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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Current Affairs Test

How To Do It

TIVE possible answers are given for each question. Prime Minister of Great Britain is (1) MacDonald, (2) Chamberlain, (3) Hailsham, (4) Baldwin, (b) Lloyd George.

The number 4 (meaning Baldwin) has been placed at the right of 0 on the muster sheet.

Answers on Page Two..

Home Affairs

L-Sir Godfrey Collins dleil récent- ly. He wna (1) First Commissioner of Works, (2) Secretary for Seut- Int. (3) Minister of Mines, (42 President of the Board of Eden- tion, (5) Under-Secretary of State for War.

2.--The new Chairman of Executive

(1) 12 of the Labour Party is Hugh Dalton, (2) Mrs. Adrumson, Dir. Arthur (3) Mr. Atlee, (4) Greenwood, (5) Mr. Maxtum

3 Dr. J. V. AineMillan has set up a temporary Cathedral pending the building of how He stop of (1) Dover, (2) Guildford,

1'1ymouth

Taunton, iolchester,

(3) (a)

on

"New Deal," (3) to report electoral prospects, (4) to inquire into the activities of Father Coughlin. (5) to explain the nit tude of the Vatican towards the fresurrection la Spain.

6--The League Assembly hos ap- pointed n Committee of 28. Is Surjuse 13 to consider (1) the world economie situation, (2) the position of Abyssinia, (3) £128423- catra, (4) the Spanish civil war, the revision of the League (5) Covenant.

4. On Nov 18 al 19 the King will 4) visit the intensed areas of Tyneside, (2) Dhe Clyde, (ly South 10 Wales, (4) the Duchon coalfields, (5) the East Riding

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Polit Tram been active 6. A 1

He Secretory of (1) this week. the National Institute for Blind, (2) the Communist Party. (3) the Britisha Uaton of Phemists, (4) the Industrial Co-penztaership Association (5) the Colden Clubs

Foreign Affairs

6. A decre

Jesurd recently dis- Aurion Hennwehr banded the

Austrm in The Presiderat of

(2) Stuthemberg. Prince Miklas, 13 Major Pey, 145 Draxler, (5) Di Von Selutehnik

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7-Cardinal Pacelli, the Papud See-

Americn retary. viriting regwon for his visit in raid to be (4 to direurs the Abyssinian skuantion, (2) to examine the results of the

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Polling for the US. Presidency Look plnen last Monday. The thist President of the U.S.A. wow (1) Grorge Washington, (2) Benjamin Franklin, (3) Abraham Lancotu,

Alexander (4)

Bamilton, (5)

Christopher Columbus,

Model must, it is anticipated, hortly enpituinte to the rebala The population ef the Spanish; capital is approximately (1) 2,000,- 000, (2) 250,000, (3) 1,300,000, (4) 100,018 (5) 150,000.

General

H.-Cheiro, the palmist and "mystic."

client recently, a mume Chetro

Greek is dejtved from t

word mearing (1) light, (2) the soul, (3) the hand, (4) a wizard, (5) wisdom.

12The Trustees of the British Museum have approved additions

coins. to their collection of

The and medels is study of cous called (1) Nionismatics, (2) Nun- cupation, (3) Nostalgia, (4) Netro- logy, (3) Neocrney.

13-Th» Novembær session at the Oi! Bailey opened this weck, The court which sits at the Old Bailey Is (1) the Court of Arches, (2) the Court of Criminal Appeal, (3) the Middlesex Sessions, (4) the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, (5) the Central Criminal Court, 14. A National Lecture on "Modern Poetry" was broadenst by Mr. W. B. Yeats, lie is author of the Bres (1) "They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago." (2) "The great hitis of this South Country Come back into my mind," (3) I will arise and go now for al- ways night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounts by the shore," (4) "I must go down to the seas ngain, to the lonely sea and the sky." (5) "What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?" 15.Lust month the number of tele- phones installed In Landon reach- -ed-n- total of-(1) 100,000, (2)-250,- 000, (3) 500,000, (4) 758,000, (5) 1,000,000.

16. Scunthorpe.

in Lincolnshire.

Charter

has just received a Incorporation. The principal pro- duct of Scun horpe is (1) beet sustar, (2) chemicals, (3) cement, (4) steel, (5) boots.

17. Last Wednesday was Armistice Day. Peace was slymed between the Allies and Germany in (1) 1914: (2) 1917; (3) 1919; (4) 1921; (5) 1018.

18. Sir Fronela Goodenough is con-

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Gold smugglers get busy

SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 14, 1936

READ THESE if you are feeling

Tolerant

THE ISLAND OF SHEEP, by John Buchan (Hodder and Stoughton, 78. 04.) Open-air adventure, in .which father and son win a hard moorland battle over a prime selec tion af foreign and home-grown

Nervous

THE TICKING TERKOR MURDERS, by Darwin L, Tellhet (Methuen, 78 d. Tick, tick, tick: The sound ROL on Henry Kerby's nerves at last. - Bo he engaged the world's most And did they amuping detective.

have fun? A pot seems to have been bolled for Buchanites.

Amugglers who run across the fron- flers every night. Scouts are sent off to find out where

crooks. the Customs patrols are operating so that the smugglers can walk across in some other place.

The great trouble of the Customs men is that France has a 2,000-mile frontier, and they cannot watch it Smugglers are not always so cuy

SMUGGLING is often in the two countries, with the all at once.

vital exception gold,

50

is worth taking a chance.

They have been using six-tor armoured lorries and smashing their way across frontiers, running down

Rhythmic

TOM GROGGIN AND

POEMS, by Mary Lang

OTHER

(Dent.

3s. (d.). A second volume of verses by a young Australian poet. Under "The four hendings: "Voices,"

and "The Land," "The Island," Bea. Distinguished.

the news in England; Gold bought For 100 francs in about their movements, there is also a boom on the Paris fetches 140 francs in Brussels,

of thing increasingly difficult. One estimate was that between Franco-Belgian frontier october 2-6, £9,500.000 worth of any one silly enough to get in the

But steel cable barriers where the trade is much geld was smuggled from France to way,

Switzerland.

Means of transport vary from frontier roads are making this sort more highly organised.

dogs to armoured cars and nir- planes.

Devaluation of the Belgian frane male Belgian

prices

Smashing through

Dogs are not good enough for the

cheap, smuggling into France big business men now in control. They used to be taken across the frontier, kept hungry for a couple of days, loaded with contraband,

profitable.

devaluation French equalised nearly every price

has

and set louse.

in

Now there are the gangs of foot

How Cicero Saved Rome

Catiline had conspired to marder the Raman Consuls and set the city an fire. The plan ons betrayed to Cicero. At attempt to murder kim failed, and next day, m the Senate Ciceru exposed the plot in the great oration from which is extract is given, Carline fled and died fighting against the Consular arbiles, Cicera had need Rome from revolution.

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As you,

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defended myself not

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A public guard, but by nwn private diligence, When, in the next Consular Comitia, you

when 1 with to Blay ma Retually consul, and your

the Campus also in pelitora Martius, I checked your nefarious attempt by the assistance and re sources of my own friends, with

out exciting any disturbanca puh. licly. We have now for a long time, Q Con-

script Fathers,

COM

own

often anid before, be separated from us by a wall; let them ceasa to plot against the consul in his house-to Aurround the tribunal of the city practor-to besiege the Senate house with words-E prepare the brands and turches to burn the city; let it, in short, be written on the hrow of every citizen, what are his sentiments about the republic. I promise you this, O Conscript Fathers, that there shall be so

THESE WORDS DID GOOD No. 5

lived among these dangers and machinations of conspiracy; bat somehow or other, the ripeness of all wickedners, and of this long- standing madness and audacity, has come to a head at the time of my consulship. But if this man this alone in removed from piratical crew, wo may appear. perhaps for a short time relieved from fear and anxiety, but the danger will settle down and lia hi in the veins and bowels of the republic.

As

then

+

that

Sovere

it often happens

with inflicted disease, when they are tortured with heat and fever, if they drink cold water, seem at first to bo relieved, but afterwards suffer

To thi more and mors severely: disense which is in the republic, if relieved by the punishment of this man, will only get worse and worse, as the rest will be still Alive.

Wherefore, o Conscript Fa. thers, let the worthless begone-

them let

separate themselves from the good-let them collect in one place--let them, ne I have

templating retirement. His com- mercial career has been associated with the supply of (1) bleycles, (2) newspapers, (3) provisions. (4) Ras, (5) beer.

Arts and Books

19. The Provoked Wife" is to he seen at the Embassy Theatre in London. This pluy is by (1) Ad- diron, (2) Sheridan, (3) Vanbrugh, (4) Dryden, (5) Goldsmith.

20-Another Ibsen play is

shortly to be played at the Westminster Theatre in London. This is (1) The Pigeon, (2) The Wild Duck, (3) Chanticleer, (4) The Seagull, (5) The Birds,

21-The London Philharmonie Or- the chestra recently performed "Leonora" Overture. The com- poser is (1) Mozart, (2) Bach, (3) Rachmaninoff, (4) Tchałkowski, (5) Beethoven.

22,-"Piccadilly Jim" had an ex- cellent run at the King's Theatre. this week. The star in this film was (1) Robert Montgomery; (2) Clark Gable; (3) Roland Young: (4) George Ratt; (5) Clive Brook. 23. The mother of a famous child star passed through Hongkong this week. She was the mother of (i) Shirley Temple; (2) Jackie Coogan; (3) Ann Shirley; (4) Jackie Cooper; (5) Mickey Rooney. 21. Mr. Joseph Hone has written a life of George Moore. Moore was nuthor of (1) Esther Wntern, (2)

much diligence

in us consula, so

much authority

in you, in much virtus In the Roman knights,

so much unanimity in all good men, that you shall see ovary. thing made plain and manifest by the departure of Catiline every. thing chocked and punished. With these amen, O Catiline, be- gone to your impious and nefæri. ous war, to the great safety of the republic, to your own misfortune and injury, and to the destruction of those who have joined them. selves to you In every wicked-

news and atrocity.

you,

by

Then do

O Jupiter, who

consecrated were Romulus with the same suspices as this city, whom we rightly call the stay of this city and empire, repel this man and his compan- ions from your altars and from tire ather temples-from the houses and walls of the city- from the lives and fortunes of all the citizens; and overwhelm all the enemics of good men, the foss of the republic, the robbers of Italy, men bound together by a -trenty, and infamous alliance of crimes, dead and alive, with aternal punlahmonta.

Hilda Lossways, (3) Ann Veronica, (4) Rhoda Fleming, (5) The Dolly Dialogues.

25-"Men Ask For Beauty" is

ה

novel in demand. The author is (1) Shella Kaye-Smith, (2) War- wick Deeping, (3) . C. Hutchin sen, (4) Rosalind Wade, (5). Stephen McKenna.

Phillp Sidney" is by C. 28.--"Sir

-Henry Warren. Sidney died un the battlefield at (1) Chalgrove, (2) Minden, (3) Naseby," (4). Flodden, (5) Zutphen.

Sport

27.Tilden and Vines played ex- hilarating tennis on their second day in Hongkong. Tilden was de- fented by Vines by (1) three sets to two; (2) two sets to one; (3) four sets to three; (4) three sets to one; (5), four sets to one. 28.The table of winning jockeys for the season at Home is again headed by (1) P. Beusloy, (2) R. Perryman, (3) H. Wragu. (4) W. Nevelt, (5) G. Richards, 20. Fred

has become Perry professional tennis player. His guaranteed fee for the first year is (1) $25,000 (2) $100,000; (3) . $5,000; (4) $500,000; (5) $230,000. 30-The first Master Players' Indi-

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vidual Championship at Contract Bridge was won by (1) A. Wolters, (2) K. Konstami, (3) R. Lederer, (4) Harrison Gray, (5) G. Mathieson.

Dear Kiddies,

cross

Soft-Hearted

TOUCH-ME-NOT, by Ann Hepple (Hutchinson, s. d.). Pretty, old- fashioned story of a GIRL who wins through to love and happiness. Scottish clash of prout willa, but in the end he calls her "Small bird of my heart."

ing club which used to organise Sometimes they go neross country, runs across the Franco-Spanish fron- over rivers an specially built port- tlers, until Customs men found that each member's pack was full of silk ahle pontoon bridges.

More subtle was the exclusive ski- stockings.

Girls' and Boys'

Not quite su many entries on usual came in for last week's Competition. But, after all, it wasn't 100

саку drawing clothing for the little

boy

ut girl; was It? Still, there were some good efforts, and, taking age. best into account, 1 And that the Senfor entry was that of Elsa Laurel (aged 121, 297 Prince Edward Road,

ELINOR MEFFAN Last week's 'Junior welnwer,

The best Junter effort was that sent in by ele Tkachenko (aged

7), 3 Ilunkow Rond. Kowloan.

Will the winners call at the "Tele- graph" office for their prizes?

Commended for Food work are Pauline Strange, Miml

Roza,

da

Margle Xavier,

Fernando

Matgle

Alves,

Alves,

Jean Dredge, Irene San Jose, Loretta Ng and Peggy Prince among the Seniors, and the following Juniors:-- Ia Po-chiu, Mollic Terry, Lolly Costa and Francis Ozorio.

Now, children, here's another new You competition for you this wick. all know Punch and Judy, of course. to Well, what you have to do is colour

the pleture with your paints or crayons, and then print (in the spaces provided in the border) eight names of things shown in the picture.

They must be four-lettered words. NAME Then all in your name, age and ad- ADDRESS

dress.

Corner

1

AGE

There will be two prizes one for all like colouring, I know, but this provided. Now, see how good a job

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the other for those under 10. You names and fill them in in the spaces

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