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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Girls' and Boys' Corner Bridge Problem

WATERSPOUT

CANYON

:

NO. 34

A. K... 4, 5, 2

at Ma

DAK

CAK. C. I

CLIFF

ISLAND

10. J. 8, 7

10,9,8, 7:0 BJ, 10, 8.4

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CANAL

CATARA

VOLCANO

Name

Address

Dear Kiddies,

This is all my own work

So many entries this week that your poor old Uncle Eddie was snow- ed under with lots and lots of ox- cellent pointings and crayon work. It was really most difficult to choose the winners this week, kiddies, s you all seem to be so very elever with your paint brushes and crayons. However, nfler carefully considering I am awarding the Senior prize to Barbara Smith (aged 10), 2, Fortress Hill, Northpoint; and the Junior prize to Toolsle Garela Enged 7), 12, Jordan Road, Kowloon.

Will Barbara and Tootsle call at the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices for their prizes?

After deciding on the winners, I then had to look through all the entries again to decide, which kiddies would be given Meril Certifientes.

This is what I have decided:

Pinna, Eva Senlora: Thelma Grady, Yvonne Cropley, Jill Eager, Helen NA, Yvonne Blackmore, Amy Choy, Freda Stephans, Jean Grady, Jose Maria da Silva.

John Juniors: Eleanor Santer,

Dimple Warrington. Harriman, Violetta dos Remedios and James Andrews.

These certificates are being sent to you.

Now, I want to specially commend some of you who were not quite up to either prize or Merit Certificate standards.

Among the Seniors there are Dora Tlu, Vivian Pomeroy. Fern Ellis, Betty Becker, Au Young Po Kay, Peter

Venables, Tam Woo-cheong, Tom Woo-liang. Patricia Bowker, Wong Chu-yung. Therese da Luz, Myrtle Metz Decker, Joyce M.

Marques,

John Fergusson, Aurea MacCormac Sunny

Gensburger, Audrey Barton, Stephen Mose, Yeung Kit-wa. Ada Foster, Karima Khan, Vern Noral Harris (I see you have

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North and South have the contract at alx No Trumps. Went to lead heart and N-B to make twelve tricks. Solutions to ridge Problem," Hongkong Telegraph, by Wednesday.

SOLUTION TO NO. 33

I have to thank an enthusiastlo reader for last week's problem, which apparently puzzled so many that they did not even and in n solution. Duty A.E.G. ue ceeded in offering the correct solution,

AT it i and I give his play in detail bound to interest those who could not work out the problem.

A.E.G. writes:

This is an interesting problem though simple, the key move is somewhat arti Aelal henes the dimeukty of the problem. Tricks No. South West North East S 3 II 2

SA

1

2

HSK

left Shamcen and are staying in Kowloon). Winnie Ingram. Nuno d'Ecs, Amalia Sales, Anna Wong, A. Collee, Peggy Barton, Arthur Grim- mitt, Maggie Alves and Reg Pengelly. Juniors commended include Putricin

This is the key tmave to force East to Coombs, Bernd Adamenewskt, Ifelen discord as such discard will command Thomson, Belinda Whitehead, David on the 8. 3. Ens cannot let go a heart the following play of North and South. Asche, Christa Luer, Lilan Ferguson, or else. South will be able to establish an Joyce Cave, Wanda Rodrigues, Elleen exten heart in his hand through his two Peters, Martin Ray, Eric Ribeiro entries DA and C. A.). East must therefore discard n Diamond of a Club, flad to welcome you to our Girls'

and it is immaterial which he discards AN ruit and South will discard the Farme and Boys' Corner), Pinky

that North will lead at the third trick Umberto

pult which East discarded at trick Trilby Abbass, Maria Kun, Reglould in wiro interesting to note that in spite Martin, Clarke Lam, Teresa Souza, of his saild holdings in Diamonds and Gabriel Armulphy, Brian Pengelly, Clubs, West in powerless to protect either Roy King. Pamela Meyer and Bulls and his own discards are immaterial, in what follows I have assumed the best Patricia Osmund.

possible discards on West's part,

A. If East discards

D &

More,

Wendy

Silva, Burton,

I have had a letter from Zoe N. Gebben, of 2, 81, John Road, Hough- ton, Johannesburg, South Africa. She wishes to have an English pen friend, about fourteen years old, either a boy or girl. She collects starps and is fond of reading and sports. I think It would be really very nice If some af you wrote to Zoc, don't you?

This week's competition is puzzle and not palating. Whether

you are good at geography at school or not, you will be able to do this test, Above you fee pletures of elight geographical objects, but the names been jumbled and put in have against the wrong pictures. You simply have to give each picture its right name.

Send your entries to Unele Eddle, c/o Hongkong Telegraphy" by four o'clock next Wednesday afternoon.

Two prizes will be given, one for Sentors and one for Juniors.

Best of luck,

Uncle

Eddie

(2)

T

THANATEX

HE murder, of Professor able, but his report was brief and Professor had Thaddeus Correlgh was unambiguous. The

been killed by a revolver shot, some 110 ordinary murder. Ume between nine and half-past; Within half an hour of ten. In view of various circum- the discovery of the body, the stances in particular, the tempera- Commissioner himself hind ture of the laboratory-Dr. Preece taken charge of the case, and thought it impossible to say more

definitely

taken when death had within an hour Joshua Playfair, place.

Playfair turned to Daniells. "Just accompanied as usual by Ser-

or two questions, please," he geant Dumbell, had arrived at said. "When did you last see the Cowreigh's laboratory, This Professor?"

one

We

building-the home of so many "At dinner. I left him-let me deadly secrets-was located in ses-at about half-past eight. the grounds of a big villa nt came straight to the laboratory. He showed me what he was going to Highgate.

do-Daniells pointed to the half- Here for four years the Professor completed apparatus then told me, all unknown to the newspapers as I've mentioned, to look in agala went straight to my and their publie had been work at eleven. I

immersed in my ing at researches with which the team and became national safety was believed to be figures." Intimately bound up.

"And you heard, and saw, nothing'

A burly constable was on' duty at suspicious?" the door. "Superintendent Gray inside, sir," he said. "Him and Mr. Danieils. No one else has been ad- mitted, except, of course, Dr, Preece; and he's been, and gone away again. THE BEAKER

*Nothing."

"It's Playfair looked at his watch. just five past twelve," he said. It's of death I want to fix. the time You can't estimate, Mr. Daniella, how long it would have taken the Professor to set up that apparatus?" "Not a Daniells shook his head.

Inside the laboratory the local hope, Inspector. It's purely experl- and Daniells, the mental. He might have made any police chief

assistant, were number of adjustments." dead Professor's feverishly awaiting Playfair's ar "You know what he was working rivai. Cowreigh's body lay where on?"

course," sald Daniells. In- he had fallen, by a bench in the "or

his he lowered

voice. centre of the room. There could be stinctively

Thanatex, Inspector- little doubt about the cause of death. "Tannatex. The unfortunate man had been shot his own invention. It's for the Com- tell you through the head; death must have missloner-not for me to

ap more about that," been instantaneous. He had

that nodded, Playfair parently been engaged, when he was

that was in the beaker the apparatus for Thaantex shot, in rigging

overturned?" some experiment.

Danielis laughed grimly. "Good A complicated structure of retorty

We and gluss tubes ||||||||||||||IISIPPIII+ lord,

don't keep the stuff lying about. If that was what the

was in process of EPISODE

erection on

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Diamond:

S6

D 10

3

DA

D 9

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bench.

4

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tubing.

4

# 8

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# 10

6

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Ai triet (8) Fast cannot let go h 1 Q otherwise South's II 9 brennes good and West cannot discard in DQ otherwise North's D 6 is established, so that the last to tricks are taken by South with his

CA and C 3.~~

B. If East discards a Club: C 3 C G $ 5

2

C J

3

CA Св

C 5

C Q

4

HA

C 10

D 4

11 7

5

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6

H 9

D J S J

D 10

and South will make the last two tricks with his DA and De but if West has tried to protect Diamands by throwing his clubs away. North's C7 has been es tobished.

DID I LOCK THE FRONT DOOR

WRECK TO-MORROW

TWO OCLOCK!

THERE'S THAT DOG AGAIN

IF I COULD ONLY SLEEPI

For

-A.E.G.

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Steadier Nerves

And

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The World's Best Night-cap

And

the t

of glass clutched

In his left hand. suggested thoti

he was actually In process of At- ting this into place

when

Assassin's

6 Vruck down.

Murcover

FROM

INSPECTOR

PLAYFAIR'S

the NOTEBOOK

bullet

him2

there was other evi- ethyl-aldedyde.

"Was

no.

murderer

come for, Inspec tor, he didn't get away with any." thing."

"What was in beaker the

asked

then?"

Playfair.

"Di

benzo methyl

One constituent of

dence of his violent end. A benker, thanatex, but not an Important one. containing some evil-smelling fluid, Its loss doesn't signify, anyway." had been overturned and smashed

to

the Professor, as he Playfair laughed. "Just as well, pparently fell, had swept it off the bench- Mr. Daniells. I should hate to seo here trying to write the while a top at the bottom of a large Dumbell

what is in this! glass carboy, which presumably con name down. And tained some sort of acid, had been carboy? Acid? No-don't touch the dislodged at the same time. The tap; I shall want to examine it for

was slowly fingerprints." neld (I acid it was)

and the ground, dripping

"No, "Right ho," said Daniells. accounted, no doubt, for the pool of

It сол- moisture just by the Professor's it isn't neid, Inspector.

tained" he consulted a notebook- right hand.

Dumbell was not slow to notice "1,500 c.e. of distilled water. Not this phenomenon. "Look, sir," he a lot of it left now, but that doesn't either. But you'll find no whispered. That top. Why haven't matter

Angerprints on that tap, Inspector: they turned it off?"

the Professor must have dislodged it as he fell,"

DANIELLS' STORY

Bc.

"If there's nothing more I can do "Why?" Playfair answered. cause, Dumbell, orders is orders." said Gray. And soon afterwards The Commissioner said that nothing the two men left the room. wus to be touched, and what the

know more "[ Well,

about this case Commissioner says goes.. Superintendent, here we are. On a then they do," said Playfair, as the "I know very melancholy occasion. We'll just door closed behind them. hear what Mr. Daniells" has to tell--what they don't know, and what if you us, and then, with your permission, you, Dumbeli, will keep,

please, to yourself that a certain we'll get to work."

told, agent of a cerlain foreign power is stury was Daniells'

interested in this thanatex. He, like his chief, lived in the nd very Jacent building, and both of them And I know--what, if anything, is were working, almost interminably, even

soon

more secret-that that same

on Inventions connected with chemi- agent is already being shadowed by So far as to-night's con- cal warfare. That night-it was the Yard,

now close on midnight-e (Daniells) cerned, he has an alibi, but that alibi, had been working in his room on Dumbell, has a hole in it. If I can certain mathematical calculations, prove that the Professor was mur- He had been asked by the Profes- dered between 9.20 and 9.30, I've sur to go to the laboratory at ele- got a prima facie case. ven. At five to eleven, accordingly, it not. I haven't."

the

he had

through silpped shrubbery which divided the house

from the laboratory door, and, open- ing the latter, had been confronted

If not well,

THE EXPERIMENT

"And how can you prove that;

by his chicl's dead body. After sir," asked Dumbell, "in the face

ascertaining that life was extint, cf Daniell's evidence and the doc-

ho

had

the tor's?" Immediately phoned

nothing; He had moved

"How Indeed?" raid Floyfair. police. touched nothing; what evidence the "My dear Dumbell, as you'd know Inboratory could offer was still avail- you ever read Aristotle, dificul- able.

tles are made to be surmounted.

Ta these facts Superintendent Here we are, with a laboratory at Gray had ftle to add. After ring our disposal; I'm going to try a Bttle ing Scotland Yard and obtaining experiment."

the Commissioner's instructions, he had sent at once for the Divisional Preece was avall-

Surgeon, Preece.

What was Playfair's experiment?

(Solution on Page Three.)

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM L

THE SATURDAY

FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Pussy

PROBLEM IL. DOUBLE ACROSTIC

UPRIGHTS and Vido-Iriends proffer you flowers.

VESTERDAY I ran into the Sec Here

retary of our Saturday Foot-

of ours their favourite

LIGHTS

ball League. During, the season each (1) A Well-known fib; you must have team in the League meets each of

the others once.

met it.

You needn't pay until you get

12.

The Secretary te responsible for are (2) Halan ver. Take a look-- ranging all the matches..

"Ifaliot" I said pretty busy, I suppose?”

him

It's found in Matthew Arnold's

.book.

"You're (3) franch of the tree of knowledge?

"Not so bury as inst season,” said

That's cute! Bay, kid, you're tell-

Ing sel

"That sai" I sold. "So you haven't (5) Now, Shakespearo fans, attention

many Axtures to deal with?"

- Gec.

ther Secretary somewhat ruefully. (4) "There's been, you know, a consider able falling-off in the number of

"For him I

abides"

serve

And here is hidden

the gold

one who

teams playing in our League,'

hides

Quick: This fellow was a Dirty Dick

who-In *

trico

nicel

concealed: the

-voriaci

mite;

Look well at what I meant to

write!

"Not by a long chaik," said the (0) "Tix, we, in France,

Secretary: "I give you the exact Say: mind! The plural isn't

11a consulted a notebook. agure.

The number of fixtures for which

I'm responsible is down by 10 per (7) erein

cent."

How many teams are playing in the

League?

(Anawere on Page Three)

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1937

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AUTUMN SNAPSHOOTING

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