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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK: 11

The Duchess's DIAMOND

"THERE

are times," said, have to read it first, you know.” Joshua Playfair to Ser- ""Of course, said Riccardo. geant Lumpkin, "when"Whaddya také me 'for?' And

one

SATURDAY,

FEBRUARY 27, 1997

Current Affairs Test

How

To Do It

Five possible answers are given for each question, Prime Minister of Great Britain is (1) MacDonald, (2) Chamberlain, (3) Halltham, (4) Baldwin, (8) Lloyd George. The number 4 (meaning Baldwin) has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet. Answers on Page Ten.

Home Affairs

1. The Socialist League has formed a united front with the LLP, and the Communists. The leader of the Socialist League is (1) Mr. Attico, (3) Mr. Maxton, (a),Sir Stafford Cripps, (4) Mr. Gallacher, (6) Mr. Lansbury,

have needs to have 'one's this, Lumpkin, is the note that

he wrote out:

Scotland Yard, think," said

wits about one.

"I shouldn't Lumpkin, "that that could ever! "Dear Marta, not have been said of you."

"The last three peara Ignoring the phraseology of | l'ue kept free of the cops, and what was evidently meant as a now here we are again. But the compliment, Playfair extracted whole affair's a mare's nest, you a paper from his files. "Here's will find,

"Fancy arresting, me an example of what I mean,

charpe like Lumpkin. This is a copy of the trumped-up

021 a this!

letter from old Riccardo to his But cheer up! There'll be an in- daughter Marta, which enabled mary, after this, into the Yard me to recover the Knarlborough and the dolts who run it and diamond."

that clearly is what is wanted!

"Ah, yes," said

"In the meantime, here I sit Lumpkin. "A famous case that was,

in the local dungeon. The chairs I'm told, sir."

are uncomfortable, and the walls Playfair laughed. "I'l just covered with filth...

aa

"Give my old friend Playfair And

a

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, was tell you! By the time this case pinched from the Duchess of is over, he'll be definitely on the Knorlborough at a dinner. We'd

shelf. a shrewd idon who had it-

"And send me some clothes, Riccardo (known "Lily will you? And that volume of fingers") and there was enough Proust, which you'll find on evidence to arrest the old bird on table in the kitchen. 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 told him I was going to search his house and he might as well save me the trouble.

A

"Riccardo nover batted eyelid. 'Going to my house, are you?' he said...'Make your self at home, Playfair, won't you? You'll find my daughter Marta there. And, by the way, you might take her a note from me,' "

"Right," I said. "But I shall

"Your long-suffering

"PAPA."

"I watched Riccardo write that note, Lumpkin, and it seemed to me there was some- thing about his performance that didn't seem quite spontane- ous. And when I read the note through, it didn't ring true, either. That's why, when I got to Riccardo's house-before even I'd given the note to his bright little daughter-the first thing 1 did was to collect the missing

What was in the note?

diamond."

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM I CYRIL'S JOURNEY "To-day," said Cyril, "I did fen miles from the station. in exactly one hour and a half. I walked part

the

of the way, and 1 ran the remainder..

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

How far did Cyril walk?

**

PROBLEM II

DICE

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

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

"The answer

Is

What is the answer?-

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· PROBLEM ILI INTRUSIONS

In each of the following groups there is one "intruder"-one object, person or place that is clearly dif ferent" from the others, Name the

Mildred and her uncle were play-"truders":

ing a game with dice. "I've often (1) Chester, Durham, Exeter, Read-

wondered," salt Mildred, "how

many different dice one could have." (2)

"Different dice?" sald her uncle.

Aluminium

Salisbury. Sulphur, Tin.

Copper, Nickel,

"Yes, you know," said Mildred. (3) Emerson, Grunt, Hoover, Lin- "Different in the sense that there's coln, Washington.

different arrangement of spots. (4) Cheetah, Hycha, Ounce, Panther, Put It another way: how many dice Tiger.

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

same size, colour and

were

New:-

A

Yew,

DAINTY SELECTION OF

SUMMER SHOES HAS ARRIVED EARLIER THAN USUAL AND

IS NOW ON DISPLAY

BE WISE, MAKE AN EARLY CHOICE.

ANY MODEL MAY BE PUR-

CHASED, ON. VERY ATTRAC- TIVE EASY TERMS FROM

GORDON'S LTD.

Hong Kong's Ladies' Shoe Specialists

2.-Dismissala at naval duckyards created sensation. The responsible Minister is (1) Mr. Baldwin. (2) Sir John Slimon, (3) Mr. Duff Cooper, (4) Mr. Eden; (5) Sir Samuel Hoare.

3--The Duke of Gloucester is giving up 'his army career to assist, in public funellons. His regiment is ihe (1) 10th Hussars, (2) Life

-Lord Tweedsmule opened the Parliament at Ollawa recently. Lord. Tweedsmuir is well known as the creator of (1) Raffles, (2) ► "Bulldog" Drummond, (3) Winnie the Pooh, (4) Father Brown, (6) General Hannay,

the poot. This took place in (1) 1032, (2) 1805, (3) 1748, (4) 1780, (5) 1027.

Arts and Books

(4)

10. Mr. Harold Samuel, the pianist, 10.-Fierce fighting has been promis dead. He was famous as an

ceeding around Oviedo, which

Interpreter of (1) Bach, (2) the capital of (1) Old Costille, (2)

Tchaikowsky, (3) Chopin, Granada; (8) Catalonia; (4) Ás- turins; (5) Aragon.

Brahms, (5) Beethoven, 20. A

of picturinotion

Lewis Sinclair's "Dodsworth" is coming to Hongkong shortly, The princi- pal role will be played by (1) Norma Shearer; (2) Gladys Swarthout; (3) Mary Brian; (4) Greta Garbo; (5) Ruth Chatterton.

General

11. It was Mr. Lloyd George's birthday last month. He is (1) 63. (2) 68, (3) 71, (4) 74, (5) 79,

Guards, (3) Grenadier Guards, (4) 12.-"Gold Staff OMeers" for the 21.-A fainous London theatre about

Regiment,

Gloucestershire Royal Horse Guards.

(B)

4.--Parliament will, it is understood, vole some Cabinet Ministers in- creased salaries. At present the Prime, Minister's salary is. (1) £15,000, (2) £10,000 (3) £5,000, (4). £6,000 and an allowance for entertainment (6) £8,000.

5. Post Office savings deposits at the end of 1930 totalled (1) £710,000,000, (2) £ 432,000,000, (3) £300,000,000, (4) £198,000,- 000 (5) £87,000,000.

World Affairs

0-Novies 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 is' (1) Tenerlife; (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 Is (1) German Foreign Minister; (2) Chairman of the Reichsbank; (3) German Ambas- sndar 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 cunal connects (1) The Elbe with the Weser, (2) the North Sea with the Balile, (3) the Order with the Vistula, (4) the Zuyder Zee with the Ems, (6) the Rhine with the Scheldt.

Coronation ceremony are now being nominated. Their appoint- ment rests with the (1) Earl Mor- Bhal,

(2) Dean of Westminster, (3) Speaker, (4) Archbishop of Canterbury, (5) Master of the Horse.

to be rebuilt is (1) Globe, (2) Haymarket (3) Criterion, (4) St. James's, (5) Prince of Wales.

n triumph of 22.-"Balalaika" is

production. The producer is (1) C. E. Cochran, (2) Tyrone Guthrie, (3) Leontine Sagan, (4) Athole Stewart, (3) Noel Coward.

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

13-The design of King George VI.

postage stamps is being eagerly 23.-"Madame Butterfly" has been discussed. Those who are speci- ully interested in stamps are known na (1) psychiatrists, (2) toxicolo- gists, (3) philatelists, (4) lapidaries, (5) seismologists.

14-A German destroyer is being named after Hans Lody. Lody figured in the late' war as (1) aviator, (2) spy, (3) submarine commander, (4) cavalry ofcer, (5) expert in trench warfare.

commemorate The

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15-An International Regatta, to Coronation is to be held in the latter part of June. The venue Is (1) Cowes, 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) 07 per cent.; (3) 100 per cent.; (4) 94 per cent.; (5) 07 per cent. 17-Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is 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 of New York.

18-Recently we celebrated the anni- versary of the birth of Lord Byron,

the SNAPSHOT GUILD

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CAT PORTRAITS

Dld the photographer say, “Watch the birdse”? This command ought to mean something to a cat, but, as a matter of fact, these posse were obtained by dangling a bright object near the camera.

Thomas is in a lively mood, you may And that the best you can got 18 0/10 backyard and 1/10 cat. On the other hand, Thomas lovon to lie in the sun, o pocially after a good meal, and then, usually, you find him s most tractable model.

FT Iš natural for an amateur pho- ƒ the cat.· Espoolally outdoors, when

tographer, according to his tables and interests, to become intrigued with one kind of picture subject: animals, machinery, troos, sky- ecropore, wild lite, marino viowa, and what not. The result, often, is that he finds himself, pursuing a fascinating hobby within a hobby searching for and photographing in- lerosting types of his favorite ple Lura subject.

One of the most enjoyable and challenging of ono-subject hobbler Is making portraits of cats. You soon learn that the maturo "cat is an animal of many expressions, and that ho rarely falls to roward you with an interesting ono. You dia-i cover, also, that cats have ind!- viduality, oven thone of the same brood. Consequently, in making sat portraite you obtain a variety of distinctivo studion,

Inside the house the chances are always good because hero a cat to Eenerally-qufotor and disappearing acts can be prevented, Horo, toɔ, you cap more easily arrangeu'contrasting background. The surest way to catch a pose is to use a flash, bulb. Flood light lamps soom to cause most cata to lie down and bask. Cats, however, being inquisitive, like to look out of windows for long periods, giving you a chance to creep up on them anú snap a good picture by daylight.

A most useful "accommory, bolera the fact" for cat plotures is a`por- trait attachment over your rogu lar lons permitting close-ups within. arm's longth. But, if you do not usa a

cus is correct so that the image of the cat will be quitở kharp. Then you can maak out the surrounding part of the negalive to obtain a big image enlargement, as in the ple turos shown abovo,

Sometimes-and this is the chal. longing part of cat photography-portrait attachment, be sure your fo you need something more than pho- tographic skill to be successful. When it comes to posing for tho camera, the feline is often a per- vorno creature. Dogs beyond the puppy stage are generally obedient, but, to koop a cat in front of the

Romomber that, the typical physi Jone, it to usually necessary to on

cal churaetorikties of cats are their tertain him, Even then, Thomas is

whiskors and the liquid gleam in likely to take a walk" out of the their ages. The one needs a contrast- vlow finder, with complete indiring background; the other, it must ference to what you say to him or about him. Ho has a mind of his own, anco, there will be times when you will need Christian pa tience and an assistant to recover

bo confessod, noods luck with tho lgbt reflections. If you succeed in revealing both, you are a good est photographor.w

JOHN VAN GUILDER,

Honolulu, (2) Japan, (3) Tilipů. (4) Barataria, (5) 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 Hongkong this week. This star is

aged (1) 21; (2) 18; (3), 18; (4)* 13; (5) 17. 28-Emil Ludwig has written, the life story of a river. The river is the (1) Nile, (2) Thames, (3)

·Euphrates, (4) Selne, (5) Ganges. 20-Famine" is..the new novel by (1) Phyllis Bentley, (2) Liom O'Flaherty, (3) Daphne Dil Maurler, (4) Pearl Buck, Arthur Calder-Marshall,

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27.-The annual racea were held in Winner of Hongkong this week. the 1937 Derby was (1) Havoc 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 Bl runs; (3) England won by 178 runs; (4) England won by 257 runs; Austraila won by 148 runs. 29-At snooker a record break

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30.-Up to date, 30 test matches have

been pinyed on

the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Two have been drawn and Austraila has won (1) 18; (2) 14; (3) 12; (4) 11;' (5)

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Girls' and Boys' Corner

can

have Dear Kiddies,-You musi liked last week's Competition, to judge from the large number of en- iries which have reached me.

that it was quite a job look- tell you ing through all the efforts and care- fully going through each one. There were very few wrong entries this time, so that, once again, oge and neatness were the chief factors in deciding the winners,

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

The Junior prize is won by June Martin (aged 7), 30 Humphreys Buildings, Kowloon,

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

Specially commended for

Grimth,

neat

work are the following Seniors: Peggy Barton, Mimi da Roze, Frankle Hughes,

Betty Wadmore,

Cyril Audrey Barton, Margie Xavier, William Barker, Christopher. Kingsbury, Helene Ozorio, Aurea Marques, Ada Sund. Ronnie Thompson, Charles W. Foster, Mar- Karet Chos. Ada Foster, Ho uk-chun.. Yvonne Shaw, Olivia

Botelho, Pe

Peggy Prince, Mar- Sclater,

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guret Macfarlane. Hazel Doreen Stephens, Irene. Mann; and the following Juniors:-William P McMahon. Moira Patey, Jacqueline Brown, Dudley McMahon, Freda Stephens, Ronald Cameron, Marlam Curreem, George Hudson, Anthony Cutcher, Jean Drennan, Mary Fitz- Gerald.

Now, children, here's another Com- petition which I am sure you will pll 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 sketch with your paints or crayons. There will be two prizes one for those to mention your age, to Uncle Eddle, this time, I wonder? Lots of love, from 10 to 14 years; and the other c/o "Hongkong Telegraph," so as to kiddies. for those under 10.

reach him not later than 4 p.m. on}

Send your entries, not forgetting Wednesday,

Who'll win the prizes

UNCLE EDDIE

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