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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Inspector Playfair
EPISODE
HANCOCKS has
"Me the Guer, In spector, and has compared it with the Colonel's will and with the documents you sent him. He very much doubts if it's authentic, but he's not prepared to go into a witness box and swear that it's a forgery.
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"And a claimant, who for some
reason or other is suspect, has put
this letter in in substantiation of his
elim."
In
Playfair looked at his subordinato he "Dumbell," astonisjuncnt.
yoursel. I'm said, "you surpass almost inclined to say, in the man- nor of Humpty Dumpty, that you
hinve been
listening at key- He must
You are right in every par- Anya that if it is a forgery it's a tlcular, Wimperts died eight months very able piece of work."
Joshun Pinyfair laughed, "Thanks, Mr. Hancocks Mr. Merrivale. Teli
obliged to him." He I'm much turned to Sergeant Dumbell. "So our handwriting experts. match for Hancocks, the wily old fox, 216 prepared to give an polnion 'If it is a furgery it's a very able piece of
If it prepared to give an opluton. if the clumsiest forgeries I've seen." He passed the disputed jelter to
was written the Sergeant. It faded ink on faded paper.
"Dear Smith,
holes.
ngo, leaving this thousand pounds to Smith. My old friend and servant, Corporal Smith, of the 131st.' Smith. however, proved hard to trace; but the rolleltors
kept on advertising and three weeks ago a Boer War himself Herbert veteran, calling Smith, came forward with this let- ter. But he can't-nport from the letter-establish his identity, has no papers, ne medals, nothing." "What about War Ofce recards?" asked Dumbell.
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Girls' and Boys' Corner
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"Nothing
"June 9, 1004.
available. It'A neurly 40 years since the Boer War, Dum- bell, and there's been a bigger war since then."
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"There's no question was in the Boer War?
this chap
"Bellevue Lodge,
my
"Now that you are leaving the Army 1 should like, once again, to express my gratitude for your faith- ful brave petion at Ruysdorp which Hier 1 mon saved undoubtedly nut, as you know, a wealthy inan. Into money one shall come Lut day down for something in my will "I hope you will have no difficulty Anding civilian employment. Let ne know if I can help in any way. I shall be kind to testify at any time: not only to your bravery---you ought to have had the Military Medal, for which I recommended you--but also byur honesty and good charneter
"With all good wishes,
"Yours sincerely, "A. H. T. Wimperia
"Col."
Dumbell pondered, "I begin to about. sir." he sakt So what it's
"Colonel Wimperis has died, teav- Tag something to his old pal. Smith
"A thousand pounds, free of death duties--"
How
"None at nil. His accounts of his various engagements are quite con- not No, Dumbell, that's
friend
un-
vincing. where
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picked Dumbell "You say this in forgery, sir. I suppose he's used the wrong paper or something." He held it up to the
"Yes, light.
he went on excitedly. distinguishable clearly "There's watermark."
"The watermark." said Playfair, "of a paper manufactured in 1002. Suitif Smith is his name-weat And to a lot of trouble about that, don't start worrying about the ink: there's nothing
with that either."
wrong!
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Why was Playfair so sure that the letter wona n forgery?
(Solution on Page Three)
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Whew! What a lot of entries (tie week and tinst of you had hundreds and hundreds of wards in correct 1 thoughi you would duly get about Afty words or so, but, on looking through your entries.
taan very much mistaken
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Are
of the the nam Before bouncing prize-winners, 1 want in remind some of
you
oga that if you do not tell ne your age, you must be disqualified from The competisiin.
The prize-winners 1 week are:- Boreen Handyside Lored 11), 18, Peak Hond, and
01. 23. Lack
Butteri Joyce ttend 2nd loot. Kowlour
Coupons are being sent to Doreen and Joyce I want you to bring there 2011- pans to the "Hongkong Telegraph officer where they will he exchanged for money prizca
Therese aplinka,
Really excellent entries were received
Thu. Bernadetie from Anne
Hocarto Azevedo, Litla Xavier, Betty Won. Wong Yung-talog. Winnie Ingram, Carmen Tavares, Hanifa Alarakio. Cecilia Remelor B. M. Omer, R. S. Dillon, Cora L. Rocha, Regina Xavior. Holly Cleme (Seniors): Merefa L. Rocha. Teren Sauza. Doreen Xavier, 9tdney Hollands, Alex
Khan Pereira, S. 11 (Junior)
Specially commended for doing good work are:--
Senters: Bybit Rousseau, Jenny Yelahaw, Kan Yuet-Junk, Max C 122schtegner, Yeung Ki-wa, S. R. Khan, iluang Fong- a. Sek Man-leuna. Engine Gomes, Maria de Oliveira Sales, Fell Shroff, Daniel Choy, Wilbur R. Marshall, Suen Mo-tuk. itida Moares, Claude Lorem. June Ner- gaard, Eva Grady. Shelk Ray, S. E. M. Bux, Yvonne Shaw, Fernando Alves, David 5. Salmon. Stephen Mose. Dick Dettear, B. A Bux Majida Omar. Vida Jan. Molly Lambert, Ho Man-clion. Joyce Ho Fergusson, Charles Edward Clark, Shuk-chun, Aures Marques Abbas Alors- Kin, Karima 3. Khan, Salle Spencer, Teresa Collaco, B. El Arcuti.
Juniors: Ann Hunter, S. A. Bux, Gerald Marshall, Gertle Remedios George Hud- вот Ghert Khan," Reggie Pires, Ray Hemedion, Siloo Dejanjee, 8. S. Dexx.
Aurea Marques: Thank
nd much
for the delightful Snow White draw
3.
Anne Hernadette Thu: Welcome to our Girls and Boys' Corner. We hope bear more from you.
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Joyce Forkeusson: Your friend may en- ter for these competitions up to the time when she celebrates her Afteenth Mrth-
week, kiddies, we ure gola to have A cross-word pizzle which am sure you will all enjoy When you have completed the parkin, nt in the name, ape and address compon mid send to Un- ele Eddie, c/o "Hanckong Telegraph". Wyndham Street. The competition closes at pan on Wednesday. Two prizes are again being offered.
Cheerlo, kiddies,
Uncle Eddie
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
We start the week with fairly easy cryptogram- quotation by Sandi on the subject of "Kindness": "AB CDEF GHFIJKLF AB JDOCHF FILA QR 1 JDOCHF SDOT IUA DJ QFAAFL APIO APBKJIOT PFIT-QBVDOCJ DO GLIRFL."
A Rebus
A member of the N. P. L. from Crook, Colo., shares this rebus, the 11- letters below representing an letter word. The lines below give a clue:
ST
HI
Come, chaps, get into the swim, Why should you be TOTAL and
prim?
Letter Changing
An Oakland, Calif., reader shares this one. Following the usual rules, change LILY to ROSE in 5 moves.
Fun With Bynonyms Monday brings another list of 10 words and their synonyms:
SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1938
Of Course You Know,
But Are You
what the present generation in DON'T know
coming to! Ilearken to this-a boy (ared 15. he suld) rang up and wanted to know what the chances were of getting a copy of the answers on Friday. Why? Because his father had promised him 10/- the first time he scored 40 !
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Why, when I was boy-anyway, take two paints for each correct answer, and you fail with any total under 30.
1-11 someone told you he had just had his matutinai meal you should know he had just hind:-
Supper; lunch; breakfast; afternoon ten; ten; dinner; counter lunch. 2.-Eavesdropping
the street the other day (ns is my wani) I overheard a man say the ward anthrnelle. From my dictionary (I always entry
a dictionary) I discovered he meant a
New armament metal, welld bush mon- a discare ster; tropical fridt; mineral; caught from shaving brushes, 3.--Supposing you were a victim of metatarsal misery you would be having trouble with your:
Ears; stomach; spine; feet; mother-in- law; wobbly card tables.
4-Twice Told Tales is a book-and for heaven's sake don't admit you don't know it was written by:-
Mark Twain; Jonathan Swift; Charles Dickens: Nathaniel Hawthorne: Sir Walter Scott: Nat Gould.
6. If you were piloting an neroplane and the cowling split you would land and get a mechanie to repair the:---
Undercarriage: water
rooling system;
fabric an the wings; engine covering; tall light.
6. Perhaps the Arnhem Land blacks wouldn't know, but I bet you know that an alternative to huse-power (as a mechanical unit of energy) is : -
7.
Knot, cable; kilogram; kilowatt; fathom. Exiled ex-Kaiser at Doorn has:-
One eye; a wooden leg; no thumbs; a wetthered arm; a sprained ankle; house- mald's kner.
8.When a young woman officially comes out- at liberty to refer to her Le., orially. you re
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Debutant; dehrett; debenture; debussey: debeauty; debutante; culte. 9.What pluneering work do you connect with the name of:-
Leif Ericsson. (c) (a) Harvey; (b)
Ark- (c) Gutenberg: Montgolfer; (d) wrigle; (f) Leonardo da Vinci. 10--How Many European countries stretch into
Asia:---
One; Flur; Three: Two.
11-You could search the place with a micros- cope but you would only find one of these pro- vinces or Stales in Canada:→
Wisconsin:
Idaho; New Mexico; Utah; Maine: Saskatchewan, New Jersey.
12. The trouble with me is I'm too soft-hearted question as-the -fancy asking such a simple Tasman Sea lles between Australia and:--
Phillip Island; New Zealand; Tasmania; New Guinea; Jova; Melville Island,
Chess Problem
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13.-Know now and for ever that cochineal- the colouring they use in lollies and sweels-comes from a:-
Herb: root; flower; beetle; fish; minerat; seaweed.
14. Maybe you don't agree with the reckless sentiments of the quotation: "One crowded hour of glorious life a worth an ngo without a name," but if you want two points you must agree it was written by:—
Humphrey Gilbert, Boccacelo; Sir Walter Scott; Oscar Wilde; H. G. Wells.
10. The words of that old refrain, Home Sweel Home, were written by:-
An Englishman; an Italian; an Ameri can; a Hungarian; an Australian; a Hindu. 10. If you were dining out and your hostess planked down in front of you a plate of terrapin you could reasonably excinim:-
17.
Thanks but I never cat fish on Friday: sorry, but I never mat goat's meat; pork cooked like this makes me sick; Aha! I'm very fond of turtle ment; I'm afraid I don't fancy baked seal to-day.
Vaseline, so they say, is good for sunburn.
It is an ull obtained from--
Sheep's wool: whales; coconut kernels; petroleum; the horac's mouth.
18. Are you observant, intelligent and energetle enough to pick out the
correct statement here?
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(1) Lead pencils are made of lead; (2) moths eat holes in woollon clothes; (3) (issue paper and camphor are used in male- ing ccituloid; (4) brlar pipes are made only from wild rase roots.
1. Which of these use British coinage:-
Cyprus, Falkland Island; Gibraltar Ceylon; Barbados; Newfoundland. 20. Supposing you were travelling and you suddenly found yourself stranded in the middle of Saragossa you might exclaim, "This in
A very calm sen; a very seaweedy sea;
a very treacherous sca; a very shallow sea;
a nice Spanish town,
21. Strictly speaking, when people speak of the
universe they are speaking of:--
The world; the earth; the heaven; the earth and all the planets; the whole crea- Iton.
22.--Pardon my mentioning filthy lucre, but I think it only right you should know that fogal der in liver colns in Australla in anything Lito-
10/- 50/; 80: 70/: 80%. 23.When I was a kid was mad on mining and used to dream one day of making a fortune out of spelter, which is another name for:-
Copper: gold; eine; tin; lead, iron; cont. 24-1 went up to the Department of Sylvicul- ture the other day because I wanted to find out aomething about:-
Grapevines; potatoes; citrus fruits; bees; trees; stock discuses,
25. And now we'll play trains. How long do you reckon it will take na train n mile long travell- ing 60 m.p.h. to go completely through a tunnel also a mile long?
One minute; two minutes; three; four; five.
(Answers on Page 3.)
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Solutions by Wednesday to Bridge Telegraph, Hongkong Problem, Wyndham street.
South leads diamond 7, which s ruffed by North. North wins with heart ace and lends the 4 of trumps, South's won by acc. South lends
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Answers On Page 3,
FINESSE
heart North
5;
ruffs
which
and
lends
hla
trump.
which is
Just
won by
South discarding club 9. East leads club 4, and Souths Jack Is
acc.
East, covered by West's quern and won by North's North leads club deuce, which in won by East's king and South dis- cards king of diamonds. East ulso wins with Jack of diamonds, South and West discarding hearts and North a club. East has now to lead lu 7, 5 of clubs up to North's 8, 6.
If, at trick seven, East plays low and allows West to take the deuce of clubs with his 10, South throws heart 7 instead of king of diamonds, and West must lead hearts for South to win a heart and a diamond.
Many preferred a variation of the solution beginning either with king of diamonds or a small heart, but the curlous distribution of the clubs and hearts always came into operation. There were too many correct solu- tions for publication. In a few cases where complaint was made of unac- the knowledged correct solutions previous week the cause
was late arrival.
Notitions
from
Correct
A.E.G. "'Eany." 53023, Mrs. A. K., “Mid- Levels and A.ILR.
"D.W. Bent in a solution, but she will notice, upon reflection, that according to her play, at trick six, East, who has been put in with spade Queen, can relum Club 6, instead of Club K, and thereby defeat the contract, West would win with Club 10 and return Diamond 10 which Esal would pARE Even if Bouth ducked the trick, West would still make a Henzi, giving E-W four tricks to defeat the contract..
Are You Mature?
A
ANSWER
See Pare 3
N (A) score to all the sixteen questions denotes childish be- haviour and (B) score denoles a Krown-up attitude,
If we score ourselves fairly and as others would see us I do not think any of us would get a complete (B) score and few of us ure so emotionally immature to be given A complete (A) if you have score. However, six or more (A) scores you are or less immature and if three you are much more mature than the average.
Imranture people tend to be more dependent on others and and consc- more cgocentrle,
though selish, quently more they may be impulsively gener- ous at times. They find it dim- cult to take a balanced attitude to life, to take its blows and re- wards with equal fortitude.
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