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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Sure?
The "Hongkong Telegraph" Brains Test
Answers on Page Three
11. Where did they bury
(a) Nelson
(b) Washington
1. Which of these ard stars or constellations?
Great White
Southern Cross Dryads
(c) Francia
Way
Stor of India
Plough
2. Name
Great Dlulde
(a) Columbus's skip
(b) King Arthur's sword
(c) Don Quixote's hor8C
(d) Siegfried's dragon
(c) Password to All Baba's cave.
3. Cinnabar is n
Lassolng rope
Small lemon
Mineral
Ice cream saloon
Mexican Indian
haljbreed
Sailing ship
4. The English county that held
a black-out on Guy Fawkes Night
WILS
Hampshire
Durham
Lincolnshire
Nottinghamshire
Hertfordshire
Herefordshire
5. Which of these statements are true of a map drawn on Mercator's projection:-
(a) The lines of straight.
latitude are
(b) The lines of longitude curved.
arc
(c) The lines of longitude straight.
пте
(d) The lines of latitude arc curned.
6. In which of these orders of architecture do the capitals of the calumns have spiral serolis?
Duric Ionic
Corinthian
Tuscon
7. Which Biblical king reigned "trom India even unto Ethiopla":-
Solomon Ahab
Ahasuerus
Darius Cyrus Hezekiah
8. Czecho-Slovakia has ceded ter-
ritory to
Poland
Rumanla
Bulgaria
0.
Hungary
Jugo-Slavia
Germany
Which of these are alive?.
General
Pershing
Marshal Petain
Paderewski
Ignace
Von Papen
10. To go up
the Hoogly
you
Кетелику
would take u
Ladder
Jee are
Oxygen cylinder
Parachute Pilot
Drake
12. Geodesy 13
(d) Shakespeare (c) Napoleon () Mosca
An eple poem in Greck. Knowledge of horses
Measurement of the earth Bilionscas
13.
Where are
(a) Regent's Park
(b) Gramercy Park
(c) Yellowstone Park
14. What was the real name of
(d) Bos
(a) Melba
(b) Trotsky
(c) Voltaire
(c), George Eliot (f) Mark Twain
15. Which constituency Is repre- senied by
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Duff Cooper
(c) Anthony Eden
(d) Arthur Greenwood
te) L. S. Amery
16. Capercailzie is a
Scots reel: South American vol- cano; Racing car; Bird; New one- alep: Overcoat with a cloak attached.
17. Are there any British posses- sions On The mainland of South America?
No
Yes 18. Which of these were assassi- nated?
Abraham Lincoln: Henry of Na- varre; William the Silent; Walter Rathenau; Rasputin; Dollfuss.
Eount Italy
U.S.A.
Spain Libya Cornwall
10. To cross the Rubicon you would have to go to
20.
total size of their congregations the
Protestant Church: Roman Catholic Church; Orthodox Church,
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1938
INSPECTOR Death In
In The Conservatory
PLAYFAIR
EPISODE 90
A UNIFORMED polico- A bottle of champagne and two
man ran after Sergeant glasses had been taken into the ed
conservatory. From these all Dumbell as the latter was fingerprints had been carefully about to leave the Yard. removed. "The Inspector wants you upstairs, Sergeant," he said. "Something to do with this murder case."
For answer, his superior had the so-called treasure hunt have not some bearing on the murder. him a slip of paper.
"Suspicion renta on Mr. Ken- neth Cheame as the girl's prob-
CHARLES FRANCIS XAVIER ANTROBUSII,
FREELORN.
ROBERT AIME LEBYE.
absolutely
account
BRIDGE PROBLEM
This Week's Problem No. 88
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3
W
&
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K 10 9
K ID 3 AJ87654
Against a No Trump contract by South, West opened play with heart How many tricks should Jack. South win, and what is his best play? SOLUTION TÒ NO 87
W
THE HON. RONALD SIN. able murderer. (This statement,
Mr. Antrobuch, is CLAIR COOK. For the rust Playfair, who
STEPHEN NORTHCOTT confidential and on no spent two days at the scene of
must be disclosed to anyone the crime, had to be content with
Mr. HAS- else). Information as lo cigarette butts-which might
Cheame's movements, and as to have been almost anyone's-ind The murder of Millefleurs St. other equally inconclusive scraps
BRUCE ORNACK,
the part which he played in the 18 therefore treasure hunt, Porth at an all-night party neur of evidence." He took statements
"One of those five is the killer, Esher had been the sensation of from over 100 persons during his
"Such information should be the season. It was a party given stay at Leverett Castle, and Dumbeli. My questionings and urgently required.
communicated to Inspector Play- by Stephanie St. Porth, the dead spent two days more sorting it cross-questionings have made me girl's elder sister, to celebrate out. When he summoned Ser- quite certain of that. But, at fair, at Scotland Yard. If y
had reduced the moment, this 'short list is telephone, ask for extension C3. her engagement.
as far as I can get.
There were--50
+
geant Dumbell he
to his list of suspects to five.
game,
191.
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Sth D 6
Nth
D 4..
HQ
E D 8
C K
C 6
C 7
C 6 (n)
C 3
CJ (b)
НК
JI 7
S 6
H 2
D 7
DJ
$ 7
CQ (c)
I G
DQ (d) $ 9
H 3 (c)
(n) If East ptnys Q or J, S lets it
win, thus:
C 3
Ca
C 7
CJ
HK
1 7
S 0
1 2
CK
CO
C 8
C 5
H 6
11 9
S 7
H 3
If W leads a diamond, S makes
one more trick by either overtrump- •
SQ on E's Hi J. (b), (c), (d) and (e), all offer variations of play, but the whole problem eventually bolls down to West leading from the A-Q of diamonds, with East having J- hearts and South 8 hearts and Q
"All Mayfair," according
"And that's where my talk "That all?" asked Antrobush, the gossip-writers, had been
"Sit down, Dumbell." ho snid, present at this "orgy." There
with Kenneth Cheame has help. when Playfair had finished read- as the sergeant entered his room. was dancing in one ballroom and Ever play the murder game?" ed to clear the air. Kenneth, Ing the statement.
"That's all. You heard what you see, was the favourite. in a non-stop cabaret in another; there was an open-air treasure "No, sir," said Dumbell. "But what I may call the Millefleurs I said, Mr. Antrobush, that this hunt, beginning at the boat- I know how it's played; I think atakes. These other five chaps is absolutely confidential?"
"You can rely on me, Inspec- house and ending at the Geor. you've described it to me your were among his rivals-I think
we may say among his enemies." tor." gian belvedere; there were "real self."
In turn the other four SUB- Venetian" gondolas on the lake. "I expect so
This St. He took up his 'phone. "Send rumour had Porth affair is like the murder up Mr. Antrobush." "They're pects appeared and were sub- it-less reputable attractions.
Dumbell-except that all five below, Dumbell," be ex- jected to the same routine.
When the door had closed be- One wit
hind Ornacka muscullar youth had summed-up the there are scores of people in it, plained as he put down the in- night's entertainment as "Holly- and that half of them, for all I strument. "We'll see 'em one at whose brutal mouth was concealing E's low heart, or discarding the wood and mistletoe." Another know, are liars. Look at that," a time."
Charles Francis Xavier An- ed by a thick black moustache had alluded, vaguely, to Caligula, He pointed to a side table. It Arrange in the order of the
(Vaguely, of necessity; for he hore a stack of foolscup five
or trobush was a degenerate-look- Playfair turned to the sergeant.
"Get the idea, Dumbell ?" had had no time to verify who, six inches thick.
ing youth. As he sat in a chair,
"No, sir." or what, Caligula was.)
facing Playfair, he seemed any-
"No?" "Statements, Dumbell. State- thing but happy. "Another state- And at four in the morning,
"No," said Dumbell. "Why asked.
didn't you have them all in to- when the fun was at its height, ments by one hundred and thirty- ment, Inspector?" he
of one ut a Millefleurs St. Porth had been one of God's creatures, who "I've told you all I know."
Playfair made no direct Ans- gether, instead found murdered in an out-of- were coming and going at
He took up a typewritten time?"
"Dear me," answered Playfair, the-way conservatory. She had Leverett Castle the night that wer.
strangled. Half document from the table. "Mr. "You're not very bright to-day, been strangled. That the man- poor kld was ner of her death was murder, the seam of the West End was Antrobush," he said. "I am in-. and not suicide, the Home Office there, in tail-coats or Paris structed by the Commissioner to Dumbell. You can't have been read you the following state- listening very carefully to what experts had not the slightest frocks.
Please listen attentively. I was reading out."
That evening, shortly before doubt.
"I've got statements from ment.
"As a result of inquiries made and drug-
seven, Playfair received a phone. There was no apparent clue thugs, racketeers as to the murderer's identity, addicts; statements from kids during the last few days
too frightened to lie, and too mystery surrounding the murder call. Dumbell was with him it confused to tell the truth; state. of Misa St. Porth has been very the time and noted the underton working up a fool-proof case.
But the of antisfaction with which he
Watermelons Soothe
Indians
Fort Hall, Ida. Thirty-tive braves, exccuting the strange Shoshone dance of "waving up the sun," made as much fuse as did Saby Rand about being photo- graphed. Lowever, they were more easily appeased because the promise of 24 watermelons put them back in a good humour.
SHOULD HUSBANDS AND WIVES HAVE SEPARATE FRIENDS?
יין
'I'm just going
out for an hour, dear. I want.
to see some
of the boys
NEXT MORNING
I know it's all right
Jim having his own friends, Mother. It's the modem idea,) but it does worTY me- I see so little of him
AT THE DOCTOR":
Oh Jim, I wish
you didn't go out so often in the
evenings. I see so little of you these
days
These modem theories are all very well Ann; but when I was young we'd say that a man
who stayed out in the evenings usually
· had a dull,
lifeless wife
at home
You say you always wake tired, and feel washed out and duli, that's bound to tell on
your looks. Your trouble is Night Starvation. My advice is,
'Horlicks at bedtime
2 EVENINGS LATER
Sorry I can't be home for dinner darling- I've got to attend that Sports Club
Committee tonight. I'll have a bite
in town
THEN ANN READ A MAGAZINE ARTICLE- IT SAID:
"Too many wives feel constantly tired, list- less and nervy. This tells on their looks frightfully."
SO HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT
HEAVENS. THAT'S ME!
I must see a doctor
about
myself
AND WHAT AN IMPROVEMENT IN HOW ANN FELT AND LOOKED
inost
ments from 'gentlemen' who had nearly cleared drank so much at the party that police are not yet fully satisfied said: "Thanks; that's
"Damning evidence," he said, thirty-six hours later they were as to the movements of the helpful." He rang off. still too tight to speak coherent- murdered girl, and of certain ly. And the Press, if you please, other persons, during the hours as he put down the receiver. andam. From some woman, apparently, is beginning to wonder why I between midnight
Nor are thep yet convinced that who refuses to give her num. haven't made an arrest."
certain incidents connected with Evidence, against Cheume."
Dumbell knew his chief. "You've got your eye on sonie- one, sir," he said. "Or you wouldn't be telling me all this." The ghost of a smile flickered on Playfair's countenance. "As did you came along just now,
cor- you meet anyone in the ridor"?
"A well-dressed young fellow In plus fours?"
"Yes, that's the Ind. Mr. Kenneth Eglinton Chenme. You'll have seen his name in the papera,"
"Cheame!" said Dumbell. "Of course! The murdered girl's boy friend-30 the papers say. Don't tell me, sir, that Cheame is guilty,"
"I won't, answered Playfair. "Cheame is innocent. Apart from the fact that what he tells me bears the impress of absolute honesty, he has a cast-iron alibi. But Chenme, Dumbell has kindly consented to act as my decoy.*
"Yes?" said Dumbell, well aware now that the solution of the mystery was coming.
spades.
"But you told me Chefme was not guilty."
. "Nor
is he guilty. This evidence is manufactured. But.. I know now, Dumbell, who did murder Millefleurs St. Pirih."
Two days later he arrested Robert Aime Haslebye, Fellow of St. Jude's College. Cambridge. He had spent those two days in Haslebye was hanged tea works later. And he bequeathed his gold cigar-case to Playfair "s a token of admiration and res pect."
WHY HASLEBYE? (Solution on Page Three)
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6 WEEKS LATER
My goodness, the nicest place in the world is here with you, Ann, by the fireside!
Darling Jim!
THINKS
I'm glad got nd of my tiredness-
thanks to
Horlicks
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