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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course You Know,

But Are

Take two points for cach correct answer--and you must total 30, or you fail. A 40 total is very good, and a 50 -a miracle.

By the way-it is held by most authorities that the Great Auk is extinct-the last one seen was nilve in 1842 In future I will not regard any Auk as "Great." The lesser ones live in, and that's n fact,

You know where a bee gets Rs honry, but the place where it iiven is cuffed anj

Avaris; apiary, armadillo, abbey, apiaryi apiculus.

2.Habeas Corpus is a term for which you ent have no exeuse for not knowing that it means" -

A busy body, an old corțane, produce the body, the holy in the bag. 1ere take two pouls for knowing Australia became a Commonwealth in

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1920; 1899: 1918; 1901, 102, 180

You've heurd of inten-State trading boots

they are boats trading between puits

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in diferent States;

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Canada

and Austraila; In the wise Slate

B If you walked up to the leg and asked fur

a feneva you'd expect the barmaid to give your

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A long glass of beer, a whisky and fime,

pin, rum and raspberry, skpence change

The aim is a leguminous tree bec alise it

Bas bark, flowers inte

quite 1210KN =

bearing begra jauda, loses its leaves

I've heard certain parope dewashed as vixens,

but strictly speaking a vixen is u

Young gout, baby for, female fox

for: fur's latr

male

A If vs heard of # man brang relented to ans

tidental you'd know he wat

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Without teeth, of the Western reord

born 1 Asker, by the life

When folk talk about making the wetkin were talking

t you wouldn't know what they

ulut unless you karw the welkan was

A disker gong, a Are alorm, the skp UN skelased valley, a dud cou

101 someone starts talking about peat, look wise and tell them you know post is

fuel, a

Jane pret

A vegetable; a short for Peter. 11- was Interested but rather read the other day that a tea to classed as

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An animal, a fish, a reptile: an insect

If a farmer has 240 bushels of wheral

You Sure?

to

13. If you weren't feeling up to it and suddenly you came across a lemming, you could hardly be blamed for saying:-

The council ought to remove this before there's an accident; Darn you-you best. rowing ratlike rodent; I dislike monkeya;

I prefer oranges to lemmings,

14. You've read about the Cyclops (1 hope). Then you'll know that if he had suffered fron falling eyesight he would have found most use- ful:...

1 pair of binoculars; hornrimmed speriacles;

lorgnette; prince-nem monocic

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15.One of these in not included imong the shens of the Zodia

Leo Sagittarius: Scorpio; Orion; Ac- quarius

In the old days my family boasted a card- 10 wiiget in their midst He was at

SUK merchant; rop manufacturer; shoemaker; wheeleright; blindmaker.

Before Delhi became capital of India 1914, the copital wast

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Bombay Madras, Aura; Calculta: Patun Colombo

In

LA The number of stars on the New Zealand

flag ist

Twen three; four, five, skr

A 19

TELEP

Fest

noted for his aphorisms is rated

cocktails he can recitations, screen star sayings, his clean collars

imitations: pithy

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fanter hust perpetunt, just a little glassere.

21 Don't turn oud suddenly and stare

kudu Just behind you There's at kadu is

An African natire, bananalike fruit an enti curse, an animal, a vegetable,

Perhaps you don't sing ught to know it is pronounceri

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bart

yest

As it apelt; messo, mes-ka, meilzo; with a mid biecough.

Don't try it

Just like my word for it that

if you threw one each of these from a top floor

window one would be unable to by namely

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Skua, shrike, shrews; atakin; shap.

The world's remind Test cricket score made by Bondman at Laeds in 1930 was

287, 201: 424, 452 334; 304

ad

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In

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he puts them into the regulation wheat bags, the

number of -bags he will have

pny) will be about...

50; 120: 30; 40, 108,

fif he doesn't spill

square miles Bellain owns most country

Derania (including Australia): Africa: North Amerten (uetuding Canada); Asia; Europe.

Answers on l'agr 3

"OVALTINE' Please!"..

MILK BAR

OVALTINE'

HOT OR COLD

.....the. Popular Choice

at

MILK BARS and CAFES

Owing to

the great popularity of 'Ovaltine and the countless requests enthusiasts, reecived from 'Ovaltine' arrangements have been made to make 'Ovaltine' available at Restaurants and Cates.

So, whenever you are away from home --wherever you go-you can be certain

cup of obtaining your ginss or

of 'Ovalline'. When the weather is warm, order your 'Ovaltine' served cold, its cool, creamy deliciousness will be a revelation to you.

Remember, 'Ovaltine' has no equal for rapidly restoring energy and vitality -and for keeping you fit throughout a tiring day. And remember, too, that 'Ovaltine" has special properties which, when added to milk, make the milk delicious, digestible and inuch more Bourishing.

But be sure it is 'Ovaltine'—¡here is definitely nothing "just as goed".

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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1933

INSPECTOR

"CAN assure you, Mr. Lamb, that we're doing our ut-

most."

Joshun Playfair's equanimity has been sorely tried by the

vective.

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in

PLAYFAIR

EPISODE

the on

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He still fashions 7-the digit 7-in the continental way; you know- with a stroke across the tall. I've a hunch that that habit is likely to be Kling's undoing. Sooner or later there'll be n 7 in one of these anony

speech to which he had just Dumbell, who was writing in a corner dual disposition. It might be the mous letters, and mark my words of the room. "Sorry, Mr. Lamb," schoolmaster; it might be the vicor;'--it'll have a crossed tall. And that been listening. For

brow darkened. Conrad

tie suid, "that we're not giving more it might be me. It might even be my be the end of my autoost Anastasius Lamb, Chairman of Entisfaction. But one must sit some- Dr. Parsons-no one, after all, knows

withdraw the harsh words that I the Stunsall Green Parish where, you know-at any rate, when more about the village than he does." luck to you, Inspector," he said. "I Council, was one of those gentle one's taking notes--and,

whule, It's a sound plan to keep calm. Pisyfair looked at him sharply. used at the beginning of this inter- men who pride themselves, not Come, air, let's review the evidence

"Do you know Parsons well, Mr. View. You're a man of brains after all. Do you know, before you men- once more, and see what construc- Lamb"

tioned him, I hadn't thought of Kling: only on their eloquence, but on

You'll notice letters now you do mention him, I'm "Intimately. in- live ideas emerge."

gure their resourcefulness

For the fourth or fifth time, the have been sent to lilm-just as they you're on the right trail, King is n They betray beast-there's a lot i could tell you two men pored over the anonymous have to the rest of us. letters. They were typical specimens an extraordinary knowledge of his about him-and I hope he gets what's coming to him." He held out hils He had a high, narrow, fanatica) of a hateful craft; written, obviously, circumstances."

"Do you, in your own mind, suspect hand to Playfair and took his leave.

幽 forehead and a querulous drooping by same unhappy sadist with all too

Lamb

Kome thought hard for Moustache. And he had just been complete a knowledge of his neigh him

natonished Four days later an Kiving Inspector Playfair, credited bours' lives and futerests.

innutta. Then: Frankly," he said. Dumbell learned from his superior

that the case was at an end. representative of Scotland Yard, his opinion of Scotland Yard's deficien-

"Listen, Mr. Lamb," said Playfair "I don'!."

This conference of

Dumbell was delighted. "Was it ties.

It was Playfair's turn to cogitate. after a pe

Then, suddenly, he shut onother Kling, sie?' he asked. "Did your offends

"Mr. Lambs hunch turn out to be correct? "It

Inspector" his ours is confidential-isn't it?"

"Secret as the grave," said Lamb question at the other.

There Was no answering

Emile perorntion ran-" offends me, both

"On your stle and on mine. Then have you thought of Kling?" In a citizen und as a taxpayer, this

Lamb was star

alarties.

from the Inspector. "A nasty case, "Klink?" "The gratuitous parade of administrative tell me--in this strict confidence-

He's come, pack your bags; let's get out electrical engineer.

No, it wasn't Kling, Dum- incompetence. We have" he rolled for, after all, in a position of authority

lived in Stunsal Green for twenty of here.

But he was brought up, belt. It was Lamb. Conrad Ands- his eyes expressively-"a potson pen tell me there's anyone you mus

four years. in our midst. Homes

being peet."

I belleve, on the continent. Here taste Lamb. The magistrates bave tonocent *1 wrecked:

wouk! blighted: hupes

and there in these letters, Mr. Lamb, refused him bail, and I esn't pretend

traces of continental script, that I blame them." I set

Hew had Lamb given himself awap? And I'll tell you something about

(Solution on Page Three) the Kling-in

me.

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Lamb saici gladly." Iven blasted. And yet you sit there gomily, "if I'd anything definite to It might be anyone. Inspee- and calmly tell me that you're doing go on.

know For you

how this morbi all you can."

Playfair winked imperceptibly at eraz to hurt is often une facet of a

Will Europe Become

FOR

KR some 40 days in England there It caused the raising of farm prices, the impost-

102 tion of water restrictiona

Leen the centre of civilisation which had built vast, fair eities in the midst of flourishing plains

towna, the closing of golf courses and Buried in Sand playing feltīs, aust, if it had con- ned, wold have meant the shutting down of severnt farlo ES

The official stock prices show that all fart products have risen several ports and in parts of the country many farmers are faced with ruin

Is this the first phase in a cycle of droughts which will culminate in Europe bevorning a second Sabara" It seems scarcely feasible, vet ex- ifrers and scientists have discovercet that once what are now deserts were fluwers where carthly paradies bloomed, crops grew, vegetation of all kuds flourished, and life was plenti-

ful

The dreaded Gobs Dews!, for ne

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For many centuries the Arabs have had a legend of a lost etty in the Salioru

a place of gleaming while palaces and temples, sparkling Then tus, and lovely gardens came the catastrophe that covered It blew the whole and with sand.

and Sem- | tato palace arvi muistam

ple; it covered the fields and buried the trees; I choked the rivers, sud bursed a great prosperous ined to a of 40 feet above 11N hughest depili of buildings

That is the legend, and a basis of truth lies in it, for in 1924 Professor Renato Burloetta came across melt city in the hinterland of Tripoli deep buried in the sand, which had euvered the buildings with a deadly stance, where water is unknown, and and protective mantle, keeping the the smallest cloud rarely hides the fate of a burning sun, and was once covered with luxurious vegetation, so abundantly provided with human requirements that experts consider it the cradle of manking.

The Sahara Desert, too, has not always been a barren, sandy waste. but was once a land of plenty, capable of supporting thousands, and to have

stone in a marvellous state of pre-

servation,

Could such changes as have in the past transformed the fare of the earth becue again? Could Europe become a vast desert dotted here and there perhaps by an occasional nasts, but otherwise waterless, barren aren, the grave of the races that made the greatest of a civilisations”

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Name

Address

Dear Riddler.

This to all my own work

The Ink tot competition must Enve been a wee bit too hard for most of you as there were very few entries receive thin week. Some entries wefe definitely faked and that was what I ask. ed you not to do. However, there were Fone very good in blot pictures which were really ever so funny to look at.

The winners this week AFD- Beryl Goldenberg (aged 13), 5, Cameron Road, Kowloon and David Aache (aged I), Bl. Stephen's College, Stanley.

Am sending coupons to Beryl David which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraphi" offices in Wynd- ham Street. The coupons will then be axchanged for money prizes.

and

Ho Bhuk-chun, June Moss, Antonio Souza, Mary Grace Asche, Eva Grady, Anderson Yeung Kil-wa. Jacqueline (Benlöre) and John Jan, Feter Coom (Junior) sent in really excellent entries for which I want to give them th recvmendation.

Good lak-blot pictures were also ment in by Diana Bardoon, Daniel Choy. Charles Foster. Hida Bogres. Rolly Clemo rlian Claire Lim, Aurea Mar Lindquist Vicky Mass, John Anderson, Ho Man- Charles Edward Clark, Violet Hope

Sentors); Apuddy da Motta, Joyce Dut- leries, Gerald Marshall (Juniors),

Aurek Marqun: Thank you over so much for the excellent drawings you ment to me a week.

Jacquelins Anderson: We will try your competition, sometime soon.

This week, we are going to have th ever-popular colouring competition. The

Aro

make

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wallowers abown above will delightful picture when you have colour- ed them with your paints or crayons,

When you have finished the picture and its decurative bartier, cut it out and paste it smoothly on to a postcard. FA In the name, age and address coupon and send your entry to Uncle Eddle, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph", before 4 pan, on Wednesday.

Now, before eloxing to-day I have sumo "very Important news for you.

tenne rend it very carefully.

As the number of entries received for these competitions hAD been growing rapidly, it has been decided to increase Inter- the ection to three-Senior, mediate and Junior. The age limit for the Rections is, as Totlow:-

Junior: Under

age of seven

years.

to

Intermediate: From Roven years under the age of eleven years.

Seniors: com eleven years to 14 years,

will enable you to have a fairer cliance of winning the prizes and not have younger kiddies competing against older children,

It fix bem decided to re-xilot Bo prites as follows:

Hentor: #1

Intermediate: 3 Juntor: $2

Uncle Edidia.

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strictest

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coußdence

a Sahara?

The answer is that such a trans- formation can Lake place, and, though remote as far as we are concerned, probably will.

Tropical Conditions

The secret of the change lies in

pre¡ the powers of the wind. The

vailing winds of Cheat Britain come Trom the south-west, bringing mois-

Puzzle Corner

Cryptogram

a quip from the Washington Post on present-day business conditions forms the basis of to-day's crypto- Krain

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FPSG JKXXNB BCVSB BEVY GAVE EPASCSR, QPE SVE EKVBX XIPCYYXZ JCER APQQXA ECAXB,

Word Dainond Wolds are to be led to which rend the

ture from the Atlantic, and as longame scross and town

will as such winds blow this fand see little change. But the slow, In- evitable ageing of the earth brings many changes, and just as there was a time when the Polar fee-cup ex- tended aver

great part of Britain. in the course of evolution there may come a time when tropical eon- ditions will return to be followed by drier and drier cycles of weather, un- ti this fand becomes another Sahar or Gobl

The change is gradual, but the sn habitants of these Islands will see it coming in the constant return of day. hot summers and practically raintess winters. Such conditions will become until. pronounced more and more perhaps, in a few thousand years a Will begin 1x1 prolonged drought

health and life and bring realisation that the time of the green Beld, the pleasant pasture, the wood and the copse is finished."

menace

May not this drought be the herald of the approaching change?

In

WILA

time

in our own country we have *xample at how sand can destroy. 100 the fertile region of Culbin, the

Firth, south coast of the Moray averwhelmed by sand. From that The Culbin Sands have been one of the drearient and most desolate spola in Britain. The catastrophe came suddenly and without warning. The drift of mand. tike net river of destruction, came on teadily and ruthlessly. creeping over Held after field, and burled Cullin.

About a hundred years ago a strange

Then nin

Anoret thing happened sitty, and in its midst appeared an old mansion. Its roof and chinbeys standing sanda. out in eerie fashion Above the

much For some weeks it was visible. drended by the local

und

inhabitants.

the the and returned once more. Not since then has the mansion of Culbin been reen again.

Though that catastrophe Was purely fucal, It was analogous lu the loss of the

lien now flourishing land that once beneath the sands of the Sahara and Gobl deserts, where such winds as blow bring nothing but the hot breath of death with them.

Carel Nautman

CHESS PROBLEMS

Nos. 15-

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Black

White

16

# Pieces

B Pieces

White to play and mate in two.

NO. 16

ninck

Driecen

Wiste

四街

4 Pieces

White to play and mato in three.

D A letter. 2 uly water, (3) To atrike with oven hand, (9) Squirted, (5)

wires The large cranierry (4) Aerial trade) (72 trinh pennants. ) Turklei measure of leath, 7th Vowel

Letter Juggling Try farming different 5-letter words Uar a D from the 3 lettern.given below. Fetters in ench word.

ESAR C

What Was the Pricef A certain tenber of extita cont $1. There had been 10 more eggs at the same

they firler.

woukl have cost 6 cents less What was the dozen CKENZ

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陆 price of

Answers On Page 1.

Bridge Problem

No. 63

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pades re Trumps. South lends and North-South have to win 10 of the trickn.

Solutions, by first past Wednesday to Bridge Problem.

then

SOLUTION TO PROBLEM 62 Last week's problem was a teaser, and no correct solutions were received. The play Is: after North wins with Queen nine Dinnonda Chib, he puts through whaleh West must cover, South leads Ace bundes, followed with our Clubs which North taken with six Clubs, then lends Queen Spaden, which West must cover. and South trumps with Ace Clubs, lends even Clubs which North win with stne, who lends five Diamonds, won South with seven, who jende Jack Clubs. and North discards Queen of Hearts. then South then leads King Diamonds.

with four Diamonds which North wins

West Arn Queen And both East and squeezed. North can lead ten Spades to be trumped it overtaken by West, which makes his other spade good an o han re-entry with Heart Ace.

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