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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course You Know, But Are You

By The Dragoman

course I've got a shooting boxi-and shot a covey of partridges for lunch. Just a covey,

That is, jus!; —~

HERE you are another 25 mind you,

1000; a whole brood; a brace; a

questions which every young middle- woman,

man, young aged man, etc., etc., should know. Maybe you WON'T know them all-but anyway you'll realise when you check the answers that -well, after all, I SHOULD have known that.

Two points for every correct answer, and no guessing. Thirty will pass you and 40 or more proves that, in the language of the classies, you know your

onions.

"

1.-Wo argued it out before whether whale was an animal or not. We decided it was. Now we'll know more about the whale when we decide that the kind of animal it is, ist -

An amphibian; herbivorous; a mam- mal; marsupial; a feline; a big sup. 2.-There are 5280 ft, in a mile (that's right, I looked it, up), but that's just an ordinary and mile. A nautical mile is dif- ferent and the number of feet in one --- 1080; 508; GURO: 7010; 10,000; who 3.And a rood (if you'll pordon such a rood question) is a square measure, the num- ber of roods in an ere being:-

Caren.

2; 1; 0; 8; 10; none, --Some people call the animal '

about camelopared. They're, right so it is. But ever since i could talk I've preferred to enl :-

thinking

An antelope; a camel; a giraffe; a msc: a strange-looking creature, 5.-Dushed out to my shooting bas--of

round dozen, 8-1 It hadn't been for Captain Cook maybe they wouldn't be celebrating that

down Australla sesqui-centenary

now.

It was a blow to the Empire when he:--

La accidentally shot; died from natural causer; teas murdered; went down with his ship.

1-One of these days (if I can persunde

12.-17 the Japanese decimated a Chinese army of 10,000, it would mean the number killed were:----

All; 10; 100; 1000; 0009; probably

more.

13,If someone says you are metaphysi cal-take I calmly. He may not know what he's talking about, but he means you are:-

balanced; Very strony: mentally

pleysical plant; aupernatural;

rather jay.

the examiners to see eye to tye with me) I cracked up to be by the man who sold it to

ope

to become an F.R.C.S., which means

I'm studying:- Astronomy;

architecture; surgery; accountancy; racehorse farm. 1-Suppose-aw, come on, enter into the spirit of it and

suppose you wanted paint the house brown and you had every other culour except brown. You could sili, paint the house brown by mixing together

Crimson and vermilion; blue and take; black and red; black and In- diga; the lot.

to

9. You know as well us I do what a sta- lactile is-but a stalagmite, ah! What IS a stalagmite?

A deposit hanging from the roof of a cave; a deposit on the floor of a cave; a little stalag (there's no such thing as a stulag).

10. This'll trick you, because although you think China is the most densely popu- inted country in the world, the nation with

that dublous honour !s:

China (careful now); Japun; Britain; Belgium: Albania; Russia, Greece, 11.-Hongkong is not the name of

the city you work in; it's the name of the Colony you live in. When they chused the pirates out and put up the first buildings somewhere near where the Hongkong Hotel now stands, they called the city

Victoria; Queenstown; Palmerston; Heungkong a lot of nasty names; Pottinger; Stanley.

WEEK-END PROBLEMS By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM I. AN EXAMINATION

PUZZLE

Antony, Beriram, Charles, David and Edward took an examination In Latin, French and History.

was

In each subject Antony lop. Bertram accond, Charles third, David fourth, and Edward Fifth.

10 was the

In each subject

maximum mark, and

the one

14. Even if a what-not la not what it was you nevertheless it is, and never can be any- thing but:--

A lace tablecoth; a piece of furnt- ture; an old-fashioned chair; the op- posite to knick-knack. 15.--You'll lose two points--und desérve to-it you can't say in a flash that the long- est stretch of straight railway track in the world is in:-

Connda; South America; Australla, England.

16. Fortunately for Murgatroyd when he fell from the eighth floor lie landed on his bead and didn't get hurt. Not much, any- way. He just Rustained a contusion, which IN: --

A fractured skull; a brukte under incerated the skin; a deep cut; a

sculp, a bad fright.

17. a perfect stranger came up to you and thrust & leveret into your hands you'd probably necept it (being polite) but you'd be surprised, no doubt, Decmuse a leveret in

3-

Young for a young hare; a young kangaroo; a small tyre lever. 18.-Ever been caught in a cataclysm? It was in 1800-but It's a ty business. I'll tell you about that later. In the mean- time, a entaclysm 1st-

An earthquake; a violent windstorm; a deluge; a volcano, a passage from the Scriptures.

What were Edward's marks in minimum. And in each the total each of the three subjects? of the Ave, marks, awarded was 30.

Antony's mark in French was the same as Charles's mark in Latin, while his mark in History was the same as Bertram's mark in Latin.

Charles's mark in History was the same as his mark In French, but David did better in French than in History.

It's fatal for a wife to look tired

That's Mrs. Bartlett, she's beautifully dressed!

Did you see her

face! - tired

and drawn. Ber husband's not

paying any attention to her!

THAT NIGHT MRS. BARTLETT FELT BROKEN HEARTED.

ALWAYS TIRED.... EVEN WAKING TIRED. IT RUINED HER LOOKS. SHE DECIDED TO SEE

A DOCTOR.

2 MONTHS LATER

Wall, with that

attractive

Mits Drake about-you can't blame

him

This waking

whole appearance.}}

**

PROBLEM I.

A WORD SQUARE (1) This can only be right if it's

wrong,

(2) Oh, mother, a poel!

(3) Dissolute fellow in the far-

den.

(4) Its fruit might be a boot. (Solutions on Page Three)

Come on Jane! the races will be

over. Miss Drake is waiting in the car

WHERE TIREDNESS FIRST SHOWI

CULL

LIFEGESS

HAIR

EYES Y

tired tells on your

Mr. Bartlett.

long you burn

DRAWN FINCHES LOOK

→PASTY SKIN

3AGEING

VITTLE LIREC

You see al night

energy in heart

up

beats and other automotie

actions. If this energy is

not replaced during

sleep- of course you wake tired. It's Night Starvation!

There's nothing so "good at Horlicks...

But Jotun/

It's much too, expansive /

Please Jane!

Let me buy it for you. You look wonderful

in it!

IF

THINKS

If only I could hide there lines- I look aulu- and this dicadful kredness

You look positively

radiant,

Miss Drake!

and so every night:

Horlicks makes such a difference to the way, you feel-and LOOK

IF you wake tired, watch out f in almost every case it's Night Starvation. It tells on your looks and per- sonality. Start taking Horlicks—a cupful regularly at night. You wake refreshed eyes bright, tkin petal fresh. You have vivacity and charm all day,

HORLICKS guards against Night Starvation

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1938

Sure?

19. No need to go into details here--an aconite Ist~

A hard metal; a soft metal; an alloy; a plant; a man who ilver like a her- mit. 20-I'm so pleased with you, Murga- troyd," said the buss, "that Instead of

take your holidays, in future you nual holidays bissexille." Murgatroyd knew in-

that stantly In future he would get his holidays:-

Twice a year; once every fifth year; once every second year; every leap

year. 21-If you've been Anding the others too here's one that will be just too, too if a man's a Bachelor of Science:- Ilc's a scientist bachelor; he's a bas chelor scientist; he's a scientist who studies bachelor's habits; he's pasičá science examinations; he's not at- tached to his profession. 22.-It's nice to know-even if it doesn't bring you fune and fortune-that a suffra- gon is 3-

easy ensy.

Suffragette's first born; male supra- gelle; a churchman; famous baby food.

23. If you've never played anakes-and- ladders you've missed a mighty ne game, I once-but, anyway, talking about dice the number opposite the five-spot is:-

1; 2; 3; 4; 8.

24-It was a summer's evening and Hora- to Nelson, so the story goes, put the tele- was in the scope to his blind eye and said he couldn't see the signal to retire. This , battle af:

The Nile; Copenhagen; Trafalgar; Waterloo. 25.-Relations between China and Jupan Omelal ure a trifle strained, it would seem. declaration

is war between the two of dated:-- November, 1936: January, 1937; Jane,

1937; last month; not yet. (Answers on Page 1).

10,000 Tests Show

MEN

BEAT WOMEN

Why AT THE WHEEL

NEW light on the Man

versus Woman car-driver Tests made by the comes from U.S. A. American Automobile Association with 10,000 dri- vers show that- Men

Drive faster than women; Are more careful in slowing down

when road is not cleart Go faster when the opportunity

(Ters;

Are more likely to cause accidents, but have more akill in avoiding danger.

Women

Rarely have the "feel" of a cur; Drive at a set speed, even though

on vibration point;

Are disinclined to change gear on

hills till car is "labouring":

Get less fun out of driving fast. The teats showed that the average speed of men drivers was 47.4 m.p.h., women's 44.7 m.p.h.

Because of men's fondness for speed bursts around 90 m.p.h., the experts find they are more prone to accidents as "blow-out" [tyre caused by mechanical failure, such bursts] Three reasons are given to explain why men get out of such trouble with more success than women drivers: Greater strength, quicker reaction, and less mental distur- bance caused by sudden noise.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Dear Kiddles,

Last week's Ob- servation Test caught many of you guessing. It was really quite a difficult competition and I was glad to see so many of you send- ing in entries.

Jane Strelet (aged

11 years 3 months), of

12,

Peak Mansions,

wins the Senior prize; whilst the Junior prize goes to Constance Robertson (aged years), o 220, Prince Edward Road,"

Will Jane and Con- stance please call at the Hongkong Tele- graph" omees in Wyndham Street for their prizes?

I feel very pleased that so many of you

did get cerrect answers, so this week, oll correct entries are to receive a Merit Certificate. This is really quite a special treat, Isn't it, but I think you all deserve 11. ·

Merit Certificate, therefore, are being ent to the following: Sealors: Muriel Kew, Fern Ellis, Daniel Ghoy, Vern Haskerville, Amalia Sales. Ho fan-chan, Dara Tiu, Pamela l, Vivian Pomeroy, G. E. Clark, Yeung Kit-wn, Prinellia Pires ant June Nergaard. Juntura: Patricia Chambs, Tania Tchurin, Patry Coombs, Peter Osmunt, H.A.K. Bux, David Anthe, Eleanor Sanger and June Murtin,

J'amela 1: Pirnar mend me your photograph and I will try to get IL Inta next Saturday's paper. I'm so glad you liked your paper-craft.

Yaeult Cooper: I am publishing your 10cm, "Day Dreams", which 1 think is really excellent. Am sending you Meril. Certifiente for your offerta,

れ

Theresa Bauza: Thanks for your Jokes and poems. There are too many of them to publish altogether. How ever, I am pulling in one jeks and one poem to-day and am sending you a Merit Certificate.

This work We are having a simple content. All you have to do la to draw a design by joining up the dots showR In the picture. When your design is Anished, colour and the benderan gally as you can with your painte or crayons. Then cut out the picture and paste onto a postcard or piece of card- board. Fill in the coupon with your name, addreas and age. Bend to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", Wyndham Atreet, before 4 p.m. on Wed-

nesday.

Lati of luck, kiddlas,

Uncle Eddie Eddie

This is all my own work

Name

Address

DAY DREAMS

Are

By Yarull Cooper. From the window I can see,

Many a house and many a tree, Chlidren playing hide-and-seck,

And if the weather's fair-the

Peak,

On the roof tops amaha run,

Hanging washing in the sun, In the street the cars whizz by,

And from my lips there falls a

stols.

"Girls, who signed the Magna

Charter?"

(Marco Polo or King John) "Trent Cooper, do you know?" "Y-yes miss, it was Cicero)" JOKES AND POEMS

-By Theresa Houza. "Waiter," ahouted the angry, diner. "There's no chicken in this chicken ple. How do you ex- plain that?"

"Well, sir," said the walter calmly, "you don't get dog in a dog bireult.'

There was a young fellow of Sid, Who ate eighty tarts for a quid, When they said, "Are you faintz

lie replied, "No, I ain't," "But I don't feel as well as I did”.

TO-NIGHT

AT 11.30

EPISODE 59 FROM INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR'S

NOTEBOOK

"JOSHUA, my boy," said the We don't know who rang her up, Assistant Commissioner though the volce might have been Verraker's.. The message was,

nt

Don't with that boyish enthusiasm To-night eleven-thirty.

The that made him so popular at forget; No. 3 from the left."

Countess repeated, "No. 3 from the the Yard, "Joshua, my boy, left; I'll be there," and rang off. believe you're on a big thing. The biggest thing of your career."

Playfair did his best to look modest. "I believe I am, sir," he said soberly. "But if I pull it off it'll largely be That phone message due to luck. this morning."

Sir Chinntrey Pannat handed Play- fair a cigur. "Just run through the whole story for me, will you? I want to be quite sure I've got all the facts." He pleked up the receiver at his elbow. That you, Graymarsh? I don't want to be disturbed for twenty minutes."

Air Ministry

Ponnal - Inughed Jovially, "No. 3 from the left. What's that? A row of houses?"

"Might be anything. sir." Bald an Playfair. "Though I've got

dea-well, It hardly amounts to that. Call it the adumbration of a possibl- lity. There's various things I've got to arrange to do-collect Verraker's one thing. He's oing to the reception at Lady

Anger-prints, for

Flatts."

Pannal listened for a few minutes more. Then, "Good luck, Joshus," he said, and rang for his secretary.

T

Sleek Mr.

Coraggi

The next event of Interest was an interview between Playfair and sicek, olive-skinned individual named Cornggi. The latter-though no one would have guessed it-lind boen released that morning from Brixton Prison. "Opportune,"

glst of

Was

Secret Papers

Meanwhile, Playfoir had taken out his notebook. "The case opened five days ago, Sir Chantrey. A clerk in the Air Ministry, Mr. Claitermore, discovered, on arriving at his office in the morning, that some papers in Playfair's comment. The his desi had been tampered with. what he said to the Italian was: Secret papers, and Important ones "Curaggi, you've a chance to do some- they had reference to that new thing that will put you in better odour But these with the Yard. I want you to be at monoplane, the DPQ 7. papers in themselves were no use Lady Flatt's to-night; I can get you In as a walter. All you have to da Is to bring me, for a few minutes, the contents of a man's breast pocket. I want his cigarette ease and any paper, he's carrying.".

"You mean," interrupted Sir Chan- trey, "they weren't plans or any thing?"

or

"That's right," sald Playfair. "They weren't plans, or specifications, documents which would enable a foreign Power to steal technical in- formation. But they did throw light on where that technical information could be found."

do

"Cigarette case? What for you want that?" asked Coraggl. "What, is he peddling dope?"

"Done? No." said Playfair. "I want his fingerprints. In the first place. They're sure to be on his

There' cigarette-case.

bc ten "And what happened next?" "Nothing very definite, Sir pounds for you, Coraggi, If you do Chantrey. Inquiries were, of course your bit to-nleht: there's-rather set on fool-officials were questioned, tot at 'stake. But that doesn't mean, finger-prints taken, all that sort of mind you, that you'll get any sym- thing-but nothing at all conclusive pathy next time you're caught pick- came to light. One offshoot of these ing pockets," inquiries, however, was the compiling of a list of all those, outside the Ministry, who might have known what was in the desk and who might have contrived access to its contents And that list contained one name which interested me very much,"

The Italian grinned. "Si, signor. Nevaire again."

"That's right," said Plnyfair. "Mr. the Countess Walenweska. T

of

"Yes," said Pannal. "Verraker's." Aspinell Verraker, gentleman, Independent means." There was the faintest touch of irony in his words.

-Countess

Walenweska

Pannal blew cigar-smoke into the air: "And why are you interested In Verraker?"

a

Thus it was that there assembled at Lady Flatt's, about ten o'clock that night, four characters in this story. Mr. Aspinell Verraker, seem- Ingly without a care in the

Corngel, disguised at her sapphires;

walter:

ter: Playfair, disguised . ជន, ព guest. At ten-thirty, in a small room off the entrance hall, Coraggi brought -Playfair-the-contents of Verraker's inside pocket. There were По papers; only a gold cigaretle-cnse.

Ten minutes later the case Was

At restored to its owner. eleven, Playfair went up to the ball-room where dancing

In progress, Vertaker was still dancing with the daughter of Lord Highborne.

was

Arrest At Eleven-Thirty

"Because," sald Playfair. "I hup- pen to know- propos of comething quite different-that Mr. Aspinell Verraker, gentleman, is very hard up. Very hard up indeed. I happen to know that a couple of moneylenders have threatened to put him Into court. Not much fun for Mr. AL eleven-thirty, Verraker met Verraker, who is hoping--so they tell the Countess Walenweska in the me-to pull in an heiress-Lord ligh buffel. Playfair was watching closely borne's daughter-in the course of from an adjacent table. Lord and the next few weeks. He's popular. Lady Highborne Joined them: is Verraker, in society which has no introduced to the Countess. Drinks Inkling of his pecuniary difficulties." were brought, Verraker produced his gold case and handed cigarettes. As "All very interesting," sald Pannal. Verraker was lighting Lady High- "But I gather there's more against borne's, the Countess rose to go. Verraker than that?"

Yet not a word had been spoken that had the smallest criminal significance.

"There is," snid Playfair. He glanced again at his notebook. "He's been intimate, these last few weeks, with the Countess Walenweska-!|

"The Countess how much?" "Walenweskn."

were

Third from the left" murmured Playfair. He made no move for ten minutes; then he rose and followed the Counter He had a warrant for her arrest in his pocket, and next day she appeared at Bow Street on remand.

Sir Chantrey smiled "Walenweska Perfect, Joshua. The agent of a foreign power'--without whom this case would be as mud! I don't mind her? betting that she's not a real Coun- 1css"

"Well, sir, she's not in the Almanach de Gotha-com"

"That she's young, attractive and has a way with her""

•

Sind

"No doubt at all about thnt, been lately that she's liberally supplied with money, the source of which is a mystery.!

Playfair laughed. "You know too much about her, sir. But these in- ternational spics conform to type, like confidence men or smash-and- grab merchants. At any rate, sir, fin soon as I know about Verraker, I went to the trouble of tapping the Countess's phone line. And I've had her shadowed too, pretty thoroughly; I don't believe she's got away with anything yet."

"Meanwhile," sald Str Chantrey, "what about the planes of that monoplane?"

They're securely guarded, slr. Or so the Ministry tells me. At any rate, I know enough of Verroker- whom I'm also having shadowed- to be fairly certain he won't try and steal them himself. No, what he'll do fe to sell the Countess the informa- tion he's got. She can act on it at her own risk. And that, sir, is where this morning's phone message comes

13.

"Tho Countess Walenweska was rung up from a public call office.

What was the evidence""against

(Solution on Page Three.)

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