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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

education on completely

WA

★AR, widespread and disastrous.

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

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- sponding to the flood of con-. gratulations that reached him, fol- lowing the triumphant world pre- mlere in London of his film, "Things to Como."

The film shows mankind pissing through an eat of war and proti lence, finally reaching a sanely- ruled Utopian civilisation.

"The whole sequence of.events

I have depicted may prove to be quite wrong--who can tell7" said; Mr. Wells.

"Nevertheless,

It seems

reasonable to conclude that world happenings will take a elmilar courso to, the one I havo shown.

"The film is not intended to be alther a prohecy or a warning, but is primarily entertainment.;

"acoms possible to me that war, wimilar to the one in "Things to Come,' will be the only thing; that will effectively sweep away the muddle-mindednew that fa in the world and make mankind ready for universal peace.

"Science has speeded up produc-" tion, transport and everything clac, but we have not kept pace with acience. We have not yet learned to master our discoveries,

"Nevertheless every day the world grows saner 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 I show in my picture may bé avert- ed. But to save the situation mai will have to undergo a complete mental metamorphosis,

"Moat of us have a sadistic streak. Wo 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 in hellicose wo

shall never atlain world harmony.

"The great underlying question is education.

"You must educate the """child"into"a" proper state of mind and you must eduente Its parents to allow the child to remain in that state. "You must not only educate

H. G. WELLS

'people to hate war, but to look on things in such a perspective that awwar naturally becomes repellent and impossible.

"You age what a tremendous task mankind has before it? Yet,

stead of being helped. being hindered.

THE KING:

IS RICHER THAN HIS FATHER

BUC

run.

UCKINGHAM PALACE costs £30,000 a year tq

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.

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" is the "sig" and which is the "zag"? This is but one of the many puzzling problem which puzzled puzzlers as they met during Washington's Birthday week end for the 105th semi-annual convention of the National Puzzlers' League, Inc., an organisation composed of some 600 of the country's foremost puzzle devotees.

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Serious consideration of this per-finished? Of what use is it to him? plexity of the zigs and zags was The answer is that aside from being urged upon the members present, it a mere hobby, puzzling teaches ac- being pointed out that, although the curacy in spelling and the meaning best dictionaries define a zig as "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 relaxation which at the same time zig, in a zigzag course," there is develops patience. nothing to indicate

which part i which. It was the consensus of many present that this was a highly

Puzzling, a practiced by the mem- If he introduces a squnah the zigzag course taken by a honi bers of the league, forces the solver

Important point, since, in describing court and a swimming pool there or an automobile, It might easily to the dictionary in order to discover The -plans have already been sub: become necessary to state whether the words around which the puzzica mitted to him—the bill will be some certain action took place as the are constructed. This dictionary paid from the same source.

vehicle was "zigging." or possibly habit results in a remarkable broaden- ing of one's general fund of King George never made known while it was "zagging."

Hotel porters were puzzled, for knowledge, 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, too, 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 wage of grant of £110,000 is 'kin to do with scraps of paper left in the various the printed and spoken word. as he wishes.

meeting roons after the puzzlers

But, to return to the convention. departed. Scratch paper plays Many Camden newspaper readers. and many a word square or diamond the following message on the front large part in the art of puzzling were doubtless a bit startled to read found its start in the challenge of a page of their papers on the opening year to keep up. In addition to follow puzzler to "build a diamond,”

day of the convention. It looked the annual £30,000 for the Palace or perhaps it might be a square, "on much as if the Knotype machine had £6,000 14 required each year for the word sesquitertial." One member suddenly thrown everything to the the Royal Laundry, £6.00 a year of the league not only accepted the winds:

motor-earward, but has just completed a series UIFBUSF QBSUZ BOE CBORVFU challenge on this particular 13-letter B TDFOJD BVUPNPCJMF USJA, of 18-letter word diamonds with the JUI TVSQSJTFT PCGFS GVO letter "Q" in each of the 13 positions UPEBZ GPS UIF OBU JPORM in the word.

QVAAMPST MEBHVF. XIP XJMM XJO. UIF. DTQ JO UIF QVAAMF DPOUFTU UPNPSSPX?

LAUNDRY: £6,000

The Royal cellars at Bucking ham Palace cont about £2,000

for carriages and £5.000 for liveries.

There is a staff of 250 people at the Palace. Their salaries are not paid out of the Privy Purse: £125,-) 200 Is allowed the King in the Take his diamond on Sesquitertial, Civil List for household salaries for example: and pensions.

Buckingham Palace, with its isuperb site, is worth about £1,000,-; 1000.

King Edward is a richer man than his father was. If he cares he can draw on the £70,000 ; year that the Duchy of Cornwall yields after all expenses and de-i 'ductions have been made.

It is estimated that King George

we are and only £2,000 a year to dispose

"Politicians, who might lead the way, continue to talk plati-paid. King Edward will tudes and conduct the business more than this.

us if they were living in 1836.

"They don't seem able to realise that the aeroplane, in itself, hns changed the face of the earth:

that science, mass-production and high-speed transport have altered the economic values of everything.

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

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

"I"did ̄nöt ̃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-shan 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 major reverse in their present March to Hopei. Mao and Chu Teh 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-secking Chinese generals, but they always rise again in some unexpected place to plague, the Chinese troops.

American and British missions in western Shansi have, closed their.

doors and wealthy landlords have PARTED 1890-

taken their families and posses- slons out of reach of the Reda. Tientsin rental agencies report a. sudden rise in demand for large mansions in the foreign concessions by wealthy Shansi people. Rents in Tientsin have readily responded upward to the increased demand.

An invisible but powerful ally of the Communists penetrating Shansi Is the political jealousles and in- trigus there which makes united action by the powerful northern warloads almost impossible.

General Yen, uncrowned King of Shanst, is already burling belli- gerent charges at the Nanking

MARRIED 1936

Miss Isabel Brown, aged sixty-seven, mistress, of

retired head- Burnham-on-

Yet the Civil List grant to him is mall, The King of Italy has £782,000, The ex-Kaiser h!! £770,000.

Building Of Diamond

S

MEC

ROSOW

BENQUET

RECOUNTED

MONOLITERAL

SESQUITERTIAL

Just A Cryptogram Puzzlers Immediately recognized this as a cryptogram, a message in which each letter is represented throughout by another. Since it was designed purely for the novice, the puzzlera solved it in almost the time that it must have taken the no- type operator to set it. And since it

not difficult,

leave it wo

for readers to decipher.

Aunghans How fast and furloua Here we find "Q" in fourth posi-during the convention, and the popu

COUNTERSIGN

WETERSOON

TERTION

DAIGN

LAN

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of when all expenses had beention in the word. Kee Pon-that's ar ratio entertainer of the day was have his nom-has completed 13 such word not overlooked by the composer of: diamonds with the Q's and has pow WE HOPE HE BRINGS TURN OF turned his attention to the 'a, hop-

FAME TO JORLESS

In this phrase evolved to be able to duplicate his accom. The letters plishment.

the anagrammatie Rofution in short But, one may reasonably ask, what order:

he accomplished when be has; MAJOR BOWES SPINS THE

WHEEL OF FORTUNE Would you like to try your hand at anagramis? If so, it should not prove dificult for you, in view of the ana- gram just given, to see at once tho answer to

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-G. B. SHAW AND WIFE FINGER-PRINTED

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

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

Adelaide, Apr. 4.

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N. G. GO! The modern perfect anagrant, understood and practised in Puzzle- dom, demands that the new word or phrase evolved shall be equivalent in menning to that from which it was derived ---Obviously-this-ig-e severe requirement; and a perfect anagram is, in consequence, the chlaf d'oeuvre of the puzzleistic art. The requirement that such anagrams shall be apt suggests in turn one of the shortest possible anagrams, one of three letters in which AlT becomes PAT. And if you would like to try. your hand, here's a recent one from The Enigina, official publication of the National Puzzlers' League:

or

Lord Of All The Reich Clan

Palindromics-thope words 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 gunge was called the Napoleonic Palindrome: Able was I ere I saw Elba. Many a palindrome has been evolved, and anti-billboard legislation might well have adopted the follow- ing palindromic molte: A mar on the panorama, Although the ma jority of palindromes, because of the difficulty experienced in construction, consist of words and short phrases, one voteran puzzler has composed the following, which might well be headed, "Believe it or Not." This reads the same from either end!

Hah, sir, I'm Irish, uh! Now sit! Tap gong, George. (Nema's). Gol Droop! Stop! Onward! Don't nod, put it up! Too hot to boot? H, ha, (baht Tag Agatha, ha, hah! Oh, who,

Carol, "Mad Alice," Caleb, Mike, "Bab," Leo, Janc, Lysle, Nesbit, Ano, Adolf, Leah, Parker,

sinned?

Ruby, Enoc, Bolim, Syd. Algy, Em- "L" Gregory, "Snap, Amaryllis

Aloe, Irene, Ell, Edna, Ned,

mit,

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

ander Rigga, aged sixty-six,

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

Government, claiming he is being any troops belonging to General double-crossed. Nanking, he says, Sung Choh-yuan.

Hopel-Chahar

promised to supply his army with tuchun, or General Fu Tao-y!, Sul- funda, munitions, and supplies if yun warlord, to come into Shanst the Reds penetrated Shansi. In fór much the same reason, return Yen was to throw his nup Gen. Sung has notified Yen that port to Nr king, 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 Shanai

in. North China.

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

He made the trip as the result of a £1 bet with each of twenty-seven friends in Cairns. During his Journey hot-

Narrowly escaped being de- voured by crocodiles while swimming rivers;

Was bitten by a tiger snako

and detained in hospitat for

a fortnight.

Had £17 10. stolen by a

Aaron, "Live Hannah," "Evil Nora," pick-pocket at Mountgambler. During the last part of his ride Rama,

Allen, Dot, Lucy, Brady, Orel, Silly,. Pansy, Rimmey, Gladys, Golden and he was penniless and without food, Eileen, Eric, Ela,

Apart from the theft his journoy Miles, Coney, Burr, "Ek Raphael, -lasting three months-cost him Flo, Dan, Nat. Ibsen. Elay, Lena, 26:

Jool, Babe, Kim, Bola, Cecil, Adam, He says the cost was so low be ha, hahl Tag Agatha, Ha, hah! Too Lora, Cleon, Dennis! Oh, who? Ha, cause he met hospitable Scots hot to hoot Put it up! Don't_nodl overywhere.

When he started he weighed Negro eggnog, Patl

Draw do pols (poor dog). Some Tis won! hah, lolevan stone. Now he weighs nine. sir, I'm Irish, ahi

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