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1. Headquarters of the French Foreign Legion are att—
Parta
Marseilles
Algiers
Diakra
Sidi-bel-Abber
Marrakesh
2, Who were the "Four Just Men"
of the famous novel:-
Manfred
Chicot
Cahusac
Rivoll
Gulden
Poiccart
Gonzalez
Thery
3. To which saint is Westminster Abbey dedicated?
John the
John the
Reptirt
Evangelist
Matthew
Mark
Peter Paul
Luke
4. In Greek mythology, Zeus was the king of the rods. His consort
was:-
Aphrodite
Hestia
Athene
Demeter Hera
5. What were the Romon numes given to the Greek god fermes and goddess Athene?
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
Juno Minerva Venus
6. Which country does New Cale- donia belong to: -
Japan
U.S.A
Frante Belgium
Holland
7. Which of these survive.--
Old Baller
Marshalsca
Doc bra'
Солтон
Fleet Prison
Lincoln's Ins
Court of Arches
8. The first man to reach the Sauth
Pole was
Amundsen
Bellingshausen
Columbus
Nansen Scott
Shackleton
D. A ship files her national flag:--
Altern
At main mast
At the foremast On the proto
10. A saurion is at-
Peasant in the Balkans
13. The most numerous refugees are the
Bulgars
Armeniana
Greeks Turks
Ruarian Whites. Basque chlidren
were the Jews first
14. How described:
ม
Jews. Hebrews, Israelites
wiiin'" runs 15. "Barkis is famous quotation.
What
WOS
he
willing to do:-
Join the Pickwick Club
Elope with Philemon
Marry Peppotty
Have a drink with Arthur. Pen-
dennir
Fight Long John Silver
10. In which cities are the follow-
ing Important railway stations:--
(4) Snow Hin
(b) St. Enoch
(d) Landon-
road
(e) Linic-s Teet
17. One of these was a group of Teutonic warlike tribes that overran Europe in the 8th century:-
Barbarians Hun
Vandals Tarlars
1. "Now who will stand on either
hand,
And keep the bridge with me?"
asked Horntlus. Who did?
Polonius
Scrhis Augustus
Herminius
Pelagia Spurus
Lartis
10. Which of the following coun- tries, is included in Scandinavia:-
Norway
Lapland
Denmark
Sweden Finland
Holland
20. What part of speech word "not":---
Verb
Noun
Adjective
Adverb
Pronoun
Preposition
(Answers on Page 3)
Is Le
Clothed Kitchener's
Follower of a Greek school of Army, Left £153,000
philosophy
Surgical Instrument
Small berry
Species of Izard
11. The longest river in Europe Is
Rhine
Danube
Volga
Elbe
Tagus
Shaynon
12. Where is the scene of
Shakespeare plays:---
(a) Othello
(b) Romeo
and Juliet
(e) Comedy o Errora
these
(d) Midsummer
Night's Dream (e) Winter's
Mr. George Read Glanfeld, of Pinner House, Pinner, Middlesex, of the firm of G. Glanfield and Son, who, with his wholesale clothiers, brother the late Sir Robert Glanfield, earried out the War Offer con- tract for clothing Kitchener's Army, left £153,149 10s. 4d (net £147,087 118. Bal.).
£1000 to
WEEK-END SECTION
WEEK-END PROBLEMS
THE ORAL EXAMINATION NACH of five candidates for a
scholarship Was orally in five subjects.
FACE
FIVE DIGITS ❝LJERE are five brass discs,"
examined! "Hd Cheriboy. "Each bears
There was a different examiner In each subject, so it was dificult to arrange for the five examina ilons to proceed simultaneously.
Thus the History examiner bo- gan with Clara, while in the next room the examiner in French was putting Dora through her paces. The History examiner subse- quently dealt, in turn, with Bella, Ella, Ade and Dora; while the corresponding sequence of
French was Ada, aminces in Clara, Ella and Bella.
While Bella was with the His- Lory
Clara expert.
being was examined In Geography: and when Bella's turn for French come, Ella
was facing the ex-
ex-
aminer in Geography, and when Belin's turn for French came, Elle was facing the examiner in Selence.
The first girl seen by the Eng- iish examiner was Bella. In what order did he interview the other four?
A Lay Sermon
All God's people need to guard against the danger of being am
diminish does not bushed, It with growth in grace: on the contrary, It increases, for the bet ter a man is and the more com- plete his
the armament,
more will the enemy avold open battle and neck instead to snare him.
Never forget, then, that the kellest place for an ambuen s the place where you least might They mark my expect . "They them- steps when the ther
together wait for my soul selves
PSALM Ivi 6. they hide them- selves, they mark observe your steps." They habits and lay their plans accord- ingly. You don't need to take the wrong road to fall ambush; they will be waiting for vou on the right roud, and per- haps at the spot where you feel you are safest,
into an
If this is so, what must you do?' Watch and pray, but particular-
What ly watch the "safe" spots. the
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n different digit. In connection with same, I've devised a little gamble."
"What is 117?*
"I put them in this velvet bag and give them a good shake, Then You you can draw them out. multiply together the first threa digits drawn; then you multiply together the remaining two. The rum of those two products is the number of pennies you get from me."
"What is the most I can get?" "£T 103. Od."
"And how much do I pay fo the chance?"
"'12s. 6d."
If I accept Cheeriboy's offer, do stand to win or to lose?
Bolutions on Fare Three
BRIDGE PROBLEM
No. 87
This Week's Problem
4K JD70
♦ Nil ++67
♣ NIL
❤ 9 7
+96
N
W E
AQJ4
S
3 2
J 5
+ Q
• 70 +K J.
Hearts arc trumps. South leads and North-South have to win four of the eight tricks.
SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 86
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938
The Philatelists
"I SUPPOSE, sir," said Ser- geant Dumbell, "that if that crisis had turned into some- thing different you'd have been transferred to the Secret Sor- vico ?"
Inspector Playfair Episode 88
sheet of penny reds that Wur- zer sent over went military and naval information; but thirty or forty other chaps, also send- ing sheets of stamps to Klung, were as innocent ns you or I," each of the stamps on the plate, "And how did you find all this from which its sheet was print-out, sir?" ed. The first row are all A
"Well, it took a
long time: er stamps-AA, AB and so on; the and much winnowing, so to next row are B stamps, and so speak, of chaff. In the end, we it
on through the alphabot. And
"Conceivably," answered the as Playfair drily. "But essence of secret service is --secret service, we'll leave at that; don't you think?"
"Sorry, sir," said Dumbell, feeling somewhat snubbed, "but everyone knows you were S.S. in the last war, sir, 80 I thought,
guilt."
thus a collector, if he's interest set up a hypothesis that Wur- ed enough, can build up a com- zer was illicitly sending Infor plete sheet. But there's much mation to Klung-and then we more than that to it, Dumbell. verified it, independently of the Over 200 plates, in all, were you see, we defined our problem; stamp business. In that way. used for the printing of these stamps, and every stamp bears, to establish the fact of Wurzer's as part of its design, the num- "Quite so, quite so. We'll say ber of the plate it was printed
"What do you mean, sir," no more about it.... It was
from. So now you see what asked Dumbell, "when you say good fun, in the last war," Play- fun the collector can have. that you verified your hypo- fair went on reminiscently. "There are altogether thousands thesis 7" worked at what young Crad- upon thousands of distinguish-
"I mean that we satisfied our- dock, who had 2 flair
able penny reds." for
selves, beyond the shadow of a Dumbell was excited. "I be doubt, that Wurzer was the Spoonerisms, always referred to
gin to get the iden, sir. Klung, guilty party. That wasn't dim- aa sky-patching."
in Brussels, was a spy, with cult. We planted certain bogus "Sky-patching?"
agents all over England, and 'facts' on Wurzer; then We collecting the penny reds gave traced to Klung their subse- him his excuse for continually quent dissemination. But we corresponding with them." obviously couldn't, on the "That's the idea," answered strength of that discovery, con- Playfair. "And the thing was viet Wurzer of espionage. We extraordinarily well done, Dum- couldn't, you see, prove the fact
of the communication." bell. Klung started operations some years before the war---to be exact, in 1907-and had built up an international reputation, as the penny red export some time before hostilities broke out. What more natural than that he should continue with his hobby after war had broken out? 'Business as usual,' and all that.
PLAYFAIR laughed. "You'll get there in due course, Dumbell, Sky-patching Is Spoon- erene for spy-catching."
"Of course," muttered Dum- bell. "Stupid of me. Like the fleas of the cat. Or.
"Yes, yes, Dumbell There are several well-known exam-
ples. Don't waste your time ones. trying to think up new Let me tell you; instead, about Wurzer and Klung, the philate- lists.
"Klung lived in Brussels. He was a famous stamp-collector, and he specialised, as many col- lectors do, in the English penny reda. Do you know the stamps I mean? They're line-engraved stamps-the finest we've ever issued-and they were printed, on and off, at various dates be- tween 1841 and I speak from memory-1879."
South leads spade queen and if Weat plays low North wins with king and follows with spade 10 which West wins, South discarding diamond ten. West leads another apade and South ruffs. South leads dia- mond nine and North wins with a finesse and returns trump eight which South wins, East discarding a dinmond. South" also wins with last trump and East has to choose between throwing his last spade or dia- mond. He throws the spade, North having discarded his club. When the Jack of Clubs is led by South, West is squeezed as between his spade and diamonds and whichever he retains North discards and wins the last two tricks, either two diamonds or a diamond and a spade.
There is also a solution with a trump opening so long as the spade lead is not unduly delayed and the same care is taken with the play of the diamonds con- cerning which many were re- miss.
DOTS SPELL YOUR STATE OF MIND
---Archbishop of York
Dots the things which the late Lord Randolph Churchill could never *nderstand, and which Mr. A. P. Her- bert wants abolished in Blue Books -dots are in the news again.
Presenting school prizes at the Royal Infant Orphanage. Wanstead, Essex, Dr. Temple, the Archbishop of York, said he thought the proper use of full-stops was of more importance Intellectually than correct spelling.
"Now spelling is one of the decen- cies of life, like the proper use of knives and forks," he said. "It looks slovenly and nasty If you spell wrong- ly, like trying to cat your soup with a fork.
"But intellectually spelling-English spelling-does not matter. Shake- speare spelt his nome at least four. Jifferent ways, and it may have puzzled his cashier at the bank.
- "Intellectually, stops malter a great deal. If you are gating your com- mas, semicolons and full stops wrong It means that you are not getting your thoughts right and your mind 300 muddled."
"I never could understand those damned dots," exclaimed Lord Ran- dolph Churchill in 1888 when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he was confused over some decimal points. In July this year Mr. A. P. Herbert drew attention in the House of Com mons to "the barbarous practice”, of putting full stops at the end of Par- Hamentary paper headlines.)
KNOW them, sir," said Dumbell. "They've got Queen Victoria's head on them, and letters in the four cornera.
used to wonder what the let-
ters
were for. For that mat- ter," he added, "I still do."
"Dear me," said Playfair. "The letters are casily explain- ed. They mark the position of
CHESS PROBLEMS
Nos. 61-62
Problem No. 61
"BUT you're wrong, Dumbell,
"No?" said Dumbell. "How, then, did you succeed in doing so?"
PLAYFAIR grinned. "It was
a devil of a business. Be- cause, you know, it may take a | long time to expose a really well- concealed code. Our experts naturally assumed, to begin with, that the statements which
test.
accompanied Wurzer's sheets of when you say that he had stamps contained his illicit mes agents 'all over England,' he sages. Their wording was sub- only had one agent-Wurzer. jected, time and again, to every Wurzer, who was shot in the conceivable Tower in 1917, collected all Then, of course, they
No result. Klung's information for him; I chemically tested, for invisible mean, he was the only Klung ink and so forth. Again, with-
out result. correspondent who was not genuine philatelist. With every
PUZZLE CORNER
Cryptogram
a
"ABC DEEF GBHIB JKEE FLBCF LEMKF OEA DNHO PEMQ RCNICSMK TCNK LB- NKK SHOF."-GBHAAHCQ.
were
"Next, we turned our atten- tion to the envelopes. These were full of possibilities, being made of a specially thick, woven paper. But they, too, yielded no surprises. And that, you ace, left only the stamps."
"The stamps on the enve- lopes?"
"No, no. We examined them, often of course-spies very
refer, make use of them. I however, to the sheets of penny reds. These were examined microscopically, chemically- soaked in acids, and boiled, and God knows what. But these My first is in bishop, but stamps, too, left Wurzer's hands
never in fane,
exactly as he found them.
An Enigma
My second's in never, but
lives not in vain,
My third is in trouble, the not
in despair,
7
My fourth is in kindness, but
In not in care,
My fifth is in badly, but never
in good,
My sixth's in
ragweed, but
isn't in heath, My seventh is in over, but not
in beneath,.
"HAD we not known that he
was engaged in espionage and through the medium of this perfectly genuine philately -we should have given Wurzer up as a bad job.”
"And how did he communi- cate with Klung?" asked Dum- bell. "Or am I supposed to work that out?"
"You're supposed to work that out," answered Playfair.
morning."
ma My eighth is in staying, but give you till to-morrow
White plays and mates in two moves.
Problem No. 62
White plays and mates in two moves.
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS #olations to' Problema 18-66 No. 59 K-RB No. 00. P-QU
not in remain,
My ninth is in titles, but
never in name,
My whole is a woman of
-nationwide fame.
Letter Juggling
Two different 7-letter words may be formed from the 7 let- ters given below. Use all 7 lettera in cach word:
EIILMS S
Find Two. Fractions Find two fractions, with numeratora 11 and 7, respec- tively, auch that their sum is 3-11/12, but when their deno- minators are interchanged their sum becomes 3-7/12.
More Books, and Their Authors Here's another list from n reader:
7. Tanity Tale 2 the Rivale
2 Lorne Boons
Meavenly mourne
opraia Alesd
& Robert K. Les 12 Pregraphy
Ktxr
2. Kt-B4
KI-55
19
ww
Bxp
1.XXP
& the Preat Meadow
berta
Vin Lega The STR Sheriff
Sheridan
BODE
Debutini Wpalivots
Blastere
(Answers Appear on Page 3).
What is the answer to Dum- bell'a question?
Solution on Page Three
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