The brace of greyhounds now heading for the mountain resort, where they will grace the palace grounds, includes a black dog and a bundled bitch. From them, no doubt, game hunting. Within two hours' journey from the palace one meets deer, peacock, pheasant, boar, black bear, wild buffalo, bantang, panther, tiger, gaur, as well as elephants aplenty. will spring others. Appropriately enough, one of the presentation greyhounds is named "Marianne", the other "Moonshine", eminently suitable for this French colonial resort high among the mountains, The request reached Shanghai through the well-known local architect M. Kruse, whose design for the new palace Emperor Bao-Dai and his pretty young wife approved. She too, was educated in France and shares her spouse's modernistic tastes.
The Emperor, we are told, spends most of his time hunting, driving his fleet of foreign automobiles and, at night, playing bridge. He is said to be so adept at bridge that he is even regarded in quarters which ought to know, as an authority. ' There are rumours that His Majesty is writing a book on bridge in his spare moments. Although he plays for money, small stakes are the rule, no doubt im deference to the pocketbooks of his less endowed opponents. Dalat offers much in the way of big-
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