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New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Labor ard Morality

When some members OF the New
Zealand Parliament visited Sanloa they
came away fairly convinced that labor
would have to be found if the planta-
tions We're to be kept going, but not
altogether sure that they should be
kept going, except so far as their
abandonment would injurc those of the
natives adjoining. 1t is hopeless to
expect the Samoan to provide labor for
any plantations but his own. Why
should he work when his needs are 50
easily supplied? Yet today rs Per
cent OF the exports of Samoa are the
produce Of native plantations and Of
Indentured labor seems to be the
only means of keeping the large plan
tations going. Solomon labor is unob-
ta.nablc because the Australian gov
eminent and the Colonial Office, who
control the two parts Of the group, re
fuse to allow the islanders to be re-
cruited any longer for overseas service.
China is the only possible reservoir
Bgt the indenturing of Chinese IN
wolves a moral question which is going
% be difficult one for the New lea
land Parliament.
Chinese who have reindentured after
The end OF their first tenn OF three
years have been in the habit Of taking
Samoan girls as wives and bringing up
half-caste families. Legal marriage -
rot permitted, and though the uniona
arc regular and usually happy the
parties understand clearly that when
at length the Chinese ceases to work
in Samoa he must go back to China
alone. The Samoan wife and her chill
dren must return to their tribe.
Concuh;nage Chief Ohstacle
!, (o
main obstacle that New Zealand will
have to overcome in continuing the
indenturing Of Chinese, if. indeed
Chinese are ever going to be obtainable
in the future Efforts which arc now
being made to obtain new recruits
from this field have not yet been sue
cessfUl. The signing-on wage Will in
any case be much higher than it was
before the war.
For the samoans themselves New
Zealand has much to do which the
Germans left undone, and England
need not doubt that she will do it
faithfully. The health of the native
race was cynically neglected by the
Germans, but New Zealand has an eX-
cellent sanitary regime and capable
undertake the work. She will profit,
cans in Eastern Samoa.
There is also much to be done il
education to fit the native for the com
petititive existence Of which as yet he
knows nothing. The London Mission
ary Society, which has done such
splendid work in all these islands.
frankly admits that the task is no~
beyond its powers and welcomes the
advent of the New Zealand authorities
The latter have a unique experience
with their own Maori, and the outlook
for the Samoan is q hopeful one The
old error OF ncglecting the teaching Of
English, the common tongue of the
Pacific, is not likely to be perpetuated
The civil administration was only
inaugurated in Samoa by New Zealand
on May /, nearly six years after its
occupation. All this time enthusiastic
reformers and administrators in New
Zealand have been chaiing to proceed
with their task
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Morocco Cui,iva.ing Flax

The cultivation Of fax in Morocco IS
yielding excellent results, and it is
possible to foresee that in the near
future Morocco will replace Russia as
the principal source of French fax
spinners. says information received by
the bureau Of foreign and domestic
commerce. The first attempts at cult
yation were made in 1917 by Bontemy
Defives & Co., and 300 hectares were,
sown in 1919. The crop is OF good
quality, equal to the fax produced in
France, and the land which could be
utilized is enormous in extent.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
TRANSPACIFIC MAILS

The connecting malls close at the Gen.
eral Postoffice and City Hall postoffice
station. New York, at a. m. as follows
Japan. Corea. China. Siberia Slam
French lndochina, Netherlands East Indies
and Philippine Islands, via Seattle steam
ship Arizona Maru August 25.
, Japan, Corea. China. Siberia. Siam
French lndochina. Netherlands East Indies
and philippine Islands. via Seattle. steam
Tahiti' Marouesas Cnn.o rs1a,d, W.
Zealand and specially addressed mail for
australia, via San Francisco, steamship
Mariana. September g.
Hwai. Fiji Islands. New Zealand and
australia, via Vancouver and Victoria,
Il. C., steamship Niagara. Septelnb Der 10
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
THE TIDES
ARRIVED YESTERDAY

Notc.---7'he above figures are standard
tie and not New York state time.
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Ex-Emperor Blamed For
Austrian Army's Defeat
Issued Three Conflicting Orders
Within a Few Hours on Fate.
full Day on the Piaye

VIENNA, Aug. 1.-Chief blame for
the collapse Of the Austrian forces on
the Piave River, in the Austro-Italian
campaign, is placed on former En-
peror Carl by the report of commits
sian appointed to investigate war de-
On the fateful November 2, 1918, the
report says, the then emperor issued
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23

The planters of German Samoa
thrived on the labor of Solomon Is
landers and Chinese-the former hcfty
and unsophisticated. the latter intelli-
gent and INDUSTRIOUS At an ea~ly
stage of the New Zealand occupation
indenturing was STOPPED. No new la
Dor was introduced, and all the coolies
whose indentures expired were repatri
ated if they wished.
To-day, Of the 2.2OO Chinese and $50
solomon boys who were in Samoa in
1914 less than 1000 in all remain.
The effect has been a steady and seri-
Gus decline in the condition Of the
plantations. Some of them to-day are
quite without labor, and have gone back
to nature. Weed, cocoa canker and the
cocoanut beetle have ravaged the hold
ings SO that some of them will have
to be reclaimed again, cleared and re-
planted before they viii yield anything
at all. The New Zealand government
is not likely to ignore the plight Of
the planters. for it is itself, as liquida-
ter of the German firms, the greatest
Of fhoD all
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
Indentured Labor
Becomes "a Moral
Question i'm Samoa
With China as Only Reser-
voir for Workers, Ban on
Marriage Between Races
Gives Paa.liamentProbIem

LONDON, July 12-The problems of
Samoa. the island group which New
Zealand occupied in August, 1914, are
discussed by correspondent in "The
Times" The group consists of the two
western and largest of the archipelago,
Upolu and Savaii, with an area of / 1,134
square miles and population at that
time of nearly 10000 souls.
They made at that time fourishng
colory. OCne-sixth of the whole area,
most of the best land had by some
means-which would have been mpos-
sible under the British Colonial Office
passed from the natives TO Europeans
and was under efficient cultivation for
the production of cocoanut. cocoa and
rubber. The exports IN 1913 were
worth more than $1.200,000, and in
cluded II 900 tons of copra and $50
tons of cocoa. 1t was very houishing
territory-the best for its size that
Germany possessed. To-day its ex-
ports are even more than they were
then. and prices sre much higher But
the future of New Zealand's new ward
is ringed about with doubts which did
not disturb the Germans.
All prosperity in the islands is de-
ner dent on labor, and as the native
Polynesian will not work for wages on
European plantatons-at least not with
the required regularity-the labor has
to be imDorted
New-York tribune., 1920-08-23
FOREIGN PORTS

DcpuftUreB TOT New YOrk
Shields-S s Gustafshohn.
Rio Janeiro-S S Huron.
Antwerp-S S Princess Matoika.
Callao-S s Renaico.
Danzig-S s Verbania.
Arrived From New York
Zanzibar--S S Gordon Castle.
Rio Janeiro-S S Callao.
Rio Grande@S S Panoras.
Alexandria-S S Siberian Prince,
Pernambuco-S S Tocutins.
Trisste-S S Polgowar.
Palna-S s British General.
Port Natal-S S Eastern CraR.
Bergen--S S Stavangerftord
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
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2 deals and bids no trumps, which
every one passes, and A leads the king
of hearts, dummy's cards going down.
If we examine the combined hands,
knowing nothing of those Of A and B,
except that must be leading from
king, queen and other hearts, we shall
see that the only absolutely sure tricks
in the exposed hands are the four aces.
Three more are required to make the
contract and five more to win the game.
The player who can make this mental
estimate in every hand he plays, be-
fore he touches card, will improve his
game so per cent. 1t is the first essen
tial in frst-class player. Without it
one is always more or less of dub.
In the example before US, any extra
tricks must be made by hnessing, which
is the technical name for trying to
win tricks with cards which are not
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
The Worlds Champion Diver

feet for l hour 81 minutes so Sec
onds, as against the previous best OF
l hour 80 minutes. made by Sean
dinavian, Anders Roloffson, in the
Sargossa Sea in 1917
Goldsmith was awarded prize Of
a sterling silver diving belt by Mr..
bosworth. His record appears to be
certain, but there is some doubt
about Defever's at the greater depth
because the official record is not
known at the harbor. Defcver has
left for France, where he will dive
for Franco-Italian salvaging COM
pany, which is to bring up some OF
the war wrecks off the coast OK
France.
Mr.. Bosworth, though he failed in
his attempt to establish record,
declares he proved his theory that
underwater endurance tests act as
remediary influences on tuberculosis
sufferers. His statement is substan-
tiated by DR.. p. A. Maneray.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

eyes of brownish gold? Or was she
blonde, with eyes as blue green as
the sea?
Yet, however ardently he i'm
plored her, she never would grant
him meeting. Months passed. He
ate out his heart in impatience and
despair. He was weighed down by
the hopelessness of his impossible
passion.
One evening he was sitting in a
cafe with some comrades, young
poets like himself. One of them,
Aime Rozoy, suddenly exclaimed:
"You can't imagine what an ex-
traordinary conversation over
heard yesterday over the telephone.
| was in a booth and / caught a
woman's voice In the neighborinr
compartment saying: To-day it is
Marie Stuart who is calling you.
Chastelard is dead, and through
my fault. I am going to try to con-
sole myself with you, my friend,
my living love- I wondered whether
| was dreaming, or was out of nv
senses. So waited to see my neigh
Dor come out. ~
"And you saw a young woman,
very blond, as beautiful as a queen?"
cried Letourneur, trembling with
emotion.
Anne Rozoy burst into laugh.
81 saw little old woman, with
white hair, wearing a shabby coat.
She looked like school teacher,
genteel but poverty stricken"
Then he added, not noting Letour-
neur's confusion:
"She was crack-brained, no
doubt"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

period one species, a herb eater
named Trachodon, was more than
thirty feet long and about fifteen
feet high when standing erect. Its
head, with broadly expanded mouth,
resembled that of a duck, but back
of the beak there were more than two
thousand small teeth, disposed in
many vertical rows, each containing
several individual teeth, the new
ones coming up from below as the
old ones wore out.
"The long hind feet terminated in
three large hoofed toes, and the
shorter, slender front feet were par
TALLY webbed. A long, thin, slender
tail acted as powerful swimming
organ, and the body was covered
with rough tuberculate skin. Hav-
ing no means of defense, it lived
chiefly in the water, where it was
free from attacks of the flesh eaters.
with the 'duck-bllled' Trachodon
there were other large closely re-
lated forms inhabiting the water
Saurolophus was similar in build,
but characterized by a large crest
extending above the skull, and pei
vic bones that were developed for at
tachment Of powerful tail muscles.
1t was probably distinctly aquatic
type.
"Along the shores lived Ornitho-
minus, the bird mimic, as the name
implies, one of the most remarkable
of the dinosaurs. A skeleton found
last year shows it to have been
toothless creature, the jaws sheathed
like the beak of a bird"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
AUCTION BRIDGE

Question-Tne final bid is four hearts
doubled, by A, who saw that the con-
tract would succeed unless A revoked,
which he Intentionally did, so as to stop
the declarers plain suit, after trumps
tricks, just making his bid but for the
revoke he would have made five odd So
the error saved l16 points Is this legi-
innate ?-M. c. j.
Answer-1t is Legitimate" in the
sense that the law lays down the pen
atty; but it is considered "white-
chapel" to revoke on purpose, and any
person who did SO would find it impossi-
BILE to cut into any rubber again in re-
spectacle society
. Question-The dealer holds three
small hearts; three clubs to the ace;
five diamonds to the queen, jack, ace
and king of spades, and calls the dia-
monds. Her partner disputes the cor
rectness of the bid.-K R. S.
Answer-This is no-trumper, if any
thing, or pass. The original bid must
show the best chances of winning tricks
Tor defense, in case the adversaries get
the contract. This is not true of the
diamonds. Some players will bid club
on this hand, just to get things going.
and encourage the partner to show
what he has
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

The woman who masks herself be,
hind such charming characters must
be very beautiful"
For week he waited in vain for
another call. He jumped every time
the telephone bell rang. Then
when he was beginning to despair
his unknown again summoned him.
"Why did you leave me so long
without word from you?" Letour-
neur cried, already importunate.
"To make you miss me-"
There was no need of that. For
seven days, o my queen, have done
nothing but think of you"
i am not your queen to-day"
What are you?"
Il am Delilah, and if you are too
impatient l will laugh at you and
cut your long locks, as I did Sam
sons. For | am sure you wear your
hair very long, like the true poet
you arc"
Letourneur talked for a quarter
OF an hour with the false Delilah,
but couldn't get any information
from her about herself. She was
unwilling to give him her name or
address, and refused any kind of a
rendezvous. Thereafter, two or three
times a week, he received mysterious
yistations. Sometimes his interlocu-
tor borrowed the personalities she
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

"a about as feasible as walking
~ off with the Brooklyn Bridge,
but dispatches from Buenos
Ayres tell Of an expedition recently
sent to Patagonia to study a man.
moth specimen discovered a year
ago, and found it missing!
To-day we must go to Africa for
the biggest game, but there was a
time in the dim, distant past when
America produced animals larger
than any now living,' says a COM
munication to the National Geo
graphic Society by Barnum Brown.
"That was so long ago that moth
ing remains of these creatures ex-
cept their bones, and they are turned
to stone. Hidden away under strata
of earth, their spoor has long since
grown cold.
"The animals are dinosaurs; for
the moment we will call them liz
ardS--not Ine creeping, craving
kind, but huge reptiles that stalked
upright through the jungles, rival
ing in size the elephant, the hippo
potamus and the rhinoceros.
I'm the marshes of prehistoric
times dwelt a host of reptiles, some
large, some small and of various
forms, flesh eaters and herb eaters,
but all sharing certain characters in
common and known as dinosaurs.
Not any were closely related to any
living reptile, yet they had some
characters common to the lizards,
crocodiles and birds.
"Of the kinds characteristic of the
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

had already used in speaking to
hlm. At other times she pretended
that she was Salome, Lucrezia Bor-
gla, Julie de Lespinasse or the
Princess de Lamballe. Whenever
she assumed a new name she added
historical details which indicated. if
not a genuine crudition, at least a
wide and intelligent course of read
ing.
He repeatedly begged her to send
him her picture, if she wouldn't
grant him an interview. She finally
agreed. But three days later he
received by mail big photograph
OF Mrs. Siddons, from the painting
by Galnsborough. And such was
Letourneur's infatuation that he
jumped to the conclusion that she
had selected this picture because it
was in some respects a counterpart
Of her own.
From that point on Henri Letour-
neur fell madly in love with his un-
known He lived for the precious
minutes of conversation with her
over the telephone. He dreamed Of
the exquisite pleasure in store for
him when she should consent to
meet him. Which of the heroines
which she had incarnated was most
like her? Was she a brunette, with
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
q OS ANGELES HARBOR
deep sea divers recently put
. IN a claim for worlds rec

1 in a claim for worlds rec
ords at depths of 1870 and
$50 feet, made outside the break
water under the auspices of officers
at the United States submarine base.
Harry Goldsmith, who is attached to
the base, is hailed worlds champion
at a depth of 1870 feet. He won a
contest directed by Lieutenant J. B.
Cooke, Gunner F. E. Robbins and
Chapeain G. B. Kranz. He STAYED
below hour AZ minutes IL seconds
the previous record at this depth
having been l hour 81 minutes. II.
X. Etzell, Of the submarine base. and
Hobart Bosworth, who also took part
in the contest, failed to break the
record. Etzell's time was l hour %
minutes 40 seconds, and Bosworth's
l hour % minutes.
+. f. Defever asserts his title to
honors for remaining below at $50
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

some of his colleagues or of the type
writer girl employed in the office.
He resolved to ignore the incident.
The next day he had almost forgot
ten it. But three days later he was
called up again. This time he
stepped eagerly into the booth.
The mysterious voice said:
Il am Queen Nitagrit, generally
called Nitokris. I am speaking to
you from the banks of the Nile.
Three palm trees stand guard before
me. My pschent weighs on my head
like telephone girls receiving ap-
paratus. No matter. am proud to
be so far from dead that a Partisan
OF the twentieth century still remem.
bers me and condescends to express
sentiments regarding me which are
almost amorous."
MY queen," cried the excited Le-
tourneur, haven't you another
name now"
"But | tell you that / am Queen
Nitagrlt, widow Of King Menthe-
soupis, Of the Sixth Dynasty"
"Where do you liye?'
"You know already. In a pyramid
at Gizeh, in the heart of sarcopha-
gus Of blue basalt."
Where could | see youY
you will meet me later, when
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

Author of "Foster on Auction"
"Auction Made Easy" "Foster's
Complete Hoy1e," Russian Bank"
etc.
IF A person can be said to have
mastered one part of game SO
thoroughly that he knows how to
manage that situation in any form
in which it may present itself, he
should be far above the average player,
who knows nothing thoroughly, but has
smattering of everything.
In playing the declaration, for in
stance, the moment dummy's cards are
laid down it is apparent that a certain
number of tricks could be taken by the
simple process of laying down the sure
winners and counting them. But these
sure winners can be counted up with
out showing them, and it is very seldom
that the total equals the contract, and
still more rarely that it is enough to
go game.
Where are the other tricks to come
at no trumps this cannot be done, and
the only way to get any extra tricks,
which do not appear on the surface, is
by winning them with cards which are
not the best you hold, which is called
finessing; or by establishing the small
er cards Of suits in which you are long.
The same methods will apply to trump
declarations in connection with good
trump management. Take this aistri-
button as an illustration of a no.
trumper:
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Auction Bridge

the best you hold in the suit nor IN "A.
quence with them.
All finessing depends on leading fror
the weak hand to the strong, hoping that
the cards fimessed against are in h..
tween. This dictates the lead of
spade from rs hand and club frou
Y's, hoping that the king is to the left
Of the lead in each case
But even if both these illnesses su.-
ceed, as it is clear from the distribu.
tion shown that they will, and even
if all four spades win tricks, with two
clubs, ace of diamonds and ace ~
hearts, that is still not enough to win
the game.
Where could an extra trick be made,s
Unless we can make two tricks in
hearts it is impossible, and the onlv
way to make those two heart tricks is
to allow the king to win the first trick
so that if another heart is led we shall
make both ace and jack.
This is called the Bath coup, becau,.
it was invented by some whist PLAYERS
who belonged to club in Bath, on the
west coast of England, away back in
1850. Yes, the Bath coup is ITO years
old, yet few bridge players ever heard
of it.
BY playing the Bath coup on the first
trick, winning the second heart lead
with the jack and finessing the jack Of
spades, 2 is able to put himself in
again by finessing the queen Of clubs.
Another spade finesse, winning with
the queen and leading the ace, and tho
fourth spade makes. Now the three ace.
in rs hand are game.
The solution Of Problem No. Z.
printed last week, is for z to lead the
ace and jack Of clubs, throwing the lead
| into BIS hand, if B has kept the queen.
If B leads the eight of hearts, z ducks
it. B then leads the ten, but must give
2 the third round. Now 2 leads the
suit which A has left unguarded. Y
having discarded according to AS dis
card. If A keeps two diamonds, he has
no spades left. and the jack is good.
If he has kept spade and q diamond,
both Y's diamonds are good.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

fore the tribunal of Osiris, in the
Hall Of Truth and Justice"
The voice died away, leaving
Letourneur equally surprised and
puzzled. This time he couldn't sus-
pect any of his fellow clerks or
Mile. Claviere, the typist. He knew
that nobody in the Ministry of Pub
lie instruction was erudite enough to
carry on such conversation. He
had reader and admirer. But who
was she? He had few acquaintance
in Paris, having come from the
provinces. Doubtless his caller on
the telephone was young, since she
loved poetry. Was she pretty? He
couldn't imagine her anything else.
In spite Of himself he visualized
her IN the form of an Egyptian prin-
cess, dark, delicate in feature, with
little curved nose and wide. half
open eyes full Of languorous warmth
and dreamy melancholy.
In the spring evenings he wan
dcred about the streets. His spirits
were high, his heart was joyous.
He already anticipated the most
beautiful experiences. In his lone
ly life this intervention took on a
sort Of fabulous character.
"Diane dc Poiticrs! Nitokrisp' he
repeated to himself as he walked
along. What appealing ,xnamcs !!
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13


wants you on the tele-
IL phone"
The young man ad-
dressed was busy at his. desk. He
got up reluctantly and went into
the booth.
Hello. Hello!" said a woman's
voice.
"Are you NJ. Henri Letourneur?"
Yes, madam. With whom have
the honor Of speaking?"
with Diane de Poitiers! I
wanted to thank you, monsieur, for
your expressions Of high regard for
me and to tell YOU
But Letourneur cut her off. He
was furious. He thought he was
being made the victim of a practi-
cal joke. 1t was only after he was
seated again at his desk that an idea
OF another sort flashed through his
mind and he began to wonder
whether this strange telephone call
might not be the beginning Of a
thrilling adventure.
M. Henri Letourneur was a poet
not very well known as yet. His
lack Of income constrained him to
accept q modest clerkship in the
Ministry Of Public instruction. He
had recently issued volume of
poetry, entitled "The White Para
SOL" in which a series of sonnets
depicted the exalted and purely
imaginary devotion Of the author to
tome Of the famous beauties of his
tory. Was 1t possible that his book
rad fallen into the hands Of an ap-
preciatiye and enthusiastic reader?
Then he became skeptical again and
suspected trick on the, part Of
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

Question-Is it allowable to hold up
all your cards until your hand is COM
plete, so as to deprive your opponent
OF the opportunity to play on your ex-
posed combinations &c F. L.
Answer-ln some forms of this game
there is premium for Spreads" lay
ing down the whole hand at once: at
the risk of being left at the post, of
course, If the opponent gets down and
out ahead of you. Anything is cal
lowed rs there is no law to force a