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into o pattern; someone who "HEY-HIP-HAUL! BELAY!"" The Very Idea!

By SIR HERBERT RUSSELL, K.B.E.

THAVE SAT in an aeroplanowheel. No

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TENSE MOMENTS.

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THIS BRIDGE CRAZE By Edward Kelly, Dummy.

As this is the time of the

́year "when øverybody but cranks want to be out of doors, wo are choosing as our subject to-day the fascinating and costly indoor pastime of bridge.

BRIDGE players are often

a pain in the neck, the way they keep at it day after

There are no half mea-

Bridge is full of technical terms, and conventions. It is conven- tional, for instance, to bid опе club when you have a fistful of spados,

| is always available for special missions, who ann interview. minister after minister, who can act as a go-between, who can. interpret authoritatively the wishes and opinions of his direc-

matter, this with "Archlos" flecking the graven image pose, when the tor of foreign policy, and who can likewise interpret authorisky around. I havo staggered on apokes are viciously trying to send tatively the wishes and opinions the footplate of a Great Western their master somersaulting. They very resentful of restraint, of the principal chancelleries. Cornish express. I have bucked are

these "glorious sea romps. Tho Working in conjunction with the and bounded in French-driven Satanita showed the sort of resident ambassadors, the roving motor-cars in which the guiding peevishness they feel on this point representative supplies, as the principle seemed to be to make by twisting her rudder-head clean advertisements have it, a long two wheels-do all the work. I off in one of her earliest races. felt want. It would scem desir-have clung to the stanchion of a Watch the skipper "jockeying for able that the initiative taken by destroyer, watching an aval- position" before the gun fires. No the United States should be fol- anche of foam cresting twelve cat over eyed a nest of miço as day.. lowed by other countries. In-feet high in its mad, roaring he does the other jockeying craft. He will "ding about"—no racing deed, though Prime Ministers chase of the forty-mille hull.

yachtsman speaks of going about sures about them. Bridge and Foreign Ministers should un- But for sheer, wild exultation of with a rasping cry of "lee-oh1" friendships are either of the doubtedly be prepared to visit fight, I have never experienced which sends a string of Agures slam type or nothing at all. various capitals wherever their anything like the sensatlan of tailing-on to tho, head sheets. Which brings to mind an up- presence is required and the crouching on the deck of a 23- One instant he has the canvas propriate toast, "Here's cham- conversations

racer-one of at Washington metres

the "Big rattling like a machine-gun volley; furnish a good example of the Five"-when she was well away the next instant the song of the page to our real fiends, and utility of such excursions—It is

broad reach. There is wind swells again as it bears the real pain to our sham fiends.” rightly argued that their real nothing like It. Nature oxults in shining heights leaning to its doing the whole job here; there is weight whilst a noisy "sobbing place is at home. Their voyages, no mechanisation to come between breaks from under the bows. it is argued, would gain in im- the wind and her nobility. She Phono 23124.portance were they rarer and makes a harpstring of 'overy

more decisive. In the meantime, shroud and halliard; a deep-rolling Bang! A swift galvanic ges- they should have a representa- organ out of every bellying ex-ture by the skipper, then rigidity:aults. Spades and hearts tive of high rank whose move-panse of canvas. The symphony. The rest of the bunch have ceased ments would, if necessary, be of crushed and cascading waters to interest him; he will return to more discreetly made. He might has a rhythm that can never be them anon when it may be a well be looked upon not as a imitated; the hiss and slish of the question of passing through an- the other man's lec or trying to steal roving ambassador, but rather white showers blend into CHAU YUE TENG-Funeral to as the travelling foreign minis urging chorus to get on with the another boat's water. For the

start from his residence No. 33, ter. His rank is of importance.

A slam is what the wifɑ gives Seymour Rond (Hongkong) at It should be made clear that he

And the people on board; are the weather lecchos. "A pull on you under the table when

sho June, 1933, stopping at Yat Pit can speak firmly in the name of they intoxicated with exuberance? the jib sheet!" The string of wants you to know that she has 10.30 am. on Sunday, the 25th Ting (Kennedy Town) for last his Government. Yet it should Who shall say, seeing that it faguernseyed, canvas-brooked figures the ace of spades in her hand. ing themselves upon the strain- This Is also known as a psychic also be made clear that he en-oblivious to exhilaration? That tay!" The string doubles up to

their business to appear totally ing Manila; "Hey-hip-haul! Be bid. joys a certain initiative, and is they are involuntarily sensible to windward and sinks to the deck, not bound by rigid instructions, the roaring stimulus of it all, one half aquatting, half lying down--

There are two kinds of bridge, contract since he is an adviser as much need only listen to their

and auction. The as be is a messenger., Again, sequent yarning over the race to The lee rail kisses the cascade auction is principally in the always watching the skipper's eye. difference between contract and he would have an advantage if it realise. But sailorly smartness, pouring off the curl of the bow bidding. A contract bid means that were understood that, apart particularly yacht-racing smart- from his official role, he has also ness, sternly precludes any visible wave, The wind stings from the the lowest of any tender will not an unofficial role, and in that susceptibility to excitement. Im decks begin to trickle. If there tion bid generally lands you with crystalline showering and the necessarily be accepted. An auc- capacity can he give and encour perturbability is the first item in

are any friends of the owner on something you don't want. It is age confidences. Altogether, the

the racing man's catechiam. A

board they are not difficult to per- pnfer not to bid at all in bridge. curiously, contradictory combina-

Marriage is idea of a direct representativo, tlon-imperturbability and noble-suade as to the sheltering merits It is to be hoped that the highly qualified and highly plac-

of the companion. The owner bridge. You start off with a heart something like rumours of the impending re-ed, whose activities shall not be

himself usually sways close by load, and then, before you can say signation of Mr. Norman Davis confined to one capital, but shall

the skipper whom he seldom dares phenylisothiocyanate, her hand is from his ambassadorship with-embrace a whole continent is so

address.

full of diamonds. In about six out portfolio, so to speak, are good that it is impossible for

months she'll trump your ace unfounded, or that if his retire- Mr. Norman H. Davis to be the disciplined than the crew of a string laugh, but only for an in- with a Club, and you'll be doubled

until spades are called for.

FUNERAL.

rites at 12.30 p.m.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.

A ROVING AMBASSADOR

Of Dictionaries

race.

nose.

aub

SELF DISCIPLINED.

There can be no body of men in the world more completely self-

moment his attention is riveted on

A cap blows overboard and the

great racer. As cutters, the "Big stant. They are always waiting Five" carried thirty hands; they and watching. The spinnaker

aro

Diamonds and clubs are minor

the kind of suits wo wear.

Six diamonds, doubled should mean twelve diamonds, but it 'doesn't. It generally means about two bucks to the bad.

Which recalls a rather snappy

manage with a fow less now that must be broken out directly, and deal that we had the other night.

canvas

And all the sympathy which the soused plunger is likely to get is a sincere sea blessing for having

ment is inevitable the position first and last of his kind. will not be allowed to lapse. Those who have followed tho trend of international politics in

they are Marconirigged, with no smartness in doing it may win the recent months cannot have fail-

jack-yarder to handle. Most of race. A jib has to be shifted, a ed to have been impressed by

It is said that the popularity the men are drawn from the fish-reef taken in or shaken out. With the value derived from Mr. Nor-of crossword puzzles has doubled ing classes and have learnt fore-the slanting deck wet and slippery the sales of certain well-known and-aft-senmanship-In smacks and this. sort, of work is quite risky man Davis'a peregrinations from dictionaries. Whether it has led dandies--the hardest and

best enough, and "man overboard" is capital to capital, exchanging to a corresponding extension of school. Every man knows his job; no uncommon cry. Then you shall views first with the Prime Minis-the average citizen's vocabulary more important still, he knows the see the wheel spin, the ter, then the German Chancellor is a question worth asking, not skipper's job; what he will do, thunder, the suddenly upright hull and then the French Premier, easily answered. We have when he will do it, and why he cavort and quiver and an ever- It is in fact an occasion for won-heard, however, of an occasional will do it. They watch tho skip-ready dinghy borne over the side der that the post of roving re-orator who was accused of speak-per's eye; it speaks before his as though it were all but a well- presentative was not created the solving of these well-estab to a curt roar they are ready for ing "cross-word English." If mouth, so that when he breaks in-

rohearsed incident. long ago by every country The lished puzzles has brought about the order. functions of a roving representa- a keener interest in dictionaries, tive are not to be confounded the most important and appeal-

It is always worth while watch-lost the race.-London Morning with those of a resident ambas-ing of all books of reference, ing the skipper, statuesque at the Post. sador. There is no duplication. they have made for the advance- The ambassador on

ment of education. For a dic the spot,tionary is not merely a catalogue specially attached to a partícular of words with their definitions, a country, has many routine duties species of verbal What's What. to perform. It is his business to As is shown in the first chapter maintain constant contacts. De- of "A Survey of English Dic spite the travelling propensities tionaries" by M.M. Mathew, it of Prime Ministers and Foreign ing of a nation and its national is also the history of the mak- Ministers, they cannot displace adventurers. English, the ambassadors. After all, their sented in the smallest dictionary, conversations are occasional, and is made up of words which were their visits are short and far added to it in successive eras, between. There is need of per- and are evidence of great his- manent and fixed ambassadors. torical events. Thus, such as much as ever. Yet such an and monk, swain and window, words as strect and wall, hymn ambassador, by the very quali-chaste and coward recall the ties which make him useful, Roman occupation, the success must concern himself merely of St. Augustine and his fellow- with the viewpoints of his own missionares, the Scandinavian country and the country to invasions, and the Norman Con- which he is accredited. Usually quest. Later arrivals, such as he cannot acquaint himself spe-cockatoo, and boomerang, to take tomahawk, pea-jacket, calico, cially and take into account the a few, at random, illustrate the varying and often contradictory relations with foreign races viewpoints of other countries. which marked the extension of The more he concentrates, the England into an Empire. A full better he is as ambassador. He account of our vocabulary would must not overlap his colleagues. be a summing-up of the progresa of the Anglo-Saxon race in all Ho must present clear reports, the realms, spiritual as well a leaving it to the government to material, in which its members collato those with the roports of have laboured. It would also be others. Though this work is the story of how the speech of invaluable, something more is a few tribes once dwelling by needed in these days of inter- the mouth of the Elba has depondence. There should be become the chief method of com- spread over the whole earth and someone whose job it is to gather munication of 200,000,000 pers up the threads and weave them sons.

as pre-

"He's killing" my speech." I was going to. quote. Mr.

Montagu Norman, too."!

Robert Has Whitler Spades A. R, 9,2,3 Hearts--Nane Diamond-A.K,Q,S “Clube J, 4, 8, 4

Larwood

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Pote dealt and opened with one club (psychic). We bid Two No Trumps. Robert MacWhirter (playing Linkumdoddio Rules) went Three Spades., Larwood bid No Thumps and poor old Pete bid Four Spades.

They went down two hundred, which, at half' a cent a point,.. makes Robert WacWhirter still owing us a dollar.

Both MacWhirter and Pate had falled to notice we were using four packs of cards.

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} ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Dear Mr. Kelly, Your heart- ache column is so sympathetic and so appealing that I could not forboar from bringing my troubles to your kind attention.. You see it's this way, Mr. Kelly.. Two gentlemen friends of mine wunt to marry me. One of them's wealthy and the other's in the Government service, so I don't know which to choose, What would you recommend for my dilemma? Katherina,

We are not sure what it is best- A. to advise for your dilemma. littlorum in milk, `warmed up.. and takon four hours before meals might do the trick. As to your other little problem, the anly suggestion we can make is that two take no chances, but go to the registry office and take out. two licences, one for each man. Then you might venturo a little; tost of your loved onos. Thero - was something else we wanted to say, but you will: 'excusar amarriage, veteran's memory-Edward Kelly,

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