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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

1 Pledge

13

116.

Every 32

ACROSS

130

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9 Tenty preferred being behind

this 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10 An out-of-date weapon that may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, but only

in a certain quarter.

15 Canonized.

16 Putted meat.

17 This may be seen with salmon

after it,

10 You only want half the opiale,

taken in water.

20 After a little hesitation Ivan appears in the Armenian pro- vince where the Ark slightest. 21 "Three thousand-; 'tis a good

sum." ("Merchant round Venice.").

23 Shortening this animal

greatly increase its size.

of

will

24 Useless timber?

27 Nice Indy in Cannes?

28 There's furniture in the vehicle

I catch at last.

29 flere we have a couple of ill

intriarchs going cheap. words, 3, 4).

(Two

32 Really our wisest axioms are

those which are right on every occasion. (1lden).

33 Undernourished.

94 Hidden in Clue 32.

35 It is, inderd, anomalous to make

maniaes toil.

DOWN

Hidden in Clus 32.*

capital little Rutlandshire town this in which to have rome- thing to eat under a tree,

4 Hang it up inside, not liking it

27

33

1900

at all.

"No mist can live on" (anag),

G Hidden in Clue 32.

this

7 Town in southern Scotland that Includes another in the north.

8

harah breed of tradesman-

and yet usually obliging.

12 Our name for charm.

14 Jack left-though a landlubber

16 Indian garment.

18 An overcoat for the 33 child?

22 My uncle gave her a ring: twice,

in fact.

25 The modern woman has no use

for this on her hond: it is rather

a crowd on top.

26 May I call this ronny?

27 Wind god.

30 Feotball fans do not Invest in

this pool.

31 A half prefix.

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PROBLEMS

PROBLEM A FATHEAD'S

-FARM-

IFE is very difficult on my

farm," said Fathead.

"Indeed?" said I. "How's that?" "For this ranson." süld Fathead. **(Listen carefully, or you'll get as nixed up as I do).

The World

has a Roof

OMEWHERE in Tibet to-day

is a babo in whom, accord- ing to Tibetan beliefs, the spirit of the Dalai Lama, polsoned a couple of years ago. has been reincarnated,

What will be the heritage of the new Grand Preat when he begins. his rule over 150,000,000 people in the least-known land on earth?

Gordon Enders, who, with Ed-

Anthony ward

written han employ a ploughman, a carter, Nowhere Else in the World (lurs n shepherd and a driver. And their and Blackett. 183.), has a vision of names, na It happens, are Plough-

mat, Carter, Sheplyard and Driver, another Switzerland-only thirty That would be very convenient if times larger-on the roof of the

cach of them had the name' corre- sponding to his vocation. But, un- fortunately, none of them hins."

"How muddling," said 1.

world,

He reds mountain torrents harnessed by engineers to supply Middle Asia with light and power, railways and roads and airways linking the cities of the Forbidden Land with the outside

"Muddling I should think it in. world, a prople happy nud prosperous But that's by no means all. Each of under a new em of Progress,

these four has a son who assists one of the others. None of them, that ir, nusists his own father; nor doc any of them work with the fellow whose calling is the same as his own

H

name."

✰

HAT he does not appear in

Lama Laud becoming. Bot a recond Switzerland, but another Belgiunt

Yel the cockpit of warring nations.

I left it at that, but in the course Mr. Eriders has been very close for of my stay on the farm I elicited a thirty years to the intriques Tint have

few more facts found that young surrounded Tibet. Ploughman is engaged to the sister

Mr. Shepherd

Once Russia was the arch-intriguer.

of the young fellow who helps the That was in the days when the carter. This is not surprising, as "Russian Bear" was the Indian Fron the carter is married to Mr. Plough- Hier bogy. Then I was China, who ance is not an army to Linssn. Now seems MARH sister. married to the ploughman's to be Japan. And all the time Britain widowed mother, and Mr. Driver has been altting on the doorstep like a watchdog, often growing menacingly, hnu no daughter,

zometimes slowing ber terti, and ores at least opening them to bite.

What are the vocations of each of Fathead's employees, and whom do their respective sons assist?

PROBLEM 2 WEIGHING

MACHINE

*

*

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

If the glories that Mr. Esters was told of Tibet's mineral wealth are only half true, then Lama Land must in richer in gold than even South Afrien. The author writes of monasteries

THE five daughters of Professor where the dead abbots are preserved in

Diddichom

were stranded

at A

a solid pinting of gold and sit in spten- donr en gold pedestala, while roki chr

es in heaps on monastery floors.

And rember, there is no goki mining in Tet. The gold is st

Rent-

wayside sintion.

A weightide" station, I might have said as they passed the time hy weighing themselves, in pairs, on

(y athered-in the same way as for at a penny-in-the-slot machine. weighing in pairs they were able to least twenty-five centuries get all the weights they wanted for bet, too, the priests hold that gald

which the tigets are *

The dust and one penny). The ten weights record is a plant, ed-cach the weight of two of the the seed or root:

spangles are the flower. girls were as follows,

"Lest the annual harvest of gold A st..

should decrease, the priests lay down the strict rule that gold washers must return to the soll every nugget which, they unwittingly unearth. To disobey is both sacrilege and trenton, punish- Somebody there once found a nug- set : 625 ouncesi

*

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8 ..

6 st. 3 lbs.

+

5.

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Can you work out the five girls able by death." Indletual weights?

Austers Below

ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS

Problem 1: Fathead's Farm

Mr. Shepherd in the driver and his!

sou assiste Mr. Driver Mr. Driver in the curter and his son

int Afr. Carter

Ar. Ploughan is the shepherd and

kin sen assists Mr. Shepherd. Mr. Carter in the ploughman and his son assists Mr. Plougkutan I'roblem 2: Weighing Machine The individual weights of the live girls were 1st. Glbs., 4st. 3lbs., 4st.

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Thirty years later, a Chia he discussed with the exile! Panghan. Lenin, who b managed to get about n

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got beyond paper,

The gold in Tibet is ill But waiting for its wings. Mr. Enders, back in America. has not yet given up hope of a golden airway rerefco,

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

that was as far as it all got. He was

He reenta never to have been in Tibet, yet he sa written a leemendously fas cinating book about it from the deep and wie's nołowiedne he has und of the country. Its people and a curioms. with his father on the frontier at about the thine of Youngbagband's mission to Lhasa. That boy of the border- le met and Hatened eut learnrd. inerchants frort Chilaa, secret servico scents, intelques.

Like Kipling's Kim, he found bis guru, tad the cheln was an attentive pupil.

The Chinese Gavernment grew cold when a very empiinlic "No came from the Dalai Laina ln reply to pence overtures from the Panchan. The death of the Dalai Lama caused further complien- Hons and all that the author get out of I was a very imposing parchment wiilch was described as a "Passport to Heaven."

Tibet bae farcinated him ever since. It was in the Lacughts of the callegr youth in America, the war-time nama in Franer, the United States Brúnnig

AND the Panchan Lain is Natl waiting for a call from official Chlan, and certainly ..

Mr. seller

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anders is atill waiting for a call from Government, who became a kind of

the Panela to tur drenus into Yonorary adviser to the Panchan

realities. And the mid rails too. Lama, seeking to return to the lant over which for five years he ruled as But things are reg to hapuen lu

Sybel in the neur wture. regent when the Dalai Lama hud fed to Mongolia.

In Lanaisin, the Panchan Lama, or Toshi Lama, on-le in more generally known, is regarded as "The Living Buddin." The Dalal bang is the temporul refer, nad the Panelian Lama the spiritual need.

The Panchan's onvoltion seen in have been with the help of the Chiurse Government, to carve out a new Kingdom for himself berdem of Thrt. Mongolia and He drew it on a man, clumpy like a heart and potuit us towards - China.

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