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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936.

H. G. WELLS TALKS OF THE NEW WORLD

War, Plague, Political Revolution-Then Peace

The Tremendous

Task That Faces Mankind

WAR, widespread and disastrous

education on completely

now lines... revolution in the system of government ... adaptation of humanity to the developments of science and industry ... radical transformation of mankind. and, finally, lasting poach

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These are the possibilities for the world of the future as described by Mr. H. G. Wells in an interview recently.

Most of the day he was busy re-f; sponding to the flood of con- gratulations that reached him, fol lowing the triumphant world pre- miore in London of his film, "Things to Como."

The film shows mankind passing through an era of war and posti lence, finally reaching a sanely- ruled Utopian elvilisation.

"The whole sequence of events have depicted may prove to be quite wrong-who can tell?" said Mr. Wella.

"Nevertheless, it seems reasonable to conclude that world happenings will take a similar course to the one I have shown.

"The Blm is not intended to be uither a prohecy or a warning, but is primarily entertainment.

"I ooms possible to me that war, similar to the one In “Things to Come,' will be the only thing that will effectively sweep away the muddle-mindedness that is in the work and make mankind ready for universal peace.

"Science has speeded up produe- tion, transport and everything else, bat we have not kept pace with science. We have not yet learned to master our discoveries.

"Nevertheless every day the world grows soner and men realise that reason is prefer- able to competition, and that another war would be a more crushing disaster than any that have gone before. "Because of this feeling I think It is probable that the future war and ensuing pestilence which show in my picture may be averl- ed. But to save the situation man will have to undergo a complete mental metamorphosis.

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"Most of us have 4 sudlalic streak. We may have a great antipathy to large scale war, but we are not averse to an occasional little fight or quarrel.

"While man as an individual is bellicose we shall never attin world harmony.

"The great underlying question is education.

"You must educate the child into a proper state, of mind and you must educate - il-parents to allow the child. to remain in that state. "You

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must not only educate

JL. G. WELLS

Prople to hate war, but to look on things in such a perspective that war maturally becomes repellent and impossible.

tremendous

"YOR see what task mankind has before it? Yet,

ng if they were living in 1836.

THE KING

IS RICHER THAN HIS FATHER

Zig of Zigzag is Zag if Zigzag

Zags First on Zag of the Zigzag

Camden, N.J., Mar. 25,

What is a "zag”? Or, to put the question in another way, which part of a "zigzag” in the "zig” and which is the "zag"? This is but one of the many puzzling problems which puzzled puzzlera as they met during Washington's Birthday week end for the 105th semi-annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League, Inc., an

BUCKINGHAM PALACE organisation composed of some 500 of the country's foremost puzzle

costs £30,000 a year to devotees.

run.

That £30,000 comes from the King's Privy Purse, which is £110,000 a year.

If the King wishes to make any decorative or structural changes inside the Palace he will have to pay for them himself out of his annual £110,000.

Serious consideration of this per-finished? Of what uno is it to him? plexity of the zigs and zogs was The answer is that aside from being urged upon the members present, ita mere hobby, puzzling leaches ac- being pointed out that, although the curacy in spelling and the meaning bont dictionarich define a zig na "a of words, it enlarges the vocabulary, line at an angle to zag" and a zag, sharpens the wits and affords a men- likewise, as "a line at an angle to a tal relaxatlon which at the same timo

1g, in a xlgzag course," There is develops patience,

which part in nothing to Indiente

Wan the CONBÓNSUR of which." It many present that this was a highly important point, since, in describing Puzzling, as practiced by the mem- the zigzag course taken by a boat bers of the league, forces the solver or an automobile, It might easily to the dictionary in order to discover become necessary to state whether the words around which the puzzles This dictionary some certain action took place as the are constructed. vehicle was "zigging," or possibly habit results in a remarkable broaden while it was "zagging.

fund ing of one's general

Dictionary Habits

of

If he Introduces a squash court and a swimming pool there -plans have already been sub mitted to him-the bill will be paid from the same source. King George never made known

Hotel porters were puzzled, for knowlotge, bringing one into touch, the detailed expenditure of his many a wrinkled brow and shaking as it does, with natural science, art, Privy Purse. King Edward, 109, of heads might have been noted as religion, mythology-indeed, leading will not make it known. The they gathered up the innumerable one into every avenue of usage of grant of £120,000 in his to do with scraps of paper left in the various the printed and spoken word."

meeting rooms after the puzzlers as he wishes.

But, to return to the convention. departed.. Scratch paper plays Many Camden newspaper readers LAUNDRY: £6,000 The Royal cellara at Hucking.rge part in the art of puzzling were doubtless a bit startled to read maar word square or diamond the following message on the front ham Palace cost about £2,000 around its start in the challenge of year to keep up. In addition to follow puzzler to "build a diamond," page of their papers on the opening day of the convention. It looked the annual £10,000 for the Paince for pertaps it might be a square, “much as if the linotype machine had 16.000 is required each year for the word sesquitertial." One member suddenly thrown everything to the the Royal Laundry. £5,000 a year of the league not only accepted the winds:

challenge on this particular: B-letter for entringes and ator-cars. word, but has just completed a series £5,000 for liverles.

of 13-letter word diamonds with the letter "Q" in ench of the 14 positions in the word.

And

Building Of Diamond

There is a staff of 250 people at the Palace. Thoir salaries are not paid ont of the Privy Purse; £125,-) 1000 is allowed the King in the Take his diamond on Sesquitertial,

Civil List for household salaries for example: and pensions. *

Buckingham Palace, with its superb site, is-worth about £1000.-) 1000.

King Edward is a richer man than his father was, If he cares)

he can draw on the £70,000 a. year that the Duchy of Cornwall yields nfter all expenses and de- duetions have been made.

It is estimated that King George

"They don't seem able to realise mall. The King of Italy

The £782,000.

ex-Kaiser

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BENQUET

RECOUNTED

MONOLITERAL SESQUITERTIAL COUNTERSIGN WETERSOON TERTION DAIGN LAN

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JO.

UIF DTQ JO UIF QVAAMF DPOUFTU UPNPSSPX 7

Just A Cryptogram

Puzzlers immediately

recognized

this as a cryptogram, a message in which ench letter

represented throughout by another. Since it was designed purely for the novice, the puzzlers solved it in almost the time that must have taken the no- type operator to set it. And since it not difficult, we leave it for renders to decipher.

is

Anagrams How fast and furioas

instead of being helped, we are had only £2,000 a year to dispose ; Here we find "Q" in fourth pasi-suring the convention, and the popu being hindered.

of when all expenses had been tion in the word. Kee· Pon-that's] Inr radio entertainer of the day was "Politicians, who might lead the way, continue to talk plati-id. King Edward will have his nom-has completed 19 such word not everlooked by the composer of diamonds with the Q's, and has now WE HOPE HE BRINGS TURN OF

FAME TO JOBLESS tudes and conduct their businessmore than this,

Yet the Civil List grant to him is turned his attention to the Z's, hop-

ing to be able to duplicate his accom- The letters In this phrase evolved has

the anagrammatic solution in short plishment. hind

But, one may reasonably ask, what order: has he necomplished when he ins

MAJOR BOWES SPINS THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE Would you like to try your hand at anagrams? If so, it should not prove difficult for you, in view of the ana- gram just given, to see at once the answer lo

that the aeroplane, in taclf, has changed the face of the earth; that science, mass-production and high-speed transport have alterod the economic values of everything.

Explaining why he did not take advantage of the film medium much earlier, Mr. Wells said:

"I refused to mako films of my books because I did not wish to see them perverted out of all re- cognition.

"I did not want my first film to

be just another flicker with dumped music and careless effects. I wanted it to be a complete work in the cinema's best traditions.

REFUGEES FROM SHANSI ENTER TIENTSIN, PEIPING

Tientsin, Apr. 10.

Peiping and Tientsin are already receiving hundreds of refugees from Shansi Province where the provincial defenders under General Yen Hai-sban are daily retreating before the fierce, unyielding Communist troops.

The Reds are commanded by one of the two greatest Chinese Communists, Mao Cheh-tung, and so far have not sustained one najor reverse in their present March to Hopel. Mao and Chu Tch are the two Communist field marshals who have led nearly every important Red advance in China during the past four years. Several times they have been reported dead by over-zealous Chinese news agencies or glory-seeking Chinese generals, but they always rise again in some unexpected place to plague the Chinese troops.

American and British misolons in western Shansl have closed their i

doors and wealthy landlords have PARTED 1890-

taken their familles - and postes. slons out of reach of the Reds. Tientsin rental agencies report a 'suddon' rise in demand for large mansions in the foreign concessions by wealthy Shans people. Rents; in Tientsin have readily responded upward to the Increased demand.

An Invisible but powerful ally of i the Communists penetrating Shansi is the political jealousies and in-1 trigue there which makes united action by the powerful northern warlonda almost Impossible.

General Yen, uncrowned King of Shanal, is already hurling belll- gerent charges at the Nanking

MARRIED 1936

Miss Isabel Brown, aged

sixty-seven, retired head- mistress, of Burnham-on-

£770,000.

G. B. SHAW AND WIFE FINGER-PRINTED

George Bernard Shaw, famous playwright, visiting America on round-the-world trip, is shown in San Francisco with Mrs. Shaw en route to the Grand Canyon. He is shown above in one of his few pictures taken with Mrs. Shaw as they were fingerprinted in San Francisco for immigration"authorities.

N. G. GO!

The modern perfect anagram, as understood and practised in Puzzle- dom, demands that the new word or phrase evolved shall be equivalent in meaning to that from which R was derived. Obviously this is a | severe requirement; and a perfect

Anagram is, in

the consequence, chiof d'oeuvre of the puzzleistic art. The requirement that such-añagrams shall be apt suggests in turn one of the shortest possible anagrams, one of three letters in which APT becomes PAT. And if you would like to try your hand, here's a recent one from The Enigma, official publication of tlie National' Fuzziers' 'League:

Lord Of All The Reich Clan

Lunge

Palindromes--those worda or phrases which read the same either forward or backward-occupied much of the time during the convention. One of the earliest examples of this type of puzzle in the English lan- was called the Napoleonic Palindrome: Abio was I ere I saw Elba. Many a palindrome has been evolved, and anti-billboard legislation might well have adopted the follow- A mar on ing palindromic motto: the panorama, Although the ma- jority of palindromes, because of the dimeulty experienced in construction, consist of words and shart phrases, one veteran puzzler has composed the following, which might well

be headed, "Belleve it or Not." This reads the same from either endi

Hah, sir, I'm Irish, ah! Now sit! Tap gong, George (Nemo's). Gol Droop Stop! Onward! Don't nod, put it up! Too hot to hoot? H, ho, hah! Tag Agatha, ha, hah! Oh, who janned? Noel, Carl, "Mad Alice," Caleb, Mike, "Bab," Leo, Jane, Lysle, Nesbit, Ann, Adolf, Leah, Parker, Ruby, Enoc, Solim, Syd, Algy, Em- Alec, Irene, Eli Edna, Ned, Gregory,

Amaryllis, "Evil Nora," He made the trip as the result of pick-pocket at Mountgambler. 1:

Allen, Dot, Lucy, Brady, Orel, Silly, During the last part of his ride Rama, Pansy, Roger, Golden and he was penniless the without food pleen, Eric, Bla. Timmey, Cindys, Raphael, Apart from the journey Miles, Coney, Burg, -lasting - three months-cost him Flo Dan, Nat, Ibsen, Elay, Lenn, Jool, Babe, Kim, Bela, Cecil, Adam,

Scot Cycles 3,000 Miles, Wins Bet, Loses Weight

Adelaide, Apr. 4.

FORTY-YEAR-OLD Alexander Fraser, a chemist, who came to Australia from Scotland at the age of twelve, arrived hero Sea, Somerset, and Mr. Alex-to-day after a 3,000-mile cycle ride from Cairns, Queensland.

ander Riggs, aged sixty-six,

of Cowdenbeath, Fifeshire, met again recently after forty-six years. They were married at Selkirk shortly after.

Hopei-Chahar

Government, claiming he is being any troops belonging to General double-crossed. Nanking, he says, Sung Cheh-yuan. promised to supply his army with uchun, or General Fu Tao-yi, Sui- funds, munitions and supplies if yuan warlord, to come into Shansi the Reds penetrated Shanal. In for much the same reason. return Yon was to throw his sup- Gen. Sung has notified Yen that port to Nanking at a time when he if the Communists get too close to was on the verge of joining the Hope he will send a punitive ex- Five-Province autonomy movement pedition of his own troops into Shanai whether the Shansi

'not.

in North China.

likes it or

Yon

Instead of this, Yen anys, Nan-Tear king has not only refused to send reportedly replied that if Sung took money and munitions but wants to that attitudo, Sung would likely send its own Central Government have to fight Yen's troops as well troops into Shanel's danger zone as the Communist troops. which he claims, is only a ruso The bickering and angry quarrel- designed to establish Nanking's ing goes on and on, while the Rods power in Shansi, paving the way advance steadily, and.......aurely →→→ for Yon's exit. Nor does Yon want United Press..

£1 bet with each of twenty-seven friends in Cairns. During his journey he:-

Narrowly escaped being de Youred by crocodites while swimming rivers;

Was bitten by a tiger snake

and detained in hospital for a fortnight..

Had £17 108. stolen by a

£6.

1

Leroy, Darby,

Aaron, "Lived. Nell,

He says the cost was an low be. Lora, Cleon, Dennis! Oh, who? H

ha, habl Tag Agatha, Ha, hah! Too cause he met hospitable Scots hot to-hoot? Put it up! Don't nod! everywhere.

Draw no pots (poor dog). Some When he started he weighed Negro eggnog, Fati Tis won! bah, elovon stone. Now he weighs nino, air, I'm Irish, aki -

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