1948-11-03 — Page 7

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1948.

FOR

YOUR SPARE

SIDE GLANCES

gallien the

COPR, TIME BY HTA BERVICE, INC. T, M, REG, U. B. PAT, OFF,

By Galbraith

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"I'm not going to have any steady girl till they abolish valentines such mush!"

• McKENNEY DUMB-BELLS

ON BRIDGE

South Mentions Suit So It Won't Be Led

Cup com-

best and

BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

DECENTLY I had the pleasure of visiting at the home of Charles Lochrige, of New York City, secre- tary of the Vanderbilt mittee, and one of the most popular bridge players in the country. Another guest was Johu Rau. Anyone who has been play- Ing contract since 1928 or 1920 will remember the name of John Rau, Ile was the youngster who utro- duced psychle bidding.

While talking about some of the old-timers in bridge, the name of

P. Hal Sims come up.

marked, that

points was to make

Rau re

great of Sims' good

one

that par-

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YOUR BIRTHDAY

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3

satisfed.

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

STELLA

DORN today, you have a serene. It brings. You must feel that you which are contributing something impori- deep and calm nature ninkes people turn to you in times ant to the world or you cannot bo of crisis. A lender of men, you rule by kindness and charity rather

Deeply affectionate by nature. than by a rod. You are intellectual, you cannot live alone happlly. Your yet can be imminently procileol. own family circle is important to

when you

Icave it. you and should be to establish a home of your own. When it comes to select- ing a male, as

as in everything else, your intuition, for you may trust it will work out things well for you.

You are

exceptionally fend travel and will probably visit many foreign lands. However, once you have been away for a time, you want your own home to which you may return.

You have an exceptionally vivid Imagination and may have very strange dreams. Don't permit your self to be too much fluenced by them. You women may need use self-control in conquering fear of the dark, the control you

evidence over your moods.

you

If you are to be effective, must avold worrying over the future. You find it easy to solve other people's problems: learn to solve your own as castly.

of

To find whist the stars have in stare for tomorrow, select your birthday star and rend the corres ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your delly guide. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4

Although you are clever enough in business, you are not one to work at a job, merely for the money

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FCORPIO (Oot. 24-Nov. 22)-NI workers and employees appear to be especially favoured today. Make

Judicial investment of

your energies in a partnership. (Nov. SAGITTARIUS

23-Dec. 22) Good can easily counteract the ill today, so attack any minor prob- lems confidently.

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)-Bet- ter conditions are on their way, ro concentrate on the most efficient method to get what you want out of life now.

GEMINI (May 22-June 22)---Minor commercial and business matters. are good, so if a contract is offered, sign it and plan for advertising.

"Misi Wakenbacker, I want you to try and realise that what I am abosit to say is addressed to you as a person, not just another large block of dollar exchange.”,

BY THE

WAY

CANCER (June 23-July 23)- by Beachcomber

cautious in your contacts with menu- bers of the opposite sex. Tact and

avold even

miner dilplomacy can

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)--- You can afford to be a little more adventuresome when I coines in business expansion right now. Make mishaps. good progress.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)- Changes are in the air, to remain level-headed and calm no matter what happens. Don't let impulse gulde your actiorts.

PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. 21)-Post- until a pone any important deal more propitious, time.

ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20)—Any career connected with

LEO (July 24-Aug. 23-De

finitely a good day for new plans and it

If you step up your efforts. especially in employment matters,

succcess may be yours.

unexpected message

FOR THE BUSINESSMAN

ECONOMIC HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

IN CHINA

CHINA TODAY

Nanking, Nov. 2.—Economic history is repeating Itself in China. The new Gold Yuan currency is fast Chinese National going the way of the super-inflated Currency, which was recently scrapped when it reached a practically worthless level. Nine or ten weeks after its introduction, the new currency has lost public confidenec.

Prices, which were "frożen" since August 19, continue to shoot up now that they have been "unfrozen." Goods, which went into hiding during the freeze, are reappearing on shelves, but at substantially increased prices.

TARIFF CUT

+

PACTS TO BE

NEGOTIATED

Slate Washinglon, Nov. 2.-The Department will serve notler soon, plans probably this week, that it to negotiate new tariff cutting pacts with 11 countries, it was learned today,

The countries are Sweden, Den-

mark, Finland, the Dominican Re- public, El Salvador, Greece, Ifaith, Italy.

many.

Rice in again being sold in the big cities, but at prices which make the average, citizen clutch his head In despair: for China, which has always lived on rice, this CAR cause serious riots and disorders more easily than any other single factor.

The Government. powerless in this situation, is still arguing over the theoretical steps it should fake to remedy the situation but the new

currency

apparently cannot be saved at any cost. tribuled to:

"hard Nicaragua, Peru and Ger-

This can be at-

BOOK ENTRY

1. The fact that Finance Minister Wang Yun-wu announced "100 per- cent backing", which turned out to

វា book

entry. The be in reality

specie" was lacking. Then ho old only GY$200,000,000 or would be needed to redeem all the A formal announcement will set billions upon billions of CNC dollars the stage for the first test of the floating about the country. Actually, new larif cutting procedure Inid | as he admitted three weeks ago, just down by the Pepublican Congress about five times this amount was last spring.

needed.

Afrom Admiral Sir Ewart Hodgson to his ship, the. Saucy Mrs Flobster, anchored off the Embankment near. Lots-road Power Station, threw the care- taker into a state of frenzy VIRGO (Aug. 24-Sept. 22)-Don't Permit your emotions to control yesterday. your actions in important matters,

The boy who brought the message Good business results are indicated sald, "You're to put to sea, Mrs If you are cautious.

Gregson." "Put to what?" shouted the lady. The boy surveyed the LIBRA

miserable hulk. "There's an 'ole in the deck, ma," he observed mal-cutting powers. It gave the United cloure's 'oles everywherest," rc-

States Tarift Commission the res-surplus Chinese paper money in some ponsibility of setting limits to any plied the caretaker. "Why, you tari cula on a basis of whether couldn't float this murk'cap in domestic producers would be nublle bathin' 'ouse. Not at the seriously harmed. shuller end, neither. What dors 'e think we are, im and is puttin' to sen? Indmiral my foot!"

(Sept. 23-Oct 23)-Be

business for new good day

and making

chemicals cautious in travel. Otherwise, this appears especially favoured. Stick is a

important fairly close to your regular routine contracts, if you want good results.

progress.

MIDWEEK BOOK PARADE

ATOM

MAN BLAMES

WEST

FOR THE COLD WAR

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

Change of plan

ECIDING that he had pretty DEC

well exhausted both the drink and his welcome at Boulton Wyn- fevers. Captain Foulenough, in- tending to continue his pleasant summer holidays, answered an ad- vertisement for a tutor in a part of

THE chief scientist of the Socialist inspection of her factories by Inter-Devonshire of which he was parti- THE

Party has made a bitter attack national agents.

4

Check Your

on the Government's foreign policy. He is 50-year-old Professor P. M. S,

Britain's Blackett,

was

most

Knowledge

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In extending the reciprocal trade programme, Congress put new res- trictions on the President's tariff

Offcials sold the State Depart- ment within a few days would Issue D formal announcement spelling out a "bargaining list" of commodities for proposed reciprocal tariff cuts with the 11 nations.-- United Press.

HONGKONG

SHARES

That egged en the country's panle. The run on the shops started. People. most of whom and turned in their gold the bullion and foreign currencies to Government, wanted to invest, their

thing more tangible, They Brophi, and are still buying where, they can, any- thing and everything.

Prices went up, partly because of a new direct cominoulty tax on top of The "frozen levels," and partly because the merchants disregarded this freezing. Few people made any distinction, think- ing that all prices were elimbing wildly, and that, in turn, spurred thein on to more buying.

BASIC EVIL

2. The currency seform did not help the basic evil white is shattering tho country the civil war, As one sennomist Fald:

"Itowever, you, jungle your - resoÚrões, you will not remain a colng consers, for. lang if you consistently spend about five. thnes what you are earning." That y roughly what the Nanking Government how been doing.

fond. cularly

While The offer, alleges the professor,

he was informing Lord and therefore not a genuine Lady Shortcake that "having thought attempt to reneh agreement,

it over, he doubted whether the past 4. The Military value of atomic would suit him." Travers entered,

3. The recent military disasters have The turnover on the Stock Ex-orgravated the ecprointe avalanche, after whisky and 1. Th: carabao is used to carry and brilliant theoretical physicist. During cards

Union has been greatly exaggerated

this from the wine change had arrived

totalled every serious defeat-and they have coma morning and bad breaks work for him, and drag equipment in the Philippines the war he was adviser to the Navy energy in a war against the Soviet to announce that the

sherry for chicts.

with mounting rapidity of late the Gold is impassable

state-

merchant. when terrain

Without

tumbler another few points in Yuan today's hand Illustrates

In a strongly pro-Russian book, in U.S. and British official

moment's $224,670. What is a carabao?

Is vehicles.

to frighten hesitation.

Transactions and noon continued, 1lcuinr point.

closing purchasing power, Foulcnough Political Con- ments. The object Franz "The Military and 2. When and where was

Energy" the Russians into agreeing to the "That is to say, well--the matter prices were as follows:- of Atomic sequences South's bid of three spades is n Lehar born?

decided hotheadedly. доса one. because he

3. What is a rodent? Is a squir- (Turnstile Press, 12/0) he puts all American control plan. does. not

Similarly the industrial value of Give me a day or two more to study want a spade lead. It might knock rela rodent?

ntom power has been played down young Mortimer." out his spade control quieldy, and,

the Russians, probably to délude If he lost another trick, 'he oppo-

for whom useful atom power offers nents could cash two space tricks.

more possibilities oil-rich America Britain.

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4. What is the difference between (a) Queen Consort and (b) Downger?

5. What was "studium" In times?

the meaning of oldon Greece in

6. What in the Pusteur treatment

in medicine?

(Answers on Column 5)

CHESS PROBLEM

By P. BARRON Black. a pieces.

White, 7 pieces White to play and mate in three.

Solution to yesterday's problem:

1, B-K18, any: 2. Q. or Ki (ch. dia ch, on dbi ch) mates.

finesse." But Rau pointed out that queen of

hearts is, so all he has throw a heart,

the correct thing to do is to draw to do is to lend three rounds of clubs, stripping East in the lead, and East is forced both the North and South hands elther to give him a sluff and a of that sult, then go over to dumi- ruff, or lead into the king-jack of South thereby nakes a my's king of diamonds and ruff a spader.

diamond. South knows where the bad break in trumps work for him.

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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be

Foulenough leaves

Boulton Wynfevers "TWELVE days he's

been here," sald Lady Shortcake, “and we answer out can't get a reasonable this of him." Trouble is he drinks so "I have much," said her husband. an idea that if I tell him there's no το more drink, It may help him come to a decision." So, that night, Foulenough had to content himself before with very weak beer, and dinner was over he had decided to leave next morning.

The only sane approach to last ing pence is to abandon the idea of international

of atomic control energy retain the Security Council veto, and treat atom bombs not as a separate problem but as a facet of general disarmament. All three points are an endorsement of sug- Bestions already made by Russin.

The professor develops argument in four main stages:

1. The U.S. Government, with

As they separated to go to bed. killed 120,000 British agreement,

Shortcake sald: "Sorry there's Japanese by atom bombing, not to

While the professor's sincerity end the Far East war quickly, but is not in doubt, Inconsistencies of

nothing to drink. Fortunes of war, to stop the Russians ending it.

you know." What he did not know. until lunch time the next day, was The Red Army was scheduled to his thinking show that a man with

spoken the that he had invade Manchuria on August 8, Kreat insight in one field can have 1945, so the Western Alles bombed blind spots in another.

the There was nothing to drink. contradictions.

Foulenough had the residue of the Hiroshima on August 6.

book contains many clearly This act started the cold war.

last delivery in his sult-case when The professor's

he took his leave after breakfast. The Russlana concluded that reasoned truths.

argument that Russia is unlikely willing were the Western Powers

convincing,

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to use weapons of mass destruction to force a war for many years is

for political ends, sa they protected themselves in the only possible way.

"con- calls it the The professor

of Poland solidation"

Czecho slovakia, and the other countries on Russia's western borders.

Powers 3. The Western tered with the American plan for the International control of atomle But the U.S. Government knew accept would that Russin

energy.

never

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But in general the book releets the serious declencles of the specialised scientist when he enters the active, political field.

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Faychologically.

almost there is an universal longing for the civil war to end, resulting in badly shaken morale, fast-waning support for the Government, and an apparent willingness to be tes signed to any fate that would follow- ever Communist rule, The people are beginning to identify the continuation of the struggle with the Government, and particularly with the Generalissimo, and this is pinying in partly to the Reda hands from the propaganda viewpoint.

DEFECTIONS

News of bad mlittary.defections spreads fast, and feeds the Names of peaco agitation. Should the Nanking Govern- ment make peace otters which the Redo turned down,, although this would hefsh ten the Reds' unpopularity. It would Immediately weaken the Nationallats.

fitary and civilian morale, soma observers tilak, could be improved by rapid implementation at a generous land reform programme by the Goveme meat. This would give soldiers and Jower ofleers more löcentive to Aght. with something to return to.

In

addition, military men feel that drostle army reforms, in method and substance, must be carried out.

Fer instance, the system of "personal loyalty" in the army should be weeded Under this system, an officer is retained on the strength of his personal

200 191 out.

Canada Seeks Steel Scrap

loyalty to his regional commander or to the Generallisimo or the Kusmin- tang, while other less frusted, but more competent, men are kept out,

SHORTENING LINES

'Military observers feel that general- ship wili play a vital role in the next few week, with urvival possibly de- pending the ability la regain the Initiative, even locally, and increase morale by Inspiring more confidence in

On

At the same time. ahlke in the inadequate army pay

sealo might be well worth its price to the Nationaliste, they feel.

..

The concept' of holding cities until they are surrounded should be aban doned in favour of the more mobile

practice of strategically shortening lines of steel is pro- to meet offensives United Press.

Toronto, Nav, 2-Trade sources; the men: today indicated that negotiations are under

Jongkong, way In Singapore. Sydney,

and Tokyo ellies in South Amorlea and Ger- many to buy scrap steel for Canada. Steel Controller F, K. Assbaugh said that shortage ving so, acute that all construction, with the exception of residential housing, is beginning to feel the pinch. He said unless the shortage is relleved soon the average Cona- dian, who is relatively unaware of ita seriousness, will soon find an acute scarcity in products requiring steel, like automobiles, refrigerators, stoves and furnaces.

BRITISH MOTOR

EXPORTS

London, Nov. 2-The Society.

of Motor Car Manufacturers Assbaugh cald Canadian trade announced in London today that been Britain's motordustry exported representaves abroad have Instructed to obtak all the steel Kooda to'n value of £105,000,000 in they could, but gave no details. Ho the first nine months of 1948, more did sny, however,

Cannda's then any other, Dritish Industry, search for steel would extend to the The Okurë", "Includes cara, 'com- "Junkyards of the world."-United

mercial vehicles, agricultural trae- Press.

tor, and parts and: siccessories. the stalement added.

thal

Exchange Rates

Business was done in the focal une official exchange market this morning at the following rates:

Sterling pound note (per £1),

US dollar (per #1)

Cold bars (portas1)

PIC plastres (per 100) Kim Heata (për 100) NEI guliders (per 100)

Gold Yuan (52

17.00 3.20

In September, a weekly, averago- of nearly 7,000 cars and over 3,500 commercial vehicles Wis being produced.

*

During to samo month, 17400" enry and 0,700 .commercial vechicles 307.00 were shipped overscas, and a rew 10.10 | cold, quantity of over £2,000,000

34.30 worth of agricultural tractors

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