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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE GAMBLERS OF 4,000 B.C.

EARLIEST KNOWN GAME OF CHANCE.

At the British Museum recent-

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THURSDAY,

THE UNINVITED GUEST.

LONDON HOSTESSES TO TAKE ACTION,

Mayfair hostesses are discuss-

JULY 28. 1927.

ALL WHITEHALL EXCITED.

MINISTER'S PAPERS STUCK IN A LIFT.

London, July 1. Little did M.P.s listening to the Finance Bill debate in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon know that an exciting scene was taking place in a Government de Cabinet Minister's messenger was imprisoned in a lift.

ly there was exhibited the appara-ing measures to stop the "unin-. fus of the curliest known game vited guest" abuse. of chance,

In the near future definite It is part of what is regarded traps will be laid for the great by antiquaries as one of the most army of "uninviteds" at some of remarkable collections of trophies the biggest parties and receppartment in Whitehall, where a of ancient ages brought to Lon-tions, and what form these will don during the present century take is at present the topic of Ands made by Mr. C. Leonard discussion among some of the Woolley during his excavations lending hostesses. this year at Ur of the Chaldeca, 140 miles south-east of Babylon, the birthplace in Mesopotamia of

Abraham,

It is only since the fruits of the expedition arrived in England

An urgent telephono message had come from the Minister for Although many hostesses have documents in connexion with the followed the lead of the Duchess clause under discussion. In the of Sutherland, who fired the first traditional red box they were hand- shot by asking all guests to bring rally felt only the firmest action lift.

ed to a messengor, who chose to their invitation cards, It is gene-escend from the second floor by will end the duisance.

More careful scrutiny has been kent since the Press drew atten-

It was an electric lift worked by the passenger, who has to push a

that one of the items has been revealed as a gamblers game, at least 6,000 years old. When the tion to the matter; and the result button. Between the first and se- ! mud af many centuries was scrap has been to shew that the practicecond floors the lift stopped and ed from a number of articles they far more widespread than had was immovable. were found to be a gaming board been believed. and the playing pieces, and the notes made at the time of their discovery in the cemetery of Ur In the last few weeks so many suggest that they were placed in of these gate crushers as they the graves to denote the last rest-are known in America, have turn- ing-places of recognised gamblers fed up at private house parties of hout 4,000 B.C.

that rooms and passages have

Hotels Invaded.

The distressing fact was made known to the Minister's secretary, who grew worried when he re- membered that there were no more copies of the documents.

OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

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Across.

17 Toddled.

18

Part of a rail-road,

20

Rankles.

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Hermit.

23

Nobles,

24 Pole with foot rest.

26

Possessen.

36 Unravel.

31 Compound proposition.

32 Legal actions.

33 More obscuro,

35 Place of axit,

Statical.

36

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Part of a church.

30 Lost time in inaction.

29 Apparently right.

42

To fall in drops.

32 Gives up.

43

28 Paragraphs,

official fetched a large roll of Engineers were sent for and an

1. Strips of leather. 6 Short poem. It is, of course, impossible to been congested and the organisa-fish for the documents. Mean-11 Called.

string, with which he proposed to 10 Phantom, reconstruct the same as it was tion all bus ruined. At hotel re-while a played by the ancients, but the certions, however, they have burst telephoned to the House of Com- 13. Those who lease,

regretful "message was 12 An Autumnal colour. board, a double-sided one for in in even greater numbers. different kinds of play, indicates! The practice has been," a "delayed." Shortly

mons that the documents were 16 Is in debt. 19 Worn out. that they staked on even chanees hostess told a Daily Mail reporter, an electrician corrected the fault afterwards

20

Run away. in a form of play approximating "for the uninvited guest, when in the lift and the documenta

Long handled dish. to rouge et noir on the modern challenged, to say that he was

24 Prophets. | roulette table.

reached the Minister brought by Mr. So-and-so-always minutes late, in time, however, for 27 Snako.

about 30 25 Ground-ruts. Alternate and "inter-fitting tri- Mr. Sc-and-so who has been

his use. angles Were uned

for the noticed leaping. Mr. So-and-so "chances," the colours to be back-being out of reach, one is forced ed being mother of pear and a to believe the uninvited guest puze red made from a paste, rather than run the risk of of-

The other face of the garsing fending Mr. So-and-so."

Whether an example will be board was used for a game of made in the courts of these "gate forward and backward movements, regulated by the throw of vari-view of a well-known barrister, it crashers" is not known. In the ously marked counters or primi would be easy to proceed against tive, dice. It was an intricate form of present-day Halma, and the players apparently betted on their fuck in being able first to thread a way through complicat- ed diagrams to the finishing point, The gaming board is encrust id

them.

bound over for "loltering with in- "One youth of means was once tent after he had been found at

WOMAN IN THE WRONG LINER.

SHOCK CAUSES' HER TO LOSE MEMORY.

London, July 1.

An officer walking the deck ni

invited," he said." "If it could be main gangway had been drawn a party to which he had not been 2 o'clock in the morning after the

with shell plaques inland with sumed food they could undoubt-covered a woman on the 8.8. Beren- proved that such people had con-ut before the ship sailed dis-

lapis lazuli and red stones.

In the graves of the gamblers who lived 60 centuries ago, the gaming pieces were found form- ed in semi-circles at their heads and feet. These counters show that 5 and 7 were the lucky 'num- bers of their day.

ABATEMENT.OF

SMOKE

NUISANCE.

NEW POWERS AND PENALTIES.

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London, July 1 To-day there comes into force, in England and Wales, the Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926, which carries the existing law against smoke nuisances & step further.

edly be proceeded against for larceny by trick.'"

A HORSE KILLED AT

OLYMPIA.

MANY WOMEN LEAVE AS

PROTEST:

While jumping in a contest at the International Horse Show at Olympia. Kensington, W., last month, Marcus, a chestnut geld ing, ridden by Capt. H G. de Burgh, of the 3rd Field Brigadë, Royal Artillery Equitation School, Weedon, broke a foreleg.

The horse was seen limping badly after the third hurdle, Capt. de Burgh dismounted." Lord Lonsdale ran for the motor-ambu- lance, which was brought in. The chimneys of private dwell Marcus refused to move any far- ing-houses remaini outside thether than the edge of the board scope of the new Act, but the leading into the wagon. Attempts powers of the Minister of Health by Lord-Lonsdale and officers and with regard to industrial chimneys judges to coax the animal into the are greatly enlarged. Especially, box lasted for about 10 minutes, the distinction made in the Public bat were in vain.. Health Act, 1875, between "black A large number of women, see- smoke" and other effluvią soning the horse in agony, rose and forth in such quantity "as to be a left Olympia. Some of them, ac nuisance" is abolished. The latcording to one report, fainted. ter kind will be equally liable to Several mon in the crowd began to the very substantially increased shout, "Shoot him! It's much. penalties provided by the Act quicker. We don't mind.": "notwithstanding that the smoke Finally, Lore Lonsdale, in an at is not black smoke."

tempt to restore order, shouted Also, the expression "smoke" out, "We are doing our best. I will now include soot, ash, grit wish you would mind your own and gritty, particles..

business.".

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Another man shouted, "Strip up the leg!" and this was tried. At- tendants after about 10 minutes' coaxing got the animal outside the

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The Act also confers wide powers on local authorities. to make by-laws regulating the ernis sion of smoke of such colour, den sity, or content as, may be pre scribed as well as requiring the

. As hundreds of women were. provision in new buildings," other leaving the ball a representative of than dwelling-houses, of such ar the Royal Society for the Proven- rangements for heating or cooking tion of Cruelty to Animals pat an as are calculated to prevent or re-end to the horse's life with a duce the emission of smoke.

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34 Rana.

37 Jewish month. Passages.

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41. Fatty substance.

42 Names of certain tahes.

44 Hawks.

45 Young eagle,

46

Unlawful,

47 Mexican shawl,

40 One who "tells tales."

Act of selling.

Yesterday's Puzzle."

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The Berengaria's doctor bug- gests that the woman intended to sail in the Carinthia and that the shock of seeing the word Beren- wark about the ship caused her to lose her memory.

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