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Dear Kindles,

HOW WILL FATHER CHRISTMAS GET HERE)

This is all my own work

Age

Teresa Morgal, S. A. Bux, Perry Shek, D. Bux, Jean Hunter, Anthony ¡Cutcher, Ann Hunter, P. Wong. Frankie Correa, Wang King-wang. John White, Julia Bonner, S. S. Rux, Shonis McIntyre, David Asche.

I was very disappointed to discover that last week's colouring competition was not popular. I re- ceived very few entries which was most surprising as colouring com- This week, children, we are going petitions always attract more atten-¦ to have a novel type of Christmus tion. Perhaps, it's the Christmas į competition. Father Christmas will be here in a very short time ro, we will have a pleture puzzle about him.

In the pleture above, you Carmen dos Namos (aged 14), c/o Father Christmas in the distance. Mr. Ramos, Lepack & Co.

feeling!

The

prize-winners

are:-

this

week

Moira Pates (aged 8), 1 Torres Buildings.

sce

He has to come along a certain path. I want you to take a pincil and see

if you can trace his path to the people in the front of the picture Veronica Langley (aged 631), 188A, without touching the grass or cross-

ing any lines. Nathan Road.

to

Fill in the name, ugc and address

coupon and send your entries to Uncle Eddie. Hongkong Telegraph, Wyndham Street, before 2 p.m. next Wednesday. Three prizes will again be offerette for the best entry in

Coupons are being sent to Carmen, Moira and Veronica which I want them bring to the Hongkong; Telegraph clices. The coupons will,

exchanged for money Specially.commended for excellent each section. work are the following:

then prizes.

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Scolors: Margie Xavier, Marjorie Leong, Yeung Kit-wa, Mansoor All, Aureo Marques, Charles E. Clark, Ho Shuk-chun, Jeannette Moorcroft, Alice Toddly, Paul Vessoon, S. A. Bux, Daniel Choy, Mohammed Bux, Stephen Mase.

Intermediates and Richard Woodler, Vivian

Juniors'

Docker,

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

White

Nos. 63-64

Problem No. 63

9 Pieces

BIW DI

9 Pieces

White to play and mate in

two.

Problem No. 64

Black

4 Pieces!

White

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9 Plecca

Saturday

IMPORTANT: Next

for the extra special walch out Christmas competition. Six prizes will be given to the lucky winners. Just Ja good Ume to buy a Christmas

present.

Incle Eddie

PUZZLE CORNER

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It's a conversational fact

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Letter "E" Puzzle One-word definitions are given below for words to be filled in reading across;

—E——E—

E

EE- EETI

E

3,

1, Whole. 2, Missive. Windy. 4. Address. 5, Shackle. 6, Eatable.

What Proportion?

In order to obtain a mixture' containing 28 per cent. of butter fat, in what proportion must cream containing 35 per cent. of fat be mixed with cream con- |talning 25 per cent.?

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Fun With Synonyms Moro words and their White to play and mate in synonyms to be paired off to- three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS Solutions to Proklamu ·61-62

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Problem No. 62 K-B1

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10,

JEAN ETRIENNE'S REVENGE

"D Playfair, "have those re-

UMBELL,” asked Joshua

ports from Dowson come along yel?"

"Not yet, sir. There was a 'phone mesinge to say that he may be delayed for a quarter of an hour or so."

exerc.se

INSPECTOR

PLAYFAIR EPISODE 89

was

over.

crime-wag

cture at the hands of the

a bookcase containing no books of any relevance; a clock on the mantelpiece, a locked writ- ing desk subsequently un- locked it and found it contained noting of interest)-and that, I think, was all.

"Next, there way Lucy

Here's Wheale's handbag.

a

Д

Dumbell Looked up from his notes. "That all, sir?"

"Yes, that's all. I want you to deduce now how I set about inding the murderer."

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"Annoying," Baid Playfair,

list of what it contained. Thir- "One day, Jean Etrienne, who teen and eightpence in cash; a drumming on the desk with 119. knuckles. "However, it's not hadn't for some weeks been in bunch of keys; a vanity case; our fault. The question is, how communication with his brother, two handkerchiefs; an address can wo improve the shining read in an English paper that book: Û cigarette-lighter; hour?" He pondered for a the latter had committed aul cigarette-caso containing Gold moment. "I have it, Dumbell, cide. There was a 104 account Flake; eight penny stamps: a ilera's, a little

in of the inquest, and from this it pocket comb; a bottle or Eau- deduction of which 1 was re- became apparent that the cause de-Cologne.

his] minded the other day when I of Jacques's auicide came across the files of the heartless treatment at the handa Stoke Cumbury Muruer." of a certain Mrs. Wheale.

AND, finally, I carefully

searched the floor and ILOILO "Yours to command, sir," "This woman was a widow murmured Dumbel.though I of uourtful antecedents, ving tables, and this, search, Dum- JOHORE suppose i shall be stumped as by herself at Stoke Clumoury. bell, yielded the follow.ng: Two Usual, Is one of those attie Sae ad apparently alowed Jac- empty envelopes addressed to

become

Wheale; two struck puzzies that you solved yoursalf, ques Etrienne to

en-¡ Mrs, sir ?**

kaged to her, had taken mas matches; three hairpina; the sav.ngs and spent them, and Evening Echo' of the day be- had then, in the most calous fore; the stumps of seven Gold

Her Flake cigarettes." "IT is," answered Playfair. way, thrown him

pun.snment, however-- "I'm rather proud of this y case, Dumbali. There's only one since, after all, she was no clue to the murderer's identity unity of any and that not altogether a con- spicuous one. But from that, one crue, I was able to Dulu up a chain of circumstantial evid ence which ultimately brought Jean Etrienne to the gallows.

inquest, determined to take the "That crime was શ crime law into his own hands. of revenge, and one could hard-, ly help sympathising

"Stoke Clumbury is a hamlet With Etrienne's feelings-ne'd been a dozen miles or so from wew the victim of a very dirty deal. haven, and here Lucy Wheale! But murder's murder whatever lived by herself in a small cot- te motive behind it, and, from tage, quite remote from civili- nesses to Jean Etrienne's arrival that po.nt of view, there were sation. Etrienne, then, and no at, or departure from, Stoke no extenuating circumstances. difficulty in carrying out his Cumbury?"

"I'll tell you, first, Dumpel, crime. about the murder itself, though "He crossed over one sum- to that one, Dumbell. Witnesses you must rememoer taat when mer's day from Dieppe to New- were I was

to Stone haven, walked out to Stoke but not until Jean Etrienne's Clumuury

Lo investigate, I'd Gumbury, gained admission to visit had been established on only the corpse as my starting Mrs. Wheate's cottage, knocked the strength of other cues."

"Taird question," said Dum- point and no know.euge want er unconscious with a blow on ever of the circumstances of the the jaw, and killed her, wh.e bell. "Where there any finger- crime. Then -tel you some sue was st. unconscious, by prints?" thing about the clues that I had injecting some poison or other to work from, but 10.8.a where with a hypodermic syringe. I've

sent down

Coroner.

"JEAN ETRIENNE, when he

rend the account of the

"What about my questions, sir ?"

"You may ask them now." "Good," said Dumbell. "First, was the existence of

Jean. Etrienne known to the English police ?"

"A very good question, but the answer is that it was not."

"Thanks," said Dumbell. "Next, were there any wit-

"Yes, and no, is the answer

ultimately forthcoming,

"There were none."

"I was sure of that," said

I want you to exercise your forgotten for the moment what Dumbell ruefully. powers of inference. 1 knew a the poison was, and it's quite

ittle more aout the cites taan irrelevant to my story.

I shad communicate, explicity, "The crime was discovered "WELL, sir, Eve two more

to you.'

be..

34

once gent vestigate.

L

questions. Those two en-

24 hours later when Etrienne velopes that you found in the "You ought to be a lecturer at was already back in France, fireplace, were they from ler- the Police Conege,” Bam zulu- and, as I've mentioned, I was eign parts?"

its a bit wasted on me, at

in- down to sir, all this 18."

"Oh no, it's not," answered, "And now let me tell you, the Play air tanuly. "As LO the clues that were available. W..en Police College, we shall see; we I've finished, by the way, you shail see. in tne meantime, can ask me any questions you Lumben, it's in my interest as like."

Paytar smiled. "No, Dum- bell, notning like that. As I subsequently discovered, one had contained an invoice from Mrs. Whenie's fishmonger, and the other a letter from a cousin at West Bromwich."

"And finally, Was Jean much as as in yours to give you "Thank you, sir," said Dum- Etrienne's address in Mrs. a litt.e practice now and again bell demurely. "I've a.reaty, Wheale's address book?" on what may call the puting made note of one

two

"No, Dumbell. It was not." green of experience."

points."

"Then you must give me & "Good. In the meantime, little time, sir," said Dumbell. listen carefully.

"At the moment, I confess, I

on the murderer.' cannot quite see how you got a

Can you?

Dumbell's reply was to open his mouth and then, without saying anything, to shut it again. He tended to get the worst of these exchanges.

"NOW," said Playfair, "let

summarise

the cr.me.

10

or

"I got down to Stoke Clum-line bury within a few hours of the discovery of the body and found j that noming had been disturned in the room where the crime

me was committed. I had various facts of photographs taken and also a list of the contents of the room." Fiayfair took a paper from his file. "Here it is.

"Jean Etrienne was a French subject domiciled somewhere in Normandy. He had a brother, "First, as regards the furni- Jacques, to whom he was de- ture, there was nothing of voted. Jacques lived in Brigh- special interest, An ottoman ton and found casual employ- on which Etrienne had dumped ment as a waiter at the various his victim's body; a couple of hotele there.

chairs and an occasional table;

What D'you Know?

1.-A pavone is

A slow dance A device for mine) 'A blade of a wind- sweeping

mul

A vain man.

2. Which of these is a minim? A note of music. A small Nguid Anything very

zmati,

mearure.

A tawny or dun

colour.

3-Anything which is palpable

can be Crushed as a drink. Eaten with a

spoon, Felt or perceived. Used as a medi-

cine.

-Rhenish in

A wine. A cheese.

Inhabitants The

of the Rhino district.

A colour

$="Cranford" was written by

Mrs. Gaskell.

George Eliot,

6.A codicil is

A young flah,

A email window.

7-A platitude is A recumbent position.

Jane Austen,

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card over nine.

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names

The Ham- (4) The Gunners. (c)

mera. (b) The Spurs. (d) The Thro

person

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lathe. Fills in graphs.

angle photo-

graphs.

Produces

studies maps. 11.--Macaronl is made out of Charles Dickens. | Pith of a plant. Sunflower seeds.

Indian corn.

Wheat. 12-Give the correct spelling of The following words

A secret code,

A rinuse of a

will.

A memorial

tablet,

Acceptence,

Sleze.

Dosile.

Selge.

Vermillion, Teritorial.

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