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THE HONGKONG Telegraphi, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1986, OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

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9 Tematy preferred being behind

thin pet during the War.

10 An out-of-date, weapon that may

be met on both sides of the river.

11 There could scarcely be fewer

to take one in.

13 This machine in a trap, bat only

in a certain quarter.

16 Canonized.

16 Potted meat. .

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17 This may be seen with salmon

after it.

19 Yeu valy what half the opinte,

taken in water.

20 After a little heltation Ivan appone in the Armenian pro- vince where the Ark alighted.

21 "Three thousand-; 'tis a good

round

("Merchant Num." Venice.").

Shortening this animal greatly increase its size.

24 Breless timber?

27 Nice lady in Cannes?

will

28 There's furniture in the vehicle

I entel at lunt.

20 Here we have a couple of old

patriarchs going cheap. (Two words, 3, 3).

32 Really our wised axions ne

those which are right on every ocration. (Hidden).

33 Undernourished.

34 Hirten in Clue #2.

35 It is, indeed, anomalous to make

maniacs toll.

HOWS

2 Hidden in Clue 32.

3 A chpitel te Rutlandshire

town this in which to have rome thing to eat under a tree.

4 Hang it up inside, not Being

nt all.

"No mist can live on" this (anag).

6 Hidden in Clue 32.

7 Town in southern Scotland that

includes another in the north.

A harsh breed of tradesman-

B

A

and yet usually obliging.

12 Cr name for charm.

14 Jack aloft-though a landlubber

15 Indian garment.

18 An avertunt for the 33 child?

22 My uncle gave her a ring: twlee,

in fact.

26 The "modern woman has no urg

for this on her head: it is rather

л crowd on top.

26 May I call this monny 7

27 Wind god.

30 Fouthall fans do not invest in

this pool.

A half prefix.

Yesterday's Solution MCSETBACK • S≈Ba ZULU EN NOTARY LRIBOTTOM OFE

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THE WORLD. LOVES PROBLEMS

PROBLEM 1 FATHEAD'S

-FARM

my

IFE is very dificult on

farm, nid Fathead: "Indeed?" and I. "How's that?" "For this reason," anid Fathead. "(Listen carefully, or you'll get as infred up as I do).

The World

has a Roof

OMEWHERE in Tibet to-day-

is a babe in whom, accord- ing to Tibetan bellefs, the spirit of the Dalat Laths— polsoned a couple of years ago, has been reincarnated.

What will be the heritage of the how Omnd Priest when he began his rule over 150,000,000 people in the least-known land on earth?

Gordon Enders, who, with Ed- ward 'Anthony

*has

written

"I employ a ploughman, a carter, a shepherd and a driver. And their Nowhere Else in the World (drst nnes, as it happens, are Plough and Blackett, 189.), has a vision of man. Carter, Shepherd and Driver. Another Switzerland-only. thirty That would be very convenient ir times larger on the roof of the each of them had the e corre. world, aponding to his vocation. But, un- fortunately, none of them has."

"How muddling," said I.

#Muddling I should think it is, But that's by no means all. Each of these four has a son who assists one of the others, None of them, thint is, assists his own father; nor does any of them work with the fellow whose calling is the same as his own

name."

He sees mounlahti förrents harnessed by engineers to supply Middle Asia with light, and power, railways nini ronds and airways-linking the eiffen af. the Forbidden Land with the outside world, a people happy and prosperous under a new era of Progresi.

*

WHAT he does not appear to forezce in the possibility of Lamn Land becoming, not a encont Switzerland, but another Belguns- the cockpit of warring nations. Yet I left it at that, but in the course Mr. Enders has been very close for of my stay on the tarm I elicited a thirty years to the intrigues that have few more facts. I found that young surrounded Tibet.

Ploughman is engaged to the sister Once Russia was the arch-intriguer. of the young fellow who helps the That was in the days when the carler. This is not surprising, as "Russian Bear" was the Indian Fron the carter is married to afr. Plough- ter bogy. Then it was Chinn, who nee

Mr. Shepherd man's sister,

la sent an army to Lhassa. Now it seema married to the ploughman's to be Japan. And all the time Deltain widowed mother, and Mr. Driver has been allting on the doorstep itke a has no daughter."

watchdog, often growing menacingly. sometimes showing her lerill and unce at least opening them to bite.

* ★

What are the vocations of ench of Fathead's employces, and whom do their respective sens assist?

PROBLEM 2 WEIGHING

MACHINE

THE reason for it nil? The Roof of the World may be as bleak and barren as any other roof. But it contains gold. ...

If the stories that, Mr. Enders was told of Tibet'a mineral wealth are only half true, then Lan Land' must be richer in gold then even South Africa. The author writes or monasterles

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Diddleham were strandusi wayside station.

ata

I might

a solid pisting of gold and all in splen dour on gold pedestals, while gold dust

ca in heaps on monastery floors.

And, remember, there is no gold

mining in Tibet. The Rold is Jus (By gathered in the same way' as for at

feast twenty-five centuries. Remen her, too, the priests hold that goal a plant, of which the urgets are

seed or Foot.

A "weighside" station, have said, as they passed the time by weighing themselves, in pairs, on a penny-in-the-slot machine. weighing in pairs they were able to get all the weights they wanted for one penny). The ten weights record

d--each the weight of two of the girls--were as follows.

8 st. lbs.

8

8

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8 st. lbs.

H

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"

8

.. 12

Can you work out the five girls' Individual weights?

Answers Below

ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS

Problem 1: Fathead's Farmi

Mr. Shephard in the driver and his

HOW Bisin Mr. Driver

Mr. Driver is the carter and his n

straints Mr. Carter

Mr. Ploughman is the shepherd and

Han assists Mr. Shepherd,

Mr. Carter in the ploughman and his sonussista Air. Ploughman Problem 2: Weighing Machino The individual weights of the Ave girls were st. Glba., 1st. 3lbs., 4st. 2lbs., 1st. Olbs., 2st. 12ba

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"Let the annual Harvest of goki should decrease. the priests iny down the strict rule that gchi washers raust return to the soil every nugget which they unwittingly unearth. To disubey is both sacrilege and treason, punisht. able by death."

Somebody there once found a mug- ze of 525 ounces!

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GOLD

Thirty years later, in Chine he discussed with the exiled Panclian Lama, who had managed to get about a million pounds worth out of *Tibet, plans to fly more goli over the mountains. THOR

Milner never gut bryoni

paper.

The Panchan Lama, oncé ruler of Tibet and now exiled in China, blessing grass believed to ensure long life.

The gold in Tibet is at waiting for its wings. But Mr. Enders, back in Americs. has not yet given up hope of a golden nirway service.

He seems never to have been in Tibet. yet he has written a tremendously tax- cinating book about it from the deep and wide knowledge he is gained of the country, tta people and its customs. lie war with his father on the frontler nt about the time of Younghusband's mission to Lhussa. That boy of the border- hand latened and learned. lie met merchants from China, secret service agents, intriguers.

Like Kipling's Kim, he found his gart, und 'he chela was an attentive pupil.

Tibet has fiselnated him ever since. It was in the thoughts of the college. youth in America, the war-time airman in Franer, the United Glutes EinbaACHE

mela in China, and certainty th.. seller of aircraft to the Nanking Government, who became a kind of honorary adviser to the Panchan Lama, seeking to return to the land over which for five years be ruled no regent when the Dalai Lama had fec to Mongolia.

In Lamaism, the Panchan Lama, or Tazhi Lama, as he is more generally known, is regarded as "The Living The Dalai Lama is the Yuthan,, temporal ner, and the Panchan Lama the spirituni ne...

The Panchan's arbiton seems to have been, with the help of the Chinese Government, to carve out a new kingdom for himself un the Borders of Tibet. Mongolia and China, He drew it on a map, shapert Hike heart and pointing towards China.

H

#

1s E roughly sketched ideas, which included the creation of a new and modem 15 that would supplant LimNER..

that was as far as it all got. The Chinese Government grew cold when a very emphalis "No" come from he Dalal Lamn in reply to pence overtures from the Panchan, The denil of the Dalai Lama caused further complica- Lions-and all that the author got out of I was a very imposing parchment which was described as a "Passport to Heaven."

* ★

ND the Panchan Lama 18

Astill waiting for is call from

insan to not again regent. Mr. Finders is still waiting for a call from the Pancham to turn dreams into railties. And the gold walts too....

But things are going to happen in Tibet In the near future, II. G. P.

They have MYSTIFIED Millions

Tis more than sixty years since two young amateur conjurers of Cheltenham, J. N. Maskelyne and his friend, Cooke, succeeded in exposing the famous alleged spirit. mediums, the Davenport Brothers from America.

Taking their courage in both hands they set up the business of lusionista in Lendon-first nt the old Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly and then it the St. George's Hall-with inumeuse success for two generations,

of this pecu- The romantic story inrly British institution is set forth attractively in White Magle, by 'Jasper' Maskelyne, the grandson of the line (Stanley Paul, 109.).

In spite of the fact that the Moske lynes have always professed to be mechanical aml dexterous tricksters, thousands of worthy folk have from time to time accused them of being in Lengue with the Evil One.

**

*

"

In Western Australia, a mining- camp gang, held up the company with revolvero unil they performed much-heralded illusion. Their ring- leader bit off the end of a steel key after locking up the chest from which

"subject nevertheless escaped.

I well recall old Maskelyne, who, at' 72. was still defying his initators. Ho lost an action brought by an arch- deacon because he falled to make a “splett body” return to his side after it had emerged.

Immunity from burning, io book row reals, in necured, after much practice. by coating the tongue with powdered sugar and soap, after which you can Jick red-hot pokera. During the war, Jasper was approached by the Ad- miralty to supply'n compoaltion for the protection of naval gun-layers, and did ro,

A book full piquant revelation and tnatalising missions. The author lunts at Black Magic being still mys- teriously practised in Arin and Europe but his details aro charged with a

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