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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1949.

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BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

NHERE is an interesting

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entitled "Indicative

article,

Conversa- tion," by Robert Boserny of Ster- Hing, 11., in the September issue of The Bridge World. The conversa- tion that goes with the game at the average bridge table really is a part of the game. A shrewd player may somethimes take advantage from the conversation. Of course, in tournament play, no conversation pertaining to a hand is permitted.

In Mr Boseray's article' he tells us about a game in which North and East were complaining of the continually beld. poor cards they That Ine of conversation often tenda to the

trade remark, **}*|{ handa with you, if you think yours is so bad."

That is what happened

In this case, and the hand is shown

as it was after the exchange of the East and North hands Wha coin- pleted.

HOW MANY APPLES IN TWENTY TWO BARRELS IF EACH BARREL CONTAINED

THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY,

NINE

HMM! ARG THEY

EATING OR COOKING APPLES

CHESS PROBLEM-

By S. F. E. FLATAU B'uck, pleces.

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White, pleemi. White to play and mate in uro.

Solution

problem:

to

Saturday's

1. 2-86, any: 2, R, or Kt rates,

Picturesque Aran Islands

By TEMPLE MANNING WHENEVER we are asked to name

places where one can really get away from it all, without becoming a beachcomber or going native in any way, we always suggest the Islands of the Irish coast. Even Tho Arna Islands have kept their beauti ful simplicity despite their introduc- tlon to the w

world through a

a grea! movie. We know many "collector" of these lovely tile islands, and thev find It

hard

put to name their favourite. Aran, Tory Island, Achill, Clare, Inishbodia, Inishere, the Skel- Higs, the Blaskets, Saltce, every one of them fa lovely and, as befits their nationality; highly original, each happily peculiar unto itself.

Achill Island, connected to tho mainland by a bridge, is one of the best known of the islands, and be cause of its proximity to the coast, the most thickly populated. Of lató years it has become a mecca for artists drawn there from all parts of the world, to record some of the most beautiful scenery and colouring Imaginable.

Enchanting Atmosphere' Despite its thickly settled villages and Its nearness to the coast, Achill still preserves an air of detachment, and an enchanting atmosphere, For instance, there is a hotel in the love ly village of Keel that started out as a thatched collage, but that has kept its

it has become a simplicity an

more pretentious, and which has been furnished with an understanding of colour that many a snooty interior decorater would be proud to possess. But then the istand is full of colour!

When South opened the bidding BOYS AND GIRLS

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE

with a forcing two-bld, North fell sure he had the better of the deal He had given up the king of dla- monds, but he had the queen in place of it, and the queen should trap the king. But better than that, he had five of his partner's But

It came

alock to South when his partner Jumped to six clubs. There was no use In bid- ding six hearts, because very like- ly North would then bld seven clubs. Hoping to scare North out of bidding seven, South elected to

bid six no trump.

A

Hobby Horse Takes a Trip

-And Both the Shadows Follow Him-

By MAX TRELL

NARF, the shadow boy with the Aturned-about name, had just fallen asleep in the dark corner of the playroom, when all at ones he heard a strange sound like the goi- loping of # horse. He opened his West doubled. and South was eyes and saw the hobby horse go amazed to hear his partner re-springing out through the open win- double. Had the conversallon not dow, and galloping off Jecl everyone ta belleve that garden in the moonlight. neither North nor East had any

cards?

Declarer

Weat took into consideration South's original two-club bld and made the standard opening of the jack of spades. Declarer went up with dumuny's queen. When it held the trick, the the queen of diamonds was played trapping East's king.

made seven-odd-be- cause poor. West found himself in He was trying --a pseudo-squeeze,

to hold the king of spades and king-queen of clubs and trick 11 he had to get down to two cards. By mistake he threw away the queen of clubs. Declarer's nee then captured the king and the jack of clubs made the 13th trick.

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1. Name

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across tho

Knarf instantly woke his sister Hanid. "The hobby horse has just jumped out of the window. and gone galloping nerose the garden!"

Hanid jumped to her feet at once and they both dorter out of the house after the fleeing hobby horse. · They were just in time to see him garden wall to leaping over the and running as fast as the wind in the direction of the woods. They followed him as fast as they could, But by the time they reached the edge of the woods. the hobby horse had already disappeared inside and

was nowhere to be seen.

The hobby horse was standing close lo an oak.tres,

Cliffs along the count of Achill Island. -

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

IN caso "IN they might feel jaded after their journey," four

passengers by plane from

Jamaica were given oysters and champagne on landing. "They" wore not baby film stars or nomad politicians

FOR

THE BUSINESSMAN

Rigid Import-Export

Controls In P.I.

Manila, Jan. 8-The Philippines government has clamped rigid import and export controls on the country's economy for the calendar year 1949.

U.S. Has More

or itinerant beauty queens, but Milled Rice

turtles.

"Tho very rats in the wainscoting of supersonle Jet rockets will expect peacock's liver in nspic and Rich- bourg before we know where we are," said an official. Bul an we don't know where We are, vopne la galere!

Freddy Fungus

head offers about everything in the A walk along the clis to Achill

AN Indignant letter from Hog- way of exquisite scenery. The cliffs wasch informs me that Freddy are some 700 feet high with the is 15 months old, not five, as I said. Atlantic rolling up against the rocks, Houwasch says that the idea of

On the south side is the pano-star of five months would be ab- roma created by the Misun Cuffs surd. "As it is, Freddy is on the und Clare Island, with the Mayo! young slide, but a special vehicle is Special On the being scripted for him." Mountains in the distance.

side Is massive north

shots of Freddy playing with Crooghaun Mountain, which rises from the sen woollen horse are so "realistic," a straight, sheer, 2,000 fest.

am told, that nobody would suspect the consummate art that goes to the boy chews the horse's right leg. acting of the little scene where the

Cathedral Rocks, where the sea has Facing Keel is a wonderful spot, worn the cliffs Into wonderful arches that strangely resemble the archl- tecture of a Gothle church. To reach this spot one passes along the beauti- ful strand of Keci, more than a mlio long, where cliffs of boulder clay rise to over 100 feet high.

Lovely Beach

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Plot for a play

AN

educated gentleman's hat, blown 40 miles Inland during n recent storm, was sent back to the coast by train. The storm was still taging when the town clerk handed it to the owner, who put it on. He was signing u receipt when the hat blew off again. It was recovered 28 miles inland, The owner met all

the trains

hat had been

up till midnight, but the

On the north of the island is gem of a village, Dugort, with lovely beach, nestling under Slieve- more Mountain, over 2,200 feet in height. Then

sent in the there is Keem Bay, direction, and was taken to the lost wrong surrounded by cliffs. Old Slieve-pro

property offfee nt a small Junction, more Village is deserted in the win- where a porter cut off the ter because of the severe gales which

crown dash against the mountain side. In the summer It is quite lively, and a favourite spot with painters and photographers,

to make a black ent for his tiny godson. The brim

was used for plugging a hole in the door of the lamp-room. The owner bought a new hat and married beneath him.

Wild life, abounds, and there aro mountain sheep, mountain goals and Good news hares in plenty. We were told that some of the mountain goats have to

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by

what had become of tho be trapped because of their propen- city for stealing salmon out of the

40 million tons of rosin ordered nels, We don't blame them, fort was intended to import resin as mistake. C. Suel, Esq., said, finer salmon it would be dimcult to find!

(Tomorrow-Science At Work)

a preservative for frozen egg-dust. By a departmental error, resin ap- peared as rasin, The rosin will be used instead."

YOUR BIRTHDAY........

MONDAY, JANUARY 10

There in a little clearing, 1 by the pale moonlight, was the hobby horse. It was standing as close as It BORN today, you have a keon for best results. could get to a great old oak tree. The hobby horsć was spenking:

By STELLA

1

Being gregarious sense for business and should be by nature, life in the city will be able to secunulate a comfortable most appealing to you. fortune quite early in life, if you Into The Woods

You have a magnetic personality. "Mother," It was saying. "I've give your full attention to the job. which makes you popular socially come back to see you. I've been away Since-your-interests-are--somewhat-and-unless social engagements: pre- Instead of turning back, Knart for a long time but I've been very divided, there may Lund Hank went deeper

be a struggle combined with business, you must into the happy in the children's house. Still, within yourself between strict com- regulate them accordingly, or you woods, for it isn't often that any- I would have been happier, growing mercialism and the following of one will tend to neglect serious work one sees a wooden hobby horse go out here beside you, just as I did of the arts, for which you probably for pleasure. Work in which contact jumping out of a playroom window

dow before the woodman came and have A temperamental preference, with people is Important, will strike the last Hapsburg ruler und galloping off as though it were chopped me down and made me in-

your clolce In a real horse. It was even darker to a hobby horne."

youth and a happy medium for you. Conserve stick to it.

your energies at all times since your woods than it was outside

health is not always as robust as was all Knart and tanid could do to grope their way among

e frees and thickets.

2. Is the speed of the earth's rotn- ilon constant or does it change?

3. Where was the painter Rem- brant born?

4. What country leads the world

In the mining of palladium?

5. What two colours are combined

to make orange?

6. Name the highest ronk of an-

gels.

(Answers on Column 3)

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12. This rate in the salt of an seta.

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14. Kiship - muy do it, bus nos in

thit kitchen unit, (4)

19. It's on the outside. (3)

17. blve way. (4)

10. Den of a LINE (4)

21. Carefree. (3)

2. Medicinal plant. 14)

24. Sed 1 Down

15. Touta do not appear thin here.

20. Earth, (4)

27. In the Innses world 12% a trap.

(3)

Down

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clanging. 17, 4)

2. It may bring tears to your

4. Rocaptagrem. 19

Completely. 17

A. Prandunes very distinctly. 19

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Toit and it at the end of any dez.

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4. Fabion. 151

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IB. Water raceptaèle, (0)

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In the madd it

Old Oak Tree

And then, for the first tirne, Kaart and Hand noticed that, standing And then, all at once, they came beside the great old oak was a on the strangest sight of all!

-stump of a small tree.

Knarf and Hanid slipped quietly

Rupert and Margot-37 away and returned to the playrooms

Reaching the top end of the tunnel, Rupert peepa nut and gaze round cautiously He Ends that the water is flowing out of a round pand set in a great alone courtyard. With some struggling he gets out of the bed, of the stream, and listens. Everything is very silent. There is no sign of the giant, but neither i there any sign of the deli's house or of Margot, Very gingerly he creeps towards the other side of the pond, where it is being filled. "This

is queer," he whispers,

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without saying a word. And the next morning, when they woke up, the first thing they looked for was the hobby horse. And there he was, standing quietly in his corner, just where he always stood. But when Knart and Hanid looked at his legs, they saw bits of grass on it.

Then they knew they hadn't been dreaming. The hubby horse hadn't Just run away. He had gone back to the place where he was born, and where his had grown up, and where his old mather still lived.

CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Answers

SLIC-

f. The Emperor Kart who ceeded his unde Franz Joseph in 1916 and died in exile in 1022. 2 It is gradually slowing down at the mte of one one-hundred-thousandth of a second a year. 3. Amsterdam, Holland. 4. Canada. 5. Red and yellow. 8. Archangel.

MAYBE WE COULD MAKE IT LOOK LIKE AN

ACCIDENT!

!

Make

Your temper must be held under strict control at all times, for out- bursts may become serious handicaps to your future. In beginning new projects, both Tuesday and Saturday, appear to be good "beginning" days, Exert your energles nt those, times

you would like it to be.

To find what the stars have in store for tomorrow, select

your birthday star and read the corres- ponding paragraph. Let your birth- day star be your daily guide.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 11

CAPRICORN (Dec. 23-Jan. 20)-' CANCER

come

A day which favours your personal Added

(June 23-July 23)- projects more than normally. Take your way, but stick as closely as

responsibilitles may advantage of all opportunities,

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19)-

ment stores and Managers and employees in depart

allied fields are favoured now.

ARIES

(Mar. 22-Apr. 20)-Im- pulsiveness can be expensive. Be on your guard against saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.

possible to rouline.

LEQ_(July`24-Aug. 23)—1f your work is confidcted with government or community interests, then it is particularly favoured.

VIRGO (ADE.

24-Sept. 22)—An PISCES (Feb. 20-Mar. Hesitation

21) active day in both business and the so be arts. Perhaps you can cause loss,

can combine aggressive about what you want. them advantageously. Try it.

LINDRA (Sept. Employees are especially favoured. 23-Oct. 23)-

If something important was started yesterday, continue it today.

SCORPIO (Det. 24-Nov. 22)-Put new plans into effect. Home con- ditions are now Improving. You should be happier and more, content,

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 23-Dec, GEMINI (May 22-June 22)--New 22)-Be careful in everything you development in business may cause say or do just now. If a business defulte improvement. Be on the "offer is made. moke sure it is 42 lookout for them.

sound one.

TAURUS (Apr.

21-May 21) Minor matter; may fend to make things appear more complicated than they really are, so be patient.

Debate on Life

MISSY BETH WAIT:UM FOR YOU NEAR

HERE,RED RIDER

By Fred Harman

For Export

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The import control order limits luxury and non-essential goods brought into the Philip pines. Its purpose is to con serve the republio's dollar asseti and to encourage local indus tries to make substitutes for the limited products.

Onelat sources. havo estimated that cuts in the imports of luxury, and non-essential goods

will total $45,000,000 for the your.

Washington, Jan. 9.–Thé Agricul- tural Department today said that

A control list will be announced exportable supplies of milled zice later. It is expected to contain a for delivery in 1940 were expected complete import ban on cigars nad to total about 4,400,000 short tons, Inundry soap. The limitation will which is about 440,000 tons more cover, to some extent, Jewellery

in 1949, than

but n small total cars, radios, and even oranges and compared

nuts, 6,700,000-ton 1036-40.

The export controle prohibit the Department

shipment out of the Philippines of sald

the increased supply was the result of increased certain scarce products nooded production and unexported stocks in

locally. Asia. It recalled that Slam had a items-building materials, agricul

There Include-among other near-record crop and that Burma's tural implements, medical supplies, rico exports in 1840 totalled 1,350, certain foodstuff, sheds, electrical 000 tons milled, compared with 3, equipment, chemical products, and 300,000 tons before the war.

some metals-United Press.

The Department said Indonesian palm oil production was expected to reach between 121,000 and 132,000

tons in 1949. It said palm acreage War Goods

increased steadily in the Indonesian Federal district during 1940 and palm oil and kernel exports In-

creased steadily during the year. Sale In

wag

The greatest handicap to in- created-- production

Jabour shortage and new milling equip ment and transport facilities were needed, according to the Depart- ment-United Press.

U.S. Plan To

Guarantee

Jobs For All

pro-

Australia

Sydney, Jan. 8-Limitation ot dollar purchases in the United States has greatly increased the revenue from the sale of surplus war goods. Mr W. Sumner, of the Common- wealth Disposals Commission, re- ports.

Restriction of the inportation of motor spare parts mado bidding al, the government auctions briak, with over $3,000,000 being realised last year, Mr Sumner said,

Buyers at a recent sale of second- Washington, Jan, D.-A · revolu- tionary multi-million dollar

hand cars held by the Commission ramaie for Government-financed in Melbourne paid high prices for plant construction to guaranies per-

American care. Typical prices wero

and manent "full employment" will be $1,083 for a 1041 Oldsmobile introduced in the Senate tomorrow. $1,472 for a Pontlae truck.

The plan, known as the Full Em- From September 1944, when the ployment Act of 1050, will be

Commission began its work, to the sponsored by Senators John

Jend of this year the sales of sur- to Spartemen and James E. Murray, plus war goods had amounted both administration stalwarts.

about 418 million dollars-United Press.

In his State of the Union message last week, President Truman asked Congress to authorise Immediate study of production facilities for "materials in critically short supply, such as steel."

If found necessary, he said,

Government loans should be used to expand production facilities. And, as a last resort, he advocated plant Government construction by the Itself.

The

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Fish Freezing Soon In India

New York, Jan. 8.-The early months of 1940 will see the com- pletion of India's Brat fish-freezingt plants, according to a spokesman of There was no indication whether the American arm which is sup- the Murray-Sparkman proposal had plying the refrigeration equipment. Presidential blessing, but the mea-

Nineteen ammonia compressors sure will be reportedly followed by other legislation dealing more speci- -are-being-shipped-to-the-Dominion

staff four widely separated fically with the issue of Govern- meni-bullt steel plants.

freezing projects. Five of the "Full Employment Act of machines are for the pilot plant would provide the necessary in Bombay; six will go to Kravan- funds to State, Municipal and core State for use in the Trivandrum each will be used in con- plant; four Federal agencies for plant

struction,

and such

is uults in Mangalore when

artep

Всурого deemed necessary by the President's sintes, Council of Economic Advisers. In would

The first two projects are Stafe- addition, Government funds be mado

Lo private supported, the latter privately spon- available business for enlargement of plants sored. It is planned that individuals or for new facilities as employment will take the plants from Govern- ment control once adequate testa declines.-United Press.

have been given.

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SHARES

A representative of the supplying Arm said that 80 percent of the order was on the way to India by early December.

Both refrigeration experts and government omcials anticipate that the new units will begin nn in dustry which may solve some of the The turnover on the Stock Ex-Dominion's food problems.-United change this morning totalled $115,- | Press. 008.00. Transactions, and noon prices were:

BILARES

DANKS

1K Bank East Asia INSURANCES

Union DOCKS, ETC.

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BUYERS SELLERS`NALES

1700

1820

10 320

142

230

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US Reciprocal Trade Washington, Jan. President Truman. In a letter to ir Walter George, Chairman of the Senate Finance. Committee, atel to Mr Robert Doughton, Chairman of the

15.20 15.40. 500 ( 1320 House of Representatives Ways and 1520 Means Committee, tody requested

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June, 1931.

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Mr Truman said prompt action 500.0 14.79

was necessary because negotiations (4.00 will start in April to extend to 13 other countries the 1047. generol agreement on tariffs and trade reached by the United States and 22 nations.United Press.

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Exchange Rates

Business was done in the local. un emeloi exchange market this morning at the following rotea;

Sterling pound nato (per 41)

US, dollar (per sil

Gold bare (per the)) FIC: plastre (per 100) Biam cala (per 100) NEI guilders (per 100) Gold yuan

15.35

Tin Allocations

London, Jan. B.The Ministry of Supply announced today the interim allocations of 28,740 tons

iin. of metal for the first half of 1949, made by the Combined Tin Committee,

The allocations were:

Australia

230 tons; Canada 1,370 tons; Den- mark 200 tons, Egypt 70 tons; Finland 110 tons; Franco 4540 tonn India 8.11 1,830 tons; Norway 150 tons: Swit- 303.37 zerland 300 tons; The United States

7.80 10,000 tons; Yugoslavia 24,50

300 tons

14.00 and other countries 100 tons 19955 | Reuter.