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This week's problemis are
Quite
not too easy nor yet too hard, You Know?
with
40 total representing
good shooting.
Now on your mark-get set- taking two marks for go every correct answer, and blush- ing with shame if your total doesn't reach 30, which is zero mark.
9. No one should have lò ad- that he or she doesn't FIL
know that feeland belongs to:-
Norway: Sweden: Ger- many; Britain; Denmark; Russia; Poland. 10-Haw's your palette to- Well, the primary colours
1.-Perhaps you've never hæl day? to use a thermostat. but you are:-- ought to know it's an instru- ment fort-
Finding the latitude: dr. termining wind direction: mensuring altitude; Te gulating the temperature; keeping lea warn
2.-Whenever you! come ncross the word tantamount you take it in your stride, knowing: that it only means:--
As you were; the vory highest: the bottom one; in good condition; equiva- lent; never again.
3-By running the rule round a tennis court you can easily find ut that its maximum measures Full-size ments are (if it's a rourt-
theft X 501; 50ft X 2501; -75ft X Bort; 78ft X 360:
1.As a rule the number of matches in those little match books songs tobacconists give away with cigarettes is:-
60.
12: 15: 18: 20; 25; 30:
5. The largest liner launched in England was the
ever
Queen Mary; Mauretania: Queen Elizabeth: Titanie: Great Eastern.
6. When you drink coffer
you also swallow some less
Coeaine: tannin: nicotine caffeine; alcohol: opium. 7.The librettist in the fam- ous Gilbert and Sullivan con- birintion was:---
Gilbert: Sullivan. 8-Come right out into the open' like a man and prominee the word quay. It ist--
Kwi; kay; kway; kee: kwee; wharf.
Red, white and blue; red; black and yellow; red, yellow and blue; red, black and green; green. red and yellow.
11The statement "Action and reaction are equal and op- posite" is called the:--
Theory of Relativity: Darwin Theory: Einstein Theory: Third Law of Motion: Law of the angle. 12. The Answer to a simple addition sum is called the
Quotient; sum: divisor; dividend; adder; python.
One of the most mis quoted quotations in English iterature is te
Tomorrow to fresh fields and pastures nes: Tos-mor-. row to ne fs and pr fures fresh; Tomorrow ter fresh wouls atri pastures neww: Tomorrow to
woods and fresh tehis.
14. Sir John Sitnon is one of the bist ren in world affairs, his bol bovingt-
i
Foreign Secretary: Ambass sador Extraordinary; Minis- fer for War: Ambassador fo Herlin Chancellor of the Exchequer: Minister
for Munitione.
15. Herr
Hitler. Kompo's man of the moment, was born
Norway: Hungary: Ger- many; Austria: Czechoslova, Kia: Yaroslavja; Jerusalem.
117, The Jast king to l buried at Westminster Abbey was: -
Henry VI Gorog 11. I VII. W.
V. Chmel 1. George V
Certain
17.--Shooting an eagle at golf means beating bogey by:-
A stroke; two strokes; three strokes; four strokes;
nek.
18. To go to England's old- est colony you'd have to take a trip to:-
Sanioa; New Guinen; South Africa: Caunda; New- foundland; Nova Scotia: New Zealand.
19. The "pale" in the phrase "beyond the pale" refers to:
A district in Ireland; Re- served part of the Colos seum at Rome; Fashionable quarter of London; Ascot Royal Enclosure; what milk- maids use.
20,--The lines at right angles to the arms of the Nazi swastika point:
Clockwise; counter-clock-
wise.
21.--The Chamberlain family -Joseph, Austin and Neville have a pretty bright history in British
Prime polities. The Ministership was holt by :----
All of them; one of them: 4wo of the szt. 22.---Switzerland has a 161- tional dag and a very neat little piece of bunting it is, too. The design on it is:-
An eagle; a tion: a blue cross: A white cross; a red cross; a harp; an alp. 2.Only one of these modern authors is still alive:-
Rudyard Kipling: Thomas Hardy Arnold Bennett; Sir J. M. Barrie; G. K. Chester- ton; John Galsworthy; A. P. Berbert.
21-Surely you've heard of Savonarola, the famous:-
Court jester: liar: lover:
soldier; "sailor: porvachér¦ political intriguer..
25.- Composer Johann Strausa wrote some lovely music, but perhaps he is most popularly known as the writer of:-
The Merry Widow: The Maid of the Mountains: Pinafore: The Chocolate Soldier: The Blue Danube; Balalaika.
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938
Third Time Unlucky
Joshua Playfair, replacing his receiver," "was the post- master of Huckworth Parva." Dumbell was writ- ing up a report. "I beg your pardon, sir," he said. "I didn't quite catch that. The toastmaster of Huck- worth-Parva?"
"THAT" said
that sends
Inspector Playfair
Episode 85
charming adventuress supposes. Let me tell you her history,”
He took out a file of papers from a folder in his desk,
at
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"Four year ago. certain Mrs.
settled Fellheart "No, no, Dumbell. Not toast- master. Postmaster. The chap village called Uglanes, in Berk. your telegrams, shire. She entertained lavishly. issues dog-licences and sells was popular with the neigh stamps. Stamps, Dumbell. Also," ours. She had valuable jewel- added Playfair, in high good tery, heavily insured. One day, humour, "liquorice all-sorts, dungarees, safety-pins cheese. A varied and responsi. ble life, a village postmaster's." "So what, sir?" asked Dum- |bell, conscious, from the other's manner, that there was some.
to her professed astonishment, received A letter-an and she
anonymous letter-warning her that a dangerous gang was operating in the neighbourhood.
thing in the wind, and settling back, in his chuir to listen to his superior,
"So what?" echoed Playfair. "Why, the next thing. Dumbell, will be a phone call from the Police Superintendent at Lone- Jany. Lonebury, you 200 the centre from which Huck- worth Parva la policed.”
is
"And what," asked Dumbell putting the obvious question- "will the phone call be about?"
"TH venture a prediction The Superintendent will tell me, I imagine, that Mrs. Blayde-Bar- raw, of Huckworth Towers, re- erived yesterday an anonymous letter-threatening her with the loss of her valuable jewellery, This, like a good citizen-1 don't care, do you for the clumsy word
citizeness'--she at oner gorted to the police. The boys in blue promptly took action, but arrived--alast-to hate. The jewellery had alrealy gone! As For Mr. Blayde Barrow, they found her chained up in a cellar or, more likely, bound hand and fool 011 It comfortable
settre.
"My heart bleeds for that woman, Durabell, when I think of what she'll have been through. Yes, positively bleeds for her.. I hope she won't have too had a time in Hello- way."
“Look here, sir.” said Dun- Felt. "I don't follow any of this. Do you mean you know the facts of the case, or is what you have told me pure conjecture? And where does the post master come iu? Did he write the anonymn- ous letter, or is he in league with the jewel thieves?"
"Dear me, no, Dumbell. What Shocking things to suggest! I'ni surprised at yen! And as for what I've just been telling you, it is as you surmise-pure conjecture, Conjecture
based.
on a pupular truism, that bis- tury repeats itself.
"You see, I know more about Mrs. Blyde Barrow than that
BRIDGE PROBLEM No. 83
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Solutions by first post on Wedne iday to Bridge Problem. Hongkongi
Telegraph, Wyndham Street.
SOLUTION TO NO. 82
"She took it to the police. The superintendent advised her to deposit the jewellery with her bank, but, before she could do
50.
the
Fellheart,
'dangerous stang' materialised. Mrs. alone in the house, was--accord- ing to her story overpowered by two masked strangers.' They tied her to a chair, thang a sack over her head, and de- camped with the jewellery.
"A curious episode, Dumbell, For the jewellery was never re- covered and the masked stran- gers' were never seen again."
"Al the insurance eom. pany?" asked Dumbell.
Mrs.. Fell-
"Coughed up forty thousand pounds. Which was shared--1 suspect-between heart, alias Mrs. Blayde-Barrow, and the admirably trained mid- servant, a certain Elinor Jones, who, presumably, tied her mis- tress up before taking her ower afternoon off."
"i get you." said Dumbell. “A frame-up. But nothing that anyone could prove."
was
assault on poor Mrs. Duplessis the letter to Mrs. Blayde-Bar- when she was all alone in the
row; It was posted in London on house. This time, if I remem- Tuesday. My congratulations ber rightly, she
found, on that, Inspector. As soon as gagged, in her bedroom. And, Mrs. D.-B. cùme along with that as before, there was no trace of letter I arranged to have her the marauders who had gone house watched. No one entered off with her jewellery. She re- her insurance reived, from people, something over sixty thousand."
"And do you mean," asked Mrs. Fellheart Dumbell," "that and Mrs. Duplessis were one and the same person ?”
"I am sure that they were one and the same person, but it was devilish difficult to prove, Dumbell. A woman who wants in change her appearance cân dy quite a bit in two years. But when I saw how similar in detail the two occurrences were, I had taken and I filed for reference -Mrs. Duplessis's finger-prints.
"And I got into touch with various insurance concerns and asked them to keep me informed of heavy country, insurances on jewellery. In this way, three months ago, I learned about Mrs. Blayde-Barrow. She stands to gain his time about £98,000 -what do you say to that?
friend the postmaster. I got Next, through the agency of our copies of her finger-prints. She is, without question, the same person as Mrs. Duplessis."
"And so now you expect-" began Dumbell. But at this point the phone bell rang. "It's reported Play- as I expected," fair. "listen-in on the extension, Dumbell. The Lanbury police."
"That Inspector Playfair?" said n voice. "Superintendent Goswell speaking. You've al ready heard from Humby about
or left it after her return until, about three, the muid, Jones, emerged and went off along an unfrequented lane towards Lonebury. Sergeant Drew then entered the house, and, treading very softly, went up to Mrs. B.-B.'s room; here he found her jewel boxes rifled-the jewel-' ery. I don't doubt, was de-
posited elsewhere some days
go-and Mrs. B.-B. Uled up on her bed, and, unfortunately for her self, blindfolded. Drew is a bit of a wag—a leading light al amateur theatricals--and, as he knows the mald Jones fairly well, he could not resist bringing off " coup. Imitating the maid's voice. he said: 'Some- thing's gone wrong, madam; the police are watching the house,
"What, shrieked Mrs. B.-B., the police already! Then quick;
untie me at once, Elinor; we
haven't a minute to lose. The rest, of course, was simple, both Blayde-Barrow and the maid are now in custody."
"I wish I'd been there," said obviously much Playfair. amused. "Nice work. Goswell, any way. By the way, there were no prints on that anony- mous letter? No?--I thought there wouldn't be. Run up and see me to-morrow, will you and all the evidence. we'll go into
I wonder where Blayde- Barrow has dumped her jewel- Tery?".
What part had been played by the postmaster, Humhy, in aamasking the conspiracy?
Solution on Page Three.
PUZZLE CORNER
Conducted by Puzzlesmith
Cryptogram
"Quite so," said Playfair. “A frame-up. Let ing resume my story. Two years later, a Mrs.
anoth Duplessis appeared, in part of the country. She, too, had valuable jewellery-insured, of course, with ruits a
To-day's cryptogram reference different company, from that which Mrs. Fellheart had to a modern type of industry. patronised. But the circum- the products of which are de- stances of the earlier affair signed for our comfort: were almost exactly repeated. RAISTUVAXATUAUY STU- There Was once again the anonymous letter, the conscien- tions appeal to the police, the
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with the king of a low diamond spules. The ace of spatles is then) Jedi Mast is thrown in with the low space, North discarding a heart. The club tead yields the dummy tricks, on the second of which West is aquenzeri.
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
White
Nos. 53-54
Problem No. 53
7 Pieces
TE
8 Pieces
While to play and mate in two.
Black
White
Problem No. 54
8 Pieces
R Pieces
White to play and mate in three.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
Matutions to Probtrinx 51-12
No 31
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A Betagram
In a hetagram, each line de- fines a word. each word being letters composed of the same with the exception of the second letter. For example, if the first word were STONE. the second might be SITONE or SCONE:
To get a bake or roast, use
ONE:
TWO, when yoked, can draw
a Lon;
Expused and frank will give
us THREE
And FOUR'S a sign, as you'll
agree.
Letter Juggling
Try forming two different 5-letter words from the 5 letters below. Use all 5 letters in ench word:
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5
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Kint
dişinich
Nax
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Kany
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9
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