1938-08-27 — Page 10

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION-

Of Course You Know,

But Are

You've heard of highbrows and lowbrows. I'm gulag to ask you if you are smooth-brow mooth-brow knows everything. He (or sho) has to corrugate his (or her) forehead in Ates of perplexity.

When a ked a question, he (or she) raises an how streiciliously and answers straight off- that! Therefore, if you are a smooth-brow,

a certain 30 points this week.

You

Scoring as usual-two points for each right er, aml a pass totul la 30. You're doing fine. t into tur 40's, and if you get 50-well, you're ooth-bow.

Suppong you had an opuscle, the correct

de about it would be to: to.

specialist; See an optician: go to a chemist; cat it; read it; but it in an aquarium.

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Do you like climbing? Climbing mountains, an. If you do, you might distinguish yourselt aling Mt. Everest, which has been conquered

Once; twice; three times; four times; bot yet.

I've given some easy two points away in my but here is the enslest (I hope). Just plek ne carnet statement:--

Magna Charta was signed in 1210; u Jew brays with his hat on; the Andes is à range of mountains in India; asparagus can be

rown only in a hothouse; the Marchese Marconi lives in Portugal,

You've heard of the Zuyder Zee; you know e it is, and you know what it is. All right; what is it? It is:-

A large canal in Holland; a river in the Netherlander the ex-Kaiser's retreat; a Partly closed part of the North Sea; the Datel Royal castle.

bet you've sung about Honolulu without ing it on the island of:-

Mindanao;

Cuzon: Manila; Hawall;

Dabu; Molokai; Maul.

After finding my stud in the desert wastes neath the dressing-table I've decided to be- an explorer. I'm going to explore the land-the hinterland, mark you, is another

for:

Sunbaked prairies; the country behind

he coastle: Darkest Africa; Russian Prairies: the outer suburbs.

For all his faults Murgatroyd is a good- ered chap-so, imagine my surprise when 1.

he had maligned someone-that is, he:- Struck him on the jaw; reported him to he police: tensed him; spoke of him; . Tobbed him.

know we don't all play polo, and some of buldn't play if we could, but that's no reason we shouldn't know that chukker in polo

Pony: score; boundary; stick: period of lay; player who throws the bail Instead f hitting it.

Adze, I'll have you know, is a word which 5 for:-

A girl's name; an old Egyptlan god; un ustralian wild flower; a cutting tool;

port for the plural of advertisements.

Always avoid the company of a man whom olice refer to as a "fence." In the language

underworld a "fence" le one who:- Suley on brother criminals; vildoers; cracks safes; deals in stolen

pods: sets fire to orphanages.

hides

In the same way as a Cambridge University

ate is called a Cantabrian, an Oxford Uni-

y graduate is called an:-

Oxfordian; Oxfordonlan; Oxonlan; Ox.

Sure?

12. Novelists are very fond of using the word acon to describe a period of time. Actually an acon is:-

100 years; 1000 yearc; an immeasurable period of time; the time it usually takes to raise a telephone number.

13. When an Attorney-General is created a Privy Councillor it gives him the right to be ad- dressed:-

His worship; judge; Mr. Privy So-And- So; the Right Honourable; sheriff, con- stable; pal.

14. Time we had a singing lesson. We'll start off (and finish) with "God Save the. King." All rendy? Now sing the Inst line of the second verse, the words of which are:-

Long may he reign; God Save the King: O Lord, our God, arise; God save us ull; Happy and glorious.

15.If you are quite confident you know what

un arboretum is you will say instantly it is n:--

Creeper-covered tea house; hothouse for orchids; species

deciduous of

trees; botanical tree garden; a timber parasite. 10. Even when we used to suck thumbs and pore ever nursery rhymes we knew that curds and whey come from milk and that the whey is the:-

Thick part of the milk; the thin; the water added by the milkman.

17. You've got to hand it to Murgatroyd-his latest is that he once got his degree in ophthal- mology, which, if true, would make him an expert:-

In architecture; on eye troubles; in astronomy; on Chinese pottery; on insects; In everything.

18.-Your-geography doesn't have to be too hot for you to know that the equator passes:

North of India; south of India; through the north of Indin; through the south of Indio.

10. Two points away if you don't know a heeler

is 0:-

Vaudeville dancer: cattle dog; shoe- maker; a pacer; blacksmith; young steer. 20. Mon, woman and child-you should all remember that about five months ago Great Britain opened a great new naval dock nt:-

Shanghai; Portsmouth; Darwin; Hong- kong; Singapore; Jervis Bay,

21. I'm not what you'd call a mnemonist. Are you what you'd call a mnemonist? Or, maybe, you don't know that a mnemonist is a person who:--

Hasn't a religion; has been married three times; plays the mouth-organ; has a good memory; saves old coins.

22. Take snow, for instance-after all, snow is only:-

Powdered ice; frozen water; crushed hallstones; frozen vapour; 'melted clouds.

23. Do you like cricket? Do you read about the Tesis? Do you sit up, half feinting for sleep, through the night and groan when a wicket falis? Of course you do, and you know as well as I do Australia's Test team was selected by Bradman, McCabe and:—

Fingleton; Brown; Chipperfield; O'Reilly; G. B. Fry.

24. If you could write this question in Chinese It might trouble you, but I doubt if there is any- one who doesn't know the Chinese republie was formed in:-

30 B.C.; 1120; 1800; 1005; 1911; 1928.

25. If Bradman-no, Fleetwood-Smith-plays In three innings and in the second he scores twice

as many runs as in the first, and in the third twice as many us in the second for an average of seven runs per innings, his three scores are:-

Answers On Pare 3

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CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

NOS. 33-34

□□ 阿

White

13 Pieces

SIDTAT

粥

13 Pieces

White to play and mate in Two

NO.1

3 Pieces

Black

White

4 Pieces

White to play and mate in three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

SOLUTION TO PROBLEMS 31-32

No. 2047 Q-Kta

No. 2048 1 KIXKBP

2 KL-QJch

3 DXB male

B-KI X-133

A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD THE six-verse passage of which THE

these words are the opening appears to have puzzled some of

One of scholars..

them solemnly tells us that verse 18 has evidently been misplaced by some old copyist,"

the

since Jesus was

No servant can not dealing with

serve two mas--marriage.

ters. LUKE, XVI., 13

But

is that exactly what Jesus was dealing with. He was warning the Pharisees who derid-

ed Him, the Pharisees who ground and sweated,the common people but loved the best seats in the #ynagogues, that they could not be wedded to the things of God and also to the things of this

world. Such a state of affairs, He told them, involved an immoral union.

a

The Pharisees swore by the law: they were Its loudest cham- plons. Their very name was boast that they were "separate" for its precise observance. So Jesus invoked, the law against them and showed them that they were committing a bin for which It prescribed the death penalty. That allegedly "misplaced" verse commands our carnest attention. When we have fully taken it in, we, who may be equally guilty, shall know better why every one of us needs to be born again.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938

"Awake, Patriots All!"

this morning's "Courier, Dumbell?" asked

Joshua Playfair of his sergeant.

"Well, sir," answered Dumbell, "I've glanced at t." He eyed his superior nervously; had he over- looked something important? "I haven't time to read all the papers,"

"Dear me," sald Playfair, "I should hope not. But I wondered if you'd seen this agony."

He pushed over a sheet of paper оп which

the a cutting from Courler had been pasted:

AWAKE, PATRIOTS ALL! ABO- MINABLE CYNICISM! SPYING PHOCLIVITIES FOREIGN SCAL- LYWAGS RENEWED DEPART- MENTAL IDIOTS ASSUME INNO- CUOSNESS-NOT AWARE GRAVE MENACE NATIONAL ADMINIS- TRATION! EYEWITNESS.

Dumbell read this effusion twice. Then "Peculler wording," he sold tentatively. "As a patriotic appeal it seems pointless, sir. Has it some- thing to do with crime?"

"It has, Dumbell.. Unquestion- ably."

Dumbell rubbed his nose. "D'you happen to know what crime, sir? I suppose It's a code, or something of the kind; but these things always stump me."

PLAYFAIR laughed. "Hence,"

shaking his head sadly, "the stripes, but not the stars Well, Dumbell, you recall the Walby Grange burglary? About three weeks ago? A gang of ex- perts'-to quote my friend Chief-In- spector Vanquish-got away with heirlooms worth thirty

thousand

quid. Who the thieves were, no one at the Yard knows. But this 'ugony' tells me that. the proceeds of the burglary are now available for dis- tribution. The 'fence' has done his work. It isn't, of course, the inten- tion to tell me that; the message is meant for the gang."

13

UMBELL Burveyed his chief

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with lifted eyebrows. "But surely, sir, if you can read the mes- snge, you can find out who the thieves are? All you have to do is to discover who put the agony in the paper."

"Oh. quita so, Dumbell," sald Playfair, somewhat annoyed! "quite so, Dumbell; quite so. Thanks for the suggestion. It has already been made by one Deputy Commissioner, two Chief Inspectors and a Staff- Sergeant. And, I might add, it oc- curred even to me. The trouble is

BRIDGE PROBLEM

No. 73

Nil

KJ 9

◆ K 10 7

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Nil

N

W

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J 9 5 3

$

K

QJ 10 8 7

NIL

Q J

There are no trumps. South leads and North-South have to win six of the eight tricks.

Solutions by first post Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong Telegraph.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO 72

This solution is rather, involved, South wins the first four tricks in diamonds and f:-

(1) East has discarded two spades, South wins with ace of spades and then leads to North's ace of clubs. The ten of diamonds is then won, and (a), if East saves only three hearta North leads the heart queen and continues with the suit, South playing the ace when it will catch East's king.

After three rounds of hearts South leads the club. 10, and South must win a club trick; if (b) East saves four hearts, North leads a club to the elglith trick; Enst must win and if he returns a heart South wins and leads another club, East wins again and gives South another heart finesse. If East wins with both clubs before leading a heart, North overtokes the boart with the Queen and leads the sult again, South Quessing, South then has the best club and the ace of hearts.

(2) If on the first four diamonds East has not discarded two spades, South lends to the ace of clubs and North wins with diamond ten. Then

If East has at any slage dis- carded a heart South discards the ace of spades and wins three heart tricks. South then leads the deuco of spades and West cannot prevent the spade queen from furnishing on entry for the good heart ö.

It (b) East saves all the hearts ho can have either one spades and twe clubs or the reverse. In either event South discards the low spades. It East has one spade South wins the ace of spades and leads a club and the play is the same as in 1 (b); if East has one club; North leads the queen of hearts and then a low heart which South wins and leads a club to East. Thereafter; the rest of „South's cards are 'winners.

A problem of ifs: It and when tho ace of spades should be dis carded and the

queen of hearts played. It was also a dimeult mat- tor to decide It a solution - hød - ad- hered strictly to sound lines. Cor- rect solutions from AEO, D.W.,

4.8.8.K.A., 38023; Tiriense, S'Easy!

INSPECTOR

PLAYFAIR

EPISODE 75

that, so far, we have been unable to discover who did put the message in."

"Who said you had?" retorted Playfair, watching him narrowly. "What I wanted you for was to give you this,"

H

A

E handed to Cing half

sheet of notepaper on which, In block capitals, had been printed: SCALLYWAGS' FINE INNINGS! AGAIN ABLE RENEW DASTAR- DLY ATTEMPTS TWICE CAUGHT STUDYING DEFENCES FRINTON. ELABORATING TOPOGRAPHICAL NOTES! ENGLAND'S DILATOR- INESS INCREDIBLE: NESTOR,

Cling pored over this message for some time. Then he asked susplei ously: "What's It all about? Seems to me to mean nothing.”

"Doesn't

"Someone's been having me on," answered Cing curtly.

"Sorry," said Dumbell. "I spoke without thinking, sir. But what meant was I thought they checked up carefully, in a place like the Courier office, on the bona fides of any agony sent in."

answered "They do their best," Playfair, with an inward chuckle at

it?" answered Playfair, Dumbell's pronunciation of fides.. (The Sergeant, not unnaturally, sunvely. "It was addressed to you, rhymed it with "sides.") “But In | Cing" He produced a grubby en- was dropped accident- this case they were diddled. The velope. "It ad. was brought into the ofee, ally in the Courier office, by a chop

who went in with an 'ogony." and paid for on the spot, by an in- dividual-probably disguised-whom they're not now able to trace."" suld "I see,"

Dumbell. "And what are you proposing to do?"

"Me?" answered Prayfair, "Why, I'm interviewing a chap named Cing - funny name, Isn't it?-who is, I'm pretty sure, à minor member of the gang. He's been in trouble be- forc now. He won't, consciously, give his principal away-if I read the situation aright-but he may be useful all the same. You stay here while I talk to him."

Mr. Cing, who appeared soon aflawed by detectives-at twenty past terwards in response to the Inspec- tor's summons, was a shifty-eyed, sharp-featured little rat of a man dressed in shiny blue serge. Ho began by assuring Playfair, with quite unnecessary emphasis, that he had no connection with the Walby Grange offair or with any other re- cent crime.

Puzzle Corner

CRYPTOGRAM

To-day's cryptic message-a qua- tation by Emerson:

SO HE YLNX VHJS KSY YKLE LSO PQX. LSOVO HE LY RHLT. VHJS AQL, BQHVX, YV POAYL KSY CYEEQEEQE EDJS CYKOV QE LSQL."

LETTER DIVISION -The-10-letters-in-this letter divi-. slon problem,

ar- when properly ranged, will spell a 10-letter word, the letters of which, in that order, represent the digits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0. But try solving it arith- metically:

CAE)NTOK(LL

OSE

BROK OSE

ALK

LETTER CHANGING

Following the usual rules, try chonging TRICK to PRANK in 4

moves.

*IF"

If of were 3, what would 1⁄2 of 6 be?

+

FUN WITH ANTONYMS

Here are 10 words and their an- tonyms to be paired off;

Datens

obscure

1 Sebulous

2 trus

13

COMMON

natus)

+

not ad

Funilo

5

G

7

Citrsont fastidious bold

fearful

strong

final

[81

violent

Ragligen

primul

formel

barua

fitury

· Answers on Page 3

. "Elix last remark was perfectly true," observed Playfair to Dumbell, when their visitor had departed. "I composed the 'Nestor message my- self. Quite in the correct style, don't you think so?"

"I get you," answered Dumbell tricks to your admiringly. "Up again."

Cing was arrested

at Waterloo Station-whence he had been fol-

nine that same evening. To Ser- geant-Punt, who, disguised-as-a-ven- dor of newspapers, approached him with the query, "You Bill Clog?" he replied, surprisingly, "From Holy Joc?" And Joe Conanti, a tycoon of London's underworld, was gathered In on suspicion the following morn- Ing. He, Cing, and five other per- 8018, were ultimately convicted of complicity In the burglary at Wal- by Grange.

Can you read the code messages?

(Solution on Page Three)

"WHAT WOULD YOU DO WITH SUCH A NAUGHTY BOY, NURSE?"

"Don't scold him, Mrs. Hardy, He doesn't look well. Are you sure he is not constipated? Whenever a child is cross and peevish, I look at the tongue. If it is coated, or if the breath is disagreeable, I know at once what is wrong, I always give 'California Syrup of Figs. That moves the bowels a few hours and cleanses the system.

"Children don't understand the importance of regularity. They get absorbed in play and won't trouble. And it is only when they get thorough- ly cross and miserable that you real ize that they are constipated. I find it saves a world of sickness and to give them a regular weekly worry

I would do that if I were you. dose. With natural laxative like 'Call- fornia Syrup of Figs you can't go wrong.

"Doctors recommend it and give it to their own children, and we nurses swear by it. Get a bottle of "Cali- fornia Syrup of Figs' from the drug store and give him a dose at bed time. He'll be as happy as a lark in

the morningeriment with cheap and

"Never

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