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THE

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1933.

into a pattern; someone who is always available for special missions, who can interview |minister after minister, who can act as a go-between, who can interpret authoritatively the

“HEY-HIP-HAUL! BELAY!" The Very Idea!

By SIR HERBERT RUSSELL, K.B.E.

wishes and opinions of his direc-with "Archies" flecking the graven Image pose, when the HAVE SAT in on aeroplane wheel. No easy matter, this VAUXHALI tor of foreign policy, and who

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THIS BRIDGE CRAZE By Edward Kelly, Dunimy,

As this is the time of the

'Year "when everybody but cranks want to be out of doors, we 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- sures about them. Bridge friendships are either of the slam type or nothing at all.

Which brings to mind an ap propriate toast, "Here's cham- pagne to our real fiends, and real pain to our sham fiends."

Bridge is full of technical terms and conventions: It is conven tional, for instance, to bid one olub when you have a fistful of spades.

can likewise Interpret authori-sky around. I have staggered on spokes are viciously trying to send tatively the wishes and opinions the footplate of a Great Western their master somersaulting. They of the principal chancelleries. Cornish express. I have bucked are very resentful of restraint, these glorious sen 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 pocvishness they feel on this point representative supplics, 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 secim desir-have clung to the stanchion of a Watch the skipper "jockeying for ablo 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 mice as day. lowed by other countries. In-feet high in its mad, roaring he does the other jockeying craft. He will "ing about"-no racing. deed, though Prime Ministers chase of the forty-mile hull.

yachtsman speaks of going about and Foreign Ministers should un-But for sheer, wild exultation of with a rasping cry of "Ice-oh doubtedly be prepared to visit flight I have never experienced which sends a string of figures various capitals wherever their anything like the sensation of tailing-on to the head sheets. presence, is required-and the crouching on the deck of a 23- One Instant he has the canvas conversations at Washington metres racer-one of 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

on a broad reach. There utility of such excursions-it is

is wind awells again as it bears the nothing like it. Nature exults in shining heights leaning to its rightly argued that. their real 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

TENSE MOMENTS. Phone 23124.portance were they rarer and makes a harpstring of every

more decisive. In the meantime, shroud and hilliard; a deep-rolling Bang! A swift galvanic ges- they should have a representa organ out of every ballying ex-ture by the skipper, then rigidity, tive of high rank whose move-panse of canvas. The symphony The rest of the bunch have ceased suits. Spades, and hearts 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 well be looked upon not as

Imitated; the hiss and slish of the roving ambassador, but rather white showers blend into the urging chorus to get on with the CHAU

YUE TENG, Funeral to as the travelling foreign minla- start from la residence No. 38, ter. His rank is of importance.

A slam is what the wife gives And the people on board; are the fib sheet!" The string of wants you to know that she has Seymour Road (Hongkong) at It should be made clear that he

you under the table when sho 10,30 a.m. on Sunday, the 25th

they intoxicated with exuberance?

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FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1933.

A ROVING AMBASSADOR

Of Dictionaries

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race.

anon when it may be a question of passing through an- other man's lee or trying to steal another boat's water. For the moment his attention la riveted on the weather leeches. "A pull on

canvas

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

are

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 backs to the bad,

bid.

bridge. You start off with a heart Marriage is something ka lead, and then, before you can say phenylisothiocyanate, her hand fa full of diamonds. In about alx months she'll trump your ace with a Club, and you'll be doubled until spattes are called for.

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Which recalls a rather snappy

Robert MacWhirter Bpades—A, K. 9.8,2 Hearts-None Blumende-A,K,QJ Clube, 9, 8, 4

———- Larwood- S-A.-K. # H-None D-A,E,Q,7.0,6,0,2 C-A, 9

Edward. Kelir.

I-A.' K. DJ, 10,0

... 10.7.2

6-A, K, J. 10, d-

KA, K. Q

Zan, K, Q

04, 2

Pate Watkins

Jane, 1933, stopping at Yat Pit can apeak firmly in the name of who shall say, secing that it fuornseyed, canvas-breeked figures the ace of spades in hor hand. Ting (Kennedy Town) for last his Government. Yet it should the business to appear totallying themselves upon the strain. This is also known as a psychic

also be made clear that he en-oblivious to exhilaration? That lay!" The string doubles up to ing Manila; "Hey-hip-haul! Be- 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.squatting, half lying down contract

There are two kinds of bridge, since he is an adviser as much

and need only listen to their aub.

auction. The as he 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 manns 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 accopted. 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

the racing man's catechism. A board they are not difficult to per- safer not to bid at all in bridge. age confidences. Altogether, the

curiously contradictory combina-. idea of a direct representative, tion-imperturbability and noblesuade as to the sheltering merits It is to be hoped that the highly qualified and highly plac-ness.

of the companion. The owner rumours of the impending re-jed, whose activities shall not be

himself usually sways close by signation of Mr. Norman Davis confined to one capital, but shall

SELF DISCIPLINED.

the skipper whom he seldom dares address. from his ambassadorship with- embrace a whole continent is so There can be no body of men in out portfolio, so to speak, are good that it is impossible for the world more completely self-

A cap blows overboard and the 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- ment is inevitable the position first and last of his kind.

great racer. As cutters, the "Big stant. They are always waiting will not be allowed to lapse.

Five" carried thirty hands; they

and watching. The spinnaker Those who have followed the

manage with a few less now that must be broken out directly, and trend of international politics in

they are Marconirigged, with no smartness in doing it may win the deal that we had the other night. recent months cannot have fail-

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

It is said that the popularity the men are drawn from the fish-roof 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 man Davis's peregrinations from dictionaries. Whether it had dandies--the hardest-and-best enough, and "man_overboard" is the sales of certain well-known and-aft seamanship in smacks and this sort of work is quite risky capital to capital, exchanging to a corresponding extension of school. Every man knows his job; no uncommon ery. Then you aball 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 ho will do it, and why he cavort and quiver and an over- It is in fact an occasion for won-heard, however, of an occasional will do it. They watch the 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-

rehearsed incident. 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- long ago by every country. The lished puzzles has brought about the order. functions of a roving representa- ja 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 ambasing of all books of reference, ing the skipper, statuesque at the Poet. sador. There is no duplication. they have made for the advance The ambassador on

ment of education. For a die- the spot, tionary is not merely a catalogue specially attached to a particular 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, as pre- 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 ovents. Thus, auch 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 tics 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 accredi d. Usually quest. Later arrivals, such as

tomahawk, he cannot acquaint himself spe-cockatoo, and boomerang, to take pea-jacket, calicu, 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 bis colleagues. of the Anglo-Saxon race in all be a 'summing-up of the progreas He must present clear reports, the realms, spiritual as well pe leaving it to the government to material, in which its members collate these with the reports 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 Elbe has dependence. There should be spread over the whole earth and become the chief method of com- someone whose job it la to gather munication of 200,000,000 per- up: the threads and wouve them sons.

killing my speech. I was going to quote. Mr.

Montagu Norman, too.

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 atlll owing us a dollar.

Both MacWhirter and Pete had failed to notice wo were using

four packs of cards,

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Dear Mr. Kelly,-Your heart- Facha column is so sympathetic' and so appealing that I could not forbear from bringing my troubles to your kind attention. You seo It's this way, Mr. Kelly. Two gentlemen friends of mine want to marry me. One of them's wealthy and the other's' in the Government servico, ao 1 don't know" which to choose. What would you recommend for my dilemma 7-Katherina.

Wo are not sure what it is best to advise for your, dilemma. A | little rum in 'milk, warmed up, and taken four - hours - before meals might do the trick. As to your other little problem, the only suggestion we can make is. that two take no chances, but go to the registry office and take out two licances, one for each man. Then you might venture a little Lost of your loved ones. There was something else we wanted to "eny, but you will excurs á...marriage - veteran's" "falling memoryEdward Kelly,