No decision taken by vidayo), the capital of Uruguay, Just about the time the Graf the United Nations gave me

herself off Sper scuttled He didn't do so

harbour. satisfaction." badly, at least from the view- pont of speechmaking. He was able to declaim against "Colonial Imperialism" to his heart's content. though even in some parts of Africa there is more freedom than exists Anywhere

lence, n

In Uruguay card conventions were fairly rigid in 1940. Women played bridge--it was, par excel- "ladies' game"--while men played poker, from which women were rigorously excluded. The only "mixed" game was gin

Tummy

gantics

A

now

The ladies, bored with their in the satellite own company, invented

Q number of States or in Soviet Russia it-game based on

elements culled from other But on self for that matter.

It had some of the card- The whole the Assembly ses-reading of bridge, especially in sion was unproductive for the the discard, it had some

of the Soviet delegation, which had blaff of poker; it had some of the putting down on the table ot tu swallow the un- pleasant pill of Yugoslavia's Pretion to the Security Coun-

cil.

constant

Conquered

By

GUY RAMSEY

new

Idea of

rummy, pinochle for bazique; and as piquet and tearte,öre played in French, 11 was played in the liquid Spanish of his birthplace.

While a greater war raged in Europe the war of canasta raged in Montevideo. For every school every played by local rules; group modlied the score; every

export" had a strategy and tactics.

There existed a chaos among canasta, players like that, which almost strangled contract in the 30's.

By

жая fairly 1948 canasta

and well codified

standardised. By 1048 t had been carried by the large tourist population for beyond the land of Its origin, to Buenos Aires, to Rio, and, thence to North America..

in

on

iimpla, or "clean" canasta, while Mr. Reilly styles it a "perfect"

canosta.

"And 'Wild' Cards.

+

The red threes-the threes of Hearts and Diamonds--ol which there are four, since the game is played with two ordinary pack of cards mixed together, art

ΠΟ

No

Good Blorning

No, Myrtle this new atomic weapon which Britain is said to have is not pulverised snoek.

"CAT planes leave H.K. "Seizure feared?" -

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know

either.

ex-POW's

BRY Australian

Mnc- pordon, (beg Mandrake Arthur) is quite wrong, and that trust they themselves wouldn't the Japs in a million years.

Just another Instance of how familiarity breeds contempt.

•

of A writer

on the subject

mentions one China recognition American organisation which "has thousand members of a fow industrialists, professors, lawyers, wholesale merchants, bankers and other intellectuals."

Are there any others?

**Mrs.

D made trip to been seriously Singa- who has ill with ulcer of pare yesterday to visit her husband the stomach. Is steadily His condition

Honest? And how are all the little proof readers?

The history of recent months la

like curiously

that of other periods in British parliamentary history when a party, which had ocen brought to power originally oy wave of public enthusiasZY, bonus cards in both veratons like was wearing out its last months of

authority.

Improving." What happens at such the seven of trumps in berique ni crib.

ames is that Ministers suddenly the turned-up knave in bagd; but the black threes are of seem to lose their grip.

from them. comes particular Interest the leadership

ta

scem the victim of Salinas faction, while Mrs. Reilly Often they regards

them 118

which sheer bad luck as dianster after corda "freeze" the discards,

disaster rains on them. They are full of complaints. They cannot The runs or sequences (Q. J. 10 of Diamonds, for instance) put a foot right. They seem to which Bgure in rummy are Banc-

know in their sub-conscious mind that they are breaking up." doned in the Salinos game and called escaleras (staircases), but are forbidden in the Reilly rules. But these are minor differences only: some of the mere differ- ences of terminology.

Watch Points

The forest fire has burned so brightly, so fiercely, that it has crossed the Atlantic; and 3,000 The root of the game in that mics

water have not mufficed of rummy: to go out by declaring to extinguish it,

trios or if you, can-cenarios os Last month two books

It quickly as you can, and compel were published

London: your opponents not to ко out, "Canasta del Uruguay." by But you may not "meld"—L.c., pul Cecella and David Salinas, two down a tylo or more cards on the U.S. diplomats stationed In table-until you can do so with Uruguay during the game's forma- one worth a "given tive years and "Canasta," by Ottilie H. Roully, with a foreword by Theodore Lightnera, one of the United States world mas- ter" card-players.

"But the Salinas garne le not the Reilly! They the game of cheese but rather as Stilton and

polnis.

number

of

аб the

This was the plight of the Con- servative Government in 1805 Just before the great Liberal triumph which brought in the modern age of British polllics.

More howlors.

The chief mimals of Australia are the kangaroo, budinerang and pecendillo.

ID

Sound is e rapid series of 08- culations.

boy was the

whose Achilles mother dipped him in the River Sunx until he was intolerable.

In Amerka people are put to death by elocution.

a place Matrimony is Some observers think the La souls nutter for bour Government is Auffering account of their sins. from the same palay, Conaldez, the l

Thore buy events of the last month. has been the ground quts scandal. | retail. · There was the uprear over the Pakenham case when Lord Paken-

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where

time EL

dealing in when

on

you

Domcibing wholesale to sell

The last letter in the English

•

Regarding this invalid cheque case, I am reminded that my own bank account is ta petty delicate state at the moment.

ham virtually over-rodo a judicial alphabet is yours truly. tribunal. There has been the re- velation of the Transport losses, Concurrently with the House of There have been the foolish Lords' demand for an Independent varies This number

the East African tacks on the Press.

inquiry into game progresses, You cannot Mr Morrison has even hinted

groundnuts scheme, Mr. Strachey I am best policy was to stop calling

meld without 50 points early in that a new Labobr Government

is an his way to Kongwa. the game; later you require 00; would take powors, to cripple them puppets and to create

that he will be tbld, however, and in the end gamo" 120. Conservative Party finances. Struhable to put the whole thing in The United Nations could, with them a united Indonesian

There is lot of play-al-Stafford Cripps, whose fall iran a nutshell.

luck-in and would, have done much front. The UN. Commission

canasta; prestige has been the most sensu, and the points are apt to run—| ilonal that of any Minister, Bew more but for Mr. Vyshinsky's was the chief lactof in help as different, not as chalk and though more

But ing the Dutch and the Repub- Gruyera. obstruction.

as in mah tangg-Very high gins to blame the people of Eng admirable and historic licans fo agres. Of course "canssia" It is Spanish for bas If you

Bath versions agroa that, a indeed.

land for their plight After have embark on canastaing warned them in September of result is the settlement in the Soviet wanted to cancel all ket, and presumably means that make very sure that you all play the extreme gravity of the stage Indonesia, which the Soviet that has been accomplished the key features of other games the same rules. Also make very mic crisis ho now says that it is

are well nothing very urgent. delegation and the satellite and sack the lot, but though have been gathered into the sure that your stakes spokesmen opposed to the the Commission has practical-cadasta of the new game-la very end In that settlement ly completed its work, it may set of seven cards of identical

value, such as seven kings., Theof bridge. the United Nations Com- still render, useful services Salinas couple call this a cansata utastalham- mission played a big part. during the final processes. If It wasn't dasy-lar from it. there are further disputes, Mutual mistrust between the they are more likely to con- two major parties clouded cern the Republicans and the every issue. The Commission Federalists, rather than the was mainly responsible for Dutch, who have shown the uvercoming that

difficulty, utmost goodwill since, the and now all is in a fair way liberal-minded leadership of to completion and confirma- Dr. van Royen put them on a

firm and set course.

tion.

within your purse.

I myself am now off for a garne

Wanted--A Pied Piper

running in

By JAMES ROSS

Has the climate anything

across the earth's surface.

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Passion For Unity during strapless

Why cannot the Labour Cabinet .Partly it reassert its authority?

Inst

Myrtle was wearing a really evening gown night when her' .host "This i approached with a man...

Is Professor Benz authority on He wants

is because it has a passion for structural engineering.

to ask you something." unity. All Labour members re- call that the Party Spirit in 1931 led to utter defeat. But today they are keeping the Party united, at the cost of having no policy

at all...

wig

"Alleged driver frood." Come, come, 'now. Since the driving lest

Instituted, nobody's as bad as all that.

"C-c-can you g-g-give me [-f-üfteen mn-minutes?*****

Certainly. What is it?"

1-1-Rive

-

I have just come out of the

The Labour Cabinet may have 10 passed out of this bad phase be2 Ops room. As. Ops rooms go do with the fact that there are

fore tho. Election. It still has it differs very, little from rate here?" I asked..

enormously strong support. People the traditional type with "No," said Mr. Brown, "derare grateful to it for the benenta it has given. Most of the people which so many of us became tainly not There are rats in

"I w-w-want to have a have not yet begun to feel the familiar during the late war. every province of Canada, and pinch of the crisis. Never before myminutes cc-conversation with

many of them experience far have they lived

well as at the you." · On the walls were dozens of greater cold than we do here." moment, Austerity is limited to

A headmaster states that Then be unfolded to. mo the the Middle Classes.

realise what # maps all marked up with pins of

Thus the Labour Party, may •parents don't

preparation can different colour, and black thread story of the rat and its migrations

It is strain evening zig zag across" the

still, come back to power.

be to a child. map from South to North.

always disconcerting its critics by

One would have thought it had That line of black thread was

The history of the rat can be unexpectedly winning by-alec- the front line, and I had been said to be that of man. He tions. If Labour falls it will be been brought home to them often getting a good look at the enemy originated in Asia and is referred because the electorate has begun enough, dispositions.

to in the Old Testament. Rats to fear that though Socialism con- The Ops room was situated in began to move Westward along fers. benefits for a time, it ties up the Alberto Parliament Buildings, the shores of the Mediterranean; the national economy, in such a trad- way that the final result is crash and into this place had poured following the old caravan exact information na

and 'bankruptcy.........♥ to the ing routes Icading into Europe. advance of the enemy that in a year was going to exact a toll of. When they actually hit central, many millions of dollars from the Europe is not certain, but by the residents of Alberta, Canada. thirteenth century (we rend of ^a:{ The enemy is advancing slowly great plague of rats in Ireland, but surely at the rate of 12 miles, so by that time rats must have aca, and moved per year. A glance at the map taken to the will show how close the enemy is across. 1. from the border at the moment. There is no question that the and the vast distance travelled rat camb to the American con- since 1300.

Unent with the early softlers, and

The Republican Parliament- It may he hoped, that the at Jogjakarta has ratified both Republicans will not push the agreement and the new their own preferences too far Constitution by a far larger at this stage. They are al- majority than had been gen-ready the most important fac erally expected. It is true tor in the new State, and some that Dr. Soetan Sjahrir and of them have never liked the his Socialist Party of 30 walk- Federal structure. They dis- ed out rather than vote for or like it not merely because of against, but there are con- the way in which it was pro- tingencies in which thia duced, but because they pre tactical move might prove of fer the unitary State. But all-round advantage. Dr. Federalism is undoubtedly the Sjahrir is something more best principle to go upon ot than a mere Don Quixote in the beginning of the life of politics he is a far-sighted the new State. statesman who might be most There has always been a useful as a reserve to draw large sense of autonomy upon if the leaders responsible among the infinite variety of for the agreement should ef- races that inhabit this scatter- counter serious internal trou- ed island archipelago. They ble, later on,

have mostly lived their own lives in their own way for cen- turies, even under the Dutch, and East Indonesia will be is no means known to man, that

live without the

of

The awful thing is that there it has never been known to

company.

from the

the process of migration. West-

more peaceful and co-opera-will stop this advance, or prevent man, Its movement

it from enveloping the whole Eastern seaboard.complies with

tive as a separate entity of the province. EENS united Republic than it would

My interest in this impending ward

The Federal States have also approved, and so only the formal signatures remain be- fore the new, nation of the United States of Indonesia, the new Union, and the new Constitution of Indonesia, be under the specific direction Invasion was first roused byIn those early days the settlers come into force. The Federal of the political intelligentsia learning that Alberta is a rat moved very slowly, by means of free province. Up to the present horse-drawn wagons, so as they structure was to some extent in Jogjakarta, jossa the only cats seen here are these advanced Westward, the rat was imposed on the Republicans

Burma has already fallen which have migrated in railway able to keep up with them. and it may well be that in apart, and the lesue of racial trucks, and they have been Alberta was one of the East time there will be modifica and tribal autonomy keeps quickly rounded up and destroy places to be so sottled and up to bra that time had a populations of tions as the popular will flows the country tragically disunit-

From the questions put to only a very few whites. With more strongly.20

ed. Stability in Indonesia various local people, I learned the advent of trainborne advan Meanwhile sovereignty is to will be as valuable to the De- tint rate, cannot live in Alberta co into now country the rala be transferred before the end mocratio cause as the all because of the altitude, and the were quickly left behind, and at Intense cold in winter. As a re-their slow rate of progress they of the month, and the new round agreement itself. And sult, I was told, there is no need will not cross the Alberta border Indonesian Government will federalism will also have its to get all burned up about this until 1950. be created. The electoral value if the Communist and rat invasion, they just won't share outda

Study Of Subject college is, scheduled to ap- other opponents of the settle amount to a row of beans." point the President today- ment take to, the jungle, and and it is taken almost for try to throw this populous granted that the choice will land into chaos MONTA fall upon Dr. Soekarno. The Taken by and large the ag President, in turn, will choose recment is a far better one three Cabinet thembers and than seemed even ro they will select three others, motely likely in the days aftor which the heads of of tedious negotiationa Ministries will be appointed and recurrent crises. But and the Senate and Lower Indonesia may have further. House, will be created

I went in search of someone who might really know "bome» I have made a study of the thing about the problemi I found subject for the past six or seven Mr. J.-H. Brown, entomologistar Hald Mr. Brown, and to the Government of Alberta, to discovered that he has equiti during that time have asked for pod a whole Ops room to depl of the rats towards the West. with the matter,

Popular Fallacy

various reports on the movement

They cannot tot at us from the West coast Where they, originally Brrived in ships with the carly settlers, because of the Rocky He laughed when I told him of mountains

When one i lakes Into

account trouble ahead unless her the assertion that rata could not

live Hårdva thái millions of tons of grain The work of taking over leaders measure up to the rehat," he said, "Is a popular stored in wooden elevators all wit authority from the Dutch besponsibilities and webportuni fallacy, among the people parbi over the province, toma. gan some time ago. The tieg before them in turn to We have been warning them action will be necessary to con Federalists have played a use the temple of freedom with about 1 in pubila campaigns for trak the pests when they get bore

many yearsuluis this thinkswo next yearned the su ful role since the Republigans true devotion and self-effacing | are just, bunch dth selenüfte @ Alberta is in dico need of a Mansome panties S

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