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INSPECTOR PLayfair's

NOTEBOOK: 11

The Duchess's DIAMOND

"THERE

Bre

times,"

said have to read it first, you know." Joshua Playfair to Ser-- "'Of course,' said Riccardo. And Lumpkin, "when 'Whaddya take me for?' geant one needs to have one's this, Lumpkin, is the note that

he wrote out:

wits about one.

"I shouldn't · think," ・ ・ said, Lumpkin, "that that could ever! not have been said of you."

Scotland Yard.

"Dear Marla,

"The last three years

Ignoring the phraseology of I've kept free of the cops, and what was evidently meant as a nom here we are again. But the compliment, Playfair extracted whole affair's a marc's nest, you a paper from his files. "Here's will find.

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this!

"Fancy arresting me on an example of what I mean, Lumpkin. This is a copy of the trumped-up charge like letter from old Riccardo to his But cheer up! There'll be an in- daughter Marta, which enabled quiru. after this, into the Yard me to recover the Knarlborough and the dolls who run it and

that clearly is what is wanted!

diamond."

"Ah, yes," said Lumpkin. "A famous case that was, I'm told, sir."

just

"In the meantime, here I sit in the local dungeon. The chairs are uncomfortable, and the walls Playfair laughed. "I'll

covered with filth.

"Give my old_friend_Playfair give you the essentials of the what assistance he needs. story. The diamond, which was he needs all he can get, I can worth fifteen thousand, WAB tell you! By the time this case pinched from the Duchess of is over, he'll be definitely on the Knarlborough at a dinner. We'd

shelf.

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a shrewd idea who had it- Riccardo

(known "Lily fingers") and there was enough evidence to arrest the old bird on suspicion. But of course he de- nied all knowledge of the dia-! mond. I talked to him like an Uncle at the Yard, and then I to him I was going to search his house and he might as well save me the trouble.

never

And

"And send me some clothes, will you? And that volume of Proust, which you'll find on a table in the kitchen.

"Your long-suffering

"PAPA."

"I watched Riccardo write that note, Lumpkin, and it seemed to me there was some- thing

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1937

Current Affairs Test

How To

Do

It

Five possible answers are gluen for each question. Prime Minister of Great Britain le (1) MacDonald, (2) Chamberlain, (3) Hallsham, (4) Baldwin, (5) Lloyd George. The number 4 (meaning Baldwin) has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet. Answers on Papa Ten.

Home Affairs

1. The Socialist League has formed a united front with the L.L.P. and the Communists. The leader of the Socialist League in (1) Mr. Attlee, (2) Mr. Maxton, (3) Sir Stafford Cripps, (4) Mr. Gallacher, (5) Mr. Lansbury.

2. Dismissals

have

at naval dockyards created n sensation. The responsible Minister is (1) Mr. Baldwin, (2) Sir John Simon, (9) Mr. Dulf Cooper, (4) Mr. Eden, (5) Sir Samuel Hoare.

3. The Duke of Gloucester is giving up his army career to assist in public functions. His regiment is ihe (1) 10th Hussars, (2) Life Guards, (3) Grenndter Guards, (4) Gloucestershire Regiment, Royal Horse Guards.

(5)

4. Parliament will, it is understood, vote some Cabinet Ministers in- creased salaries. At present the Prime Minister's salary is (1) £15,000 (2) £10,000, (3) £5,000, (4) £0,000 and an allowance for entertainment (5) £8,000.

at

5.-Post Once savings deposita

the end of 1030 totalled (1) £710,000,000, (2) £432,000,000, (3) £300,000,000, (4) £108,000,- 000 (5) £87,000,000.

World Affairs

6. Navies and armies of world Powers will draw a cordon around Spain in order to prevent the en- try of volunteers and munitions. The Canary islands will be guarded by Great Britain. The capital of the Canaries in (1) Teneriffe: (2) Palma; (3) Lanzarote; (4) Santa Cruz: (5) Las Palmas. 7.-Baron von Neurath has been holding Important conversations with the Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg. Baron von

Neurath about his performance. that didn't seem quite spontane. "Riccardo

balted A Qus. And when I read the note eyelid. 'Going to my house, through, it didn't ring true, are you?' he said...'Make your either. That's why, when I got self at home, Playfair, won't to Riccardo's house--before even you?

You'll find my daughter I'd given the note to his bright Marta there. And, by the way, little daughter-the first thing I you might take her a note from did was to collect the missing me." "

diamond."

"Right," I said. "But I shall What was in the note?

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

material, and all spotted 1 to 6, could always be distinguished one from another?"

PROBLEM I CYRIL'S JOURNEY

"To-day," said Cyril. "I did ien miles from the station in exactly one hour and a half. I walked parts of the way, and I ran the remainder.

the

I walk at a steady 4 miles per hour," and when I run I run just twice as lasi us that."

How far did Cyril walk?

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PROBLEM II

DICE

"Oh, that's soon worked out," said` Mildred's uncle. "The answer

What is the answer?

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PROBLEM ITE INTRUSIONS

in each of the following groups there is one "intruder"-one object, persor. or place that is clearly di- ferent" from the others. Nume the

Mildred and her uncle were play-"intruders":

ing a game with dice. "I've often (3) Chester, Durham, Exeter, Read-

wondered." said Mildred, "how!

many different dice one could have." (2)

"Different dice?" said her uncle.

"Yes, you know,"

sald Mildred.

"Different in the sense that there's

int. Salisbury. Aluminium, Copper, Nickel, Sulphur, Tin.

(3) Emerson, Gront, Hoover, Lin-

coln, Washington.

a different arrangement of spots. (1) Chectul, Hyena, Ounce, Paniber,

Put it another way: how many dice Tiger

could you have which, though they (5) Beech, Birch, Plane, Sycamore,

same size, colour and

were

the

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in (1) German Foreign Minister; (2) Chairman of the Reichsbank; (3) German Ambas- sador to Vienna: (4) German Ambassador to Rome; (5) Chair- man of the Nazi Party, 8-Foreign warships may not use the Kiel Canal without permission. The conal connects (1) The Elbe with the Weser, (2) the North Sea with the Baltic, (3) the Order with the Vistula, (4) the Zuyder Zee with the Ems. (5) the Rhine with the Scheldt,

D-Lord Tweedsmuir opened the Parlament at Ottawa recently, Lord Tweedanuir la well known as the creator of (1) Raffles, (2) "Bulldog" Drummond, (3) Winnio the Pooh, (4), Father Brown, (0) General Hannay,

10.-Fierce fighting has been pro

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ceeding around Oviedo, which the capital of (1) Old Castille, (2) Granada; (3) Catalonia; (4) Az- turias; (3) Aragon.

General

11-11 was Mr... Lloyd George's birthday last month.. Ho 18 (1) (3) 43, (2) 68, (3) 71, (4) 74, 79.

12-"Gold Staff Ofcera" for the Coronation ceremony are row being nominated Their

ment rests with the (1) Earlt

the poet. This took place in (1) 1032, (2) 1005, (3) 1746, (4) 1700; (6) 1827.

Arts and Books

an

19.—Mr. Harold Samuel, the planist,

Is dend. He was famous as interpreter of (1) Bach, (2) Tchaikowsky,, (3) Chopin, (4) Brahms, (5) Beethoven. 20,- A picturisation of Lewis Sinclair's "Dodsworth" is,coming to Hongkong shortly. The prinel- pal role will be played by (1) Norma Shearer: (2) Gladys Swarthout; (3) Mary Brian; (4) Greta Garbo; (5) Ruth Chatterton.

21—A famous London theatre about to be rebuilt (1) Globe, (2) Haymarket, (3) Criterion, (4) St. James's, (5) Prince of Wales.

shai, (2) Dean of Westminster, 22.-"Balolaiko" is à triumph of (3) Speaker, (4) Archbishop of Canterbury,

Horse.

production. The producer is (1)

C. B. (5) Master of the

Cochran, (2) Tyrone Guthrie, (3) Leontine Sagan, (4) Athole Stewart, (b) Noel Coward,

13-The design of King George VI,

postage stamps is being eagerly 23.-"Madame Butterfly" has been discussed. Those who are speci- ally interested in stamps are known os (1) psychiatrists, (2) toxicolo- (4)

Rista, (3) philatelists,

Inpidaries, (5) seismologists,

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14-A German destroyer is being named after Hans Lody, Lody @gured in the late war (1) aviator, (2) spy, (3) submarine commander, (4) cavalry officer, (5) expert in trench warfare, 15.-An International Regatta, to commemorate the Coronation is to be held in the latter part of June. The venue is (1) Cowes, (2) Felixstowe, (3) Falmouth, (4) Milford Haven, (5) Torbay, 10-Particularly humid weather has been experienced in Hongkong during the past week, the humidi- ty reaching (1) 98 per cent. (2) $7 per cent.; (3) 100 per cent.; (4) 94 per cent.; (5) 97 per cent.

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17-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt

to lecture at London University. He has been (1) President of the U.S.A. (2) Governor-General of the Philippines, (3) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, (4) Secre- tary of State, (5) Governor New York,

of

18-Recently we celebrated the anni

versary of the birth of Lord Byron,

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

CAT PORTRAITS

Did the photographer-say, "Watch the birdla"?. Thla command ought `to mean something to a cat, but, as a matter of fast, thene poses were

obtained by dangling a bright object near the camera.

IT is natural for an amateur pho-

tographer, according to his tastos and interests, to become intrigued with ona kind of picture subject; animals, machinory, troos, sky. scrapare, wild llio, marine views,

and what not. The result, olten, is that he finds himselt pursulog a fascinating hobby within a hobby- searching for and photographing in- toresting types of his favorite plc- ture subject..

One of the most enjoyable and, challenging of one-subject hobbles Is making portraits of cats, You soon learn that the mature cat is an animal of many expressions, and that he rarely falls to reward you, with an fatoresting one. You dis cover, also, that cats have indi vidunifty, even those of the same brood. Consequently, in making cat portraits you obtain a variety of distinctive studies.

the cat. Especially outdoors, when Thomas is in a lively mood, you may find that the best you can get is 9/10 backyard and 1/10 cat. On the other hand, Thomas loves to lie in the sun, ospecially after a good meat, and then, usually, you find him a most trackable model.

Inside the house the chances aro always good because hero a cat la generally quietor and disappearing acts can be prevented, Here, too, yon canmorecasilyarrangencontrasung background. The surest way to catch a poso is to uso a fash baib, Flood, Bght lamps seem to cause most cuts to lie down and bank. Cats, howovor, boing inquiultivo, ike to look out of windows for long periods, giving you chance to croon up on them and snap a good pleture by daylight,

A most useful "accensory before the fact" for cat pletures is a por- trait attachment over your regu lar lens permitting close-ups within arm's longth. But, if you do not usen portrait attackment, be sure your fo- cus is correct so that the image of the cat will bo quito sharp. Then you cha mask out the surrounding part of the negative to obtain a big- inago enlargomoal as in the ple tures shown above.

Sometimes and this is thethal lenging part of cat photography you need something more than pho- tographio okl to ho successful.. When it comes to posing for the. camera, the folino is often a por varse croature. Dogs beyond the puppy stage are generally obedient,"

Remember that the typical physi. bat, to keep a cat in front of tho

cal characteristics of cats are their Jons, it is usually necessary to on- fortain him. Eron thon, Thomas la whiskers and the liquid gleam in ́ likely to take a walk out of the their eyes. The ono neods a contrast- vlow finder, with completo faditing background: the other, it must forance to what you say to him about him. He has a mind of his own. Hence, there will be times whom you will need Christian pa tionce and an assistant to recover,

ka'confessed, nocủa Iuck with the Uglit reflections, if you succeda in revealing bath, you are a good cat photographer.

JOHN VẠN CULONE

revived at Sadler's Wells. The scene of the opera is laid in (1)

Honolulu, (2) Japan, (3) Titipú, (4) Barataria, (0) Paris, 24.-Deanna Durbin, a new star, has made a remarkable hit in "Three Smart Girls", which had its second screening at a major theatre in This star is Hongkong this week.

nged (1) 21; (2) 18; (3) 18; (4) 13; (5) 17. 25-Emi! Ludwig has written the life story of a river. The river is the

(3) (1) Nile, (2) Thames, Euphrates, (4) Seine, (5) Ganges. 20-"Famine" is the new novel hy (1) Phyllis Bentley; (2) Liam O'Flaherty,

Daphne Du (3) Mourier, (4) Pearl Buck, (6) Arthur Calder-Marshall,

Sport

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27-The annual races were held in Hongkong this week. Winner of the 1937 Derby was (1) Hovac Eve; (2) Thunder Bay; (3) Happy Eve; (4) Rob Roy; (5) Expansion Time, 28-The final test match started in

Melbourne yesterday. In fourth test at Adelaide (1) England won by an innings and 28 runs; (2) Australia won by 01 rung; (3) England won by 178 runs; (4) England won by 257 runs; (5) Australia won by 148 runs, 29-At snooker a record break of 151 (unofficial") has been made by (1) S. Smith, (2) W. Smith, (3) Newman, (4) H. Lindrum, (5) Davis.

30.-Up to date, 30 test matches have 'been played on the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Two have been drawn and Australia has won (1)· 16; (2) 14; (3) 12; (4) 11; (5)

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Girls' and Boys' Corner

must have Dear Kiddies-You Ilked last

to week's Competition, judge from the large number of en- tries which have reached me. I can tell you that it was quite a job look- ing

through all the efforts and care- fully going through each one. There were very few, wrong entries this time, so that, once again, age and neatness were the chlef factors in deelding the winners.

After a lot of time and thought, I have come to the conclusion that the Senior award should go to Jacqueline Matthews (aged 11), 200 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon.

The Junior prize is won by June Martin (aged 7), 36 Humphreys: Buildings, Kowloon.

Will the winners call at the "Tola- graph" Omeo for their prizes?

Specially commended for heat work are the following Seniors:-- Peggy Barton, Mimi da Roza, Frankle Hughes, Belly Wadmore, Cyril Grimth, Audrey Barton, Margie William Barker, Christopher ngsbury, Helene Ozorio,--Aurea Marques,

Sufflad, Ronnie Thompson, Charles W. Foster, Mar-

Ada

garet Choo, Ada Foster Shuk-chun,

hun, Yvonne Shaw, Olivia

Doreen

E. Botelho, Peggy Prince, Mar- Karel Macfarlane, Hazel Sclater, reen Stephens, Irene Mann; and the following Juniors;William McMahon, Moira Patey, Jacqueline Brown, Dudley McMahon, Freda Stephens, Ronald Cameron, Mariam Curreem, George Hudson, Anthony: Cutcher, Jean Drennan, Mary Fitz- Gerald.'

Now, children, here's another Com- petition which I am sure you will all like. The sketch shows a picture of a girl in fancy dress. What you have to do is to draw in her features and then colour the completed skateli with your paints or crayons. There will be two prizes-one for those from 10 to 14 years; and the other for those under 10.

Send your entries, not forgetting | Wednesday.

Who'll win the prizes

to mention your age, to Unele Eddle, this time, I wonder? Lots of love,

e/o "Hongkong Telegraph,' so as to kiddies. reach him not later than 4 p.m. on i

UNCLE EDDIE

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