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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949.

FOR YOUR SPARE MOMENTS

.MCKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Took Expert Card Reading to Connect

BY WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

Once again

PROVING

that

there are bridge experts in every line of business, I dropped Injo Howie's Restaurant Sixth Avenue in New York City the other dny, and rait into Her- man H. Goldberg, the associate manager.

the

In 1048, Herman won Eastern States mixed team-of- four title and the South Shore open team-of-four. He inished second in the Vanderbilt Cup

cham-

tournament for the national

knockout team-of-four blonship, and second In the

****open Metropolitan en team-of-four contest. Whenever he

he competes, ho can be depended upon to he right up in

running. How

ever, he

tho

prefera

rubber

bridge to tournament bridge.

Herman pulled up a chair and

about today's told mo

hand while i enjoyed their famous roast beef. North made the cor- reet opening of the deuce diamonds. Holding three to honour of your partner's suit, you should open the lowest, nut

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Dealer

QJG 42

• Q1074

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Rubber-Both vul..

West North

East

A

South

1

Pasa

Pas

last

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Pass

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3 N. T. Pass Opening-2

the honour. South won the trick with the king of diamonds, and thought for a few minutes. He Agured that his partner bold either the queen or jack of dia- monds, so at this point. South retumed the diamond live.

Now Herman (Werl) Wis confronted with a problem. Shoud he fluesse the ten of diu- monds?

Most certainly

not," says Hermann. "You must assume that. North has three diamonds to the jack. I went up with the queen, This blocks off the diamond

If North throws the Jack of die- monds on this trick, the ten-spot apper. If he plays will

be the six of

ол trick two, I will lead the jack of hearts and overtake it in dummy with the queen. If South wins with the king, all he can do in to load back a small diamond and North will block the sult by winning it with the jack."

A very nice bit of ard reade Ing!

Check Your

Knowledge

1. Name an Inland sea that is: multier than the ocean.

2. Which is the tallest mam- mal.

DUMB-BELLS

IT LOOKS LIKE RAIN!

DON'T YOU THINK

YOU OUGHT TO

PUT THE SHEEP IN THE BARN THE WOOL MIGHT

SHRINK Z

4515

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. K. ELWORTHY Black, 7 pieces.

£

White, 8 pieces.

a

White to play and mate ta two.

Solution to

problem:

yesterday's

1, R-KIZ, any; 2. Q; B, or Kt wates.

UNUSUAL ANGLES.

CZECH NATIONALISATION

RUNS INTO A SNAG

“ZECHOSLOVAKIA'S nation- kitchen table and was a family

alization of private enter- pet"

priso hit a small snat when it The officials were kept busy encountered a snake farmer. Dr. hak

day

the counting Frantisek Kornalik.

lizards, frogs, and turtles which Kornallk keeps 500 polsonous Karnailk keeps in pens in the snakes in pens in the basement hall kitchen and on the stair- 01 his three-storey stone house way leading to his third-oor on the outskirts of Prague. He laboratory, and hils 22-year-old són use the snakes' venom.for neuralgin, rheumalism, arthritis, allergy and tumour medicines.

Two men with brief caser came 10 bis house onc day, They told him that they were from SPOFA (the nationalized Arug Industry) and that his business now

belonged to the

state

Their duty, they said, wax to take an inventory of his busi

ness,

Consus Too Risky

"But they never did find out how many snakes I hind-they were afraid to look into the pens," Koralik said.

more

Makes Them Squirm

A few days

later with brief coses came oflelala to explain to Kornalik how the business newly nationalised should be run.

They squirmed a bit when he ted the ankes

some of

the

white mice he raises in a hall

closet.

But they nearly backed out of the door when he lifted 'a snake by the tail and showed

them how to "milk" the venom

lo a jar.

takers." the short, white-haired come

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

IT does not appear to have

been noticed that those clearing banks which called in loans to maintain bullion resources were acting on the assumption that the die- count rate would remain constant at 17%.

This ignores the £237,034,- 901,380,720 held in post-dated Treasury bills by the Baste Bank for International Settle- ment. As any business man wha is reading this in the morning train from. Haywards Heath will know, you can't go on doing this sort of thing with sterling in short supply. Soames gang in action Ded the Seames gang as the

SMART-ALLICK regard-

were

FOR

AFL Office To

Į

Be Opened

In Japan

Washington. Apr. ** The American Federation of Labour is to establish an office in Tokyo to en-

· courage free trade union- Iam in Japan and Korea. The AFL's European re- presentative,

Irving Brown, is to Asiallo Trade Conference at Indore, India, on May 2. will do the pre- Uminary

tho work for establishment of another AFL office in India serve South-East Asia. This will make a total of four

offices International

to the pan- EO

tablished by the AFL. Tho others are in Europe and Latin America, United Press.

THE BUSINESSMAN

UK Importers Get Jap

Cloth Quota

36 Nations To Take Part In Tariff Talks

Geneva, Apr. 7-The most extensive tariff negotiations in the history of world trade are to open in the French town of Annecy on April 11. Delegations from 36 countries will meet to negotiate individual tariff concessions with cach other,

Tho talks to be attended by about 000 delegates are ex- pected to continue for at least three monti, and may result in more than 300 separate tariff agreements.

The negotiating countries comprise two groups, one of 23 countries which have already concluded tariff agreements

Japs' "Model Constitution'

Wins Praise

A "Beacon Light”

with each other, and another 13 countries which are newcomers. The original 23 met at Geneva In 1947 and

tarin drew up agreements among themselves covering two-thirds of the world's trade. In addition to the

Washington, Apr. 7.---General 123 Individual bilateral agree-MacArthur's former Chief ments, the participating countries Staff, Major General Paul Muel- also signed an overall tariff and ter, sald today trade agreement. This agreement, was making rapid progress to- that Japan known on the "General Agree

The Havana Charler seems un- most urgently millions is at

rich cream of his shock troops. Soames, the leader, was a her- rible overgrown Jout of 10, who had only twice seen his father -Reeting glimpses between his After a few days, the authori-parent's long prison sentences. iles came back and told Kornu- The Doctor thought the moment Jik he could Fun hls own had come to counternet this "My alligator. Homes, was o bustness. He could take anamby-pamby nonsense," as he

ment on Tariffs und Trade ward a self-sustaining economy. real puzzle to 'The inventory manager's salary out of the in-called it. The gang set to

set to work

HC came a forerunner of the World! Hd, however, that de- from the sale of

for a week the with a will, and for a

Trade Charter signed by 53

economie, political and so- chemist caid "First the medicaments.

clal but the proits even, the most hardened thugs

progress "the problem of Manchester, Apr. 7-Because nations at Havana. nationalised him when they were to go to the nationalised among the

feeding Japan's mnsters learned he was an experimental drug industry.

of the shortage of cloth for cot- aghast at the utter lawlessness to shirting

a critical and ilings a

problem, subject and that

Boys who had

into force for and involves the continuation of of school life. special meat ration,

Wife Gets Job

Britain, the government today likely to conse

the been inclined to listen to

Geneva many emergency measures -put Mountfalcon

effect knocked announced that it would allow some time, and

in the immediate, were

private merchants

import agreement remains

only into couldn't deelde

down, Informed against, framed, robbed, terrorised. Two brothers etuth from Japan.

10,000,000 yards of cotton grey legal instrument at the moment post-surrender period."

establishing the so-called "most-

In an

an article in the Army paldi, in

in protection mokry

principle in Information Digest, Maj.-Gen. alone, £74 which

Merchants may buy Japanese favoured nation" they bad.

Mueller said: "After three and at. half years of occupation Jopatt has

made important strides to- ward its transformation Into a nation which can take its place alongside others in the family of nations.

"

he drew

my

"But they made jen private property again

when They

what they saw he slept under the salary a snake-keeper should pet, so they toll Komalik 10 |borrow what he neeted from the medicine inconic until a

Are Kornalik, a short, soft- volcci

that she woman, sald

BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE salary was set.

Chirpie Saw a Strange Bird

-It Didn't Eat Anything But Gasoline-

By MAX TRELL

KNARF and Hanid, the sha- dow-cldren with the turned-about DOTES, were watching Chirple Sparrow enting the bread crumbs that the children had spread out for him on the window sill.

had all Chirple the happenings In

Usually

the news cf and about the garden. So when he had Anished most of the brend crumbs. Hanid said: "Any news: today. Chirpie?"

said Chirple, cocking his head and winking a bright httle eye. "nothing" particular happened since

yesterday ex- cept I saw

a very

looking bird."

strange-

2-4

because he is not allowed 15 hire any help. get any pay.

won at the races. It was "'a

for victory

the progressive forces,” to quote A classics

A How has to help her husband master, when six forged half- crowns, a pack of marked cards, and a stolen ring were found by But she doesn't Soames himself in young Foul- "I don't like snakes but I enough's overcoat pockets. have to be nice to them because Manton on Strindberg they are our bread and but- Her she said,

SINCE everybody who

hold a pen is writing about Strindberg, allow me to quote some lines from Manton, after he had seen Robert Loraine in

The Father."

can

to

cloth either through a special British agency set up by the

their

tariffs.

the

During the three months' ne- gotiations, the 13 newcomers will draw up tariff agreements with cach of the originol contracting states and with each other.

The most important group of

Merchants Association in Japan, or through on agent of own choice.

The Colton Board announce

the heavy ment said: "Owing

"Its madel constitution serves demand now being made on Lancashire production for ex countries among the newcomers 4 beacon light for its people. In virtually every field the ties port purposes. the Board of in terms of trade-are Den- with the factionalist past are Trade considers it necessary mark, Sweden and Finland,

home that

civilian supplies whose negotiations will cover ali rapidly being severed.

the "Gulded by

Supreme should be supplemented by the the traditional exports from Commander for the Allied Po- importation of a limited quantity Scandinavia. The fourth Scan-

tutelage of foreign grey cloth for use in dinavian country, Norway, is it wers, General MacArthur, and of their the manufacture of utility member of the original group or under the

elected officials, constitutionally clothing.

the Japanese people cloth from Japan suitable for expedient

Two other newcomers.

Italy patients recuperating

and are be end Greece, will negotiate agree-long illness Is to a height of 18 feet or more. 3.A mapician indeed from distant shirting and lining

obtained through ordinary comments covering almost their en- helped to walk unaided along Thomas Gainsborough, 4. Mont › Stockholm,

the paths of justice, Blanc. 5. The Egyptians.

mercial 0. Both critics and public should

-United tire foreign trade. From the curci of milk, which 11010 be apread

Press

The remaining newcomers orej is separated

Liberin And from the whey. To take of their hats to this moulded, seasoned and cured.

admirable Swede

CHECK

YOUR KNOWLEDGE

Answers

1. The Dead Sen. giraffe, which sametimes reaches

"A 2. The We hail this dramatist from

over the foam,

YOUR BIRTHDAY... By STELLA

FRIDAY, APRIL 8

Knarf and Hoold were im. Chirpie saw a strange bird fly by. mediately interested. "What this bird's wings didn't move was it like?" asked Knart. at all. And yet It made more "The biggest bird I ever than a hum. It made a roar." naw," answered Chirple. "It At this, Hanid smiled. So did|PORN today, you have a very Your impulses are near the had the most curious kind of Knarf. The two shadow-chil- wings. They didn't flap of all, They stuck straight out, like a see-gull gliding. But it certainly was enormous."

"How enormous?"

Something Else

"No?

wasn't 'n

a temporary

channels."

23.

aro like

a

from

being

tolerance and International understanding.

"With the financial aid of the Latin- United

States and Intensive American countries, Columbia, guidance by the occupation Republic, El forces, together with the will to Salvador, Hait!, Uruguay, work

of the

Japanese In- dividual, rapid progress toward

seven

Nicaragua and Peru.

the Dominican

RUBBER

MARKET

FIRMER

.

The original contrneting the objective is being made. states are: Australia, Belgium, United Press. Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ceylon, Chile, China, Cuba, Czecho- slovakia, France.

India,

Lebanon, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand,

New York, Apr. 7.Number Norway, Pakistan, South Afri- 1 contract rubber futures today. Southern Rhodesia, Syria, closed 20 to 28 points higher the United States and Britain.

-Associated Press. on sales totalling 38 contracts. Standard fulures closed nominally 25 to 28 points higher with no sales reported.

The

closed

Traders.

positive nature and a surface and your enthusiasms dren glanced at each other and tenacious, aggressive mind. show quickly. If you like some- nodded. "We know what that Once you are set on something, thing or someone-you are one bird was," Hanid said to Chir-nothing will deler you from hundred percent for it. But if pie.

reaching your goal. You enjoy you decide you don't like It wasn't # bird at all."all the good things of this world comeone or something it sald Knart.

and you intend to have

lakes a long, long time for you "If an elephant could fly,"

If it

bird.

many of them as possible. You to change your mind. It might said Chirple, "he wouldn't have what was it?"

are not adverse to working be well for you to be a little "It was an aeroplane," Knart hard, but been nearly as big as this bird.

you want the re- more flexible in this regard

market opener steady HONGKONG And then there was something a Hanid both said.

turns to be worth it!

since you are not infallible. and closed firm, although Then they explained to Chir-

You women folks are cise."

sare much-activity slackened... Kourt and Hand both asked ple what an aeroplane

was, Having the knack of knowing more practical than you appear regarded the rise in prices as something saying that it flew in the air how to make a little money go 10 be. You may appear fib

an overdue technical recovery. long a

way, you can always berly-jibberty

Underlying market sentiment an outsider, over give the appearance of having but there is a core of good,

was cheered by evidence of "don't make

demand and more than

do, practical common sense under- improved factory you when they fly. You see them,

Those casual "Hmmm." sald Chirpie doubt-who

tonces neath which you draw upon in the paucity of shipment offer but you don't hear them."

do not know

your a

a crisis. You will make a goodings from the East. "The humming bird makes fully, "Are you sure?

you homemaker and thriftiness night consider you

The advance in sterling ex- and manager. "Oh yes, I'm quite sure noise," said Hankd. "Its wings

lo acted

relieve To find what the stars have change aeroplane is not a bird," said were putting on a front when fast that they make a

recent NO SO

over the they find out how little you in store for tomorrow, select nervourness Harid.

netually have to go on. Don't your birthday star and read talks about possible devalua- DOCKS, ETC. "Does It live head

let this bother you, for It is a the naked Chirpie: yote,

habit that all can envy!

eagerly else was.

DIL

what

This

like a bird over forests and

and even "Most birds." Chirpic went mountains

noise cans. But it really wasn't a

bird;

3. Who is called the "Father of Modern English Painting"?

is 4. Which

the

um." highest mountain perke in the Alps of

ustain Europe.

5.

What people are crediled with having been the Arst

domesticate. the cat?

6. From what is cheese

made?

(Answers in Column 4)

CROSSWORD

Across

1 She could have hees rose cross.

8 and 8. She's the one to tell you

it is a plum or raid. 17-4)

A sudden attack, #71

-11. A mixture of hot and cold. (3)

13. Lond with wez edges. (4)

19. Degres. 16) 1. Kential. (8)

17. Spasmodic noise. 201

10. Bea 1 Down, 20. Liko a nez, (3)

21. Valeo, 12 Material river. (5)

Devi

I and I Mann in Spain for N

change. 17. 41

21ean, be a very refreshing right.

737

3. Baouoi Johnson inid that this

was the finitor for boga. (8)

+ His reign should be straight. (51

5. Abruptly, 181

7 Not at home. (3)

Beo ACTON.

JU) Beg, CTE

12. Tanto. (6)

14. A pluched spolerance in taking

Buntle out

IB. Container. (4)

10. This is your fot. 181

10 Beak. Fái

volution or vesterdar'a pusele. —Actosus Dime: 5. Vestibule; 7. Rudder; 11. Vehemeal; 13 Breed; ie, Dari 20 Merü lecules: 15. BesM Down; 20 Deisce)

Gresient: dervitude: *and. 10. Alde-decamp! Blaure 2. Bussy B., Kombregg: 9,, Realit 15. Bidaldan 19, Kempi 13. Pien: 17

any

cocked his Chirpie

"AG I Just told

Rupert's Elfin Bell-56 |

When the tog clears Rupert an Bill return the Elfin Bell to th. Gipsy Granny. We know now why the smoke that rises doestri turn the sky black "

crie Bill And they telt het all that has hap pened. " never heard the like of

she it. little beat."

You've discovered things I never knew But for you we might have had fog here right through the winter. "And but far your Elfin

Bell we should never have been able to start on the adventure at all!” laughs Rupert happily.

THE END, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Another exeding adventure begins

tomorrow.

in a nest?"

Not a Nest "Well, not exactly #nest. When It's not flying in the air. it stays in a big field,"

"That's

of birds

what lots

said Chirpie.

do

Chirple.

"What

to

corresponding paragraph. actually Let your birthday star be your

daily guide.

SATURDAY, APRIL 9

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23)- New friends and a new еть vironment may bring you con- siderable happiness right now. Make adjustments,

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Changes are in the air, but they can be for the best! A new Idea can bring divkiends, fco. Promote it.

ARIES (Mar. 22-Apr. 20) - Be original and even inventive "Does it Iny eggs?" asked guring out solutions to old problems. It pays n good "No," said Knart.

dividend. Chirple looked a little dis-

TAURUS (Apr. 21-May 21)— appointed at hearing an acro- New friends-even a new place plane didn't lay eggs.

of residence--may prove bene- does it eat?" he asked.

Actal. "It doesn't eat anything. It

to your future. Be to drinks

operative." gasoline." said Hamid.

GEMINI (May 22-June 22)-- Chirple cocked his head for a moment. At last he said: "A romance is in sight. New a regular bird. plans and projects should re- #yess It's not But I never heard of anything tion, 100,

ing Celve your serious considera- that flew in the air and wasn't

CANCER (June 23-July 23)

23-Jun. CAPRICORN (Dec. some kind of a bird. Maybe after a while this aeroplane will-Changes, right now, can be 20)Changes can be beneficial 30 avold criticism. learn to lay eggs and eat bread for the best. New friends and if you

ing business connections, 03 instead crumbs

of drinking

well, diplomitle to gain your objec-

tives. gasoline. The next time I see prove beneficial.

23)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 21-Feb. 19) Happiness may come to you from a member of the opposite sex. Be co-operative and tact- ful.

LEO (July 24-Aug. it in the air, I'm going to ask

it to come down to this windowMeet an old friend or make a sill and share some

new one. Á good day for my bread crumbs."

ol

"

wedding and to begin a jour- ney, Honeymoon?

With that Chirple cocked his hend

winked his VIRGO (Auz. 24-Sept. 22) once more, little eye anul flew away. And Be 'diplomatic, and avoid eriti Knarf and Hand hoped the leism from others. Don't pen up, aeroplane wouldn't come down your feelings; bo responsive to

others. to their window sill.

BRONCHO BILL

THOUGH OUTNUMBERED BY THE SI

THE SETTLERS PUT UP A GALLÄÄNT

Bill's Ace Card.

MEANWHILE, THEIR CHIEP HAS BECH CAPTURED BY PRONCO DILL

A WILL

BIG ELK WALK- HON FOR PALE- FACE BOY 2

UGH/

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dey, 22)-New ideas or new methods on an old job might bring u Cultivato hope of promollon. new friends.

PISCES (Feb, 20-Mar. 21)--- Romance is definitely in the alr.. An old friend may unex- pectedly turn into a romaniic Interest, tool

By Harry F. O'Neill'

CLIMB IN DADDLE-

I MADE MEHIND, AND NO FUNKY BUSINESS,

tion.

odditional

SHARES

The turnover on the Stock Ex-

Trunsactions anil noon prices: SHARES BUYERS SELLERS BALES INSURANCES

Union.

00

change this morning was $59,500.00.

JK Fire

Dock;

245

2315

200

56

Sal Dock, ca- LAND, ETC.

IK Land. the House

Shat Land, 2.00 2.00 200 24 Committee's ac-UTILITIES

$40,000,000 in

Trans, in contract C. Light

(0). strategie

Electric, defence

Buyers drew couragement from Appropriations tion in voting cash and $270,000

to buy authority materials

the for stockpile.

Prices closed as follow:- No. Contract Futures.

May

April

June

10.73 nominal

18.68

18.58

July

10,40

"

August

16.02

Senteraber October

18.25

15.10

November

15.12

December

17.00

January (1950)

17.00

February

17.00

March

17.78

Apri May June

Standard Rubber Frtures, April May

17.70

17.05

17.00

10.75 nominal

15.63 -United Press,

LONDON MARKET

London, Apr. Prices be the rubber market here today closed an followin May tu pence per bl. 10-15/10 July/Scgtember October/December

101

10-7/10

lted PresN.

CHICAGO GRAINS

17,80

13 13.60 400 13%

33 500 35 BOO 33

371

......7.20

STORES, ETC.

(0), Dairy Dairy (New), COTTONS

Ewo,

100 m 7.25

NY FOREIGN

EXCHANGE

Argentine Pesos (OM-

cla)) Argentine Pesos (Un-

lein) Australia

Delgium Canado

Braill

Chile England Franco India

Cloking Rates April 7.

U9.10.2017

2003

7237

Опоз

0217-2

93.0/16

00.30

4.03

0031,7/16

3024

Mexico

1437

New Zealand

4.02

T'eriz

,0070

Portugal

0104

South Africa

4.03%

Sweden

3703

Switzerlanek.

2521

$270

4010

3770

3773

4730

2500

United Pres

Uruguay Venezuela Netherlands Batavia

Apr. Chicago, Grens market on the Beard of Hongkon Trade here today, prices moved Shangha irregularly in moderately active dealings, with the new crop positions developing increased resistance to selling as traders studied the government stapport programme.

Prices closed as follow:-- WHEAT-prien per bushel,

2.17-2,10-11 1.04-16-1.83-74

1.---In the Singapore

May July

COUN

May ...

July

GATH May

July

price

1.32-15-16

0001

China Produce

L

Quotations

New York, Apr. 7. Aniseed oll, per b. F.0.B. New US$0.00/00 York Cola oil, per ib. F.0.B. New

York

2.10/3.23 Agar agar, per b. F... New 2.76/3.25 York Sandalwood, in drums, depending on

quantity & quality

13.00 nom: Tung oll. In tank cars, F.O.D. New York per 1. .......... 0.20 nom. Berylum 10 to 12 percent) per

Ion

............................................. 20.00/30.00 Molybdenum 100

per percent)

0.54 -United Prem.

31

OUTWARD MAILS

With effect from April 1, the postage for local letters and postcards will be increased as follows-Hongkong, Kowicon and, the New Territories, 10 cents for, each oz. or part of an ounce (letters); cents each (postcards), Copies of the Colony's Annual Iteport for 1948, (price $6) are on sale at the General Post Once and Central Post Office, Kowloon. Surface mall for Tientsin and Pelping can be accepted for ant- ward transmission via Shanghai and Chirwansted.

Unless otherwise stated, re- gistered articles and parcel pasta clona 30 minutes earlier than the ordinary mail. I malia close before 10a.m. rogfitered ated parcki pasta close at 5 pm on the previous day. Malls are. closed at Kowloon Central Port Omen half an hour earlier than the GPO clvalg times.

FRIDAY, APRIL 8 Closing Tintes By Air' Hoshow, 3,30 p.m.

Nanking, Tsingtao, Swatow, Amoy and Taipeh, 2.30 pm.

Bangkok, Bangoon, Calcutta; Karn- - chi, Bahrein, Alexandria (Nairobi, Mombasa, Dar-es-Saliam. Mauritius. Johannesburg and Marseilles vla

Rome Alexandria),

and London, (CPO) 0.30 am, treg), 6 am, {ord); (CPO) Dam treg): 0.30 a.n. (ord), Manila, Honolulu, USA & Canada, 5 p.m.

Air Parcel Post for Manila, Horia- lulu and USA, (CPO) 4.30 p.m.: (GPO) Bp.,

Ordinary Airmail (Printed Matters. Samples and Small Packet Pasts) for Mania, Guam, Fonolulu and UBA (CPO) 430 pmą (GPO) 5 pm.

Shanchal, 3. ĐÀM

Closing Times By Sea

Japan and Parcels only for Canads via Vancouver, D.C.. 3 p.m.

Manlia, 3 p.m.

Shanghial, p.m.

Formosa via Keelung, 3 p.m. Bombay, and Koracit.3.pum

SATURDAY, APRILETION Cleaing-Tinion by Alf Swatowind. Amey, 8.30 a.m. (reg); a.m. (ord).

Shanghal, & a.m. (reg); 0.30 a.m. Torch).

11.30 am.

Exchange Rates Swat, Auxey Shanghai, Nar

Business when anime is the local Unofficial change market this morning at the following rates:

197

| 9terling pound noto, (per £1) 15.70

US dollar (per $1)

alp de

Gold parsipër tşa))

FIC plastres fper, 100)

000

Stam (vala (per 100)

24.10

10-12-0

NEI gulder (per 100))

32.40

04-10-04

Gold Yuan per, 100 yuan)

0105

-United Press. :| Singapore ={Biralija)

30.01

1

Talpeh.

Kynining and Calcutla, 3.30 p.m.

tangkok, 5 p.m.

Closing Times By Son Parcels only for Unlied Kingdom'

via London, 10 a.m. (par).

Stratis, Ceylon, Madagascar, East Ateica, Aden and Egypt, Noon.

Manila, #p.m

I'atcets only for Marsellies, 3 pr. Shanghel, 8-pmen Formosa via Takau, 3 p.m.

Straits, Rangoon se Calculla,-8 p.ti