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THE HONG KONG

POKER

STORIES: 1-

MISTOOK HIS POKER HAND; PARTNER

LANDED THE COIN

The following is the first of a series of poker stories called from

sa American newspaper--

"There is them," said the old man Greenbut, as ain't never content to just plain have a thing. Peara like all's has to do when they gits it is to set down an pick

it to pieces.

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"Joe Gallipot, 'tuseter live up the Little Rock rosd a piece, we one o' that kind. 'Peared like he wa'n't never happy 'thouten be was pryin' into things

His land lay tol'able low like a right smart of the land does up that way, an' nigh every year Joe was drowned out when the spring floods came, an' him so' her an* all the little Gallipots 'd have to

double raise ag'in on a pair o' sevens I'll gouge your eyes out, an

eat 'em."

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TELEGRAPH.

EXTRA

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1916

He's 'most 13 by this time; ain't be?"

"While they was settin' an' sayin' nothin' Striker was gather Bassett said nothing more, and in' in the pot. O' course there the old man, after glaring at him was no disputin' 't be'd won it for a long time with evident en-under the rules, an' there couldn't joyment of his discomfiture, went nobody kick at that. There was on with his story.

about $550 in the pot over an "One of these here three fabove what Gallipot an him had New Orleans was a gambler his pat; in, an' that was nigh about self, an' I ain't sayin' but what all they made on the night, but maybe he knowed sa Galpot an' they was tal'able well satisfied at Striker was pals, but if he s'pi- that. cloned is he never peeped. They called him Tom, an' the other two called each other Dick an" Harry; bus it were a bit o' tomfoolery. The gambler's name was Jack Thomas, but I don't know what the other fallers' right names was

Well, there were a jackpot made store Striker's deal, an

wan't opened. Then Gallipot Then Tom an' Dick had sim'lar dealt, an* 'twas sweetened again lock, an' the deck went to Harry.

Striker looked at his hand an passed. Then Gallipo: skint his

Then Striker looked around, but Gallipot he cashed in what few chips he had left, an Tom an Dick so Harry cashed in, too, so there was nothin' left fr Striker to do but to caab in hisself Peared like nobody wanted to play with him no night."

more that

LOSSES AND GAINS.

WAR ITEMS.

Ferdinand the "Deliverer." Amsterdam, December 24,

The Berti

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conducting hostilities. The In-will not be without its effect on dian Expeditionary Force is, of the Gallipoli Peninsula-which | course, not controlled by the War sentiment seems to forbid our Office, but by the Army Depart abandoning, in spite of our failure meat of the Government of Indis, to make progress there. Many which is in charge of a Member of still deplore the fact that we ever Council, who is also the Comman sacceeded in landing a single man King Ferdinand has returned. der in Chief. General Sir B. Da do April 25, but it is fatile to look Safix after a week's journe has his own General Staff, bas it back, and since for good or ill a through the conquered praying is vered with petty cares, like the bree in the gean has been es- of Macedonis General Staff in Whitehall. There tablished, we are the better able Tageblatt in announcing the ne seems nowhere an advisory body to soarish both expeditions and says Everywhere was of soldier experts free to devote pash any advantage that may oc- the whale of its time and are car on either hand. The pros tion to the higher probleme of pects of a winter campaign daunt war, to think out new combina only those who have not heard tions, to initiate fresh proceedings of the Serbians three years ago News has or close down an unprofitable when they marched 94 miles 39 serious mutiny in an Aust undertaking

the crow fise from Prizend to Balgarian regiment at Djako With at least two Turkish army Alessio through a mountainous Stubborn fighting occurred corps between Baghdad and 16-ountry on rations of bread, melt fors the mutiny was qualled s sul, it is not remarkable that our ing the snow by the beat of the many men were Filled a small force should get severaly body for drinking purposes. They wounded. panished even when achieving a pushed their guns through the Punished for Kindness. tactical success; and then it is, snow in places over three feet

Zurich, December 20.- in semi-civilised countries, that deep, and these heroes of the giving an English prisoner of ver strategic elements combine Balkans 200,000 strong cigarettes, 3 newspaper, and some

Ferdinand cheered and greeted the "deliverer.”

Austro-Bulgarian Mutiny. Amsterdam, December 24 reached here of

hand down, sa laid it on the table Our Prospects in the Near East. against it and compel ita with should alsace be primed by clothing, a German woman, ner

in front of him sa" counted out as many chips as there was in the

The retreat of Sir John Nixon's |

from no dishonest motives.

New Italian Losa

" "Twan't ne, though. argyment didn't 'pear to take no bolt onto him. He'd see't be a did wrong'an he'd swear he wouldn't do it again, an' the next time they'd play he'd do the same thing.

"Did actly 'pear like couldn't do no other ways. So, bimeby Striker quit him, an' star that he wan't never no good Striker wa'n't, neither; but that ain't nothin' to do with what I

his fool trick o' tryin' to ses into was sayin' about Joe Gallipot an'

drawal with what euphemistically every means our ample respurces Frankfort, was sentenced to s oslled the honours of war.

afford for the work before them in month's imprisonment The the innards of everything that came his way.

"They was playin' five dollar

A similar phenomenon has late the hill regions into which our prosecuting lawyer asked for a jacks by this time, an it'd been Indian Expeditionary Force "De been witnessed in the Balkans, Army of the South may push the light penalty as the woman sotil "Yet Joe was consid'able of a sweetened four times, two bita fr from the vicinity of Baghdad to ports in the beance of news from Everything now depends on

if we may credit the enemy's re- invaders.

ures. He were quick with his dollars

up. They was playin' against the repulse of the Turkish or General Mahon. As early as strategic insight, for this alone King to-day signed a decree iner size of the pot.

writes Mejor Bodway in the Globesistance, and it must have been

will impress the neighbours of

Lag the new Nation Losa, "Well, Tom stayed, an' Dick of December 10 thing, in fc, known that

ready Roumanis has refused to interest of 5 per cent., payable in British pea the Lower Danube to the Italian colonies. The price of north of Serbia at the time. troops could intervene in the Austrian gunboats-and when issue is fixed at 97.50 per cent. there nobody to counsel the Sarthe soene, with a Japanese army by 1941.

War

Italy and Russia at last appear on The bonds are repayable in full bian Stag to resort to "the in the background, the Austro-

Germans and their war," and

satellites should furnish a new application

arsenals? Should not to remove the contents of the "grester delay than was necessary Shadow. mediats efforts have been directed our im-

come to town an' board, makin' / man, even if he did have his fail.sweetener; so there was thirty Kat-el-Amara may be set of Marshal Putnik, General Sarrail, our handling the situation with Rome," December 23-TS

gan,

an' he wouldn't stand for no funny table stakes, so he opened for the expedition to Egypt laat January. October the cry went up for Serbia that now stand aloof al-extinguishable in 25 years at m

stayed, an' Harry, ha stayed; so the Anglo-Egypian Army Italian, Russian, or

neither French

consid❜able expense f'r Joe, bein' as he had quite some number o'

business when he seen it, an' most children.

“He studied on this ossidable times he did see it. You couldn't fool a man like him on the deal. an' one winter he come down an' There was one night on the old told how he'd rigged up a place Prairie Belle, where I was workin' on his roof where he reckoned him at the time, I seen him an S- an' the family o'd live quite comf-riker play one of the most darin'est able 'a long's the food was likely hands poker 't I ever seen any- to stay, and he laid in a stock where. I reckon 'twas Joe Gal. stayera, ao's's Gallipot c'd have ber 9. Sir John Nixon who took | retreat into the interior with no of the fable of the Dog and the cently appoined Chief of Stak of of canned vintnals fr to carry him. pot's ides, too, fr Striker looked an' the family through the flood

Besson.

"Well, that year there was a powerful mighty food, an' there wa'n't nothin' heer'd o' Joe fr nigh a month. Then he come to #town in a skiff-an started to bay victuale. Somebody asi hím bow

about them canned goods an' he just encrted, Joe did.

"I thought a heap about them canned goods on the way home, he says, 'an' I couldn't fetch my self to think as now the staff was

all good, so when I got 'em up home I just opened 'em all up? "Well wa'n': they good? mays the storekeeper.

"They was good enough then, but when it come time says Joe,

that brought it back to Striker. fended the frontier sucessfully, de must ha' had some tip fm while the Baghdad Army Corps Gallipot, bat, anyway, he most was driven into the interior after gently raised when Gallipo: open- Sie A. A. Barrett's 6th Division ed whenever there "was other had captured Qurnah on Decem another chanst, an he says kind over the command on April 9, 89 like he was just as much anrprisedell, this is lack. I passed of India, which included the 4th, commander of the Southern Army He stood by, though, like he thinkin' maybe I'd get a chanst o' 5th, 6th, and 9th Divisions, as al'sys did, and they got away with raisin', an' here I've got four well as the Aden Brigade. the pot. Laastways, Striker did, customers. An he histed" it fifty. in for an' that was what he was settin"

sa snybody else at the table.

"They'd been playin' nigh all

Callipot Raises.

"Gallipot never batted an eye- lash. He just let his cards lay in front of him an asya A hundred more. An' he tossed a hundred

night with three fellera f'm New Orleans as 'd been up the river fr a little rest, I reckon, after a hard winter. They had money, and fifty in the pot an' Gallipes an' Striker must ha

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stronger form of

NEWS.

The line of operation was pree Adriatic, to which Marshal Pat-

to prepare a maritime base on the AMERICAN COMMERCIAL cribed by the need of wateriranenik could retreat, & Wellington post and the aid of the Euphrates retreated on Lisboa before Marsh- Blockade Flotilla-there is a re-

ular service of steamers up the never was a case in which the af Massene's army in 1810? There Tigris as far as Baghdad, where orderly evacuation of territory in the Ephrates and Tigris are lese face of an enveloping attack was than 35 miles apart and in mid-more clearly prescribed than that

The Boad Market.

had nigh a thousand stween 'em, fr the others, or some on 'em to and the 6th Cavalry Brigade de for the Serbian Army at fall Department

Just naturally I was lookin' April the 16th and 18th Brigades of Mazshal Mackensen's invasion, records made by the Treasury In all the history of statistical

so the game were tolʼable griff.

a

made some

throwed in his money.

"But even at that they didn't | New Orleans, an' the three was with a stack o' chips onto 'em consist of about 9,000 rißes, 12 and then the Bulgarian line of ance

hava so endarin' an'sbidin'

proe-

field

as change has

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General Castelnau.

eral do Castelosa, who was re- Salonica, December 23.-Gen-

the French armies, arrived 'unex- pectedly 3. Salonics to-day and conferred at some length with General Sarrail.

There is likely to be much speculation regarding General ... Casteinac's visit to Salonica, sa his new appointment was ander. stood to carry with it the chief command of the French armies in France.

Fourth, Go item of great: smount at the present time is the

to be accounted for.

lay down, but they just set an feated the Turks under Suleiman strength could be no more than a accurred which has been so There didn't any one of the studied fra spell an then looked Askeri, who had attacked our match for the Bulgarians alone, sudden and so unprecedented as freigh: bills paid by the shippers three pear to s'picion Striker at their cards again, an' one after gaison at Shaibs. In July the and all task of effecting a janrion that indicated by the amazing to foreign ship owners for carry-

Gallipot was pale. They hadn't another they all trailed.

Tarks were driven from Naziriy-with the Allies advanced guard figures for our foreign trade, says ing our commerce. This is larger or each other, an' if they play al'ays stood by. He done it ex- connected by the Shats-el-ai aible for General Sarrail to con- the outbreak of the war, the ex- the increased volume of exports Bet in together, an didn't 'pear to

I was tellin' you: Striker eh, at which point the Euphrates was a chimera. It was not pos- the Wall Street Journal. Since then usual, both on account of to eat 'em the dogs wouldn't touched together they done it right cellent shia timo. All' he zaid Canal with the Tigris. Ez-l centrate on the southern frontier ports from the United States and the excessive rates for ocean *. nobody took was, 'And a hundred, an heat the other end of the of Serbia a force sufficiently large amount to $3,447,000,000 (Gold) transportation. Let us pat this "Stands to reason a man like

cannin1, 80 that wouldn't play no sort of a

notice..

canal, Sir John Nizsa accapied to be effective in the time avail- and the imports for the same figure st game o' poker, an Joe never did the game, too, if hadn't ba' been more, an he puts up, bat that September, and from this advan Mackensen's invasion at the oust This leaves a balance of trade

"They'd ha' did right well into "Gallipotasys A hundred and entrenched at the end of able. Resistance t Marshal period have been $1,702,000,000 would leave $1,250,000,000 still $100,000,000. This not a real, scientific game, that Gallipot'a fool car'osity 't made were a bit too stiff fr the Newced base it appears that a striking was not a military proposition. is Roe'd deal all right, an' him call every little while when he Orleans crowd. They looked at

force under General Townshend a side partner o’hisn't called his- bada i ne license to. Peared like their cards kind o mouraful an' proceeded up the Tigris aatil it come the scene of solid success at the foreign nations are meeting pendents or to foreign nations. Yet the Balkan theatre may be It is interesting to consider how bankers to their foreign corras. în our favour of $1,745,000,000. Fifth, advances by American self Jim Striker when he was on he fritted away nigh all the win throwed 'em away, 80 Striker just from Baghdad. Then the battle ities are wisely utilised. Even if the river'd set in sogether with on good play other times. An' he made good.

met the enemy about 18 miles no alarming cost if our opportan- this vast indebtedness. two or three strangers they done tal'able well for a general thing | seen 'em plant, sta

slick ones, too, fr, I Then he says, "I reckon Fed by the Indian Government on Krivolak position, General Sara balance of trade in favour of the to be delieved in the future. Ap or Clesiphon was fought as report the French should give up the Messrs. Dow, Jones and Co., each 000, but much of this is for goods Including war losas sold in this As previously explained by country, this is about $900,000,- "You see, Striter koowed the

play these, like he had a par hand. November 25, when it was stated rail's army will find itself auto United States is met by the peculiarities o' Joe's play, an be even when it came along toward seen. An' Harry turned to Galli-or losses were about 2,000, and mstically on the flank of the Bal- debtor nations in a variety of the prosent trade balance, $750,-

they arn't for f'm Maybe he had. Twa'n't never Any way, alaya stood by That was what breakisat, an' Gallipot know'd pot to see if he wanted to draw. he was into the game for just to there wasn't no gra's show o' keep-

that a rearward movement to thegarian army if the latter should ways.

plying $500,000,000 against stand by. Joe had learned him in up the game nor startin' an- he picked up his cards 't had been command was then described as a bers must eventually push the chandise sent in retaro.

He says, 'These'll do me,' an'

river was occasioned by lack of remain in effective occupation of $3,447,000,000 nearly one-ball, counted for.

Of the total debt of 000,000 is still left to be sc just what to do when he got a tip, other, bein' sa we was moet to layin' on the table in front of him, division, which would normally enemy northwards to Krushevo, reduce the $1,745,000,000 bal- this country since the war started

water. General Townshend's Manastir, and the pressure of num or $1782,000,000, is met by mer- an' Striker way reliable.

Sixth, about $250,000,000 net „goin to pat off.

amount of has been shipped ta be'd put there to keep f'm mis- mind to his 'em hard an' gif out

"Peared like he'd made up his placin' em.

mountain gans (10pm.) and 18 communication with Sofia will lie economic payments come into be- This would apparently reduce our a number of currents of in direct payment for our exports, "Then, all of a sudden his face hisself. An' as I was sayin', he changed. He done it fine, too. pioneers, cavalry, field er gineers, tration in the west, based on the day.

gana (18pra. QF), besides on our right. A similar concen- ing month by month and day by trade credit abroad to $500,000;- didn': 'pear to gin Striker no hint An' before he said another word igral unit, field ambulances, Adriatic ports, would exert the

what was comin' de must be reached round to his hip pock Lord Crewe now says that Gen Austro-German army and its com- securities which are owned by yet to be considered. Estimates

000.- sad over 3,000 followers." Bat same kind of pressure on the interest paid by us on American First, there are dividends and took a tol'able long chance on it et an" drawed his gun. Then he

Seventh, this leaves the import- eral Townshend's

ant matter of foreign liquidation The way of it was 't Joe just at that, fr he wa'n's dealin' an' he said, very quiet and careful like

force was munications with the Danube. Europeans. couldn't set an' see no man take

take. I opened the pot on a sce-division, and the latest report forces will be holding flank poai holders have sold back these private banking houses a kada's no means o' knowin' what

"Gentlemen, I've made a mis- "considerably larger" than For in both cases the Entente steadily diminished as foreign make. Those made by banks and This factor bas of the total of this are difficult to a pot "thouten showin' his hand. Fr him an Striker, though, king flash, but one of my hearts put our cazalice at 4,567, in- tions in relation to the enemy's securities to us. Suppose that between $600,000,000 and 31

there was some Joe would, even then he knowed hands round the board, them or tol'able nigh to it, an I ain'tance that explains the retire exploit this advantage, to harass This would bring down the securities by Europe since the tol'able good is a diamond. I've lost my pile, cluding 133 officer circum lines of supply, and our task is to wre estimate this at $200,000,000 200,000,000 for the sale of our to a dead certainty, as how his cards wa'n't worth bettin' on.

havin' nothin'."

kickin' on that, but I ain't settin' ment for the purpose of refitting, and exhaust him without coming balance to $1,545,000,000 ontbreak of the war. Probably a nor I ain't fixed to pay no penal retreat, for it seems that no reliey need to bring the enemy to de- expenditures bere for to listen to no criticisms, We lost another 150 men on the to grips prematurely. There is Second, there need to be large conservative estimate in below

ing force

from Kut-el-Amars cisive action at this stage of the tourists in Europe. This has This shows payments and fema

by Américan an' being Gallipot just naturally make up my mind," retorted the him an' they looked at his cards, John Nixon's force za 170,000 ected to weakening his hold on it was estimated at over $340, rope's trade debt to us: An e

Well, them three looked at Oriental fancy has described Sir our side should our efforts be dir-parison with recent years when

came out to cover the withdrawal. campaign: rather since time is on decreased to a small sum in com- more than enough to offset

$1,000,000,000.

old man, with fine sarcasm,

an' they looked at one another, an, English troops who had marched the conquered territory and drain-000,000. Scaling this figure to still remain in our favour, is to bet him catch Joe by the throat one Bassett, even if you be the Sher-reckon twas count o' them bein' the story itself ie that the Press which has been employed against him earnest an earial. I seen stand the game o' draw poker Joe they didn't say nothin' I don't into Mesopotamia from Egypt," ing his resources.

whether you do reely under they looked at Gallipot's gun, an

planation of why exchange rates night ater they'd both west bust iff, If you do, you'll understand rely afraid.

$45,000,000 we still have $1 found in the fact that normal An active defence of the sort 500,000 left: ed in a game in the saloon an what I'm tellin' you by the time “Likely they'd say one of ex Bureau was instructed to deny it. us in the Dardanelles should yield our alien population to Europe, entirely reversed and the trade knock his head on the deck till I got through. If you don't, I c'n took part into a fight. if there'd check is of little importa all the results worth striving formerly estimated at $250,000, balance is mounting steadily Third, there are remittances by current sums abroad, have been conditions, where we owe large began to get anxious for fear 't loan yon & siste an pencil, an been anything to gain by it, but ace 28 at episode of the war, bu, for at present; and in combination 000. How war conditions have higher and exchange rates are like many similar caces of seeming with the Russian operations in the affected this item, it is hard to discounting future payments that fr sourself. If you can't you gune an' there didn't seem to be might ask that boy o' yourn, nothin' into it, so they just set... serioas defeat in our system of manconvres in Mesopotamis, it Balance would be $1,350,000,000.

perity. Joe's caseed cur'osity. W al'ays a gettin' him in trouble an costin' the firm money.

Always Showed His Hand,

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If nobody else didn't call him

Of course 'swa'n't pokerit Was just Gailipot. He was born Gallipot an he stayed Gallipot,

he al'ays bad Gallipot ways.

Striker used to plead with

she'd bust in the planka,

there was agin him. It were lucky

playin'?" asked Joe Bassett, in Was this drawpoker they were

some surprise.

"I ha'n't never been able to

ty.

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and what is eren fannier than

Blast your mis'able fool sont maybe you maaght, figger it out they seen this chips was mischance, it may cover a rather Caucasus and Sir John Nixon's my. Using $150,000,000: the must be made to us

he says, 'lf Lever catch you

callin