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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT

EVEN if you are only moderately well inform- ed you should get a pass this week

For the benefit of new addicts, the way to score is to take two points for each correct answer, A total of 30 just scrapes you a poss, 40 entitles you to throw out your chest, and a 50 ought 10-but won't—carn knighthood.

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1. Those Communists you hear people talking about when they salute they do it with:-

Both hands; a hammer and sickle; the open hand; the clenched fist; their thumb and forefinger.

2. In addition to the Fahren-

ARE YOU SURE?

ty also know that these mem- branes are in their:-

Feet; hands; eyes; lungs;' ears; nostrils.

7-That Grati Chaco war | that was going on for years and years was a row between:-

Bolivia and Uruguay; Ar- gentina and Brazil; Mexico and U.S.A.; Chile and Peru; Bolivia and Paraguay; La Corona and the Cigar Trust,

Masthead; ensign; fly; halyard; holst; jack; guy. 14. Last time I saw Mur- gatroyd he was growing a Vandyke beard, which is:—

Extremely long; cleft in the middle cut square round the chin; pointed; worn on one side of the face only.

15. Even with both hands tied behind your back you

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1939.

DEATH OF A DICTATOR

THE assassination

of

Count Feodor Strogov- ski, the "Iron Dictator" of the little State of Rubelia, was one of the major sensa tions of 193---

The Count, who was supposed to be visiting London incuguito, was shot down in the West End as he was leaving a diplomatic reception on the very last night of his visit.

His assassination, it must be admitted, caused no great sur-

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

EPISODE 93

derer. It was about a quarter past eleven when the actual crime took place, and, by a quar- ter to twelve, Playfair, hastily summoned to the Yard, had the situation well in hand.

almost virgin notebook, did not even realise afterwards that it was the villain of the piece who had, at that moment, slipped through his fingers.

So busy, Indeed, was he tak- ing down registration numbers and personal particulars con- cerning the occupant of the car

They amused themselves by playing chess. But the minutos, leaden-footed, went by like hours.

At five minutes to twelve the phone bell rang. "Yes?" said Michael, putting his car to the receiver. For a few seconds there was silence.

"It's Alexis," cried Lydia. "I know it is. I feel it... Oh, Michael, he has failed."

"Nonsense," answered Michael sharply. "Control yourself Ly- dia. And don't talk-this may

8.-Diatoms is a neat little should be able to work out theprise in view of the hatred with

cubic contents in cubic feet of which he was regarded in his for our criminal. Whether well, of course, convincingly be the police."

word meaning a group of:-

Musicni notes; small microbes; plant life; geo- metric measurements. 9.The side of a right angle

heit and the centigrade thermo- | triangle opposite the right angle meters, there is another imporis called the:- tant one called the:-

Thermos; Pasteur; ' Lis- ter; Reaumur; Statotherm; Metertherm.

3.The year 1666 is very im- portant in English history be- cause that is the year:-

William the Conqueror landed; of Henry VIII'14 death; of the Great Fire; the Armada was benten; of the renent of the Corn Laws. 4-Even though you may not have seen or heard her, surely you have heard of "the Swedish nightingale," whose name wag:-

Galli Curci; Madame Me'ba; Toti dal Monte; Jenny Lind; Greta Garbo. 5. Of course you know the main purpose of a camel's hump IN :--

For conserving water; s0 it can't be on its back; pro- tection for the heart; for storing fat; to prevent people riding it bareback. 6. All normal persons in full

their possession of

faculties have tympanic membranes and

Hypocinte; hypothesis; hypotenuse; hypochloride; Hippopotamus.

10. If, in your study of the Bible you have got as far as the Book of Deuteronomy, you will know that the biblical character who has most to say in it is?——

a

box 21 inches by 12 inches by

12 inches. It is:-

One; two; three; four; 144, 2240. 16.-Italy, you must remem- ber, entered the Great War in

1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918.

17.—Most of the old European capital, cities had other names, in days gone by. Latetia, for instance,

the city Was

now known as: David; Adam; Eнau;

Rome; Lisbon; Berlin; Moses; Solomon: Cain.

Paris: Vienna; Naples. 11If the bank has any 18. If someone got really money you can always cash a mad at you and said: "You cheque due on a bank holiday-qvine looking numbskull!" by

By ringing up the man- ager's wife; on the day be fore the holiday: on the day after the holiday; by going out to the teller's house.

12.-All you know about British flags won't amount to much if you don't know the British red onsign is the flag of the:-

serve;

Royal Navy; Royal Yacht Squadron; Royal Naval Re- British Mercantile Marine; Royal Air Force. 13-And talking, about flags that part of the flag nearest the mast is called the:-

Tragedy

NEXT MORNING

It's going

to be GLORIOUS!

of a tired-

looking bridesmaid

I don't want to

see the wedding Betty darling!! picture. I know what is the

look dreadful!

matter. You even wake tired there days. You ought

TWO MONTHS LATER

to see a

doctor!

oving they would be implying that you looked like a:-

Dog; rat; bull; plg; sheep; orang-outang, 19. Everyone knows the name of the next Governor- General of Australia-but do you know which of these was the first:-

Duke of Edinburgh; Lord Hopetoun; Lord Forster; Lord Northcote; Lord So- mers.

20. The brother of a famous international figure was killed recently. His name was:-

Chamberlain;

Hitler; (Contbued on Next Column.)

Where's my

bouquet?

I'm so thrilled

THINKS: How I dread this. I look awful beside the others- my face so dull- and thir

What a lovely couple!

and the bridesmaids.

amcr't they sweet.

Pity Betty looks to dull-spoils

it eather

THAT

NIGHT

From a wedding comes a wedding, but not for Betty If ark me!

You

AT THE DOCTORS ...this waking tired tells on your whole appearance. During sleep you bum up energy by breathing and other automatic actions. if this energy is not replaced- of course you wake

tired. It's Night

Starvation!

Oh, mummy, I'm so thankful to you for helping me!

tiredness

and so every night:

Does your daughter

wake fired

JAKING TIRED affecta a girl in

She never looks and never feels her best. She's unfairly handicapped. Give her Horlicks a cupful regularly at night. She'll wake refreshed-full of energy and sparkle. Get Horlicks today.

HORLICKS

GUARDS AGAINST

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own country, and the knowledge by no means confined to Scot: land Yard-that A group of anarchists, sympathisers with the victims of the Strogovski regime, had long been plotting against him over here.

The dead Dictator had, in somewhat forcible language, de- clined all offers of police protec- tion. He and a secretary who accompanied him pretty well everywhere were, of course, both armed. When the vital moment arrived, however, both Strogovski and his secretary were momentarily off their guard, and the Dictator's assail ant succeeded not only in shoot- ing him but in making good his

own escape.

To Joshua Playfair wag as- signed the task of tracking down and arresting the mur-

Mussolini; Stalin; Franco; Daladier.

21. Recently a doctor ex- tracted a peanut from a little boy's lung with a:-

Stethoscope; horoscope; telescope; bronchoscope; lungoscope; fishing line. 22.-One of these statements about the Duke of Kent would

be correct:-

He is next in line for the Throne.

He is an expert air pilot. He was best man at the Duke of Windsor's wedding. He is said to be godfather of more children than any- one else in England. 23. Mulligatawny, made, is a genuine :-

properly

Shell fish soup; venison stew; curry soup; lobster mayonnaise.

24. Just imagine for a mo. ment or two that you are a boll weevil-in which one of these crops would you be most con- tented?-----

"This is one of those crimes, Dumbell," he observed to his second-in-command, "where at least we shan't have far to look can bring him to book is an- other matter, of course." He thought out beforehand-that took out a half-sheet of paper, he omitted to note what make "Is that Mr. Alexis Tizaroff?" on which were written three of car he was investigating; 80

that the manner in which "Alexis Tizaroff speaking," Alexis, complete with car, broke answered Michael without through the police cordon was moment's hesitation. never satisfactorily cleared up.

names:

ALEXIS TIZAROFF MICHAEL PAUL

OFF

TIZAR-

ANNA LYDIA PETROVNA "In that triumvirate, Dum- bell, you've the spearhead of the anti-Strogovski conspiracy.

there;

"The brothers Tizaroff, live, I believe, in a small house at Warpenden, about 60 miles from town. Our first job is to dis- cover, through the local police, whether they're both and, if not, what their move- ments are supposed to be. The woman, Petrovna, hus, so far as I know, no permanent address, but I don't mind betting she's somewhere in the neighbour hood."

He took up the telephone re- ceiver.

Meanwhile, Alexis Tizaroff, in his second-hand Bentley, was speeding towards his base at Warpenden. His plans had been carefully laid.

He and his twin

brother were chess players- they had tied for second place at Margate only the year before --and they had worked out the moves in the drama of Strogov- ski's murder much as a chess player plans his moves over the board.

"What we must do, Michael," Alexis had said, "is to consider the reactions of Scotland Yard and take whatever counter- measures are appropriate."

Alexis was well aware that even before the drama renched its climax he and his brother would be marked men.

He was not surprised when his car was stopped three miles from the town; he was not surprised, either, when, five minutes later, he was procced- ing on his way unsuspected. For his car was travelling under false number plates,

corro-

Wheat; potato; onion; wool; catton; banana. 25. An easy one to send you home in a good mood. A mas-borated by a faked registration

book and faked todon is:-

driver's licence, and Alexis himself was so efficiently disguised that the somewhat raw constable, who entered his particulars in an

A breed of British dog; hend don of a university; a Chinese aristocrat; a pre- historic mammal; a large South Seas fish,

(Answers on Page 3.)

PUZZLE

CORNER

Cryptogram

It's a fact about movement: EBSUACE DG HIB BUJHI'C JDHUHKDL, CNDOB JKCKLP GJDN U SUNQGKJB RKTT JBXDTXB SDALHBJSTDSOR- KCB.

A Rebus

The letters below, in their present positions, represent a 10-letter world in rebus form. The lines below give a clue:

CUPSH I

Very useful when we're sewing

We like to have it near, For if we do misplace it,

All scattered is our gear,

Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try changing LESS to MORE.

How Long?

If a boy can do a piece of work in 15 days, which a man can do in 9 days, how long will it take both, working together, to do it?

Fun With Synonyms

More words and their

Bynonyms, to-day:

happiness

Integrity

いち

quantisy

parang

สวนไ

habeat

Arroganes

kangy

Caimoan Journay

Justsan

callestion

ព

Effigy

MERTON

NIGHT STARVATION

-(Answers Appear on Page 3.)

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CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

Nos. 71-72

Problem No. 71

7 Picces

UN Q Q

a

White

5 Pieces White to play and mate in two.

Back

Problem No. 72

□簿

□ □1

White

f Pieces

5 Pieces White to play and mate in three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

No. 00 11-114

No. 70 1. KEKS

2. N-DJ

2. R-Q3cli

Kxk!

threaten

Alexis Tizaroff, if the truth were told, had thoroughly en- joyed his adventure. He was exhilarated by the thought that, whatever its consequences, ho had rid the world of one more despot, and he was pleasurably cxcited by the successful out- come of his battle of wits with the police.

A voice at the other end said:

A

"I'm so sorry. It wasn't Mr. Alexis I wanted. It was Mr. Michael."

"I'll get him for you," said Michael, "I think he's cleaning his car."

He put his hand over the re- ceiver. "Listen, Lydia,” he whispered, "hold the line. I'll be back in four or five minutes. whoever's at the other end speaks."

But on no account answer if

Far otherwise was it with his brother and Lydia Petrovna, who, in agonised suspense, awaited in the brothers' subur-

Lydia did as she was told. ban villa the outcome of their But in a few moments the line plot. They had agreed with went dead. Their mysterious Alexis that he need not tele- interlocutor had rung off. phone them unless something, Ten minutes later the local accountably, went wrong. But suppose that something went wrong and Alexis was unable to telephone? That was the fear that, like a miusma, hung over them.

BRIDGE PROBLEM

This Week's Problem

NI

• J

No. 91

Q18

Nil

+ AB54

N

J 10 0

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E

++QJ00

$

K

8 4 J

10·7

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

Solutions by first post Wednesday to "Bridge Prob- lem," Hongkong Telegraph. SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO, 90

A trump spade is led to the first trick by South and North wins with the ace, then the king, and plays a third round which is won by either West or East ac- cording to their discards on the previous tricks.

(a) If West wins he cannot lead a diamond else he would at once set up three diamond tricks club and he therefore leads which North wins with the ace, and East's safest discard is t heart. South discards a dia- mond. North leads the last trump and to protect his hearts East must this time throw a diamond. South also discards a diamond and West must dis- card a club. North plays the diamond eight to South's king and South follows with king of hearts and West is squeezed 80 that he must unguard his dia-; monds or throw his top club; North discards the reverse and wins either two diamonds, or with diamond ace and his club five,

A

police arrived. Lydia slipped out at the back door. Michael

Tizaroff, meanwhile, was ex- plaining to Sergeant Crump that he and his brother had -spent the evening alone, playing chess. The game had finished, he said, not many minutes be- fore; his brother had wandered out to the garage and would be back at any moment. And, while he was speaking, Alexis Tizaroff arrived; to confirm, in every detail. Michael's story.

THE BROTHERS TIZAROFF WERE ARRESTED THE FOL- LOWINGAY. WHY?

(b) If East wins the third lead of trumps, his best return is a heart, which South's king. wins and West discards a club and North a diamond. North is put in with ace of diamonds and wins with ace of clubs, on which East discards heart, and South a diamond. North now leads the last trump; East must retain his heart and dis- card a diamond. South throws his heart, and West is in turn squeezed, for he must either we throw the master club in which | of Case North's five makes, or throw a diamond in which case South wins two diamond tricks.

Although the problem was not difficult and the correct solutions are too numerous to publish, a number could not solve the variation in which East wins the third trick, and This is the variation дау во. which many say they preferred.

Solution on Page Three

A Lay Sermon

By Hugh Redwood

WHY did she leave her water-

WHY

re-

pot? Because (says some- one, surprised at the question) she was su full of what Jesus had told her that she forgot what she had come. to the well for.. I wonder. It was noon,

member, the The woman then thirstlest time left her waterpot of the day, and JOHN, iv, 28 the talk had ot been largely "living." ever-avallable water which, so she thought at first, would save her many a weart- come journey. No. 1 I hardly think she forgot. I think the son she left her waterpot was that she couldn't run with a waterpot on her head

red-

Christ was here at the well; the must hurry. She must bring the others before He passed on. And men could say later, bo- cause she did so: "Now we be- lleve, for we have heard Him ourselves." Some of us are so concerned with our waterpots that we nover hurry. Others of us burry continually, neglecting our waterpols altogether, which Is not a good way of preaching the Gospel I think the woman of Sychur came back to the

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