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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END "SECTION

Downfall of Willoughby Gatestone

EPISODE 63

INSPECTOR

FROM

PLAYFAIR'S

NOTEBOOK

MR. WILLOUGHBY GATE-corridor--you know-when he's go- STONE took his ticket from ng along from the diner-and I'll the automatic weighing-machine. bet you the old fool never suspects athing. By then, we shall be very "Twelve cleven," he read. "Not nearly at Leamington. Then all I've Hot to do is to hop out at Leaming- so good. Of course, one has to

ton and--in case of accidents-dodge allow about a stone for clothes.

the ticket collector there," And what, I wonder, is the

Castleways dls- "Suppose Mr.

"And covers his loss?" said Doreen. message on the other side?"

pulls the communication cord?"

"Why, in that case," said Gate- stone, the diamonds go out of the window and I've wasted my return fare. We'll have to take a chance on tink"

"Message on the other side?" said Mrs. Gatestone.

The Message "Yes, my love," said Wil- loughby. "Didn't you know, there's always a word of cheer? That's why I can never resist these automatics. Here you are, have a look for yourself." ticket lo Mrs. He handed the

over, Bitc Gatestone. Turning It rend:

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Be resolute! Your efforts to-day will specdily bring you success.

"There you are," said Willoughby, with laugh, his helpmeet, slipped the ticket into her bag. "Yes, keep that; it's a good omen. I knew I wasn't wasting my penny. And now as they say on the stage -to business."

The pair of them sat down on a at Paddington seat.

They were Station, and in 20 minutes' time Mr. Gatestone was departing for Bir- mingham.

By profession he was, in a phrase trines." lits

He looked at the clock. "Three Now listen, my more minutes. Fet, you'll have Scotland Yard on to you to-morrow. If I've pulled the thing off, they're sure to suspect me, because of that Overshed affair last year.

The Alibi

"So you've got to do your dam- nedest to clinch my alibi. Don't for- get, I went down to Lefthouse on Monday, to stay with my sister Winifred; and I've been

at Left- house (so far as you know) ever since. To-night Winifred's posting you a letter top-hole letter, it's got my fingerprints on it and every- thing. I sent it her a couple of days bigo. It describes exactly what I've been doing at Lefthouse; most con- vincing it is; and if you've any trouble with the Yard, you can show them that."

with 30 He caught the train seconds to spare, and an hour and a

house with Mr. Castleways' diamonds in his pocket.

he was fond of quoting, "a picker-half later left Leamington for Left- up of unconsidered wife, Doreen, had but recently mar- ried him-thus cementing a partner- ship which had begun, some years before, as a partnership in crime.

Accessory

She was, so Willoughby declared,

the perfect accessory-before, during that denials of

and after the fact.

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to

Doreen Gatestone had just finished taking her bath when Joshua Play- morning. fair called on her

next She interviewed him in her dressing- the Briefly he explained gown.

met, of object of his visit, to be course, by wide-eyed innocence and Willoughby's

"There's proclivities. "Our efforts to-day will speedily letter from him on the table, Inspec bring us success." murmured Wil- tor" she said. "Take a look at that

yourself "Well, let's hope that's while I dress. Help loughby. true. I've just seen old Castleways coffee-anything. I'll be with you go along to the train, Doreen. If 1

in ten minutes." know anything about him, there's a wallet, with dlanonds in il, in the pocket of that fur-lined coat of his. An ideal coat is that, from my point of view," "But

I thought these chaps took "Sewed precautions," said Doreen. their diamonds into their clothes, and all that."

Precautions my foot!" said Wil- loughby. "Castleways doesn't. I know his habits pretty well. All I've got to do is to hustle him in the

Playfair

Four hours later, Mr. Gatestone was arrested at Lefthouse. The dia- monds were not in his possession; nor had anyone seen him at Padding- ton or Leamington Station, nor re- cognised him on the train. None the less, Playfair had no difficulty in securing a conviction.

What had gone wrong? (Solution on Page Three)

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Hello, kiddies: You all seem to like cross-word puzzles-it took ages and ages to go through all the entries for last week's competition, and so many them were right, too.

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When dozens of kiddies, send in correct entries, It's hard to know who to give the prizes to, for then I have to take age and neatness inlo consideration, and, in the case of the Seniors, painting.

I think, when you consider their ages, that the neatest Senior entry

was from

Jean Grady, aged (10)

China Light and Power Company, while the nicest Junior entry was from

Paddy Quie. (aged 6) 21, Homantin Street,

Kowloon.

Congratulations,

Paddy. I

coupona.

Loty

Jonn and acnding your

this

commendations of week, and I haven't außelent space to mention them all.

frem I really did like the entries Daniel Choy, Young Choy, Ricardo Ribeiro,

Peralta, Therezo

Therese Todrigues, Pamela L (whose photo graph is reproduced on one of the out- ald pages of this Supplement), Ferando Alves, Inuranica Becher, Eunoblo D'Aquino, Maggie Cheng, 8. F. M. Bux, William Bourne, Ernest Sousae, Violetta dee Remedios, Patsy Osmund, Margie Xavier, Wilfred Gardner, Terona Balz, Antonle Bouza. Laurence Stevena Donald Andrew, Marlet Moffon, Karinia J. Khan, Hazel Oclater, Dora Tłu, Joyce Leong, Gerald Marshall,

Dlana Hosking, Antonio da Luz, Binry Horwood, Dules Barradas, Cerliin Remedios, Peggy Barton, Audrey Bar- ton, Madelyn "ituang, Aura

Marques, Maria Conellas, Fern Ellis, Joseph F. P. Lee, Albert Hazell, Colin Millington, P. N. Hunt, Frank Horlack, Melha Crus, Max Zechlegner, Yseuit Cooper, Vivian Pomeroy, C. E. Clark, Lina Luongo, Aida Mendes, 1. Soares, 8, J. Dux, A Karim, Tony Xavier. Ada Foster, 8. Ahmed Bux, Thelma Manden, Joan Mary MacFaydon, Rennie Tavares, Patricia Coamba, Lucille Lee, Rose Eitis, Jock

•Mackie, Dinkie Mackie, Jousphino Leong, Zatokin Hamy, Vara. Rumianaeft, Ricardo

Lus, Robart, Earl, Harper, O. Gusst,

HANDWRITING CONTEST

Here is a new kind of com- petition.

All that you have

to

do is to copy out a sentence of not more than 30 words taken from the supplement of the Telegraph. Take great care and send only your best work! Write your name, age and address at the bottom.

Send your entry to:

"Uncle Eddie"

Hongkong Telegraph

4, Wyndham Street.

so that it reaches that address not later than Wednesday, at 4 p.m.

Age, of course. will be taken into consideration. "Uncle Eddie's decision is Anni.

Now get out your pen and ink, boys and girls, and see if you ean win one of the prizesi

8. A. K. Bux, S. A. M. Bux, S. A. L. Bux.

Lots of kiddies sent in entries for the cross-work puzzle, but S. S. Bux found it so hard that he sent me in a little story instend. His story has moral which a lot of grown-ups will see. It's about a snake which had calen a small rabbit

Next day, the same sy entily.

tried

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swallow an elephant, but it was im- possible for such a big animal to pass through the snake's throat, and the reptile was suffocated to death.

I wonder how you'll like this week's competition, I don't think We've had one like it before, and it should be quite interesting. Most of you will be doing plenty of writing now for your exams, so you will have had plenty of practice.

As usual, there will be two prizes, one for Seniors aged 10 to 14 and the other for Juniors aged below 10, Entries should be sent to "Uncle Eddie" c/o Hongkong" "Telegraph", 4 Wyndham Streël. The competition closes at 4 p.m. on Wednesday,

Cheerlo now, kiddles," until muxt Saturday,

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WHAT I SAW IN CANTON-

Spy

CANTON Was

the first

Chinese city that I visit- ed, and a 'very clear and vivid picture remains in my mind.

For five months it has been a matter of touch and | go whether Canton would become a centre of major fighting.

Living In Junks WHEN I met the Governor- General, Wu Te-chen, he said: "I hope that the Japanese attack Canton, for the more we can spread their front, the better for us strategically | with our immense population.

General Wu has had experi- ence of Sino-Japanese conflicts, for though only 40 he was Mayor of Greater Shanghai during the 1932 trouble.

SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1988

Of Course You Know,

Are You

But City

By

MICHAEL KILLANIN

who was recently there as “Daily Matt War Correspondent,

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abroad heard that their clly was in

danger.

The Mayor of Canton showed me receipts for money amounting to more than £500 In our eurrency. This money had been sent by the Chinese dance partners from a Singa-

pore night clubl

But however much China may be believed to have united in recent years the Cantonese are as indepen- dent as ever. It was only a small group who marched up to the Shang- hai front in August.

There has always been greater friendliness between Canton and Japan then between Nanking and Japan.

It may be the racial contact, for there is much Cantonese blood in many Japanese, and the expert, until he detects the accent, finds it very dimcult to differentiate between Cantonese and a Formosan.

M

This has resulted in the past few months in a terrible spy scare—and from all evidence a spy scare with reason. Formosons have been get-

Cantor-city of 1,000,000 in habitants of whom nearly a quarter live in sampans and junks in the many creeks-ig a unique city combining the mod-ting into Canton, and I was given ern and ancient China.

Only a few years ago it was one of the dirtlest cities in South China. with its immense population living In tumbledown houses and dilapidat- ed boats.

The streets were extremely nar-

for two row, only allowing space rickshas to pass, and then the

at risk of collision. During the last ten years a new Canton has arisen,

The municipal authorities, heed- less of cost, have cut great arterial roads across the city, dividing the place into blocks rather ilke a miniaž ture New York.

Gaiety-Once

INSTEAD of losing their native character the new buildings are of a modern Chinese style. Until the start of hostilities they were gally painted and brightly illuminat- ed at night, for the Cantonese love brightness.

Then came news of warfare in the north, Now the Cantonese have never had much love for the people In the north, for, to begin with, they are another race, speaking, another language.

The women in the north are ugly In comparison with the Cantonese, who are typically portrayed by the Anna May Wong type. The men, with their aquiline noses, are more like the Japanese aristocrats,

The Cantonese see little of for- eigners, though in many ways they are in far closer touch than the Chinese in the north. for Canton is only 100 miles from Hongkong.

When I was in Canton hundred of dollars were being sent back from Meloya to Canton cx-citizens

AS

WEEK-END PROBLEMS

By Hubert Phillips

PROBLEM I

THOMAS AND TIMOTHY

"I do hope," said Mrs. Titmouse, "that Thomas and Timothy will be lucky."

"In what way?" asked I "Why, in being chosen for the School expedition. Sixteen boys. are eligible--including Thomas and Timothy--but there's only accommodation for ten. So they're choosing the lucky ones by draw- ing lots."

Thomas looked up from his homework. "I've been calculat- Ing the chances against bolh of us going And so the chance that neither of us goes. Do see if I've worked them out correctly."

What are the answera Thomas's two problems?

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PROBLEM II

A WORD SOUARE

to

(1) Her future is E source of

speculation. Prince-of the Ballet. You should watch his caperat

(2)

(8) Are used for fishing-or for

flagellation.

(4)

This might be met with in

the Irish papers.

(Solutions on Page Three)

several denile proofs (which my interpreter verified) of documents showing evidence of plots to over- throw the Cantonese Government.

The "Spider"

SI was leaving General Wu's office one day I saw a crowd

in the barracks yard.

"A spider," sold my chauffeur.

I gathered. by "spider" he meant who spy. I glanced at the

man, appeared like any coolje. As I drove out of the yard I heard a shot.

"They usually cut a leg off first or All them with gasoline," my chauf feur informed me calmly.

Unluckily the Cantonese Secret Service la not always right, and boy employed by an Englishman know out there,was shot as a traitor, Nothing could convince the authorl- ties that he could not have been in the place alleged, lighting flares to guide allacking Joponese planes.

Canton was once a place of lights and colours, but when I arrived up the river (on exclling trip, for we ron aground twice and were two hours late), the whole place หา painted grey for the sake of camou- flage.

There I experienced my Arst air raid since I was a child in the Great War. That was the first air raid that they had at the beginning of Septem- ber.

Everyone believed that it was the signal for an attempted landing of troops and making Canton a scene of active fighting. Periodically since then Canton has been raided, Let- ters from friends told me that they expected every moment to be forced to leave-but it has taken five months for the real attack to begin.

On The Island

IN Canton, second oldest treaty port, one of the remaining Concessions, where no Chinese other than servants are allowed to live, exists. It is a little island called Shameen, which is about half a mile Tong and quarter of a mile wide.

On it live some 500 foreigners, chiefy merchants trading by river with the places up-country. It is a tropical island with myriads of mos. quitoes and extraordinary smells from the river.

Since September the foreigners Shameen have been living in "prisoners." It was none too safe for travelling down to Hongkong, roll and river

were continually bombed. It won dangerous to leave the island-and now the attack has begun, the next few days may be full of perți tõ them.

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KNOW. a School teacher who gave a bunch of knotty pro- blems to his 7th standard class and only 14 out of 35 boys got less than 301 I haven't decided yet whether that's a compliment to the class- or an indictment of the Knot. Probs.

I'll let you know how those same boys get on after the holidays. You know the score chart-2 points for each cor- rect answer, and you must get 30 to pass.

1.-You deserve to be deported if you don't know No. 1 Lennis player of the world is:

Perry: Tiden; von Cramm; Budge; Vines; Bromwich; Sarazen... 2,You should never confuse the words perspicuous and perspicacious, because pers- picuous means:

Having mental discernment; pos- sessed of low cunning; very pro- minent socially; casily understood,

3. "Who is he that cometh, like an hon- or'd quest?" is an Immortal line written by: Tennyson, referring to:

Napoleon; Lancelot; Julius Caesar; Duke of Wellington; Warren Hast- ings; Ne

Nelson.

4. Taking it by way of Fahrenheit, freez- Ing point is:

DOSTAL

15 degrees; 10 degrees; zero; 32 degrees; when there's frost on bottle.

the

5. Tut, tut don't tell me you don't know the capital of Turkey is:

Athens: Gallipoli; Istanbul; An- gora; Teheran; Cairo.

0. All over the world the Golden Mile is famed for its rich gold deposits--and it is in:

Alaska; South Africa; Australia; Russia; New Guinea; South America, 7-The number of whats-I mean walts- In kilowatt is;

40; 50: 100; 1,000; 10,000; 100,000.

8. People who speculate for a fall in prices on the stock exchange shouldn't get annoyed if they hear someone refer to them as a:

Stag

bear; bull; tiger; toad:

twicer.

9.It wasn't really hot on Sunday, accord- ing to Hongkong standards, for although the temperature of 84 degrees broke the local March record, the all-time record is:

97 degrees: 104 degrees; 03 degrees; 120 degrees; 111 degrees. 10. To compete for a a professional light- weight boxing championship, you'd have to see you weighed no more than:

10 st. 7 lb.; 11 st. 6 lb.; 12 st. 7 Ib.j- 9 at. 7 lb. 8. st. 6 lb.; 9 st. D 16. 11. It is estimated that t each tourist aboard the Empress of Britain spent $25,000 in Hongkong shops, Hongkong shop-keepers would swoon. But, even if each tourist car- ried that amount of money around, with him

I haven't

slept so well for months"

When you wake up in the morning clear-ayed, vigorous and gloriously refreshed," you realise that a good night's sleep is one of the most important things in Ilfo

And it is so easy to ensure this health-giving sleep every night. Just drink a cupful of de- licious 'OVALTINE' at bedtime. See how quickly it soothes your nerves, composes your mind and quickly induces deep, dreamless slumber.

'OVALTINE' is not only remarkable In its power to give you sleep, but it renews your energy and restoras the whole physical and nervous system to glowing health and fitress while you sleep.

· As a duty to yourself, adopt the "OVALTINE' way to-night.

Sure?

in one-cent pieces," there'd be ample space

in the Britain for it, because her tonnage

JB:

40,000 tons; $1,000 tons; 29,000 tona 43,000 tons; 70,000 toria. 12. Il Duce Mussolini' has name, and it is:

Chriallan

Beniamino; Adolph; Alphonso; Benito; Vittoria; Luigi; Antonio. 13-Two and two make feur, And one- half, divided by a quarter, equals:

one-sixteenth; one

One-eight, a half two don't

bother me

14.—Grand-papa can give you a hand with this one-which is to pick out which old- fashioned horse corringe hnd only two wheels from among these:

Phaeton; Landau; Barouche; Cabriolet, Victoria.

15. Not counting Amen, the last word in the Lord's Prayer in, the Common Prayer Book 18:

Shepherd; soul; done; ever; mercy; evil.

10-It would be surprising if you got this ane wrong-although one could hardly say you were exactly illiterate for not knowing the author of The Vicar of Wakefield was:

Shakespeare; Chas. Reade; Chas, Dickens; Oliver Goldsmith; W. M. Thackeray; Samuel Weller.

17--No matter whether you type or not, you should know that the number of letters on the standard keyboard of a modern type-

• writer is:

15; 22; 24; 26; 28; 30. 18.If you were at a banquet and your neighbour fabbed you in the leg with a fork, you'd know it was her dinner fork by the number of holes in your leg, namely:

Two;

three: four; five 18-Strangely enough, one of the Field Marshals of the British Army is n foreign ex- King-to wit, the ex-King of:

Belgium; Italy; Spain; Bulgaria; Egypt,

20. In case you don't know, Lawrence

the great American singer is a: bass; male alto; lyric tenor;

21. Lord Tennyson is in Hongkong aboard the Empress of Britain. He is, of course, the well-known:

1

Poct; prasant; cricketer; footballer; diplomat; dictator. 22-One of the following diseases has claimed the most lives in Hongkong since January 1:

Small-pox; dysentery; meningitis; tuberculosis; measles; diphtheria. 23-Alaska once belonged to Russia, but the United States of America got possession of it by:

Conquest; treaty; buying it; false pretences; borrowing it and not re- turning it.

24. If you were appointed a Supreme Court judge, the person from whom you would buy your wig (unless you got it second. hand) would be a

Topiarist; haberdasher;

perikler; chiropodist.

cord-

25, monl-surely you know Rob

Roy belonged to the clan of:

Campbell; McKenzie; McDonald; McGregor: Gordon: O'Flaherty.

(Answers on Page Three)

You can always rely on

"Ovaltine

for

good night's Sleep