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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION CARTOON OF THE WEEK

How Long Will It

Run?

Another Minute Mystery How good a detective are you?

BRISK breeze blowing billowing clouds across its face, the moon smiled down at the charity bazaar fairyland on the Van Mun estate. A young couple passed. Ford- ney sighed pensively.

A cry from the house aroused him. In the library he found his host staring at an Van Mun told the Professor that open safe. while he had opened it to get his wife's jewels the telephone in an alcove off the room had rung and, as it was only a few steps, he had left the safe open while he he returned the safe answered it. When was rifled.

Several people, attracted by the commo- ilon, entered the room. There was tall Har vey Wellman, eminent lawyer; John Batlow,

DIDN'T DO ANYTHING

WENT TO BED EARLY

SEEM

SLEEP ALRIGHT

SUREL 8 HOURS

distinguished physician; slim Amina Silvka, faultlessly coiffured blue-black hair and simple white evening gown setting off the pallor of beautiful skin and scarlet lips; tall, impeccably gowned Inez Verons, of

the Mona Lisa smile; her fiance, nervous An- drew Slade, darting quick glances about the room: Harvey Lodge, brilliant, impoverished young artist: and Homer Leaton, a gentle- man of no occupation.

Slade, Amina, and Leaton said they had rushed in from the terrace at the time of the robbery; the others admitted they were in the house,

The Professor mused. The safe could not be seen from the alcove! He would cer- tainly question-privately.

Whom would Fordney question, and

why 7.

Solution is upside down on Page Three.

"Why am I so tired

this morning?

The morning should find you alert in mind and vigorous in body. If your sleep has failed to dispel the fatigue of yesterday and you awake tired, weary and listloss, thera is a definito cause.

Either you did not obtain the necessary hours of rastful sleep, or your sleep, unknown to you perhaps, was restless. If the latter, the most likely causo is faulty nutrition. You have probably gone to bed without providing Naturs with the right form of nutri- mont--that complete and easily assimilated nourishment so essential for repairing the daily wear and tear on your system and creating amplo resorvos of energy. Start the 'Ovalting' habit to-night and exchange Morning Tiredness for that "top- of-the-morning" feeling. But be sure it is 'Ovaltine'-there is definitely nothing,

"Just as good."

OVALTINE

BC1

SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1938

OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT ARE YOU SURE?

A typhoon; ai animat that kills self champion singles player of Aus- enakca: a trade wind, French for tralia. His name is: "young gentleman'; a moon fel- tival; a depression (weather).

B-Lord Byron wrote some poetry

know that a corsair means:

By The Dragoman VITS and pencils sharp- W

ened? You need both when you settle down to about a corsair, but you don't only your knotty problems, to know Lord Byron, or his poem, to "Make 'em harder," say. some. "Make 'em easier," say others. Make 'em f.a.q. (meaning fair average ques- tions)," say I.. Then we're all happy,

You all know the rules. peeking at the answers

No first.

No guessing. No copying from the girl in the ferry seat in front. Two points for each cor- rect answer. You Pass with 30. Forty is Splendid. Fifty entitles you to put D.D. after your name. (D.D. Dragoman Degree.)

1. It you've ever possessed Hongkong and Shanghol Bank $10 note you'll surely remember that the waterinurk is:

Profile of King George V: proflic Wales; of

Prince the

of Britannia; a reproduction of the bank building; profile of King George VI.

2.--Hannibal was great Cartha-

a

A part of a horse's mane; a large sh; a pirate; a native of

Corsica.

6. The man in the picture is

ginlan general who conducted Punie war, wayback-and attached Charles Little. He is just to his army was a large number of: trom the

Sir

retiring

Command of the

China

rcar-

Leopards; tigers, rhinoceroses; Squadron, his rank being: elephants; Red Indians.

3-Japan has a nice little job on her hands subduing China, because China is exceeded in size only by:

United States of America: Aus- in trialia: Soviet Russia; Argentina; Ara: Europe.

Admiral; vice-Admiral; Admiral, Commodore; Flag Cap. tain.

7-Belgravia is a nice place to live

if you can afford it, and it is in:

Central Europe; Southern Europe; England; Africa; Rumania. B.There are a lot of tennis players 4.-We've been hearing lots about monsoons lately, but the papers in Australia just at present, but haven't explained that a monsoon is: there is only one who can call him.

Light - Fingered

Deepwaller

Lily

EPISODE

FROM INSPECTOR: PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK

But Light Fingered Lily, though she showed no consciousness of pur- suit, was evidently pretty old hand,

Lily Dodges

Dumbell

iL

a

At Piccadilly Circus she entered

Irain hound for Baker Street. Dumbell followed, keep- ing as close to her as he could.

But at Oxford Circus. just 19 the automatic doors were closing, Lily the train. nipped off

THE conviction of Lily Deep- waller "Light-Fingered Lily" her friends called her was not exactly a triumph for Sergeant Dumbell. However, all's well Dumbell, despite heroic efforts to alight, found that ends well, as Joshua Play himself swept onwards. -fair-unoriginally remarked.

you,

that for the hend lost It was on a foggy morning in time being.

her. All he could do November that he first introduced

That was to phone the Yard: Lily to Dumbell's notice.

Dumbell?" was his greeting where Playfair, tender- when, in answer to his summons, Ing ironical sympathies, his subordinate appeared. "Sit down instructed him to go back to Cata- and take some instructions; I'm In maran Gardens and begin all over a hurry."

Dumbell obediently produced his notebook.

Put this down," said Pinyfair. **MISS

Deepwaller, of Lily

15b. Catamaran Gardens, S.W. Know it? -'s a block of flats, somewhere off Basinghall Road. Miss Lily Deep waller, Dumbeli, is one of our more compient women crooks."

again.

Meanwhile Miss Deepwaller, kay- ing ascertained beyond shadow of doubt that no one was following her, had met Mr. Isaac Hoopinghoe at a pre-arranged rendezvous.

the

This was a sitting-room In Westways Hotel, a modest establish- ment neor King's Cross. Their cor- versation was brief, but, from Lily's point of view, eminently satisfactory. "All well?" she asked, as her con- federate handed her a stiff whisky and soda.

Bromwich,

Crawford; Quist; McGrath; Hopman; Budge.

9.-If you've got a telephone and

live at Fanling, the first digit of your One; two; three; four; Ave; what telephone number is bound to be

have you?

a

A small goat-like animat; a Bocr's hut; a hill; a fort; a veldt tuced.

17. I can remember the days when

eoins all about the same size. What

sovereign could be changed into 21 were the colna?

10-le maketh me to ile down in "and if you the green pastures can't quote the next seven words you've falled in this week's Scripture. test, and incidentally lose two

20. When you altribute Machin

In qualities o vellian

a person you mean he or she-is:

Of course you know, but are you sure that the capital of Hong- kong is

"Palmerston; Victoria; ifongkong; Kowloon; Stanley; London. 10-Speaking of capitals, you'll lose two points if you can't remem- 11.In his grocery days Marg ber that the capital of China la.

Peiping. Nanking: Chungking; troyd bad only one weight for his

Cantor;

Tekyo. shop scales and is weighed 40lb. Picture Murgatroyd's annoyance one blacksmith day when the village dropped in with his hammer and smashed the 401b. weight into four

deeply religious; lighthearted and anld the V. B. pieces. "Listen,"

wlthy: scheming and unscrupulous: With these four pieces you can now bigated; headstrong and perverse. wh any powidage beween one and 21. The Colonial Office must be What were the weights of the all jittery about Hongkong, which it. plecest

administers. As head of this De 12.The Seychelles are a bunch of partment, the most jittery man would D2 islands in the Indian Ocean belong- be irig to:

Great Britain; Norway; France; Japan; Siam, 13-You've seen a lot of flogs painted on the hulls of ships in Hong kong lately so you should be able to say that the national flag of one of these countries has a blue triangle In its

design: Germany Stocdent Czecho- alovakia; Norway; Italy: Jugoslavia.

Lesile Hore-Beisha; Malcolm MacDonald; William Ormsby-Gore; Viscount Halleham; Şir Kingsicy. wood. 22. Talking of the government of know that Sir Hongkong, do you Andrew Caldecolt, our former Gover- nor, is now Governor of

Malaya; Ceylon, Gambia, Mauri- tius: St. Helena,

23-Some people pronounce the

14. So you're pretty good at word eclogue ck-log and others ck- spelling, eh? Then you won't have long. Neither pronounelation alters any trouble pointing out that the the fact that au celogue is: word nisspelled here ls:

Accommodate: Isoscelea; trrides- ernt; irremediable; tonsilliis; desic- cate.

15.Mr. C. E. Dodgson was mathematiclan and in his spare time he was a story writer. Of course, His most famous book was:

Goldilocks; Tanglewood Toirs: Alice in Wonderland; The Jungle; Piga Is Pigs.

16.A kopje... a kopje, .. Now, you South Africans, n kopfle is:

A song; the last part of a story; the first part; a poem; a pastoral dance.

24. The waters of, the Arafura Sea lap the shares of:

Eastern Asia; North Africa; West Africa; Japan; Australia; Ireland.

25.-Grammar good, eh? Well, take this one quielly. Which state- ment is correct:

Seven and wine 15 Afteen, or seven and nine ARE fifteen. (Answers on Page J.).

Girls and Boys' Corner

This is all my own work

Acc

Name

Address

Dear Kiddies,

Last week's twisted rope puzzle seemed most popular with you all. In fact, one or two of you have requested that we have another similar There were so many entries that I had great diff- competition very soon. cully in picking out the winners.

However, in the Senior Section, there were two excellent entries that prizes will be awarded to both deserved a prize. So this week, two Scalors.

"All well," answered Mr. Ino-

The Senior winners are 1 Man-chan children with their pets or friends. Itero remarks: lush nebye, baby." pinghoe, "Nice little packet I've got farted 12) and fo Khuk-chun (aged 13) of are six

Itabinson Hond. Hongkong. "Say It Again Joey." "Here's something for you, Lily. Like to check up on of 111.

tried hard to discover which was the best you like." "Yes, I'll soon be out Bob." "Now don't be so timid." "Speak for it it now?"

entry, but both were very good and

Jack." think they deserve a prize.

Lily nodded. She took from a bag a small notebook. In this was scrib- bled a list of numbers, with various vabalistic signs that had reference to her last haul.

Fellow of Infinite Mirth

from his He took up a paper desks. "Three-four-Ave thefts- Jewellery mostly, in one case furs- are belléved to stand to her account. The last one was the burglary at Mrs. Ednitch's, a couple of days ago, "But so far, Dumbell, we haven't the evidence we want. We're fairly sure that our Lify does the thieving: now that, in three of the five cases at least, the stolen articles have been disposed of by Mr. Isauc Hoopinghoe. You know Hooping-

Hoopinghoc produced hoc?-a fat, genial fellow with n

which, opened at notebook fund of funny stories, Well, he and appropriate page, he handed to his Lily are in the game together."

C

Making Up Accounts

similar the

Dumbell looked up from his notes. partner, This bore a list of numbers "If you know all that, sir, why don't corresponding to those in Lily's list. you pull in Hoopinghoe and get him Against each was a pencilled figure: the amount which Hoopinghoe was to spilt on Lily?"

"Ah!" said Playfair. "I thought prepared to pay for the article in question. There was nothing about you might ask me that. Glad to see either list which could be regarded the grey matter so netive, Dumbell as Incriminating.

However, there are two answers to your question.

wouldn't split

Lily took Hoopinghae's book and "The first is that Hoopinghae pored over the two lists. Then she on Lily anyway, meticulously totalled copinghae's Chups like him don't; they've nuthing Agures. "Two ninety five," was her

comment. Hoopinghoe nodded. to gain and quite bit to lost. The "Not so dusty, Ike," said Lily. "But second is that, unless we can get make it a level three hundred for evidence against Lily, there's not

Jack, won't you?" much

of a case against Hoopingher. "Tax him with receiving stolen paperly and he'll fob us off with some cock-and-bull story. But prove as I hope to do the connee tion between him and his pal Miss Deepwaller, and we've something

definite to go on." pretty

"I ree" gold Dumbell. "Yes, set the iden, sir. And what I've got to do is to trail this girl Deepwaller, in the hope that the trail leads me to Hooninghae?"

"You've got it in one," said Playfair.

Ainsl Sergeant Dumbell's per- formance fell short of his intentions. He was waiting, that afternoon, out- alde Miss Deepwaller's dat when she emerged dressed for the street. An experienced "trailer," he had no dimculty in following her when the set off for the nearest tube station,

Honpinghoe laughed Jovially. "Business is busincas, Llly," he said putting back his book in his pocket. "But just this once-you've been a good girl and you thall have it. I'll be sending it you in a week or so.

A few minutes Inter they parted.

The denouement was ropid and unexpected. The following morning Mr. Hoopinghoe, busy at his Holborn affilee, was summoned to Scotland Yard. Taxed with participation in Light-Fingered Lily's thefts, he denied all knowledge both of the thefts and of the lady.

How Did Playfair

Do It?

Mavis Rasch (aged 8), of . Granville ftoad, 2nd Floor, Kowlann, wins the Junior, pelze.

Will fo Man-chan. Ho Shuk-chun and Mavis call at the "Hongkong Telegraph" Collices for their prizea.

Now, which is cach child saying? Look at the pletures carefully and when you think you have found the right re- mark for each child, write it as neatly as you can in the space in the pleture, Ink or penell may be used.

Send the picture and your coupon with your name, address and age to Uncle Merit Certificates are awarded to: Seniors: Legile Lucy, Sylt Rousseau, Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph." Wynd Mabel Churn, Bernd Adamczewski, Mini ham Street. The competition closes G

Wednesday nt 4 pm. Tong, and Eusebio D'Aquino,

Juniors: Erie Iubeiro, P. Grimmlit, and will be awarded for entries which

A prize for Seniors and one for Juntars work correct and most neatly completed. Choy, Yacult Martin Karlma

Leonardin

Specially

Food ars Derrick Bowerman, Amy Eugene Choy. Wong Chlu-yung,

mended for

Cooper, Yeung Kit-wa, Luiz Sausne, Ada L. Priscilla Pires. Khan, Doris L, Magric Alves, Melba Cruz, Laurence Becker, Helen Na. Vivian Pomeray, Surn Mo-tak, Betty Becker, Maisle Hels. Antomio Souza, Amalin Salen, Yvonne Blackmore, Ada Foster, Madelyn Hung. Dantel

Joyen Leons and

Eise Laurel to "hey, Patricla Coombs,

Palsy Osmund, Glovani Pereira, Roy King. Tommy L), Tohia Tehurin, Theresa Souza And Violetta dos Remedios. (Juniors).

Derrick Bowerman: Thanks for your kini wishes. Derrick. If you call at the Strett, you will be given your prize.

A. J. Sumad: 1 pin alraid you are 11le too old for the competition.

This week's competition. is very amus ki. Above

you nee

pictures of

"Hongkong Telegraph" offices in Wyndham

MIX

Unche

Aro

Eddie

justified in taking a trueulent line. Was he anxious to help the Yard? Certainly. Dhe mind being scorched? Not at all. Could he throw any light on the guies in we use the finest Cluster Curl oll . bis Lcek?

Permanent Waves

Whatever light the Inspector might of Lavender, non-ammonia solution.

require. The Agures referred, he Ralit, to certa gambling trans5- actions; and these he circumstantially expininied. In short, he was not to much pained as altogether astonished when, at the close of the interview, Joshu Playfair arrested him.

Mr. Hoopinghoe felt sure and In this at least he was justified-that Lily Deepwaller, pulled in soon after- warda by Dambelt, bind not said n word against him.

What then was the evidence Ho-was so certain they hnd not--which-Hoopinghoe-toga-Arrested?- been seen logether, that he felt fully

Bolution on Page Three

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