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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948.

FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

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"I'll be there in exactly one hour, Mrs. Jones--and please don't wait till I ring the bail before you start straightening In the house!"

LESSON HAND

MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Don't Concentrate Wholly on System

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY BEG

EGINNERS at contract are usual- ly concerned about what system

But of bidding they should study. today contract is played so generally that bridge writera" nro forced to

Check Your Knowledge

1. What is the difference between

animals animals that estivate and

that hibernate,

2. Name the author of "Alice In

Wonderland."

3. With what do you associate

build systems around winning tactics the name of Duncan Phyfe?

of good players, Bidding is Im- portant, but it does no good to get into a game contract and not know how to play the

the cards.

4. What is a continental shelf?

for

5. Why is the lowest weight called a grain?

unit

of

A surprising number of players would miss on today's hand failing to count their tricks,

upades If the hearts brenk 8-2, we will make four heart iriskt.

works If the club finesse we will have eight, and the ace of diamonds makes nine.

We can win the ace of

and ruff a spade,

How are we to get the tenth? Shall we depend upon finding, the

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king of diamonds in the East hand, or should we try to set the club?

long

First we should try to set the long club, no we will let West hold the opening lead of the king of spades. When West continues with the queen of spades, we win that with the ace. We should not ruff

third spade yet.

the

We first take ono round of trumps, then lead the four of clubs

lead the queen,

the

and Anesse

four

of hearts from dummy and

win with the king Now there is only one trump out and It is high. Our next play should be the six of clubs to dummy'a ace,

come back with the three of clubs and trump it with the three of hearts. Now it la time to ruff the small spade, then lead the five of clubs and trump it with the five of hearts.

We go over to the ace

Who and lead the good

club.

of

East trumps or not we are going to discard the four diamonds

South hand, from the Now there is no way to keep 49 with from making another trick the eight of hearts.

This hand is proof of the Im- portance of learning to count your tricks as well as to time your play.

Answers on Column 5

DUMB-BELLS

FREGISTERED USLIMS) PATENT OFFICE

CAN'T THEY HOW DO ASTRONOMERS) READ THE KNOW WHEN/NEWSPAPERS

THERE IS LIKE THE GOING TO BE ) REST OF

Us? AN ECLIPSE

?

CHESS PROBLEM

**

By ARTHUR A. PAUL Black, 7 places.

White, 8 piecas White to play and, matę in two, Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, B-12. any; 2. Q. R. B. OT KI

mates.

CROSSWORD

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20. Beo 2 Down,

21. Do as tho spisah suggests.. (4) 32. Lxoly name for a best on the

beach. (5)

Down

Mice care for it this way, (3, 5) an. 20.Hare a go" if you like. but they don't zil belong to Wilfred (7, 01

Sort of game that a puppy may 5. Bog 6 Across. play, (4)

Tut empty space again. (8)

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9. The way to bend cars. (4)

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YOUR BIRTHDAY.

EXCLUSIVE "TELE GRAPH'. FEATURE.

POCKET CARTOON

Dy STELLA

by OSBERT LANCASTER

THURSDAY, JUNE 10

insatiable. You have one who appears so

is a

ORN today you have an insatiable You have a surprisingly stubborn Boy originality of thought and often pliable and affable. Actually, you make startling now discoveries, are deeply affected by your loyalles which others find difficult to belleve. in love. You

dia will probably But you, yourself, are not one to cover this at an early age and as take the findings of others on sight. you grow older may steel yourself

you may think You will want to discover all details against what about a mintter before committing fatal weakness. Guard against be- yourself to oven

the

smallest coming ingtown, emotionally, for

would only bring you decision. Consequently, if it takes this longer than you think it should for happiness eventually. you to receive recognition for your discoveries, just put yourself in the place of the public where "sceing" is usually "believing!"

Although you are fond of the arts be happiest if your life and will work is connected with them, you are not one to starve for art's sake, You are much too practical for that necessary will devote the energles of your early life toward making a comfortable fortune so that in later life, you may enjoy à hobby or vocation in the arts.

and

Be very cautious in romance for an unhappy love affair could leave a scar on your life that you might never gol over. Once, however, whose found someone you have ideals are similar to your own; whose temperament is compatible and who loves you as much as you love, then there can be unusual happiness and life-long contentment.

To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select your birthday stor and read the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth-. day star be your dally guide. FRIDAY, JUNE 11

be

are

GEMINI (May

22-June 22)—-A. BAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 22)

when fine, progressive day

new Ho who hesitates today is lost, offered should opportunities

50 push your new ideas ahead; seu grasped immediately and developed.. that they get into instant produc-

tion. 23-July 23)-A CANCER (June good day, both at home and in the office. Business expansions tavdured

Push now.

plans proper conclusions.

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23)-An optimistic attitude toward your work will definitely pay dit now, Go out after what you want and get 111

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)—

merchandising plans Expansion in can be favoured now if production is to put on a thoroughly practical basis. AQUARIUS (Jan, 21-Feb. 19)---

and optimistic, Be confident your plans show real signs et materializing as you wont them to, now.

for

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Tho VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22) relations between employer and Personal and business affairs show employce show signs of definite im- a very definite upturn for the better. provement. Each gains an advant- Artistle ventures should pay off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)-In- creasingly good influences are high- constructive Ideas ly favourable to of expansion. Develop your plans. 24-Nov. 22)-It SCORPIO (Oct. you are an employee, you could ask

earned raise for an

and stand of getting what fifty-nity chance you want, too.

|AROUND THE WORLD:

a

uge.

made.

Business now.

"As an idle hanger-on, I'd swop the Court for the National Coal Board to MOSTOW-Inore money, extra petrol and not to hard on

the fret."

BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

IT

is being said that one Chagall's pictures at Tate is not a Chagall.

of

the

It is an example of what has been called, his "Poetical Inventive- ness," and shows a blue cow with the head of a red raven, standing on its hind legs on the roof of a gasworks. Spray is breaking over the animal, whose tail has a scr- pent's head. Near the cow, a woman with violins in place of legs Is standing upside down in an opened

FOR THE BUSINESSMAN

U.S.

May Establish Yen Exchange

Rate

Washington, June 9.-A high official source today said that the United States Government' was nearing a decision on whether to attempt the estab lishment of a commercial foreign exchange rate for the Japanese yen within the near future or to delay action again.

The sources said it was hoped

a decision could be reached

amongst all Departments by N.Y. FOREIGN

July 1. He added that if the decision should be in favour of establishing such a rate, then probably something would be done during July.

EXCHANGE

New York. June -Today's foreign exchange closing rates were Argentine Peso (Omelal) .... US$0.2977 5500 Australia Bratti

under Belgium

.0530

.022676

0345

He emphasised, however, that no Argentine Peso (Unofficial).. 3.24 firm prediction should be made.

Ono of the questions consideration, he said, was whether Canada

Chilo an exchange rate could be establish-

England it with underwriting ed without

States Government Indla

France

Bome United

funds. He thought that prospects pun

Mexico

Peru

appeared poor that some or all of New Zealand the US$150,000,000 for Japanese Portugal domestic rehabilitation, which the South Africa House Committee had deleted from Sweden

Switzerland the foreign aid bill, would be re- Uruguay

Senate with

stored by the

concurrence.

Another

that the

said, Bource

'consensus

House Venezuela

however.

Shanghai (CNC$100,000) Netherlanda Batavia of numerous Singapore longkong

officials opinion here appears to be

without

be ralo could that an exchange

this established

sort of

How underwriting by Congress.

added, it would have to be ho ever, limited with restrictions on authori- sations and amounts,

Final recommendations from the mission on exchange were expected shartly, he added, and it was quite possible the final decision would be taken here within a fortnight.- United Press.

WALL STREET

UPSWING

1705 3720

2400

-United Press.

NEW YORK SILVER New York, Juno ---Sliver, per Ane ounce, as quoted by Messrs Handy and Harmon 74 cents. United Press.

LONDON SILVER

London, June D. silver. Spot. per ounce

481 Silver, Forward, per ounce....

-United Press.

Quotations For Cotton

New York, June --Prices today ranged from one point higher to one lower, and closed as follows:-

38.76 nominal

Spot

June

July

A September

November

December

ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)---Deal- ings with the fair sex are especially as favoured just well as social commitments can be

umbrella. She has eight thumbs on New York, June D.-Prices con-

tinued to rise today with gains August TAURUS

21) each hand, and her head is floating (Apr. 21-May

41 October mostly in the fractional zone. alow between, the cow's legs; detached Morning hours

may appear

of showed gains few specialities from her body. conditions increase might be a photograph of any gas- But the gasworks but favourable

around a point. Tarding was active. as ofternoon comes. Make your de-

Prices near the close of the rea- cisions then.

works, and this conventionally, this

the carller slon backed down from sop thrown to reactionary art, has

but the rise, paced by aroused the suspicions of the ex-

highs,

brought Industrial stocks, perts. They say that if it were n

to the best level Spot genuine

Chagall the gasworks market average

with the July would be a poetical sublimation of im

since August 20, 1040, all gasworks, and almost unrecog- nisable.

Wales: a Gallant Little Land

By TEMPLE MANNING.

WALES is part of the same king-

Wan England and has been so

for 700 yours, But just the same, to different are lis customs, so different its people and its terrain, that it that from scarcely seems possible the western counties of

England one finds oneself in the gallant little land of Wales. The border countles of England, Cheshire, Shropshire Herefordshire, and the Welsh bor- der county of Monmouthshire have characteristics, and the heart of Wales, is, sa to speak, reached gradually. But

But, nonetheless, as soon as the traveller steps over the line, he knows he is very much in Wales, as we discovered when wo. stepped over the border right into Newport, in Monmouthshire.

common

DM

Newport, like nearby Cardiff and Swansea, are very industrialised. To the west and north, Wales be- comes a tountry of steep hills inter- sected by green and fertile valleys.

Famous Spa

Carnarvon Castle in Walck

Aceglamourette Slopcorner

ND what, you cry, has become

Mimsic Slopcorner? It la dificult to imagine that aceglamouretic living a humdrum life with her parents after being Miss This and Miss That, and mixing, on an equal footing, with Billy mayors and fooling councilols. Can one see the Fish Pudding Queen of 1947 putting the cat cut? Or Miss Whalesteak olding the nails while her father

A of that exquisite little horror,

Or the

ще

the scullery window? Nationalised Gas Fairy reporting to Her mother the presence of a dead mouse on the landing? Be patient. Her public carcer is not at an end. Sho will soon be on the hoardings. in connection with a campaign to make

us all cat woven glass treated with oxidised zinc.

Atta, Bey!

110

common

March (1040).

May July

October the The New Orleans

follow:-

new December

Ully and Railroad segments of October the Index almost touching peaks for the year.

Transactions for the day rose to

1,870,000 shares.

Market experts attributed the cur rent upswing to private forecasts of

May

March (1010) July

October

37.20

30.90-3

**

35.72 nominat

31.03

33.34

13.03

33.72-3

3761 nominal

22.10

31.53

ቡሓ

23.10

market closed” as .

37.85

36.03-1

33.35-7

2.16

3130

33.75

32.50 did

0.10 14

-United Press.

BOMBAY COTTON Bombay, June 0-Closing prices

high production for 12 to 18 mention for Jarilla (in rupees.)

reports.

con-

July

September

7.27

7.20

United Press.

Steel issues closed slightly higher. Oil pivotals continued to rise. Rall- road and Automotive stocks tinued to rise and were up slightly. Of 1,124 issued traded, 6805 were higher, 247 were lower, and 212 un- CHINA PRODUCE changed.-United Press.

Rubber Prices

Unchanged

New York, June -Rubber, futures closed unchanged to 10 points lower on Bates totalling 13 contracts,

Prices closed as followi

June (in cents per lb.).... 22.37 nominal July

22.00 asked August September October

is the mountah group of Snowden, with the highest peak of 3,500 feet,

castle is at E sweeping remark that "The November Another wonderful

Algerians have

December January (1049) Caerphilly in the southern corner

February As for the coastline, it is very of little Wales. This castle, erected cense" is handsomely refuted by

March that old Bey of Algiers who, when bold and rugged Aberyswyth, on in the 12th century, is one of the

April warned that the King of France the west coast, is a wonderful head- most perfect specimens of the con-

was about to send an expedition to architec- quarters for coastal exploration and cen

of military centric style of

"Send for visiting the central section of ture extant, and military men from destroy the town, replied,

far to me half the cost of the expedition, Wales. It is a charming resort town other lands have travelled

It Is and a fine university seat.

see and admire this noble pilo with and I will myself destroy the town." beautifully

between tho its many battlemented towers and mountains and the seu, lo a gently its enormous, thick walls. curving crescent, in delightful coun-

situated

miles

Delightful Resort

tee

At Rhyyl, a delightful seashore Twenty-Ove

castward Is Llandrindod Wells, a famous Welsh resort, a few miles upstream on the spa, its springs popular even in the banks of the River Clwyd, stand the historical ruins of the thirteenth- soventeenth century. It is an easy century Rhuddlan Castle. run from the spa to Rhayader and the beautiful Elan valley with chala

scenery. The

Mountains, ancient

castics, en-

May

Juno

July.

August

Spat

QUOTATIONS

New York, June --China produce closed today at the following rates Aniseed oil, per b. F.O.B.

New York

Cosala oli, per lb. F.0.B

Now York .....

Tung oil in tank Cars,

0.75/0.00

2.25/2.80

FOD, New York" per" Ib. 0243â ̈ Sandalwood, in drums, de-

pending on quality & qantity

Agar Agar, per b. F.0.3.

New York

·Beryllium, (10 to 12 per-

cent) per ton Molyboslum (BO. percent)

BRISTLES

13/15 nominal.

3.00/3.10

10.00/10.00

0.45

Brilles, F.C.B. New York, per tb, as

regular

22.00

22.00

21.03 nominal

2LB5

21.75 asked

per 1b.

21.00 nominal

21.50

71.48

21.13

follow:- Jankow,

20.07

•ments...

20.00

20.03

20.00

-United PreRS.

LONDON MARKET

London, June -The market today

Shanghai,

monts

regular

assort

...... 3.70 nominal

assort-

***... 2.30

2,75

(

5.00

曲

Chungking, regular asort-

menta

Tientsin, 28's shorts

Tientsin, 20's regular

Usited PreËS.

CHICAGO GRAIN

closed unchanged.

Prices closed as follow:-

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Answors

June ( pennies per lb.)

July

1312

Beptember

134

October

November

12-15/16 12-18/10

-Waited Press.

May

1. Estivators sleep during summer

2. Lewis Carroll 3.

December

Залиагу

March

PRICES

Chicago June 0—Chlesgo Board of Trade closing price today were follows:-

WHEAT

of lakes set in superb moun- chanting lakes, delightful shore re-while hibernators sleep during the

in sorts and spas, plus highly industri-winter. in- highly dustrialised English town of Birming- allsed areas and towns add up to a Furniture making. 4. The shore line

of a continent which extends under NEW YORK SUGAR July 75 miles away, draws its water little land that remains fiercely nn-

tionalistic and individual despite, or water. rly from this chain of lakes, Menal Siralts, in the

northwest perhaps because of, centuries of In-weight was determined by objects in corner

of Wales,

is a marvellous tegration in a larger national unit. nature, such as a grain of wheat, section. At either end of the straits

is a wonderful Castle, Conway and Carnarvon.

A little farther to the south be

peninsula, is yond the Carnarvon

yet another famous castle, Harlech. These three castles were built by' Edward I in the

as part of his

of military of Wales. The drat Prince of Wales, as the title is now understood, was born in Carnarvon Castle in 1284.

bases for theth century.

Within easy reach of Carnarvon or Caernavon (lts Welsh spelling)

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CORN

May

July

OATS

BOLEST

York,

Bugar May Now

Juga World futurae closed one to three points lower July on scattered trade selling. Bales totalled eight contract.

Domestic sugar tuluron

closed one point higher to one poin! lower, re-

kadging flecting producer

And the

cailer market.

Prices closed as fallow f

Contract No.

July in cents per lb.)

September

March (1940)

May

4.15 asked

4.24

3.55 nominal

3.00

#

*50

#

2.00

24

Spot (World)

4.33

-Unlled Fress.

July

September

BLACK PEPPER

MARKET

New York, June -Black pepper fitures closed inactive and noniinally unchanged.

7:0436-34

OUTWARD MAILS

THURSDAY, JUNE 10, floring Times By Alr Balgon and Paris, Noon (reg and ord). Lluchow, Kunming, Shanghal, Nanking, Honkow Taingtao, Polping. Bwntow, Amny, Tainan and Foochow, Nood fres and ord).

Closing Times Dy Sex & Train

| Shanghai (Sr) Noon.

Japan (Ordinary letters and cards only)

(B) Noon,

Amoy and Foochow (Ben) Noon,

Macao (fea) Noon,

Kongmoon (fea) Noon.

1

4

Canton (2nd class -mail *only) (Trala)

Noom.

FRIDAY, JUNE 11. Closing Times By Air Canton, (Kowloon CPO) 750 nm., 10 am, 12.30 pm 3pm.; (GPO) 7 am., 930 a.m., Noon, 230 pm.

Shanghai, 0_a.m. (reg); 0.30 a.m. (ord). Shanghal, Nanking, Hankow, Teingiuo, Peiping, Amoy, Fouchow and Swatow, 3.30 pun.

Closing Times By Sea & Train Macao (Bea) S.

In the Spot market buyers refused to meet the sharply higher basis establish- ed last week, following the reiroposition of export control in India. However,

understood that some quarters United States would be the single ex- Cinton (Parcola & 2nd class mali) (Ben) ception to the licensing regulations to Straits (Bea) Dam.

be set up in India.

the

D JO..

Shanghal (Ben) 10 am..

Swatow and Amoy (Box) 10 am. Maçao (Goa) 1 p.m.

Priecs closed as follow

July

53.00 nominal

Foochow (Ben) 10 am.

September

$1.00

FI

October

48.00

December

40.00

January (1040)

45,00

$3.00

Marchi

Mas

Canton (2nd class mali only). (Train)

3 p.m.

Japan (Ordinary letters and cards only)

(80) a pun.

Manila (Bea) 3 pin.

ENTRES POLES VERTICE.

Spot

*

"I'm all dressed now except for my clothes.”

Spot (While, Muntok)

70,00

United Press.

8 pm.

52.00

Canton (Parcels & 2nd clasa mail) (BRU)