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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Of Course You Know,

But Are

HERE'S your weekly (tut! tut!! who sald weakly?) mental exer- cise so out with your pencil and clear the brain for action. You may need two pencils--they are a bit tough this week (I hope).

"Why should we hoist the Union Jack on the birthday of the Queen of Norway?" ads a corres- pondent. Well, Queen Maud of Norway is a skuter of the late King George V., and therefore she in & reigning queen member of the Family, and so entilind to the compliment. factory?

score

British Royal

Satis-

It is possible (but improbable that you will 50 points by taking two points for each correct answer Forty will be a good score--but you must total 30 to pass,

1. wouldn't swear to the exart I, but the length of the course ver which the Melbourne Clip is need each year is about

A mile and a half; a mile and three- quarters; two miles, two miles and a half. 2,055 yards.

You

Sure?

$1. Just a dash of poetry"Oh, wind, if winter comes. can spring be for behind?" was written by:-

12.

Homer: Browning: Tennyson; Keats; Shelley; Byron; Ginger Mick.

And "None but the brave deserve the fir sounds to me as if it were written by:-

Milton, Shakespeare: Virgil: Dryden; Gray.

13. I've never been able to discover yet whether

a hen or an egg was created first, but I do know that part of the egg which forms the chicken in this-

Yolk; white; shell.

And while we are talking about poultry, 14. Just say that the time it takes to hatch chickens is about:

two weeks; three weeka, i A week. month. 42 days.

When people way something infra dig they mean it

Runt

13

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to the true; to bad, above their dunity: below their dignity; overbearing

Even though you don't play the game your- self, you crtainly should know that the number of players basketball game is.

17

2

That haunting old DA you kw "Roses new blooming in

+1

Tato

Piccolo: Pleva!: Prendus. Presidy, Pinkle; the garden of my hurt

1.

The first book of Moses as the Bible is called Genesi nd the serund is called:

Levitless, Exeunt; Exodus, Exit, Extra,

Kings.

4.

Graphite is used in

Feeding birds

Rogel making

Fertillaing sreda

Gramopho¶**

High explosive

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U falr

WVIES: ---

Lead pencils

soundboren

Dance through i was at history, I always hat of Franer that the Just Monarchy Rea

Broderick the Great, Louis XVI; Robes- pierye, Napoleon II, Geurges Carpentier.

6 A humphon In case you are ever asier!

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Thunderbolt, heat cloud, high wind; rula eletal, proteomr

t:

flave you a gun" Sull, you might knows that

The calibes of o Run 15

The length of its barrel, its magazine, the trigger guard; the diameter of its bore

Well.

B. Itementer reading how the English feet cleaned up The Spanish Actuada way back? the man who commanded the English feel wast

Jettee; Sh Richard Grenville, Francis Drake; Lord Howard of Efingham, John Falstaf

ខ. Here I am agan simply tossing points away The latitude of the equator is.-

Ninety degrees, 18; 100: 400, zeru; the

rouring ferītes,

10 Treea which are not green all the year round are called:--

Acuctus; leguminous; Karri, deciduous; Indigenous.

12)

Four, Her, ah, seven, eight; nine; teo

The rest way to spell that thing with

tesand for straining cooked vegetables is Calendat, calendor, ralondor, cullendos, ut{;!!!!!

Perhaps you don't drink four paints shaught well, but if you did that mantint wotale že equivalent. tu ohre

Hogshead, gallen. litre, pupkin, bettie, pesttle

Ambrosia

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stir the

inentioneri

the elasties

Think of the gocis. fout of the gods: home of the gris a mythical tree

20 If you bruin is as clear as it ought to be

it should take just two beks to calevilate that if The 3 of the thenly Falka a Tuesday the 25th will be i

Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday; Thun pelay. Priday, Saturday, full mo

21 If you were ever lured no weiting the pakarand of glossful you would write

Classenful; glinafuls, ginssfulis, glasses-

full #svesti, headaches

22 Some vers are longer than others and - strangely others are shorter, but the river Theat is legen thate my other in the world is the.

Mississippi Missoun, Volga, Amazon, Dale, Marray.

wasn't sing myself until I counted them bart no doubt you know the trumber of toes a cat bas d

12. B. 14 10. 10; 14

22

A pavan Is

A Mexican persunt: a coin, a hymn of hate, a song of praise; a vegetable (French pennis and potatoes).

25 If you give some people ust inch they'll

take an ell --an ell being:

A mile; a yard; a furlong, a fool; a yard and a quarter; more than they are entitled

to.

Anstoers on Page 3

CAN'T GO ON LIKE THIS

THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS ARE RUINING MY HEALTH

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Why can't I Sleep

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SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1938

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

J

"WHERE every prospect

pleases Joshua Playfair. His voice

quoted

trailed away; something had

It was certainly a charming spot. The clear waters of that prettiest of streams, the Flynn, here ran between banks where beech, oak and birch grew in profusion,

Yel, in this neighbourhood, the stream was so Innccessible from the main rond that hardly any visitors found their way to its banks, It was, thought Playfgh, with an inward shudder, an almost ideal spot for the tuken brutal murder which bad place there only a day before.

Playfair and Sergeant Dumbell had-at the request of the local constabulary—been sent dow Επ the hope that their experience would throw light upon what, at present, As h dark and incomprehensible -rime.

EDISODE

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the

been said

Playfair concluded, aftef a careful examination of the neighbourhood) to have parked a car at least a mile from the spot where the girl's body found, whereas " motor- caught his eye a few yards from custal assault-and the contents of her workmates?" naked Dumboil. bleycle could have been brought to where he was standing and, the girl's handbag which lay beside "They're more likely to know who & point comparatively close to the stopping as carefully as he could her had apparently not been dis- this chap was than the parents or stream. And the faint impressions

turbed.

had Playfair

of a tyre in an adjacent fold sug- among the beech leaves and tur

already the people at home." examined the bag and its contenta young bracken, he moved over

at Flyabury Polico Station. It

"Quite right," answered Playfair. Rested that this is what had hop- con- to investigate.

lained, In addition to the usual "have made what inquiries can they're being pur- powder puff and lipstick, 318. in and, of course,

sued in detail. Inspector Sandgate But Investigations at the scene of C, "use buy ticket to London is in charge of that particular job. the crime had yielded surprisingly Green Line to Walton-on-Thames and half

But, so far, nothing hos come to tle evidence. Nor did the object, dozen visiting cards which dia- light.

which, na this narrative opened, had closed the girl's identity. She was

caught the Inspector's oye, seem to We Hu "To continue #Miss Mary Evans, living at home assume, think-from what I learnt row much light on his difficulties. with her parents in North London, yesterday

It was a

a cigarette card discarded- and from the ticket in was and employed as a mannequin at a Mary's bag-that she did go down

quile

recently from a packet of Jorge West End store.

to Walton as she hud sald she was well-known brand. Playfair picked carefully, holding only by proposing to do. We can find out P

"This hasn't corners. from the ticket what time her bus e

here

Dumbell," long.

he "These are the facts so far as we arrived at Walton and it is here that There were no cigarettes in Mary's have assembled them," Playfair had we must take up the trail"

bak. I suggest to you that this is n explained to Dumbell that morning.

This line of inquiry bed not been souvenir of her murderer." "Miss Evans lived at home with her

without results, Telephone incs-

"And you think there may be parents and, so far as I can learn—

last night had suges to the headquarters of the bus anger-prints on it?" asked Dum- I saw her mother

company had shown that Mary bad bell. not a care in the world.

arrived at Walton at about half pust "She set off yesterday morning— twelve. The

Playfair shrugged his shoulders. conductor of her hus

"A thin chance, but it's one having obtained a day's leave from remembered her appearance giving sibility, certainly.

Dis- her employers-for this holiday ex- her ticket and described her ap- pedition. She told her mother that pearance

with some accuracy. But Dumbell walked over and stood she was meeting a boy she knew' neither he nor anyone else whose beside hin

tooking down at the 1 Walton and that he was taking evidence so far was avaliable could card. "Hints Life-Saving." he her out into the

Un- country.

say

"That series has been out of where she had met her friend said. fortunately she did not go into any her how they had proceeded to date for some months, sir.”, atenter detail.

Flynbury

He ruminated. Ilfe-saving," he said.

With She has long enjoyed complete

mirthless laugh. "That's what you'd call ironical, freedom (or so her mother told mei

There was, however, some indirect isn't it, sir?" in regard to her own friends and,

Playfair put the card carefully except where she has volunteered evidence that they had proceeded by

:formation, questions have not been shortest route, is nearly

Flynbury, by the into a clean envelope. His fear that motor-bicycle

50 miles it

It would disclose no anger-prints This made it practi- proved, subsequently, to be only too from Walton "Her mother could only give me cally certain that they had travelled well foundest. Nevertheless as 11 particulars of three of her boy there by Some mechanically-pro- result of his morning's work, he was friends; | have checked up on all pelled vehicle, but the choler of their able, within the next forty-eight of the and, so far as yesterday Unal objective made I very unlikely hottes, to Iny his hands on the mur- was concerned, a' three have cast- that they had travelled from Wolton dierer. fran b x,"

by motor-eur.

How did he contrive to do so? "Have

made inquiries from

(Solution on Page Three)

At eight o'clock on the previous day a party of rovellers, returning along the bank of the stream to the little town of Flynbury Parva, had discovered the body of a girl tying face downwards among the bracken, That she had been brutally mur- dered there was not the slightest doubt. Her knitted scarf had been

tightly twisted

round лет neck and as though strangulation were

not

enough she had been struck more than once at the buse of the skull with a spanner or

some such heavy tument.

The molive for the crime was not obvious There were no signs of u struggle

which suggested that the murder was premeditaled and not a

Puzzle Corner

Crylogram

Fur to-day's crytie message, have a quotation by Emerson!

WC

"EMRSH ON AB CRDRFE RGH- RIE DSBJ KOEMOA, EMRSH ON SRFZZI AB QANPSJBPAEFQZR QESSORS NFTR LUPS BKA OAM- ISRAE KREVARNN BD JPSI- BNIL"

An Acrostle

A

E A

First and last letters

eye given

for 6-letter words to be led in. Definitions for these words appear below:

1. Loud cry. 2. Enjoy imunensely

To 3, Whole. 4. Long-hatred. 5. leave.

Letter Juggling

Try farming 6 different 4-jetter words from the 4 letters given be- low. Use all 4 letters in roch word:

TPSO

What Are the Dimensions?

A rectangular tot contains 270 square rods. It is surrounded by a rand that s rod wide, The aren of this road is 70 square rod. What are the dimensions of the field"

Fun With Synonyms Another Hist of words and their synonyms to be paired off:

fixe

gode aldad

towering Leathed

16. sturdy

17 Kinty

[#]_brizataný

robust

aniu jed pild lustrous Abrupt

king sobolari

doubtful My

restricted

Solutions on Page 3

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"THE"

GAELIC

DECENTLY I met a man who ask- 7714* in rather a confiding. kindly sort of way I could speak "the" Guelic? Grammaras of the "old school** were wont to parse "the" as "a distinguishing" adjective; mayhap schoolmasters of to-day de- scribe the little word's grammatical significance in quite a different way.

Be that as it may, its use to "dis- tinguish" or quality a great language like Gaelic always irritates me. The casual acquaintance referred to was a friendly sort of fellow--and an enthusiastle Gnel al that: thus it was that I was emboldened to ask him why he used the word "the" in con- junction with the name of his native | Longue?

The only explanation he could give me was embraced in his reply, "Well, they always say the Gaelie in my native place."

My friend thus had upon his side the support of use and wont, and we at know that long-continued usage in langunge, as in other things. counts for very much.

But why do Highlanders persist in using the "distinguishing adjec- tive" to qualify the word "Gaelic"? Does it not Decur "the" French, "the" Latin, or "the" Greet?

Too Literal

I endeavoured to impress on this newly-found friend, of

whom I spoke, the propriety of advising those offenders against inguistic decorum in his native place, to say staply "Gaelic," and drop that objection- able "the." I feel, however, that in thus tendering gratuitous advice I was "wasting my sweetness on the desert air."

The error here is one of introdue- ing Guelle Idlem into another langu- age, English. The phrase, “A bruidhcon na Gaidhlig." Le, speak- ing Gael

Gaelle," hos the article nu" corresponding to "the," but it must be stressed that what is quite appro- priate in the usage of one language may be entirely wrong in another. The literal translation of the above Gaelic phrase into English involves the use of the word "the"-tc., "the" Gaelic-in quife a stullifying fashion,

How has this linguistic peculiarity of expression, as one might call it, crept into usc? Highlanders and Lowlanders alike commit the error. The Intter, of course, are 10 be excused. They merely accepted the idiom from their Highland acquaint-

ances.

The answer to the above question is quite a simple one. In that cra when a knowledge of English was regarded as an accomplishment on the part of the people In Gaeldom, literal translations from Gnetic into English were rather common. The Idiom of the Gnel obtruded itself on English, as spolten in isolated High- Jund districts.

Mixed Idiom

Instances can be given thus-- "Don't be 'at' the child" for. "Don't abuse the child." "The wind is 'big' to-day" for "It le windy lo-day," and "We drew away" for "We ran before the wind"-the latter being a literal version of a Grollo nautical expression. The use of "the" Re an adjunct to the word "Guelle" comes under this category.

Those enthusiastic and woll- monning Goels, who make up their minds to avoid the use of any ad-, mixture of English in their Gaello |

da su in this

دران

conversation,

mest. I am afraid reckon with the icon difficulty. They don the mantles of linguistic parsists, forgetting that they can only

Cust with

Judlerous effect. Those excellent people may its well faver to thes fact that English Idiom can no more be adopted literally to the Gnelle longue than the peculiarities of the latter language can be faithfully presented in English

"What cannot be cured must be endured," and we muy as well cry klet anet retum eivil answer when Gael inquires whether we van speak "the" Gaelle.

Nel A. Johnson

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

Nos. 23-24

20

園

□□

Pieces

BOW B BY

White

D Pieces

White to play and mate in two.

NO, 24

Binck

5 l'inces

White

• Ploces

White to play and mate in three.

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SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

Solutions to Nos. 21-22 ·

KI-143 1. KlxQp threatens

It-ch

No. 21 No. 2

2 R-002

Exp

City Finds Stolen Cannon

Twin Falls, Idn. Civic rejoicing was deeply stirred here when Mayor Lem A. Chapin on- nounced that the 300-pound cannon which formerly graced the city park until it was stolen last, November had been located. Two boys discovered it in a Rock creek enve.

BRIDGE PROBLEM

No. 67

4 A 2

N.

10 9 7 5

6.

874

7 4 3 2

J AJ 6 5

No trumps. North and South

to make the grand slam, West leads Heart Two.

Solutions to

Bridge Problem,

Hongkong Telegraph not Wednesday morning.

later

Wost

Q

North

к

SOLUTION TO NO, 65

East

2

South

5

10

A

At this stage West Is squeezed. Whichever sult he discards, North

and South will make the remainder

of the tricks.

Correct solutions

D.N., 58023, Mrs. K. A.

THAT'S

from:

A.E.G.,

Harry's wife

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