HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
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Dens Kiddies,--1 an afraid quite a farge the number of entrants did not rend
Many rules of last week's competition. entries, were received which were quite wrong because the entrants really didn't know what to the Powever, there were many correct entries and, after cateful consideration, 1 lave decided to award the prizes this werk to:-
Wah
Liberty
Wong Chung-chionn (aged 13). Yan College, 2, Robinson Road. Hernard Brown (aged 1), 4, Avenue, tomatin,
1. Wong (aged 64), 35, Jardine's Kazaar.
ment to
Coupons are being
the prize- winners which I want then to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices In The capons will then Wyndham Street.
be exchanged for money prizes,
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
.Age....
Sentors; daude Suen, Winifred Lum, S. K, Khan. Detty Becker, is Laurel, Lydin Rozaria, Paul Vessoons, Reynold Chirang. Stanley Pearce. Kan Yuri-hting, Joyee Word, Wobi Kan-cheunst. Eva Grady. Susan Gehring. William Mark, Therein Wong Yung- in Hora, Irene Osmund, tung, Wong Skul-cheung. J'eggy Helson. Freda Stephens, Ruby artemi, Charten Man-chan, Stephen Mose, Clark, lo Yeung Kit-wn, Henriqite Mendes. Aldn Mendes, Robert Fong.
Intermediates and Juniors: Thoun Suet. Cheung, Isabelle Spours. chink. Agne Perry Stick. John Haroon, losemary Langley, S. S. Bux, Chuzi . Khan, Jean Hunter. Richard Woodler, Gerald Mar- shall. Robert Haroon, Teresa Marcal, Ann Ifunter.
Frederick Woodier: The rules of these competillons state that rulldren who have
BRIDGE PROBLEM No. 86
This Week's Problem
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'SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1988
Trial by Dictation
66 TELL
Playfair.
Chatterley bur. Bald Joshua glory" "Chatterley?" said Sergeant Dumbell. "Slatterley you mean, sir."
"Slatterloy, is It?" anid Play- fair. "Sorry, I was thinking of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Funny, $89 that; I made the same mistake just now when I was talking to the A.C."
Dumbell lifted his eyebrows, It was not like Playfair to be careless about a name. "What were you going. to say about it, sir?"
Hearts are trumps. South leads and North-South have to win eight of the nine tricks.
Solutions by first post on Wednes day to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street.
SOLUTION TO NO, 15 South wins with king of hearts. North playing the ten. South leads h's club, and North wins two tricks in the mit. South discords diamond nine but West is squezed. If he let
hear! South will make two tricks in the suit by a nesse, if he throws a diamond both North's dia- monds will win as East has had te
No
discard a diamond. to sove a heart stopper.
"Why," said Playfair, "I've just been interviewing Sit Rupert. There seems to have been an extraordinarily com. prehensive haul."
Inspector Playfair
Episode 87
"He's not my favourite poet," said Dumbell. "In fact, air, I haven't, a favourite poct. I don't hold with poets at all. But if I may say so, air, you don't seem particularly de- pressed at your failure to discover any cluca."
than ten years' penal servitude to his account were sealed, suspiciously eyeing one another, in front of the Inspector's desk.
At algnal from his superior, Dumbell distributed writing pads and pencils,
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PUZZLE CORNER
Cryptogram
Here's a financial item in cryptic form:
FIN AFCCLM FRO FP NONMT- PSQN UFNV RFM OLWNV-LIA, XYLO, V ZFMN, VFZN FP 'NZ AFTO NONI BFZN SI, PFM OYN VLZN MNLVEI.
PLAYFAIR cleared his throat. "This," he said, "is not a
Letter Dlvalors The 10 letters in this letter parlour game-not, at any rate," he
all of you division problem, when properly ar smiled a list dentinention parade. ranged, will speil a 10-letter word,
but a sort of I presume that everyono here can the letters of which, in that order. represent the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, "I'm not," sald Playfair. "Depres-write? What I want to do, with
arithmetically: son should be confined to Iceland your kind assistance, is to dietate to 7, 8, 9, and G. But try solving It where I understand it always ori- you a short passage concerning o letter certain burglary, based on zinates. I don't approve of it at the
which
has recently come into my Yard. As I said just now, the induc-
I want you to pny tive approach yields nothing. But there remains, my dear Dumbell, special attention to your spelling. the deductive approuch-for which, 111 mention some, but let me be fair with you, I won't mention all, of the as you know, I've a weakness."
words in which I'm particularly Interested."
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UMBELL frowned. "I'm not Duite sure that I follow you,
"Good," sald Playfuir, "then 1 win my bet. A private het with myself," he went on, "namely, that that's exuelly what you'd say: Or let me explain.
"So I gathered from Inspec-sle." tor Thomson," said Dumbell,
GOOD deal of plate's been "A
lifted, continued Playfair, including some quite unique seven- teenth century
A mazer, for Instance that's not puzzle, Dumbell, but some kind of decorated bowl. All Lady Chatter-
Jewellery."
icy's
This problem proved comparative-bell- ly easy and I have too many correct sclutions to publish a Est although the number unsound is greater than
I expected. One actually opens with heart eight and West obligingly plays low (instead of the jack) to allow North to win with his ten.
celebrated their fifteenth birthday too old to send in entries,
are
This week, kiddies, we are going to have an old favourite: Yex, 'e a paint.
Inst competition. I knew you would like
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With your paints or crayons, colour
спл the above picture daily as you
FM in the name, agg and address coupon and send to Uncle Eddie, c/o "longkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street, befere pan on Wednesday. Three prizes Will again be given.
Uncle Exdia.
stuff.
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crossword
"By the deductive approach-i at- tach no importance to this particular terminology- mean tackling the thing from the other end. Chatter- ley Park-I beg your pardon, Dum- Slatterley Furk-ls been comb- What
And
ed and provides no clues. "Slatterley's," Interjected Dum-bell "Sorry, sorry, Lady Slatterley's then? Why, then we must ask our-
mitted this high-class crime? jewellery and the best of the ple- selves: Who's likely to have com- tures: 荊 Gainsborough
once we've got the answer to that Kneller, and, le quote Sir Rupert, 'some interesting examples of the question, we've something definite
to work on," Dutch school****
or so, a
"And any sort of clue," asked
it?" "as to who's taken
Dumbellant 1 may call the induc- crime is the list of suspects is a
"From tive angle, no. I mean to say that the burglar, or burglars, have left no evidence of their identity. Nor, where the prizes aimed at are, so to the highest category, speak. In should I expect them to do so.
"In other words, the job is de- finitely to quote your favourite poet Something attempted, something donc."
Problem No. 30
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Tomorrow will
be a big day, Mr. Dilton-tasting. your new retractable undercarriage design- we are all looking for
results. This company's Just got to producé. the fastest planes
FASTER
PLANES
"AT HOME
Testing
tomorrow, dear, and
I'm not too hopeful of
results. I've not. been working
well recently. I've
been so tined
Chief Engineer Dilton, head of the research department of a large aero- plane factory. was the most valued man in the firm. But one day things began to go wrong
Don't worry, "Tom, I'm sure t will be all
right!
CHESS PROBLEMS
Black
White
Nos. 59-60
White to play and mate in two.
Problem No. 40
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"Why, yes, sir," said Dumbell, "but surely-high-class and all as the pretty long one?"
"You're wrong" was the answer. it's t particularly
"As I started with an exhaus-
short one.
tive list of nearly thirty names, but on those a good deni of spade work has already been done, and, for one reason or another, I've eliminated all but four.
The four who remain-yet know my methods, Dumbell-are waiting now for what I may call the viva voce examination. These are they -arranged, us at present I keep my suspicions to myself, in alphabetical
order.
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"Fair," sneered Timothy Thick- beer, who know the Inspector of vld.
this supposed to "What's Guvnor? Kindness Week?"
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Three different 5-letter words may Playfulr blandtly." "Anyway, you'll be turned front and Work, EVE be doing a kindness to the Yard. below. Use all The words which I'm interested in, word: among others, are: mazer, Impudent, quality, abstraction, spaniel, replica, effrontery, heirlooms, assured and audacious.
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Then, here And he proceeded to dielate as follows:
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Find Two Numbers Find two consecutive number such that 1-7 of the greater exezeds 1-0 of the lesser by 1.
Ten "Isma" Here ure 10 "ism" words to be
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"The theft of the unique seven- teenth-century mazer is, Sir Rupert tells me, a particularly impudent identified, effort on the part of whoever has checked by way of example: taken
it. for its design and the
of its
workmanship are quality known to
everywhere. Hard- experts ly less astonishing is the abstraction of Sir John Kneller's portrait of a
Spaniel. There is # Lady with a replies of this work in the Wallace Collection and it is difficult to see how the thief who has had the
effrontery to take it can hope to gain anything by doing so, The owners great of Chatterley Park attach value to this and other heirlooms and stupid if audacious, crime is no the public may rest assured that this likely to go unpunished,"
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suspects Anished THE four
scribbling. Each of them. Pinyfair noted with amusement. looking as bewildered as when he first sat down. "That's all," he said,
"(1) Mr. Stanislaus Boorberry; (2) Mr. Charles Horatio Coughnaught" (what a name, Dumbell! We ought to be a Harley Street specialist; (3) Mr. Perry Hearnes; and (4) Mc. Timothy Thickbeer.
"Any of these chaps, as I daresay you'll agree, is capable of having done the job single-handed."
A few moments Inter. these four wortbles-none of whom had less
now ask Sergeant Dumbell to collect the scripts and shall hope-a hope which I'm sure, every innocent man shores that our little test will not be unfruitful."
ful, sir?" asked Dumbell an hour or "And has the test proved unfruit-
two Inter.
"By no means," was the answer.
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(Answers Appear On Page 15 Wide Spaces in the Heart i need wide spaces in my heart, Where Faith and I can go apart And grow serene.
Life gets so choked by busy living. Kindness so lost in fussy giving. That love slips by unseen.
"Mr. Charles Horatlo Coughnaught was arrested on suspiclon half-an- hour ago and iris preliminary inter- rogation has already given us several useful clues. I've not the alightest doubt that, in duc course, Mr. Coughnaught will be convicted."
Why was Caughnaught suspected?
Sclution on Page 15
NEXT DAY - THE TEXT"
AT THE DOCTORS
Exactly, Mr. Diltons. It's this waking tired that's holding you back
at your job." You sea, you burn up energy even while. you sleep-it takes 20,000 muscular efforts alone to breathe. If you're not replacing used-up energy, of course you, wake tired-that's Night Starvation.
I suggest Horlicks..
and so every night:
(KORENES
The humiliation of it..... can't think what went wrong... I've gone all to pieces lately. Oh, this tiredness, I even make up feeling tired!
Pirmise ME. TOM.
you'll go and see a doctor about it
White
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White to play and mate in three. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS Solutions to Problems $7-58 No. 57 Kt-K2 No. 581. XI-ins - Pxkt
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'I hope to goodness
Dilton has dona ·
a good job
with this new
design
I'm pretty
| confident.
He seems
to have got
into his
stride again
Lately
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A CONTRIBUTION TO SCIENCE, SIR!
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