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1. The abtrike is known as
ilte butcher bird because it
lian a blue and white front, keeps its food on skewers, sanų
in Smithfield Market?
Can
2. These peers were þetter known by their surnames, you give them-
Lord Trefourne, Lord Duke ston, Lord Quickswood, Lord Pansfield?
3. London's Royal Borough
Chelsea, Kensington, West- minster, Lambeth, Hampstead, Holboru?
4. Here is Dudley on the map. In which county is li
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STAFFORD
WARWICK
WORCESTER
The Lord of Absrule pre-
sided over-
Mad Hatter's tea party, Rump Parliament, Court revels, Palace Court of Westmluster?
G. Which In the greater of these figures—
Highest score by one team in Association football match, lowest innings score In Test cricket?
of-
7. Fray Bentos is a town
Argentine, Urignan, Brazil, Canary Islands, Chile?"
B. These were all concerned sut two were not
with the sea. ralfors→→ Ben
Dory, Backstay, John Tom Bowling, Sindliad, Moby Dick, Jack Tar, Tom Pipen?
0.
Georg Dimitrov was one of the accused in the Reichstag Fire Trial. He is now Prime Minister of—
Rumania, Bulgaria, U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia?
10. What is a speleologist Oll diviner, pot høter, para- lysis surgros, epp collector?
ANDREA JOENSEEN LANTERNmmen"
Swedish Prefabs
For Halland Prefabricated building sections or three fungors with a span of over 40 metres, and also for as office building, were recently shipped from the Swedish port of Uddevalla Holland
These buildings. which wood, and which will be assembled on the spot, are intended for the Dutch airport of Schiphol, which was devaslated during the war and which is now being reconstructed by He Dutch,
are
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1947.
FROM HERE AND THERE:
ALL MALE WEDDING
Kingston, Jamaica-A remarkable similar ration for cattle., More La episode occurred hero when two available on the black market at 1 men attempted a marriage cere- shilling a bucket, mony. One was a peddler, the
+ MONTY'S_JOKE other unemployed. Every prepara- Gainte-Maxence-French photo- tion was made, including the publi- graphers weakly laughed as Field- ention of banns and the making of Marshal Montgomery cracked a joke an elaborate three-storeyed wedding in French-they did not understand cake. The "bride" wore a wedding it. Posing for his photograph with dress with vell, and had face rouged the French Minister of War, M. and halla painted, Numerous Costc Floret, Monty seld: "Toujours young men received invitations to a
la photographic, C'est comme reception with orchestra. The bataille" ("Always the photography. secret was revealed when a fight do- It is like a batile"). veloped before the ceremony and the men were arrested and their iden-
lty discovered.
"BACKWARD-OH TIME!"
Stockholm-Eighty-nine year old King Gustav of Sweden has received n letter from a 40-year-old Swedish woman who wants to become 10 years younger. She asks for
per- mission to change the year of birth on her birth certificate from 1000 to 1000, claiming she looks as if she were born in the latter year. She adds that the change in the only
way to prevent her from becoming
really unhappy."
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CANADIAN OIL Ottawa Conoda's newest allfleld, at Leduc, a few miles south of Edmonton, Alberta, will shortly bo producing 10,000 barrels of oil day, reologists here reported. One company plans the construction à £1,000,000 refinery in Edmonton, with
others lies xible plants. giant Canal re- finery at White Horse, Yukon, con- structed during the war and never used commercially, is to be moved to Edmonton along the Alaska High- way, and is to be set up there im- mediately.
"God
of
NOT EVEN SLEEPY London-William Gilbert Seaton,
GENEROUS AVALANCHE Cape Town-The avalanche 77, born in Monmouthshire, has not slept since was ten. He reads all food parcels for Britain has forced night long and estimates he has provision merchants to employ extra Anished 20,000 books in 60 years. assistants to cope with the flood of His doctor reports him in good orders, and the G.PO, staff are ex-
health,
SEEMS TO WORK'
CHEATED DEATH
hausted.
victory.
CUPID'S CHAMBER
a
Cape Town, Centenarian Anna Cape Town The "brida! room" Marin Pelers gave her secret of long-No. 37 at a local hostel for busi- te: "I always have a bottle of beer news giris has chalked up another before going to bed."
In the last 18 months six young girls who have had No. 37 have
within become engaged month of occupying the room and left it for the altar. None of them knew their husbands before taking No. 37. The matron of the hostel, who is fearful of publicity lowering the "lone" of the place stated that there is a long list of girls who have booked the room confidently in ad- vance.
BITTN of
Man-A elreus acrobat fell from 40-ft, high flying trapeze into the
father, owner of
the circus, who saw him coming down and was quick enough to catch him. Father and son were only bruised.
poison
KILLER WEED Adelalde.—A mysterious weed is killing cattle on the famous overland stock route from the Vic- torin River towns across 400, miles of the Northern Territory to | Di
Queensland border. The season is now
in
FORGOT £50,000
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
START NOW FOR CHRISTMAS
Christmas is near and pictures such as this can.carry a personal greeting to your felands,
UMMAGING
through nn old tree, trimmed and glowingly it for drawer recently we turned up Chrlatmas, which you can use to a handful of Christmas cards which make a card.
had been placed there a year ago after the holidays. Most of them were run-of-the-mine nffairs-some- thing to be checked against our list for this Christmas and then thrown away. But some of them we are saving. They're somewhat personal ... pictures of our friends or of their children or of their home.
The truth is, no message is quite so personal as a photographic one. Take Bill's card, for instance. Bil Is a real, dyed-in-the-wool camera fan. He sent us a multiple exposure
Sydney-Tax collectors, acting the under their new powers to cater and
homes, droving search
have discovered with evaders' full swing.
and black marketeers' thousands of head of cattle slowly secret beards sewn in suits. The shot of himself carolling. At first
to market. Alany
hauls are: main moving eastward to
in tinglunce it looked like a quartet-but are falling victims to a strange nick- buried in a back garden, £3,000 all four figures were Bill, each ex- ness on the long dry stage between stuffed in a mattress and £5,000 fram Top Springs and the artesian bore rafters. One eynder, when his hoard posure placing him
£5,000
In different
100 miles west of Newcastle Waters, was discovered, confessed that he position in his one-man group.
had understated his income by WATER RATIONED
£50,000. Amsterdam—The newest object on the black market in watery Hol-
REFUSED UMBERTO land is water, On the island of Geneva. The Swiss Beveland, near Flushing, there
That, of course, is elaborate. But It's only one of, dozens of ideas for Federal Christmas' cards you can make from are Government has refused a visa to ex-photographs which you've taken. no waterworks and all the wells King Umber'o of Italy, who wished yourself. Nor do such cards neces- have dried up, so water is imported to Visit his brother-in-law, King from Flashing. The 8,000 inhabi. Leopold of the Belgians. The ex- tants of Beveland get a dully ration Queen Marie Jore and her children of two buckets per person with a have been granted visas.
sarily have to be specially prepared, Chances are in your file of old prints there's a GROW
scene or one of a
If not, there is still time to set up a picture such as today's which wili-spread your Christmas messago this year,, Une friend of ours has been inaklug a picture of his daugh- ter for almost ten years now and his acquaintances look forward each year to his card to see how Margery has grown.
But there's no limit to ideas-pic- tures of the children, of the family group around the fireplace, of your feeling of calm. And table-tops, tou, home. Winter scenics with their
are applicable. Cleverly contrived cotton Santa Clauses, a tinsel angel, a bowl of holly-all offer sensonni suggestions.
The important thing is to decide | what you want and get busy with it. Your photofinisher is prepared to make up greeting cards from your negative... but you should allow him time.
John van Guilder.
Emile can again offer you the nicer things-
Escargots
Black Caviar Smoked Salmon
Oysters In Shell
(Imported)
-and ask him to prepare some CREPE as he did
before the balloon went up....
At The
Parisian Grill
RESERVATIONS.
Make
YOUR
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CHRISTMAS GIFT
NEW GIFT SETS
of
FACE POWDER " LIPSTICK NAIL ENAMEL ROUGE
HARMONIZED
A Gift
Every Woman
Will Welcome
Obtainable at Pharmacies and all leading Stores Sole Agents
CHINESE
AMERICAN TRADING SERVICE
Distributor KINGSFIELD CO. 32 Wing Kut St., Tol. 34393
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE MIND-OVER-MATTER FOLKS ÇÂY ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS HOLD, THE THOUGHT "AY HAIR IS COMING BACK..... AND WATCH THE
STUFF SPROUT.
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THE BARBER. ALWAYS HAS A CURE... GUARAN- TEED TO GROW HAIR, OU A GRECIAN URN.
IT'S VITAMINS: HOW TIERE'S A GUINEA PIG THAT WAS AS BALD AS YOU ARE UNTIL WÈ FED HIA VITAMINS A.B.C,D AID A DAGH OF X.Y.AID K?
t
"Treating the Naked Noggin"
Bu KEMP STARRETT
*NO WONDER YOU HAVEN'T ANY HAIR: IT'S YOUR
| VERTEBRAE. THEY'RE ALL OUT O' WHACK YOUR.SPIKE
FEELS LIKE A BAG FULL OF CORN COBS,
VIYA
DON'T. YOU USE SOME
FERTILIZER TOO
: "IT'S YOUR TEETH “ SAYS "THE DENTIST WHÔ MEYER LOST A TOOTH...........
IF YOU WORK IN A BOWLING-BALL FACTORY, HAVE A MEXICAN JAIRLESS DOG, PLAY BILLIARDS OR GOLF OR CANDLE EGGS YOU'RE IN THE WRONG ENVIRONMENT, SAYS THE PSYCHOLOGIST YOU SHOULD GET INTO HAIRY COMPANY... GET A JOB W 4 ZOO, TRANSTANCE.
THEN THERE ARE THE ONES WIO THINK IF YOU WATER IT... LIKE
PLANTS... IT WILL GROW AGAIN.