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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Of Course You Know,
But Are
Take two points for cach correct answer--and you must total 30, or you fail. A 40 total is very good, and a 50 -a miracle.
By the way-it is held by most authorities that the Great Auk is extinct-the last one seen was nilve in 1842 In future I will not regard any Auk as "Great." The lesser ones live in, and that's n fact,
You know where a bee gets Rs honry, but the place where it iiven is cuffed anj
Avaris; apiary, armadillo, abbey, apiaryi apiculus.
2.Habeas Corpus is a term for which you ent have no exeuse for not knowing that it means" -
A busy body, an old corțane, produce the body, the holy in the bag. 1ere take two pouls for knowing Australia became a Commonwealth in
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they are boats trading between puits
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in diferent States;
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Canada
and Austraila; In the wise Slate
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a feneva you'd expect the barmaid to give your
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A long glass of beer, a whisky and fime,
pin, rum and raspberry, skpence change
The aim is a leguminous tree bec alise it
Bas bark, flowers inte
quite 1210KN =
bearing begra jauda, loses its leaves
I've heard certain parope dewashed as vixens,
but strictly speaking a vixen is u
Young gout, baby for, female fox
for: fur's latr
male
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tidental you'd know he wat
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Without teeth, of the Western reord
born 1 Asker, by the life
When folk talk about making the wetkin were talking
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ulut unless you karw the welkan was
A disker gong, a Are alorm, the skp UN skelased valley, a dud cou
101 someone starts talking about peat, look wise and tell them you know post is
fuel, a
Jane pret
A vegetable; a short for Peter. 11- was Interested but rather read the other day that a tea to classed as
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An animal, a fish, a reptile: an insect
If a farmer has 240 bushels of wheral
You Sure?
to
13. If you weren't feeling up to it and suddenly you came across a lemming, you could hardly be blamed for saying:-
The council ought to remove this before there's an accident; Darn you-you best. rowing ratlike rodent; I dislike monkeya;
I prefer oranges to lemmings,
14. You've read about the Cyclops (1 hope). Then you'll know that if he had suffered fron falling eyesight he would have found most use- ful:...
1 pair of binoculars; hornrimmed speriacles;
lorgnette; prince-nem monocic
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15.One of these in not included imong the shens of the Zodia
Leo Sagittarius: Scorpio; Orion; Ac- quarius
In the old days my family boasted a card- 10 wiiget in their midst He was at
SUK merchant; rop manufacturer; shoemaker; wheeleright; blindmaker.
Before Delhi became capital of India 1914, the copital wast
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Bombay Madras, Aura; Calculta: Patun Colombo
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flag ist
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noted for his aphorisms is rated
cocktails he can recitations, screen star sayings, his clean collars
imitations: pithy
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kudu Just behind you There's at kadu is
An African natire, bananalike fruit an enti curse, an animal, a vegetable,
Perhaps you don't sing ught to know it is pronounceri
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bart
yest
As it apelt; messo, mes-ka, meilzo; with a mid biecough.
Don't try it
Just like my word for it that
if you threw one each of these from a top floor
window one would be unable to by namely
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Skua, shrike, shrews; atakin; shap.
The world's remind Test cricket score made by Bondman at Laeds in 1930 was
287, 201: 424, 452 334; 304
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he puts them into the regulation wheat bags, the
number of -bags he will have
pny) will be about...
50; 120: 30; 40, 108,
fif he doesn't spill
square miles Bellain owns most country
Derania (including Australia): Africa: North Amerten (uetuding Canada); Asia; Europe.
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"OVALTINE' Please!"..
MILK BAR
OVALTINE'
HOT OR COLD
.....the. Popular Choice
at
MILK BARS and CAFES
Owing to
the great popularity of 'Ovaltine and the countless requests enthusiasts, reecived from 'Ovaltine' arrangements have been made to make 'Ovaltine' available at Restaurants and Cates.
So, whenever you are away from home --wherever you go-you can be certain
cup of obtaining your ginss or
of 'Ovalline'. When the weather is warm, order your 'Ovaltine' served cold, its cool, creamy deliciousness will be a revelation to you.
Remember, 'Ovaltine' has no equal for rapidly restoring energy and vitality -and for keeping you fit throughout a tiring day. And remember, too, that 'Ovaltine" has special properties which, when added to milk, make the milk delicious, digestible and inuch more Bourishing.
But be sure it is 'Ovaltine'—¡here is definitely nothing "just as goed".
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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1933
INSPECTOR
"CAN assure you, Mr. Lamb, that we're doing our ut-
most."
Joshun Playfair's equanimity has been sorely tried by the
vective.
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in
PLAYFAIR
EPISODE
the on
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He still fashions 7-the digit 7-in the continental way; you know- with a stroke across the tall. I've a hunch that that habit is likely to be Kling's undoing. Sooner or later there'll be n 7 in one of these anony
speech to which he had just Dumbell, who was writing in a corner dual disposition. It might be the mous letters, and mark my words of the room. "Sorry, Mr. Lamb," schoolmaster; it might be the vicor;'--it'll have a crossed tall. And that been listening. For
brow darkened. Conrad
tie suid, "that we're not giving more it might be me. It might even be my be the end of my autoost Anastasius Lamb, Chairman of Entisfaction. But one must sit some- Dr. Parsons-no one, after all, knows
withdraw the harsh words that I the Stunsall Green Parish where, you know-at any rate, when more about the village than he does." luck to you, Inspector," he said. "I Council, was one of those gentle one's taking notes--and,
whule, It's a sound plan to keep calm. Pisyfair looked at him sharply. used at the beginning of this inter- men who pride themselves, not Come, air, let's review the evidence
"Do you know Parsons well, Mr. View. You're a man of brains after all. Do you know, before you men- once more, and see what construc- Lamb"
tioned him, I hadn't thought of Kling: only on their eloquence, but on
You'll notice letters now you do mention him, I'm "Intimately. in- live ideas emerge."
gure their resourcefulness
For the fourth or fifth time, the have been sent to lilm-just as they you're on the right trail, King is n They betray beast-there's a lot i could tell you two men pored over the anonymous have to the rest of us. letters. They were typical specimens an extraordinary knowledge of his about him-and I hope he gets what's coming to him." He held out hils He had a high, narrow, fanatica) of a hateful craft; written, obviously, circumstances."
"Do you, in your own mind, suspect hand to Playfair and took his leave.
幽 forehead and a querulous drooping by same unhappy sadist with all too
Lamb
Kome thought hard for Moustache. And he had just been complete a knowledge of his neigh him
natonished Four days later an Kiving Inspector Playfair, credited bours' lives and futerests.
innutta. Then: Frankly," he said. Dumbell learned from his superior
that the case was at an end. representative of Scotland Yard, his opinion of Scotland Yard's deficien-
"Listen, Mr. Lamb," said Playfair "I don'!."
This conference of
Dumbell was delighted. "Was it ties.
It was Playfair's turn to cogitate. after a pe
Then, suddenly, he shut onother Kling, sie?' he asked. "Did your offends
"Mr. Lambs hunch turn out to be correct? "It
Inspector" his ours is confidential-isn't it?"
"Secret as the grave," said Lamb question at the other.
There Was no answering
Emile perorntion ran-" offends me, both
"On your stle and on mine. Then have you thought of Kling?" In a citizen und as a taxpayer, this
Lamb was star
alarties.
from the Inspector. "A nasty case, "Klink?" "The gratuitous parade of administrative tell me--in this strict confidence-
He's come, pack your bags; let's get out electrical engineer.
No, it wasn't Kling, Dum- incompetence. We have" he rolled for, after all, in a position of authority
lived in Stunsal Green for twenty of here.
But he was brought up, belt. It was Lamb. Conrad Ands- his eyes expressively-"a potson pen tell me there's anyone you mus
four years. in our midst. Homes
being peet."
I belleve, on the continent. Here taste Lamb. The magistrates bave tonocent *1 wrecked:
wouk! blighted: hupes
and there in these letters, Mr. Lamb, refused him bail, and I esn't pretend
traces of continental script, that I blame them." I set
Hew had Lamb given himself awap? And I'll tell you something about
(Solution on Page Three) the Kling-in
me.
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Lamb saici gladly." Iven blasted. And yet you sit there gomily, "if I'd anything definite to It might be anyone. Inspee- and calmly tell me that you're doing go on.
know For you
how this morbi all you can."
Playfair winked imperceptibly at eraz to hurt is often une facet of a
Will Europe Become
FOR
KR some 40 days in England there It caused the raising of farm prices, the impost-
102 tion of water restrictiona
Leen the centre of civilisation which had built vast, fair eities in the midst of flourishing plains
towna, the closing of golf courses and Buried in Sand playing feltīs, aust, if it had con- ned, wold have meant the shutting down of severnt farlo ES
The official stock prices show that all fart products have risen several ports and in parts of the country many farmers are faced with ruin
Is this the first phase in a cycle of droughts which will culminate in Europe bevorning a second Sabara" It seems scarcely feasible, vet ex- ifrers and scientists have discovercet that once what are now deserts were fluwers where carthly paradies bloomed, crops grew, vegetation of all kuds flourished, and life was plenti-
ful
The dreaded Gobs Dews!, for ne
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For many centuries the Arabs have had a legend of a lost etty in the Salioru
a place of gleaming while palaces and temples, sparkling Then tus, and lovely gardens came the catastrophe that covered It blew the whole and with sand.
and Sem- | tato palace arvi muistam
ple; it covered the fields and buried the trees; I choked the rivers, sud bursed a great prosperous ined to a of 40 feet above 11N hughest depili of buildings
That is the legend, and a basis of truth lies in it, for in 1924 Professor Renato Burloetta came across melt city in the hinterland of Tripoli deep buried in the sand, which had euvered the buildings with a deadly stance, where water is unknown, and and protective mantle, keeping the the smallest cloud rarely hides the fate of a burning sun, and was once covered with luxurious vegetation, so abundantly provided with human requirements that experts consider it the cradle of manking.
The Sahara Desert, too, has not always been a barren, sandy waste. but was once a land of plenty, capable of supporting thousands, and to have
stone in a marvellous state of pre-
servation,
Could such changes as have in the past transformed the fare of the earth becue again? Could Europe become a vast desert dotted here and there perhaps by an occasional nasts, but otherwise waterless, barren aren, the grave of the races that made the greatest of a civilisations”
Girls' and Boys' Corner
Name
Address
Dear Riddler.
This to all my own work
The Ink tot competition must Enve been a wee bit too hard for most of you as there were very few entries receive thin week. Some entries wefe definitely faked and that was what I ask. ed you not to do. However, there were Fone very good in blot pictures which were really ever so funny to look at.
The winners this week AFD- Beryl Goldenberg (aged 13), 5, Cameron Road, Kowloon and David Aache (aged I), Bl. Stephen's College, Stanley.
Am sending coupons to Beryl David which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraphi" offices in Wynd- ham Street. The coupons will then be axchanged for money prizes.
and
Ho Bhuk-chun, June Moss, Antonio Souza, Mary Grace Asche, Eva Grady, Anderson Yeung Kil-wa. Jacqueline (Benlöre) and John Jan, Feter Coom (Junior) sent in really excellent entries for which I want to give them th recvmendation.
Good lak-blot pictures were also ment in by Diana Bardoon, Daniel Choy. Charles Foster. Hida Bogres. Rolly Clemo rlian Claire Lim, Aurea Mar Lindquist Vicky Mass, John Anderson, Ho Man- Charles Edward Clark, Violet Hope
Sentors); Apuddy da Motta, Joyce Dut- leries, Gerald Marshall (Juniors),
Aurek Marqun: Thank you over so much for the excellent drawings you ment to me a week.
Jacquelins Anderson: We will try your competition, sometime soon.
This week, we are going to have th ever-popular colouring competition. The
Aro
make
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wallowers abown above will delightful picture when you have colour- ed them with your paints or crayons,
When you have finished the picture and its decurative bartier, cut it out and paste it smoothly on to a postcard. FA In the name, age and address coupon and send your entry to Uncle Eddle, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", before 4 pan, on Wednesday.
Now, before eloxing to-day I have sumo "very Important news for you.
tenne rend it very carefully.
As the number of entries received for these competitions hAD been growing rapidly, it has been decided to increase Inter- the ection to three-Senior, mediate and Junior. The age limit for the Rections is, as Totlow:-
Junior: Under
age of seven
years.
to
Intermediate: From Roven years under the age of eleven years.
Seniors: com eleven years to 14 years,
will enable you to have a fairer cliance of winning the prizes and not have younger kiddies competing against older children,
It fix bem decided to re-xilot Bo prites as follows:
Hentor: #1
Intermediate: 3 Juntor: $2
Uncle Edidia.
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strictest
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coußdence
a Sahara?
The answer is that such a trans- formation can Lake place, and, though remote as far as we are concerned, probably will.
Tropical Conditions
The secret of the change lies in
pre¡ the powers of the wind. The
vailing winds of Cheat Britain come Trom the south-west, bringing mois-
Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
a quip from the Washington Post on present-day business conditions forms the basis of to-day's crypto- Krain
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Word Dainond Wolds are to be led to which rend the
ture from the Atlantic, and as longame scross and town
will as such winds blow this fand see little change. But the slow, In- evitable ageing of the earth brings many changes, and just as there was a time when the Polar fee-cup ex- tended aver
great part of Britain. in the course of evolution there may come a time when tropical eon- ditions will return to be followed by drier and drier cycles of weather, un- ti this fand becomes another Sahar or Gobl
The change is gradual, but the sn habitants of these Islands will see it coming in the constant return of day. hot summers and practically raintess winters. Such conditions will become until. pronounced more and more perhaps, in a few thousand years a Will begin 1x1 prolonged drought
health and life and bring realisation that the time of the green Beld, the pleasant pasture, the wood and the copse is finished."
menace
May not this drought be the herald of the approaching change?
In
WILA
time
in our own country we have *xample at how sand can destroy. 100 the fertile region of Culbin, the
Firth, south coast of the Moray averwhelmed by sand. From that The Culbin Sands have been one of the drearient and most desolate spola in Britain. The catastrophe came suddenly and without warning. The drift of mand. tike net river of destruction, came on teadily and ruthlessly. creeping over Held after field, and burled Cullin.
About a hundred years ago a strange
Then nin
Anoret thing happened sitty, and in its midst appeared an old mansion. Its roof and chinbeys standing sanda. out in eerie fashion Above the
much For some weeks it was visible. drended by the local
und
inhabitants.
the the and returned once more. Not since then has the mansion of Culbin been reen again.
Though that catastrophe Was purely fucal, It was analogous lu the loss of the
lien now flourishing land that once beneath the sands of the Sahara and Gobl deserts, where such winds as blow bring nothing but the hot breath of death with them.
Carel Nautman
CHESS PROBLEMS
Nos. 15-
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Black
White
16
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B Pieces
White to play and mate in two.
NO. 16
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Driecen
Wiste
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4 Pieces
White to play and mato in three.
D A letter. 2 uly water, (3) To atrike with oven hand, (9) Squirted, (5)
wires The large cranierry (4) Aerial trade) (72 trinh pennants. ) Turklei measure of leath, 7th Vowel
Letter Juggling Try farming different 5-letter words Uar a D from the 3 lettern.given below. Fetters in ench word.
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What Was the Pricef A certain tenber of extita cont $1. There had been 10 more eggs at the same
they firler.
woukl have cost 6 cents less What was the dozen CKENZ
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陆 price of
Answers On Page 1.
Bridge Problem
No. 63
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Solutions, by first past Wednesday to Bridge Problem.
then
SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 62 Last week's problem was a teaser, and no correct solutions were received. The play Is: after North wins with Queen nine Dinnonda Chib, he puts through whaleh West must cover, South leads Ace bundes, followed with our Clubs which North taken with six Clubs, then lends Queen Spaden, which West must cover. and South trumps with Ace Clubs, lends even Clubs which North win with stne, who lends five Diamonds, won South with seven, who jende Jack Clubs. and North discards Queen of Hearts. then South then leads King Diamonds.
with four Diamonds which North wins
West Arn Queen And both East and squeezed. North can lead ten Spades to be trumped it overtaken by West, which makes his other spade good an o han re-entry with Heart Ace.
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