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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course But Are

By "The Dragoman"

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week's questions. They are that rany—or are answers at a they? You'll know some of the

untit glance but don't glance at the answers afterwards, next to you, either,

No copying from the Dragomanite

Score chart as usual:-Two polata for correct unstper: 30 is a Pass; 40 is Dandy; 50 is Incredible, Let's go.

JIT your thyroid 1-If you had an operation gland the surgeon, most likely. would inve to cut your:

Forehead;

left thigh; chess; throat;

abdomen; toenails,

2.--I'm no Nijinsky, but I know enough about dancing to recognise the name of a dance in this That:-

Precadillo; crescendo, conianye; far- dango; orlando.

3. It's not likely, but if someone addressed you as Marquis you could be pretty sure you and been mistaken for the eldest son of a

Barin, Earl Viscount; Duker; Royal Prince; Archbishop.

4-11's nice to know, even if it doesn't help to puty all your debts, that Cleopatra was: -----

An Abyssinian, a Phoenician; an Egyp- tian; a Roman; a Grock; un Arab.

5.1 was hammering away on the keys of my harmonica the other night when I noticed the word Allegro on the music. That meant I had to play.

Very mufti: in < top note; amely, briskly; in a sunnd-proof room. 6.When a policeman laid his band ofi

Hvid-1 shoulder, Kelly's face turned

turned

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Won

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White, black with yellow streaks, ( leaden colour; pink; inside out. 7-The only thing I know for sure about an sects that the number of legs t usually has (occording to people who have counted them) is

Two: four, six; etghat, 180

Know, You You Sure?

13-If ever you are in a motor-car accident and you break your temur it will cheer you to know you'll be able to get about:-

With a silver plate in your head; with pour arm in a silng; on crutchen; with your chest tightly bandaged; with your Inder- Auger in plaster.

14. At home I've got n leveret, but when It grown up I suppose l'i have to quit calling it s leveret and call it a:-

Goose; deer; for; hare; peacock; ele-

15-11 you've never known what a theodolite is get it straight now-a theodolite is :-

Rellytona person; a' beginner in art, a heavenly bodys a surveyor's Instrument; a High Church urnament, 16--There's been a lot of talk about the socinf order is fongkong---just try your hand at putting THESE in their correct order of precedence!—

(of England); Arch Prime Minister bishop of York; Arthbishop of Canterbury; Lord Chanerllor,

17

-Don't ask me why, but they changed the name of the town of Christianis to: ---

Stockholm, Istanbul: Belgrade. Osio;

"Helsingfors. Stalingradi;

18 you wam to be strictly accurate in your ble etiquette, next time you have to eat steamed pudding you will use:--

A knife and fork, a knife; a spoon and fork, tipu apoors, only a fork; your fore- Anger and thumb.

19 When the nurse looks at the thermometer and yella, "Hey! you're swinging the leach-yutar temperature is Bortnal." you know your tempera- ture is exactly

100 degrees 504, 12.0; 448, 98.2; 98.4, boiling point,

Only one of these

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20. buritone

# singers fumous in not blaming him fark, he's a

He is:- very Hood baritone

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8.Just anottier nnte In a rogue ur !! according to the best dictionaries, is n

Picador: plecału, piccmniany, plearvoni picamor, piccalili,

9.One of these lays eggs--the numby pamby! A whate; a kangaroo, u1 opean,

platypas, a marmoset.

10.---Nearly everyone knows Lewis

verse-

Tauber, Schipa: Klepura, Crooss; Til bett; McCormick, Git

Some peuple cali Mussolini 11 Duce and some call him well, anyway, the people who call hiev 51 Darem pemotiler. Duce. -

Stanley

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the

Duke; Juter, Juicep: Duk-ap Doo-ki; Book-ay. Doo-chup. Forty-love.

You're on your way to Nineteen Mile Beach or the Hongkong Hotel when suddenly the skipper shouts: A submatine on the starboard bow?" You'll look for the submarine

#1

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Carroll's

"The time hat conte the walrus guldt,

To talk of many things;

And the next Hae isp

"And whether pigs have bugs","o rabbages and kings"; "a piensant walk a pleuaani Talk": "of shota and shipɔ-and seating war"; "and then let a go to bed."

You'll see a few photos of the Birmingham

if you turn to the front page of this Supplement But don't turn until you've answered that the Bir- mingham is a

Battleship; submaring; destroyer; cruiser; aircraft carrier; propolše,

12.-Unless you are one of those people who get the words aqueduct and vinduet mixed you'll know

In a jify that a vhduet 18:

An artificial channel for conveying water; a built-in canol; an underground condull; a long bridge-like structure; shipping dock.

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mae

to the foe'sie; to the right of the ship

in the innacle, to the left of the ship, in the saloon bar; in the ship's woke

Murgatroyd tells me at school he was never good at geography. Once he got six marks art hated them for a week!- for not knowing that the Bermudas Inlands belonged to

America: Jupon: Russia: Great Britain Germany, Italy,

21 Witen fashionably-dressed woman party the other night thrust a ceud into my hand I was mildly annoyed, because if there is one thing

I don't like it is

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That kind of musical instrument; a desert cactus; a bitter liqueur; hopper: a scentless bloom; a rodent.

grass-

23. Of course you know--or don't you? --that

the number of days in this month is;--

28: 27: 28; 29: 30: 31

(Answers on Page Three)

EPISODE 71

OF.

INSPECTOR

PLAYFAIR'S NOTEBOOK

MR.

MAMFORTH'S afternoon

at Kembury Park had been. on the whole satisfactory. A keen supporter of the "Tote," he had invested a couple of pounds in all on various runners in the five races. His selections for the two o'clock had flopped, but the 2.30 produced a winner in Flamingo (the Toto on two tickels pald £205. Gd.), the 3.0 yielded an- other in Pelorus Jack (£2 75. d.) and the 3.30 yet a third in the favour- ite, Tea for Two. Tea for Two only brought in 11 shillings, but there was still the four o'clock race to come and Mr. Mamforth had great hopes Madonna. of the bay mare Sistine "A blasted silly naine," he said to his companion, Ada Littlegs, "but what's in a name anyway? We shall clea a fiver, or you can toast me my new Homburg for supper."

Unfortunately, as he left the pay- ing-out department of the "Tole" after collecting his Tea for Two win- Mamforth beenDE 11- nings, Mr.

That this volved in an alterention. should happen

exactly a was not novelty. Mamforth had more than the unce made an appearance in

Li classification nt police-court; Scotland Yard was "racecourse un-

He carried E desirable,"

leather- handled life-preserver.

TIXACTLY

what

trappeziel

on this particulur after- noon was never satisfactorily cleared p All that Ada Littlege could say --when, Inter, after Meinforth's ar- rest, she reluctantly made a stale- ment--was that, as they left the Tote building, an onlooker mode "a jeer- Ing coraiment," Mamforth retorted in kind; the other fellow

him and Mamforth, in self-defence, took out his loaded allek. It was all Mamforth's over it a few second. assallant (If assailant indeed he was) dropped to the ground unconscious, and Manforth and Adu had taken to their heels, and hind, seemingly made good their escape, before anyone else was aware of what was happening.

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SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1938

Calendar

·ACH week's group of exercises stands by Itself. So if you have not tried any of them yet begin now Start with one exercise and

add one now one every day until on the last day you are doing seven altogether. You'll find by the end of the week that you wake up feeling more cheerful, besides more healthy.

Copy what the little man in each picture is doing and follow the instructions by the alde, e.g.. 8-12x1r means do the exercise eight to twelve times left and right. Do each exerctie twice in slow motion, then at normal speed. Breathe OUT through your mouth when bending, IN through your nose when stretching. Keep your feet parallel and wear as few clothes as possible,

PUZZLE CORNER

Cryptogram

A quip from the Vancouver Sun forms the basis of to-day's cryptogram:

CRYPTIF ZHTXZP PVUCSI RVQ FZUC Z IVDTCON OV LSCUCHỌ OFC JIC VẺ ZITZE TR QZS, OFTI GVCI RVO, VK DVJSIC, SCKCS OV ATLCGI.

Who's Who?

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See how quickly you, or someone to whom you may read the blographical sketch below, can guess the naine before the entire sketch is read He was a famous English novelist. He master af sultre. His writings led to Important. reforma in England. He visited Amerien" twice. and wrote daringly and senthingly of it. He was born in Portsmouth, England. He lived from 1812 to 1870. Among his best known books ore David Capperfield, Pickwick Papers, and Christmas Carol.

Letter Juggling

Try forming 5 different 5-letter words from the letters given below. Use all 5 letters in each word:

ASPER

Find the Fraction

It 2/3 is added to the numerator of a certain function, its value is increased by 2-21; but if 2 1/3 is taken from its denominator, the fretion hercanes 0-7. Find the fraction.

Fun With Antonyms

Today's list of 10 words and their antonynas.

wanderer

happineso

"woul for

1

low

spicy

3

short

exalted

4

misery

liking

15

paucity

tiresome

wisdom

discord

17

distasto

extended

[8]

harmony

plenty

19

hermit

rejoice

10】

Bourn

ignorance

mc.

"Phew!" said Mamforth as, a few minutes later, he started his two- scater "A near thing that, ch, Ada? Tony Bulliver that was; he's had it in for me for a long time.

We must beat it for town and fix up an alibi, pronto. Tony won't split on that's one thing; he knows darned. well it wouldn't pay. Let's hope the blighter fan't dead, though. 1 don't mean, you know, that I've any use for him--a first-class skunk if ever there were one-but I'd hate to have the cops coming round with a war- rant."

(Answers Appear on Page Three)

Keep-fit

EIGHTH

WEEK

6-8X

1+T

12-16x +

12-76X

MIN.

12 MIN.

8-12X

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The Fatique of yesterday

still with him

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Ovaltine

for daily Energy & Vigour

FORTY

"office,"

PORTY minutes later the cur drew up at Mamforth's Here he carried on, osten- sibly, the business of a "general mer- chant"; actually the place was prim- arily a cover for his shady activities on the turf. "We ought to be right, muttered Mamforth, as he un-

"No locked the office door.

cops around; we're not suspected yet, any- I've been here all way. Let me sec. day, working on my ledgers; expect that you called for me at-when, three o'clock and we went for a short run round in the car. I don't believe there's anyone who can give evidener against us. The clerk at the Tole pay-office might, but it's only his word against mine. And, anyway, those fellas have their eyes glued to their money. They never look at one's face."

*

Ada Littlego was thinking. "That's okay, Joe," she said. "But what nboul incriminating evidence? It the cops do get on to you they're sure to search you, you know. Just go through your pockets. And badn't you better give me your fe-preser- ver?"

He

"Bright girl," sold Mamforth. handed over his weapon, together with a pair of knuckle-dusters: then, going through his pockets, produced his Kembury Park race-card and his tickets for the 4 o'clock race. "Gosh, Ada," was his comment, "what brain wave of yours thaLwas! These tickets would have suck the bloom- Ing raft."

Meanwhile, Mr. Bulliver had re- covered consciousness and contrary to Momforth's expectation - had named the lutter as his assullant. The consequence was that, soon after Ada's departure, Joshua Playfnir reached Mamforth's office. He was accompanied by Sergeant Dumbell and had a search-warrant In, bls pocket.

MA

MAMFORTH'S carefully worked-oul alibi was re- ceived with polite sceptlelam. But when he responded, with alacrity, to the suggestion that his person should be searched, Playfair felt less sure of his ground. "H'm," was the In- spector's inward comment, "no flies on Joe, evidently." The search com- pleted, he and the Sergeant left; from a neighbouring cull-box Play- fair, in some perplexity, rang up the Yard.

Ada Littlege was visited that 'some night and gave evidence which in ́oll particulars corroborated Mamforth's. She had already disposed of the "in- criminating evidence." None

the

leas, Mamforth was arrested the fol- Iowing morning. Playfair had con- clusively broken his alibi.

Where had Mamforth slipped up?

Solution on Page Three

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