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*VE often been in a tough into touch with me.and found to pay up and look pleasant. spot," said Joshua Play- they'd been fooled again. They Mention my name,-Mandeville, fair, "but never tougher didn't know I'd come from the I said, 'and they'll know the thing
Yard, of course. I was posing as is authentic. than when I undertook to round Smidt's secretary. I told them "Good,' said Klobski. He blackmailing gang, there were one or two points that called Smidt's number: Primrose Klobski and his pals. We'd got with them. The notes, I said, Repeated attempts were equally Smidt wanted me to talk over 7094. There was по reply. the field pretty well narrowed would be forthcoming as soon as unsuccessful. down, but we weren't sure, these were cleared up.
"Well, they were pretty angry last. Is this a plant, or what? "Look here," said Klobski at among nine or ten possibles, who the birds we really wanted were. I can tell you; the more so whten, lost
after a certain amount of palaver, Listen, there's one other possi- it's not,' said I. But we'd had, for some time, a I said I must ring up Suit for bility; Smidt may be at his secret list at the Yard, on which further instructions.
They Klubski figured as suspect No. 1, bundled me into a closed car and sister's. Western 8128; try that, back we drove to town. Where
"So Kloak rang Western as No. 2.
we were going I'd no idea; the 8128 and this time, he reported, Pretty good guessing. There blinds of the car were drawn. he'd got Smidt. It was-arranged- were eight names on the list at But I did mot know who that the gang should meet him Together
my captors--were--Klobski, on the downs" at the same hotir
took me to some house in a.
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-PROBLEM I
THE DUEL
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"I got into trouble" In 11ungary said Juggins. "I killed a chap in a duel,"
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"Oh, yes; duelling is allowed all right, But our affair was sold to be irregular. You sco, wer inpointed -a referee-the other chap and I-but when he---arrived · we found he stuttered. It was therefore arranged that I should act 05 beside being one of the protagonists. So I gave the signal 10 Arc- Get ready-Are you ready?--Fire- and then i fred and killed the chap, as I was saying.”
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"Certainly not," said Juggins with dignity. "Nobody accused me of
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that. But even so, I was unpopular
to be honest I'm not sure why." Can you see any reason?
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SONS NO.ON (Lc. NO and ON. multiplied together) what are the respective values of S, O and N?
PROBLEM HII
WORD SQUARE
1. Measure for measuring.
2. Bring to naught,
3. To be sought for in untilled felda,
4. Malden in uniform,
5. Found in Stellenbosch.
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"Eventually, after a long talk Finckelstein, and Mss. They the following niglit. with the A.C., I undertook to act gloomy-looking suburb. “Now,' "Now came the question of as a decoy...The gang was after they said, you can do what your what was to be done with me. Smidt just then, the ` sapphire like. Mr. Whoever-you-are. But They couldn't, of course. hump off-not, at any rate, till king. They'd sent him, a final don't get out of here alive me
inntil we've got the money."
they'd got Smidt's money. They decided, in the end, to lock me demand, as they called it, for
"That's okay, I said. "Can I up in the cellar-more like £75,000. The money was to be use the phone?"
dungeon, it was, by the way; I handed over at a lonely spot on "Klobski laughed, 'Oh, yeah? spent i most uncomfortable Epsom Downs. Well, on Smidt's And ring up the cops, I suppose? night. Thence, of course, I was behalf, we agreed to pay the sum No, Mr. Clever, you can't use the rescued the following morning. demanded. And in due course I plione. If you've got a message In the meantime, Klubski, kept the appointment--though I for Smidt give it us and we'll put Finckelstein and Moss had been hadn't, of course, got the notes. it through for you."
safely gathered in by the Yard.” "It was a trying moment, I can
How had their arrest been tell you, when three toughs got
effected?
"So I gave them my message: That there was nothing for it but
Current Affairs Test
How To Do It
IVE possible answers are given for each question. Prime Minister of Great Britain is (1) MacDonald, (2) Chamberlain, (3) Hailsham, (4) Baldwin, (5) λογά George.
The number 4 (meaning Baldwin) has been placed · -at-the right of 0 on the answer sheet.
Answers on Page Two
Home Affairs
1.The new Minister of Agriculture is (1) Mr. Hore-Delisha, (2) Mr. W. S. Morrison, (3) Major Tryon, (4) Lord De La Warr, (5) Lord Nuffield.
2.Parliament is concerned with the preservation of freedom of speech, The responsible Minister is the Home Secretary, who is (1). Mr.. Ramsay-MacDonald, (2)-Lord- Hailsham, (3) Sir John Simon, (4) Mr. Walter Runciman, (5) Sir Kingsley Wood.
3.-Fire, hus. completely gutted the famous Crystal Palace in London. The Crystal Palace was erected (1) for the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria; (2) for the Coronation of King Edward VII; (3) for an Ex- position of Arts in 1881; (4) for n British Industries Fair In 1931; (5) for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
4. Sir Edwin Deller, the famous educator, has been killed in an ac- cident. Sir Edwin was noted as
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Principal of (1) London University; (2) Oxford; (3), Cambridge; (4) Liverpool University; (5) Dublin University.'
5.-The King has taken the oath as a "faithful Protestant." Our last Catholle sovereign was (1) George I, (2) Henry VIII. (3) Mary I., (4) James 11, (5) Charles i.
World Affairs.
6-Severe fighting is proceeding on both sides of the River Tagus, near Madrid. The city at the mouth of the River Tagus is (1) Lisbon: (2) Valencia (3) Madrid; (4) "San- tander; (5) Barcelona.
7.-A European nation is bringing into force an entirely new constitu- tion, the draft of which has already been approved. The nation is (1) Belgium; (2). Austria; (3) Czecho- Slovakia; (4) Soviet Russia; (5) Greece,
8.-The Maharajah of Gwalior has been invested with full ruling powers. The ceremony formed by the Viceroy who is (1) Lord Willingdon. (2) Lord Lin-
was per-
was
born in (1) Germany; (2) Austria; (3) France; (4) Belgium; (3) Holland.
14. is intimated that the January session of the Canadian Parliament will consider revision of Canada's
· 'trade agreements. Canada's Federal Parliaments meet in (1) Vancouver: (2) Ottawa; (3) Montreal; (4) Quebec; (b) St. John.'
ed in Alave Province, in support of the Spanish Government. The Basques are (1) a famous regiment" founded by King Alfonso II; (2) A Spanish sect deriving its name from its habit of basking in a nude state; (3) inhabitants of the Pyrenees; (4) Spanish communists; (5) fishermen from Southern Spain.
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I ACCUSE
1804; Captain Alfred Dreyfus, French officer, Jew, was accused of supplying important information to German, Military Attache in Paris. After trial in caméra he was sent to Devil's Island. Though the real traitor was discovered two years later, Dreyfus remained imprisoned for five years and was not fully reinstated until 12 pears after arrest. The novelist, Emile Zola, whose celebrated open letter "J'accuse-brought the Dreyfus scandal to light, had to take
refuge in England,
with the most monstrous
par.
tiality; and that of this partiality the report of Ravery is an im perishable monument, brazen in its audacity.
"I accuse the thres handwriting experts of having drawn up lying
15-A big Basque-offensive has start-4-ACCUSE Lieutenant-Colonel having incurred the gullt of a and fraudulent reports; unless, Du Paty de Clam of having betrayal of humanity, of a be- indeed, a medical examination been-the-diabolical-contriver of trayal of justice, in order to servo shows them to be the victims of the judicial error, unconscious I political ends and to save an a diseased eyesight and judgment. would fain believe; and of having état major that was compromised.
"I accuse the War Office of afterwards defended his nefarious. work for three years by machina. tions as ridiculous as they are guilty.
18.-The Duke of York has been installed as Grand Master of the "Grand Lodge of Scotland (Masonic). The District Grand Master of this Lodge in Hongkong da (1) Dr. G. D. R. Black; (2) Mr. W., J. Burling (3) Mr. J. L. McPherson;- (4) Mr. C. W. Jeffries; (5) Mr. E. J. Edwards.
17.President Roosevelt is attending the Pan-American Congress at Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires is the capital of (1) Brazil; (2) Paraguay; (3) Chile: (4) Argentina; (5) Bolivia.
18.-The origins of Parliament, which has reassembled, go back to the reign of Henry III. The "Inventor" of Parliament was (1) Simon de Muntfort, (2) Hubert de Burgh, (3). Stephen Langton, (4) Perkin War- beelt, (5) Thomas Cromwell.
Arts and Books
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"I accuse Generals de Boisdeffre having carried on in the Press an and Gonse of having made them abominable campaign intended to selves accomplices in the same lead astray opinion and hide its crime-the one, no doubt, led on misdoings. by clorical passion, the other "I accuse General Mercier of perhaps by that esprit de corps Martial of having violated right "Lastly, I accuse the first Court having made himself the accom- which makes of the War Office by condemning an accused man plice, through his mere weakness Bureaux an ark holy and not to on a document which was kept of character, in one of the great--be touched.~-~~-
secret, and I accuse the second est iniquities of the century.
"I accuse General da Pellieux Court Martial of having shielded
"I accuse General Billot of and Commandant Ravary of hav- this illegality 'to order, commit- having had in his hands the cer- ing turned their inquiry into a ting in its turn the judicial crime tain proof of Dreyfus' innocence work of villainy, by which I mean of acquitting a man they knew to and of having stifled them; of that the inquiry was conducted be guilty."
ADSERVATION
Do You READ- And REMEMBER
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13 the latest Observation Tests,
thing in
It seems
lithgow, (3) Lord Lytton, (4) Lurd 19-Mr. Alfred Noyes is the author simple, yet it will have you guessing Meston, (5) Lord Lothian.
of a book on Voltaire. Voltaire in a minute. Do you rend-and died in (1) 1632, (2) 1380, (3) 1885, remember? These six" slogans are (4) 1507, (5) 1778.
The Spanish Civil War has mennt internal culties for the little republic in the Pyrenees This is (1) San Marino, (2) Monaco, (3) Bilbao, (4). San Sebastian, (5) Andorra.
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taken from announcements which have appeared recently. Can you Yeats-Brown has name the products they advertise? written another book. His earlier success was (1) Arrowsmith, (2) Bengal Lancer, (3) Greenmantle, (4) Farmer's Glory (5) Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man."
ADSERVATIONS NO. 1.
"Have you seen the beautifur
Coronation plates?"
"The Connoisseur Comes to—”
10-Hollugu," states a Renter report this week, is not perturbed at the rumoured threat from the Japan--21.-"Moths for the Million" is a 3.-To-day's Performance-To-mor-
ese. This message refers to the reports that Japan (1) has issued -n-prohibitive tariff-against Dutch goods; (2) has refused permission for Dutch planes
to land in Formosa; (3) reached an agreement with Germany regarding the Dutch East Indies: (1) allowed thousands of pearl pouchers to visit Dutch New Guinea waters; (5) prepared plans for an invasion of the Dutch East Indies.
General
11.-The House of Lords has rejected a bill providing for the painless and peñceful death at their own request for people suffering from Incurable complaints. This form of death is known as (1) Eugenie; (2) Euesthesia; (3) Euthanasia; (4) Euphemism; (0) Eucephala.
12. The death occurred this week of Sir Basil Zaharoff, “Mystery Man of Europe" and reputedly one of the world's richest men. He ac- cumulated his fortune principally from (2)-his invention af T.N.T (2) as owner of the Monte Carlo casino; (3) by backing Franco In the 1914-1918, wár ; (4) ag a monu- facturer of munitions (5) by operations In, commodity markets. 13-Mr, Emil Ludwig predicts à world war within the near future, and warns France that she will be attacked by Germany. Ludwig
book of lasting importance. It is
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by (1) Professor Hogben, (2) Dr. 4-"There is nothing like Einstein, (3) Professor Jeans, (4) 5.—The Quads are on-→→→ Mr. H. G. Wells, (5) Aldous 6.-"Too good to pass," Huxley.
22-The Game Goes On" is a good book by Captala Wakelam. "The game" is (1) "Soccer," (2) "Rug-
Sport
Her," (3) Cricket, (4) Tennis (5) 27-"Kowloon Chinese Suspended" Rowing.
23. The "Agamemnon" has been -presented in London_with_Robert Speaight in the tle-role. The nuthor is (1) Euripides, (2) Herodotus, (3) Xenophon, Sophocles, (8) Eschylus, 24-Mr. Bernard Shaw's new play This .fs to be produced at Bexhill.
is called (1) Back to Confucius, (2) Stop Me and Buy One, (3) Get- ting Buried, (4) The Millionairess, (5) The Dust-Cort.
25.Leslie Howard and Norma .Shearer are cast as Romeo and Juliet in the Alm adaption of Shakespeare's play. Shakespeare died at Stratford-upon-Avon in (1) 1884 (2) 1610; (3) 1581; (4) 1609; (5) 1701..
26-Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire are in Swing Time," RKO-Radio's latest film starring the Inimitable pair, Astaire was born in (1) Omaha, U.S.A.: (2) New York; (3) Tunbridge Wells (Kent); 4 London; (4) Chesterfield.
was a newspaper heading this week that refers to a team participating in (1) Rugby; (2) Hockey (3) Soccer; (4) Cricket; (8) Badminton. 28-Oxford University has chosen its
Rugby team to oppose Cambridge- next Tuesday. Oxford's team will be captained by
Prince (1) Obolensky; (2) H. D. Freakes; (3) J. A. Brett; (4) M. McG. Cooper: (5) C. T. Bloxham.
29-An Interport Football match is to be played in Hongkong during the Chinese New Year. The visit- ing team will be from (1) Manila; (2) Tientsin; (3) Singapore; (4) Macao; (5) Shanghai,
30-The first test match started at Brisbane yesterday. In the match earlier this week, between the M.C.C. and Queensland (1) England won by three wickets; (2) England won, by an innings and 121 Tuni; (3) the match ended in a draw;. 245 Queensland won by four wickets; (6) England won by 400
runs.
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