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The Boys' & Girls' Club Association

The following events are being organized in support of the Association funds:

SUNDAY, 30th NOVEMBER, 1947 Softball Match at Caroline Hill Football Ground, Lady Grantham has kindly consented to open the Match at 10.30 A.M.

Tickets obtainable at the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith & Co. MONDAY, 1st DECEMBER, 1947

Gala First Night Performance of "AN INSPECTOR CALLS”

presented

By The Hong Kong Stage Club At The Missions to Seamen (next to the China Fleet Club) 8.30 P.M.

Seats may be booked at Moutrio's. FRIDAY, 5th DECEMBER, 1947

Special Dance

At The Kowloon Cricket Club. Tickets:

$15 double,

$B single.

SATURDAY, 6th DECEMBER, 1947

Grand Fete

At The Murray Barracks Parade Ground. (By kind permission of the O.C., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers!.

SUNDAY, 7th DECEMBER, 1947

At Caroline Hill Football Ground First Match 10.30 A.M.

TUESDAY, 9th DECEMBER, 1947

►

A Grand Evening of

BOXING

Specially Arranged At The China Fleet Club. Complete Details of all Events will appear later,

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(Continued from Page 6) Take my own case, for instance.

between am here to develop trade

To do my work our two countries.

must get to know the properly, market, meet various firms

engaged But it is difficult to

HOUSEKEEPING IN NEW YORK

(Continued from Page 9) Shopping. In the local food stores, is made easier by the use of a wire trolley basket which you push around collecting purchases--you can put the baby on the top shelf if he's fidgety.

When you have finished, you pass through a wicket where your pur-

delivered 1and in the course

side the door of the flat.

New York's delivery services are men in business are very hospitable remarkable. You can "window shop"

I was obliged to -but

In it, and so on not mix freely with chases are totted up and paid for

do so if you

the people. Since I

came

here

have been asked to have lunch

pr

drink on many occasions-English-

am

refuse.

#t

anywhere

out-

clad you took my refusai su nico. /* the big stores em ifth-aventio ar

that...

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1947.

JOHN

PUDNEY ON NEW BOOKS

I call in

the help of

Dogs

THROUGH half-closed lids two alert eyes watch me as I write. They belong to-Dog-Juno. She is the mother. of 18. She has a husband in the R.A.F. But she prefers

me,

the most dramalle and for-reach-

Cosca ing explonaga

which the British Empire has over known.

Mr. Hirsch has a great gift for documentary presentation. Even the Ickground and colour which ho has deftly shaded in appene to be accurate, I was persuaded, for instance, that his description_of Colonel Burt and Detectivo In- sperter Whitehead leaving Scol" land Yard on a morning in carly

October in a "pall of yellow-grey" fog værred on the picturesque. A telephone check-up оп the two-

my dog & cat

kittens. She likes our house. She tolerates me.

This collection of creepy.

year-old records of the Clerk of the Weather proved Hirsch to be cor- reet.

Why did this Soviet citizen betray his coun- try? Why did so many seemingly intelligent and respon- sible men and women betray theirs? tales Not for money. The book

shows written by that almost forgotten that only pultry suma changed A white cat is the heroine of author, "IN A GLASS DARKLY" hands, The answer which this With a guilty glance in her "BIRL, THE STORY OF A (Lehmann, 83, d.), has just been brilliant but factual narrativo hints direction, I will admit I shun CAT" by Alexander M. Frey edited by Mr. V. S. Pritchett. They broke down their loyalties,

at is that the sense of conspirner dog-lovers. I hate passionate (Jonathan Cape, 68.). Sho is are quiet, spacious, not doggie-patter. I will not de- much more fey than any realis. Their chill puckenly comes over voto time to dogs, oxcept tie cat. Her story, told by a you like a window being opened by when they take me out for a Swiss author, and translated the wind. Pritchett succeeds in werk. I just "got on" with into nice, clean English by dogs. Meaning look from Juno Gwenda David and Eric Mos- forces me to add that I cannot bacher, is a fantastical one. get on entirely without them,

Worse than the patter is, usually, doggie literature, which aches with arch sentimentalism. So it was my prejudice which faced "THE FIRESIDE BOOK OF DOG STORIES," edited by Jack Goodman (Cassell. 124. fd.),

Bir lives with an old lady who dies. The cat stays in the empty house until the old lady's son comes home. She gets on rather too well with him for a cat, but he has to leave her be hind in order to go to find work.

1814.

unhappy.

a

Superhuman

L

Don't

A slip in my copy tells me that' Darryl Zantel is to let us pee 11 all on celluloid. On paper, meanwhile, couple of pages in expressing I will vouch that this is about the volumes about gheat story tradition, slickest, most sinister spy story that Le Fanu was bom in Dublin in has come my way. Not a pretty He lived industriously, and picture of human loyalties. . obscurely as editor and part-owner try it on the dog! of a newspaper. If mass indulgence in the intricacies of psychology has not spoiled you for the amiable vice of ghost stories, try these little rediscovered masterpieces.

Humans across the HERE 14 a book I would not

Dog Juno read. It might shake of her fur, instead, and her faith. Nor would I offer it to ends by making a fortune for Cat Mimi, for it would sharpen her her human friend as an exhibit amiable cynickan. in a circus.

She follows him Confronted with Mr James Thurber's introduction, I read ocean, is stripped 011. Thurber is an objective Brows feathers partisan. "It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries--to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house."

It is a study

jet

In disloyalty called (Nicholas

It is one of those wry and "THE SOVIET SPIES" naive fantasies which belong to Kaye, 12s. Gd.). It tells the story Central Europe. It neatly of the cypher clerk Gouzenke, of It even gets the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, who The book contains dog pieces avoids whimsy.

scenes un suddenly betrayed his own country. by people as diverse as Rudyard through cat-love

It In

1945, you may recollect, he Kipling, Thomas Mann, Anatole scathed by sentimentalism.

the eternal placed himself and his family under France, and John Galsworthy. adds nothing to

Canadian All contributors are writers of mysteries of cats which Mr T the protection

fver handing

vital many dis authorities, some eminence. Even so, it is S. Eliot and so

"Hundred papers-knowins- the

Documents."

a pleasant surprise to find a tinguished.writers have tried to dog-documentary so clear of interpret. sentimentalism, so varied and so readable.

There is tragedy; there Is humour. Through it all runs that enduring thread of loyalty which is dog-lore. A ginnce from Dog Juno tells me that to write another word would em- barrass her.

Cats

with

a

CAT MIMI is white,

yellow, scathing gaze. She loves herself. Temporarily she dotes upon her 24th and 25th

From Here and There:

Buy it for the children when they get a bit older and have an adult taste for children's books.

Ghosts

as

im-

MY third silent critic is the old stuffed monkey I have possessed since I was three. He haunts me benevolently I rend how one of those maculately respectable charac- ters created by Sheridan Le Fanu was driven by an imagin ary monkey to cut his throat.

Grasshopper Invasion

CANADA'S VETO

Ollawa-For the second time in

na many weeks Canada has taken action In' banning anti-British writ-

Wus

ago

York Now!

Adelaide, Grasshoppers which have invaded the town of Mount Mary, 00 miles north of Adelaide, are so thick along the railway line that a train from Adelaide slid past ings and publications from entering

weeks rails the platform

were the Dominion. A few as the greasy and another train could not Ben Hecht's anti-British play, "A leave the station for the some rea- Flag la Born," was

It wo zon. Shops in the town have been grounds that closed against the invaders and the the Now townspeople

Liberation, vainly

magazine, using Council

banned because it is too violently smokescreens and polson sprays.

against British policy in Palestine. TEETH AT 50

We cannot tolerate that sort of anti-British thing here," salda spokesman of the Customs and Excise branch In charge of review- ing incoming publications.

arc

50

Is

on the

Jewish is

Madrid. Two

year-old Spaniards have just had new teeth a Murela grown. Rafael Molina, Jurmer, woke up one morning with: and swollen

SHIP JUMPERS splitting headache gums. He found he was one molar

Cape Town-The desertion of Asensio, an ex hundreds of British scamen from the richer, Juan boxing champing from Bilbao, now the owner of two new teeth ships in South African harbours is to shipmasters and 'causing concem a molar and canine, Doctors who immigration authorities. "It

the men say there minds me," sald one oficial, "of the have attended is nothing special about their cases. wholesale exodus of seamen

British ships in American waters al the time of the gold strike in the Yukon.". The men have no trouble In Anding "Irlonds to shelter them and employment, and usually make for inland centres. A nation-wide search is being made for them."

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 2

else, decide

that you to get offended. would like, sty, a call-length skirt, ly. Others seem

It to be sent without They think I dislike them because I and order

1. T. P. O'Connor, founder of the na Communist and they are bour-paying anything. If in the meanti

mind-or if your Star. 2.

Gloucestershire geois. We are not as narrow as all you change your

Regt, husband says you will look

appailing

York and Lancaster Regt., Wiltshire send it back again. In it yo add.

It-you can "Of course," he hastened to

I don't know how many times one during Lent in 1348 ordered 100 Regt 3. All of them." Henry III. as if cuddenly remembering that even underground walls may have cars, "r can play that game with the same pieces of the best whale. belong to the Party and am loyal to shop; but it would come expensive for our regime. But I am also a bust-us, for it costs us five shillings a our Time That is why I am here, time to make the 18-mile trip to the I think I could be more useful to our city, organisation if I could mix freely your business friends."

Chinese Wall

more

I often think of that rueful to Soviet business inah when I think of

CROSSWORD SOLUTION

Solution of yesterday's puzzle.—

re-

from

MOUNTAIN MEMORIAL Ottawa-A memorial to Canada's dead of the last war is to be carved out of the mountain in the Gatineau eventually become the centre of a Range overlooking Ottawa, It will

4. Pakis- new national park area immediately. tan. 5. Dublin, 320 miles. 6. All north of Oltawa,. A memorial shaft except Queen Mab, a character in will surmount the mounthin, whose fairy and folk loro. 7. Birmingham, tilff face is to be cut away and an in- 8. Collect labels: 9. Hindu. 10. #cription commemorating the war Todanthe.

dead carved.

Across: 1 and 7, Egg and bacon; NANCY A Little Light on the Subject

10, Need; 11, East; 12, Canes: 13, So;

Emic: 22, Top; 23, Drama; 20, Sonata; 27, Tilo; 28, Den.

those big men isolated in the Krem-14, Troop; 15, Abdomen; 20, Nec; 21, lin. In his case isolation and paul city of information may be just a handicap to trade development. The

principles applied to state bus Game rcsa, and especially to foreign affairs, involving foreign nations, inevitably head to such results an, say, the last Moscow Conference.

Down: 1, Enchanted; 2, Cear; 3, Gent; 4, Adenold; 5, Nest; 6, Decree 7, See 1 Across: 0, Associate; 0, Stop; 16, Beast; 17, Depot, 18, Moral; 10, Crown; 24, Ate; 25, Mad.'

This is not to say-for from 1- that only the Chinese Wall of per-ormation na en doctrinaire theories, song) isolationism prevents the Govlet while stewing in their Kremlin nuto- leaders from handling foreign affairs clave (in vacuo, as it were), then, ob- with greater knowledge, understand-viously, some entirely now and quita ing

co-operate, unorthodox technique must be re- and willingness to There are many and various other quited in order to get "on with it" factors. But where men wielding un-perhaps not ro gentlemanly" usual power shut themselves in bethe traditional diplomatic technique, hind such a wall and mould their and not necessarily "tough," policies, not so much en objective in- certainly more reciprocal.

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| NANCY--- WHAT

ARE YOU DOING WITH THAT CANDLE IN THERE?

I'M LOOKING

FOR SOMETHING

YOU'RE

NOT VERY SMART

WHY NOT?

of the

So a formidable spy ring was

disclosed. A number of well-placed

Canadian and British citizens were charged with the betrayal of their country. Cmadian M.P. Fred Rose ultimately received a six-year Een- tence, and Dr/Mity, arrested at the close of a lecture he was giving on the nuclear theory at King's College, sentence.

Strand Lendon, received a ten-year

It seems curious that It has been Richard left to an American, Mr. Illesch, "late Lieutenant-Colonel, litary Intelligence Division, U. S. General Staff,” War Department to write the detailed story of one of

DUMB-BELLS

<DO YOU

CARE FOR HORSES?

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PATENT DEPR

NO, IM. A CHILDS NURSE

• McKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Cross-Ruff Wins Difficult Contract

dis-

By. WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

WHILE it takes only five or 10 W minutes to play a hand in a PROFESSOR G. D. H. COLE has tournament, some hands are

written a popular book to make cussed not only after the game, but you think, called "THE INTEL- all through the tournament and for LIGENT MAN'S GUIDE TO TIE months afterwards. Today's band POSTWAR WORLD" (Gollencz, came in for its share of discussion. 215). Its Intellectual fat it made up The question was. could five of half a million words, 1.143 pages, diamonds be made with a diamond 123 maps and (praise bel) a 78-1 opening?

Several West players did open column index.

diamond and in those cases declarer Thia falls into the superhuman went down. However, when dis- category. Cat Mimi yawns, Dog cussing the hand after the game, we Juno twitchen with dreams, 1 am found that five diamonds could be but human; words fail me.

made with the following line

CHESS PROBLEM

play.

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AAQJ2

♥ None

• 10873

♣QJ942

By A. W. GALITZKY Black, B picces,

N

10873

W

◆ K 04

E

J 10 95

+2

+4005

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Dealer

t:

While, & pleces. White to play and mate in three.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

N-Q8, any; 2, Q, R. B. or PQ, R, or Kt) mates.

·Rupert and the Three Guides-35

When he gets his breath back Rupert calls out, and a large squirrel notices him and comes across. "Oh, do tell us." says the Guide Pauline. ** What_han_that great crowd been doing up there? We've beet wondering all day why you've been so busy." "Didn't you know!" squeaks the little creature. **The King of all the squirrels has been crowned today and one of our own Nutwood squirtel has been chesen as king. That has never happened before. No wonder we're busy 1" ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Skeleton

CLUES ACROSS

1. I'm pure na

a judge,

You'll fina 2b Int Schoo at the end of a line.

0. Knoll for

Bikini7

10. What 1:0 Luft warta may have produced

in credit. 11. A smashing

drink is Luetui in a smash.

12. It seems the flood would

Come over

ope Ankle

to start

with.

15. Tough a great country it's

Costly smastied.

17. Transparent G-girl,

18. Vingt-et-un as we know it-En

1818

15. It aigned to take

a hammering.

20. A common word, this.

21. Club, on a roof?

2 Remarkable way Andrew Lang" might lattial a document.

25. Sphero of nowledge suzges,

Le of matricide |

26. Oats my be, but not to wear. 21. Cowardp-quistard color.

23. Opatrive to got Miss Walk out

alda a horse.

CLUES DOWN

2. Red machines may be

goods,

4. Done on purpose.

IF YOU WERE SMART

YOU'D USE YOUR FLASHLIGHT

BY THE WAY, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING

FOR 7

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BUSHMILA É

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South West Norili

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Pass

14

Pass 6

Opening - 4

Declarer must win the lead in his own hand, then

n

of

East

Pass

Pass

12

opening trump

in

a heart in dummy, with the seven of diamonds. He leads the deuce of spades and wins with the king, then trumps the six of hearts dummy with the eight of diamonds, The ace of spades is eashed and the queen of spades led, declarer dis- carding the three of clubs. Now he rufts dummy's deuce of clubs, and rufs another heart in dummy with the ten of diamonds. He discards the eight of hearts on the jack of spades, and West Arumps with the of diamonds. West then can cash the ace of hearts, but when he leads a club, declarer trumps, the ace of trumps picks up West's king, and South loses only a diamond and heart.

no

Declarer would have had "cliance to make the contract If West had opened a club. East would win and lead the diamond. Naturally South would take the finesse; West would win and another diamond would come back. Then declarer could not do enough cross-ruffing. With the diamond opening he need- ed only careful timing to ruil out. three hearts,

Crossword

4. They're given by listeners. 5. Jot down E

6. River Nowing in a level bed,

7. Penniless fair-bound character

(two words).

B. Kragserating ons of the duties

of 1 Аскова?

13. An ex-Queen is found in a

form of servitude, -24. Xinko a date in ♫

Atation.

country

10. Not a Jemmy though it's a

law-breaking tool..

11. Zoo unato, perhaps, soos in

swing number.

11, a sort of match is not

cricket

Behavon like cats in A scramblo.

23. Forn up, down to old Paloo

tine.

By Ernio Bushmiller

MY FLASHLIGHT

This crissened the block sewer wit clue numbers, an well as the words, are left for the sulyer to fill in. Pour Stack, siputares niki four ring numbers have been Inserted to give you a aturi.

The pattern formed by the tuck samures is synimetrical"; the top half of the pattern műfelles the bottom hair and the two sides correspond. So you can 50 in 12. Mure black kisuires at once to correspond with those already Given:

There is not Down, therefore the first square in the arrond horizontal Hne from the top gan be luked in, and also the other three wirresponding ones. · Nute that there are two Across clues before No. 9, vo Chat These must be in the tune. Tiere In a 17 own as well as a 17 Acroes, therefore the moare Einmenlitelý above that containing the Baure 17 me blacked t

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