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Children's Corner

Dear Kiddies,

Not quite so many entries came in for last week's Competition. What is more, only a small number of the competitors got all the correct names for the flowers. In the Senior Section, there were only three correct the judging of golutions, and yo there had to be based on the colour- Ing. Best in this respect was the entry of Margaret Pearce (aged 14). 15 Gop Road, Happy Valley,

In the Junior Section, Rodney Martin (nged 9), 33B Nathan Road,

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Nelta Sentor

recent

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Macwilliam, winner in the graph" Children's Competillon. (Photo: Photogen Studio).

Kowloon, wins. He had all the

correct.

and, in

nicely coloured the picture,

addition,

In awarding Merit Certideates, 1

have only taken into account those

who find all the flower names cur reet. This was the main point in the Competition, enlouring being sub- the winners of sidiary. Here are Certificates:

Sentor: J Eager and Venables.

Peter

Two Junior winners in the Telegraph" Children's Competil-. ious. Left, Dorothy Revie; right, Margaret Harel Venables. (Photos: Photogem Studio).

picture

Junior: Roy King. Nan Provan. most interesting colouring competi

week. The Arthur Fisher, Margaret Venables.tlon for this Although there were mistakes shown looks a complete mystery: But if you colour it ac- the naming of the flowers, I should doesn't it? like to comment the following for cording to the following directions good work in

will become a pretty picture. Colotar numbered in Yellow,

colouring:

Senior: Netta Marwilliam, Anthyll these marked 2 Bright Reel, the

Elizabeth

Jones, Hlaptis,

Cyla's Light Brown, the 4's Dark Brown, Fernando Alves, Alves, Grath, Rubert Lan, to Shuk-chium, the 5s Pale Blue, and the 6's in Jean Kempton, Jean Grady, Margie Black. Spares not numbered must Xavier, Antoninu da Luz, Yeung Kit- he left white. wa, Mary FitzGernid.

Juniors: Dorothy Revie.

You will And, children, that the best work can be done if the picture -

And now, kiddies, here's a really is first cut out, pasted on a card or

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There will again be two prizes- one for children from 10 to 14; and the other for those unter 16. Now, kiddies, do your very best, and send in your entries to reach me not later than 4 pm, on Wednesday. Lots of lave.

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A VISIT TO

SANDONIA

(This

By Yseult Cooper

excellent little children's story in written by Yseult Cooper, who will be remembered as having Agured us a winner in the "Tele- gruph's" Children's Competition more than once. Yscult is now enjoying a lovely holiday at Weihaiwel.).

Jenny was digging a deep hole in the rond. She du so much, that she decided to at down and rest for a minute or Two. When she was seated, she looked around for her Mummy. It was a beauti- fut day, with the sun rken; high in the cloudless sky like a big golden penny. The le children were pudding, and from time to time she heard their shrieka of laughter. She was just hoping thing her Mummy had gone to buy some fee cream, when she heard a voice exclalımı, "I haven't seen such a fine day as thin for years." She looked down and saw. sitting on the pile of and she had dug out, a tle creature.

"Please, who are you?" palliply.

nald Jenny

"I am a Sand Gamae; my name. is Midge, and I live far away down under the sand," said he, "Oh, are you the only Sand Gnome in the world?" anked Jenny. "Good gracious, no, child! Thera are millions of us, and we live in a place called Sandonin,” nald Midge. "I wish all about Sandoria," You would tell me Bald Jenny, "I can't be bothered," said Mige ut I take you there If you 1kr." "Pleure do” said Jenny.

"Shut your eyes and say, 'Sand Gnome, Gnome, take me to your mandy Sand horne. Jenny did so, and alan unmediate- I found herself to be very smnt-only two inches high and standing in front of The Sand Gnome Htle elevator. stepped inside and ajened the door fur Jenny to get in. As soon as she was in. Mide pressed a knob, and they went down and down.

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After five minutes the elevator stopped and Jenny found herself in a little street, A little ghone like fer companion sale, "Now then where's your ticket, please?" from his pocke! # Mitice pulled out

ttle square plece of card banrd. The tekri.collector nail. All right pass along, Bow please, pa along."

They were being jostled and pushed by many ttle Sand Gnomes all chatter- in; excitedly. Jenny heard some of them mayirut. "I shall wear y pink alik." or "Do you think should buy another," "Will green really go with blue and one little boy phone said. "Mummy, I hope there will be lots of eaks word feus Ice cream and toffee." Then Midge sad the x at the Town Hall; I think it is just starting. Come on, we will gu and ser it." "How tvely!" Bald Jenny, and they set off walking to wards the Town Hall.

When they reached the Town Hall they saw a pretty serne. All Be Sand Gnomes were dressed in pretty clothes and in

greedily corner Jenny ass a litle boy enting Ice cream. She thought "Oh! I ought to go back for it toning went to hay te erram she will be looking for the. So she told Midge, and he took her back to the elevator.

Malge told her a rhyme to say to make herself bugger when she arrived and then Sid her good-bye. Jesy stepped inta the elevator and arrived on the sands just in time for ten.

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trumps. South leads, and North-South must win six of the seven tricks.

Solutions by first post, Wednesday, Hungitong Problem", to "Bridge Telegraph, Wyndham Street.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM

NO. 17

and South leads Jack of heart North discards diamond 4. Neither East nor West must keep both clubs, One must keep both diamonds, and East must retain diamond queen: sa A diamond and West may discard East a club.

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South then leads heart 4, and West must play (1) a spade or (2) a dia- mond. In the event of (1), North plays ditunend 9, and South on the third lead gives East the spades, establishing two spade tricks for North and assuring North-South the remaining three tricks, whatever

of (2),. leads, in the

event discarda spade and East discard a spade or a second must club, in Tr case, South's third lead of Queen of clubs (North playing

the spade 4). Tullowed by the nine of spades, gives East the lead with only diamonds left to lead up to North, who wins two tricks,

East

North

MUST PLAY DIAMOND

It, at Trick One, West discards a club, then East must play a diamond. On the second heart lead West must It the discard a spade or a club. ลอเคล

diamond 9

and former, North plays South's third lead is the spade, and the ending is similar to one already deceribed. If West's discard is a club. North plays the smali spade and East must play a club. South's next lead is the diamond spade won by North's King, and with a spade North throws the lead to Enst, and South must win the two remaining tricks when East must lead clubs to him.

This covers most of the variations. An opening lead of anything but a trump is unsound. Correct solutions from TJH.. "Emjay", T.P.G., Mrs. A.K., I.S., and "S'easy"

SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1937

Telegraph's New Entertaining

Problem Feature

WHO IS THIS?

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ERE is one of the

Hmost highly-paid

HOW TO

DO IT

•WO tests are given.

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ERE is a man who,

Halthough not yet six-

ty, has long exercised considerable influence both in the realm of thought and in the conduct of affairs. The son of an Archbishop, he was born, as it were, a member of our ruling class, and procceded to demons-

and what is more import- ant-one whose work has received the unstinted ad- miration

best of those

In each you can qualified to judge. He has often been described as an

author." His score 100. A descrip- "author's novels and plays have at-

tion is given of a well-trate, without delay, his gifts of leadership and his tained

popularity great

It is immense natural abilities. both in England and in known person.

At 29, he was head of a America; but they have,

written in three para- great public school; at 40, perhaps, a special appeal

can he became a bishop. His to other writers, who de

tact, his balanced judgment, light in the artistry with

and his capacity for or which they are constructed and in their terse and vivid phraseology.

THEIR author intended originally

to be a doctor, and graduated medicine at St. Thomas's Has- plat. His experience as a medical

student has been turned to good

account, particularly in his novel,

graphs. If you identify him by

the

time you have read the ganisation, have made him one of the most powerful first paragraph you men in the country.

score full marks; by the second 75; by the

poRN in 1881, he was educated at life as a lecturer in philosophy at

Queen's College.

last 50. If you don't know then you fail and took orders and was a But he had

"Of Human Bondage" published in

1015, He was then 41. hegun 10

long

before

this, his first novel "Liza of Lam-

beth,"

having appeared eighteen years before, of his many other nuvels the best known, perhaps, is also an accomplished writer of short stories. For these he has gathered much first material in outlying por- tions of the world.

Flays he has produced a num

bes, nearly all of which have been commercially successful, while many have been adapted for the screen. All are characterised by a

of strong sense

"situation." of dialogue, and, at naturalness times, by biting satire. They con- vey a strong sense of disillusionment with the post-war world, which finds expression, not in moralising, but in the dramatic portrayal of hypocrisy and injustice.

Who is he?

have to turn to Page Eleven for the answer.

the

To emphasise end of each paragraph

the following one is

printed in small type. Now carry on.

ANSWERS ON PAGE THREE

MALTWELL MURDER

CASE

MR.

WEBBLEY

SMITII-

DINGO was a killer," said Playfair, reviewing the Maltwell

case.

stopped at Abbot's Crutchley, at the village post office, to buy petrol and cigarettes.

"The man George

Rugby and Balliol and begon He subsequently contributor a volume of theological essays, con- "Foundation," which created

Soon

con

siderable stir before the war.

after he became, in rapid succession, Headmaster of Repton School; Rec- tor of St. James's, Piccadilly: Canon- of Westminster and Bishop of Man- chester. His present appointment dates from 1920.

was driving the car; Greche, who ran the post ofler, had caught n fleeting glimpse of him. A big man, wearing dark the glasses. He had remained in

study of man "He had already been under car, obsorbed in the suspicion when that affair oc- Mrs. Middledene meanwhile got out: somewhat asked for four gallons of petrol and When it came curred. And of a

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caspers. packet of to payment, neither of them had any similar crime-though in that

his wallet man opened change. The case his victim was thrown out of a train. In both the victim and gave the lady a five-pound note. an attractive woman and "Greene, with some difficulty, pre- verd

the change. The cigarettes after her

were handed to the driver-who, Smith-Dingo

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and each for senger and himself. Then the car drove of."

was

money."

WRH

He "I'm not clear about the Maltwell case," sold Sergeant Dumbell. was never sorry to find his superior "One of these in reminiscent mood. blazing car murders, wasn't it?"

"That's right. And we were lucky to get Smith-Dingo. Let me tell you the facts.

"The tragedy was discovered about seven one evening. In a lonely lane of Maltwell. A near the village wrecked ear, on re, with the body of a woman in it. I don't think the Are was intentional, for it inevit ably drew attention to the crime; what Smith-Dingo had planned was the crash. The car had been sent charging down a steep incline, with bottom-the at the old wall driver, presumably, having leapt for his life Just as acceleration began.

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was after "The hand-brake, it words proved, had been tampered with, so that his victim had no sori of chance.

A horrible, callous

murder.

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was no Aral there doubt that a crime had been cum- 20 the sense call the Yard in at once."

mitted,

pose?

and they had

The

"Fingerprints were found, I sup

said Dumbell, conscious that he was expected to be intelligent.

The criminal's fingerprints? No, the car yielded only none. fingerprints of the victim. A Mrs. Middledene she was, a widow; a well-la-da, nitructive young woman. We were lucky in identifying her at once.

the car that "She had taken

a London garage. morning out of There was then nobody with her, Her murderer-as she thought, her best friend-had joined her some- where on the road.

"But-this was the second plece of luck-we tracked down one wit- ness who had seen them. They had

these

various

IS hnterests

capacities have by no means

H'S been purely pastoral or administra

оп the

hj written much live. He

and on theology speculative problem of Church and State, amung

better-known books

being

Politles" and 'Essays in Christian "Thoughts on Some Problems of the Day." He has also been one of the adult active promoters

most

be

of

education. For a number of years was President of the Workers* Educational Association.

Who is he?

they had become engaged; and Mrs. the, ndvice of Middledene-against

madde n will leaving her money to Smith-Dingo, She was the second woman who'd done that, as I told you, had been found dead in a railway. tunnel.

her solicitors-had

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that.

within

What nerve!" sald Dumbell. "Wasn't it?" said Playfair. "But Smith-Dingo was a killer;

We

to him got on there's nothing will deter men like

of the eighteen hours of murder, and thought, for same time, he was He admitted, of asaneintion with the course, going to defeat us. woman: denied any knowledge of the will made in his favour; denied that he'd seen her on the fatal day. He'd been off Where had he been?

What on business. In his own car. business? Prospecting.

his

"He did occasional deals in real for estate; was looking out sites bungalows. Could he prove any of this? No, he couldn't. On the other hand, could we, might he ask, dis-

it? We

welcome to were prove

Greene noticed, was wear is puses, heed hardly say, we did. Smith- Dingo was a good actor. only, he

only sald, in a chocking volce, if I'd accepted her Invitation to go out with her yesterday! It's almost the first time I'd retused her And positively succeeded-its a grent gift, Dumbell-in forcing out a few manly tears."

said Dumbell, "And Greene," was able to identify the driver??

"Not a bit of IE answered Play-he fair. "No; in this case the evidence, though conclusive, was purely eir cumstantial. That's why I think it's so interesting. Apart from the fact" (he added modestly) "that it was my job to plece it together."

Durnbell was looking puzzled. "low dijel

you get a line

on the criminal?"

no

"But Dumbell was impatient. how did you convict bim. air? No identification-no fingerprints in the car-did you get a confession what?"

or

con-

"No."

sald Playfair. "No tesston. Smith-Dingo protested his

"I'm coming to that," said Play- Innocence on the scaffold-that type Once we'd always does. But the evidence fair. "That was easy. found out who the victim was, the against him was irrefragable. And, was obvious. what is more, you can deduce, from probable murderer

what I've told you, what the most Mr. Webbley Smith-Dingo,

of evidence Wos. fixed occupation, had been courting damning plece

Just try to think it out, Dumbell." Mrs. Midiedene for some months.

What was the clue which led to "They'd been seen together in all sorts of places-restaurants, theatres, the seaside. Three weeks before

Smith-Dingo's conviction?

SOLUTION ON PAGE THREE

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

BY HUBERT PHILLIPS

PRODLEM I

THE CHESS TOURNAMENT "For the purposes of our Chiesa Tournament," sakl Woodpusher, "we divided our players into two groups. Each player played two Kames against each other player in his group. That did away with all possibility of unfairness in regard to the opening move."

"There must have been a lorge

Answers on Page Thres

number of games played al- together."

Bald Wood-

200," "Exactly pusher.

How many players in all took part in the Tournament?

PROBLEM 11.

A WORD SQUARE

1. Invocation to the noislett god?

2. Frult of historical research? 3. Time itself is confused in one

particular,

4. Nobody in Virgil.

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