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RECENT WINNERS

Short Story

Girls' and Boys' Corner

ELIZABETH

Dear Kiddies,

You sent in a nice lot of entries for last week's Competition, and I must congratulate many of you on having cut the pieces of the motor-car out so neatly and put them in their proper places. Some of the colouring by the Senior's was also very good.

I've gone through the entries very carefully, and, after taking nge and good work into necount, I find that the best Senior effort is that of Helen Hanger (aged 13), 402 The Penk,

The Junior award goes to Desmond Rodger (aged 6). 157 Waterloo Road, Kowloon.

Will the winners call at the "Telegrapha" Office for their prizes and for cords entitling them each to a free portrait?

Specially commended for neat work are the following Seniors: Gilbert Kwang, Yscult Cooper, Ho Shuk-chun, Joyer Crookdake, Vincent Tayores, Eva Grady, Trixie Higgs, Hazel Selater, Betty Wong, Young Kit-wa, Maggie Alves, J. Gomes, Irene Mann, Suen Mo-tak, Edward Wong, Dorothy Lee, Vida Jan; and the following Juniors; chard Jones, Elleen Peters, Anthony mund, Franels Law, Theresa Prata, Pinky Silva, Sylvia Xavier, Gloria Silva, Leonel Batalha (Macno), Joan Guimyam, Laurence A. Stevens, Lau- renee Becker, George Hudson, Marian A. Curreem, and John Ja,'

Now, children, I suppose you are all talking and thinking about the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; aren't you? Well, I'm giving you this week a Coronation Competition. You will see in the sketch a plain cushion cover. All you have to do is to decorate it with nsultable Coronation design..

Your design can be lettering, a Crown, or similar device, or even a So monogrum-anything, in fact, which has to do with the Coronation. here's a chance to try your skill. I know it won't be very easy, but I'm sure you would like to look back un the Coronation and remember how you tried to win a prize.

When you have done the design, colour it either in paints or crayons. There will be two prizes, as usual one for Seniors, and the other for Juniors. Don't forget to give your age when sending in your entries, which must reach me not later than 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Uncle Eddic.

JOAN MILLARD

BETTY WONG

MARGARET MACFARLANE

ANN'S LESSON

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ITTLE Yseult Cooper, who

won the Senior prize in last week's Children's Competi- tion, has kindly sent "Uncle Eddie' a really excellent story, which she wrote herself. Yscult, who is only 11 years of age; is a newcomer to the Colony, having arrived last December. Her story, is so good that other child- ren will no doubt like to read it. It is entitled "Elizabeth Ann's Lesson."

Here it is:)

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There was onco a ittle girl who would not practice her music. She was supposed to do an hour a day, but she did adt. Her nurse tried begging her; enaxing her; scolding her, but still she would not do an hour. The little girl was very lazy and her

neme was Elizabeth Ann.

One day. Elizabeth Ann was practie- Ing; he did the senle of "C" which IN CARY. But when he came to "Two Sharps" she just stuck, and couldn't go Then he banged the keys very hard and suddenly she heard a lot of little screams. The keys had come to life and had 1ftile legs, turnis and faces. Some of them had their arms in wings, others had their feet wrapped in band- ages. They all began to shout. "She banged us, so why shouldn't we bang

Fetch

the hor! Futch the police! police!"

At this luts of little sharpe and Ants clambered down from their black pedes- tals and waved their arms and cried, "We will come nad take you away when you are in bed. Oh you wicked little giri." Then Elizabeth Ann utd, "I will never bang you agula if you will forgive me and not take me away when I'm I bed. The little black palicenten glowered at her and and:

All right, but the next time here they broke off and asked at her durl:ly

"Ohi" #creamed Elizabeth Ann for their black lauks had frightened her. Then inept

in came nurse and said, “You have fallen of the piano stool, you must have dropped off to sleep"

Elizabeth Ann You

may be always did an hour's practice after that, and she never banged the plano keys ngain.

Kure

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Week-end Problems

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WEEK-END SECTION

L. W. LOWER TELLS

The Sad Story Of D'Vauncey

And The Hon. Maude

The burglar's name was James Gaspard D'Vauncey. His father was a vicar in the little village of Upper Woopsey On The Wold, Hants. He led a blameless life up to the age of eight, when he ran away from home and joined a clipper bound for Hongkong.

In his innocence, the boy had thought thint a clipper was a hair-dresser.

RRIVING at Hongkong he

was persuaded to become an Insurance canvasser. This was his first step on the down- ward path.

One day he forged his father's signature to a Hongkong Ilotel chit. He was caught in the act, and from then on decided that society syat against him.

Now look at him! Let it be a warning to you.

The lady in the case is the Honour able Maude Cranborough-Heath, She was at one time a chorus girl, as was her mother before her. Her mother married Lord Cranborough in the carly 60's, but owing to her husband's mily wild and dissolute habits the family fortune was soon dissipated, like his Jordship, and she was flung out into the cold world with her only chiki soon after Lord Cranborough shot himself in the reading-room of the Conservative Club.

Little Maude soon learned to batile for herself and became a flower-

seller. One day she was idly doing the spills on the pavement, business being dull, and kicking the hats off passers-by. A RTcal enterpreneur noticed her, and she so impressed him that he engaged her to appear In the chorus of his next revue.

From that time she never looked back. Why should she? She knew who was following her.

The Dread Secret

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I'll have to tell you. None other than James Gaspard D'Vauncey

Maude was astonished. "Ob," she rasped.

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"Arr!" he said, menacingly. "Don't you know your alphabet7" she sneered. "There's a P and a Q to come between 0 and R.".

"I'm minding those!" he repiled, brightly.

"But listen, woman. You knew I was a scene-shifter in the same com- pany when you were in the chorus, a nail-fille I know that you stuck through the bottom of that yacht 80 that you could get your husband's millions"

She shrank back. (If you could see her photo, you'd nolleed that she hasn't shrunk back much since.)

They were rescued the following left but D'Vauncey never day, Maude's side and blackmailed her all day,

But, you ask impatiently, who is that peeping round the doorway? That, girls, is Detective-Inspector Lower.

I am merely waiting until D'Vaun- cey has finished washing up and then

I'm

to see if he's him. going to search those plates for fingerprints

I nearly had him once before. I saw him stoggering out of a godown about two o'clock in the morning with two large suticases.

"What have you got in those bags?" I asked sternly.

"Oranges!" he repiled. "What's your name?" "Bill Jones, sir!" This baffled me. "Why urc wearing a masks at this hour of the morning?" I asked, thinking to trick him.

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*"I've just come from a fancy dress ball!" he explained.

What could I do? I helped him to his bags to his lodgings and it

fact.'t unili next day that I heard

AME the night when she found Alexander Heath, the great ship ping magnate, waiting for her at the stage door. He had a truck outside full of fur coats, pearl necklaces, diamond watches, bangles, emerald pendants, lobsters,

girl could desire. everything

The courtship was a swift one. The day after they were married they left for the Bermudas in Alexander ficath's palatial yachi, A terrific atorm

arose and the ship sank, There were two survivors, the Hon. Maude Cranborough-Ileath' and unknown stoker. And who was the unknown sloker? Three guesses.

Clark Gable? No. Bernard Shaw? No. Mr. Grayburn going. to the money-lender's? No.

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that he had got away with $57,000 worth of doorstops which he subse

fence quently sold through a Japanese scrap dealers. He sold them through a fence.

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Why ho sold them through a fence I don't know. It would have been Just as easy to open the gate.

I think that about accounts everything. And

I'm going away for a long, long time. Across to the Gloucester,

now

for

Bridge Problem No. 6

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Diamonds are trumps. South leads and North-South must win all seven tricks.

Solutions by first post Tuesday to "Fincase." Sunday Dispatch, North- cliffe House, London, E.C. 4.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM 270 South leads spade 4, which is won by North's queen, East discarding heart 4 North lends smallest heart and, East playing low, South wins with the ten however low Enst plays, South

wins with king of spades,

North

discarding a diamond and East

a club. South also wins with dia- mond queen, and leads diamond 8, which East wins, and North discards a heart. East leads club queen, which is allowed to win, North playing the 5. East follows with club B, which North wins with ace, South discord- ing a spade, North leads heart 5 and East winning with the king, South discards the queen, and East has to to iend Jack-J 8 of hearts-up North's A 9 for the two last tricks,

If, at the second trick, East, wins with his king of hearts, South dis- cards his ten. East leads his club queen, which North wins and returns club 6 for West to win two club tricks, South discarding two spades and North- diamond. West then leads a spade, which South wins, North discarding a heart, East is squeezed in the effort to

to guard both his hearts and diamonds, and North-South win the rest of the tricks, either two dia- monds and two hearts or one diamond and three hearts.

This problem was found difficult, and most solutions were either quite wrong or the defence play so unsatis factory that they must be judged wrong. Correct solutions were re- ceived from only two readers and both were ladies. They are "Mrs. A. K." and "Emjay".

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Playfair had spotted the absence from the room of any means of sealing the "suicide" letter. The wax and signzi-ring ordinary used by Mrs. Parrados were left in a conspicuous position on the table,, but the murderess-her sister- had taken away the cigarette ligh- ter with which she hud melted the was. Mra. Parrudos did not smoke, and there were neither matches nor lighter in the room. This fact made it virtually certain that the letter was a fake.

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