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HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH WEEK-END

SECTION

OF COURSE YOU KNOW, BUT

Score two points for each correct answer and aim at the forties. It takes a 30 total to keep you out of the dunce's

cap.

1.-Sapphires are found main. ly in jewellery shops. Apart from the price you can tell them by their colour, which is:-

White; pink; scarlet; black; blue; green.

2. There are two Houses— Upper and Lower-in the Par liamenta

of of all States Australia except one-and that one State is:-

New South Wales; South Australia; Tasmania; West Australia; Queensland; Vie- toria.

3-A frog when it is very very young is called nothing more or less than :-

Smelter; anchovy, frogette; toad;

pup: tadpole; calf; froggie; minnow; triton.

4. As he was mentioned in the papers recently as a proud papa you should remember that the King of Egypt's

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name

Kamal Ataturk; Fund:

Farina: Farida;

Farouk, Pharach.

6. And mention of Kamal Ataturk should remind you that the most recent thing that has happened to him is that he

Has been elected president of Turkey; has been chair- man of the League of Nations; has signed a pact with Bri- tain; has died; has married,

6.-Honolulu, glamour spot of bench pyjamas and honeymoons, is in the group of islands known as the:-

East Indies; West Indies; Malay Archipelago; Canary; Sandwich.

you

7. Whether

rel. white or blue or just plain simple it is time you knew the meaning of the word Soviet is merely a

holshevik:

Bombthrower; country; court of law; com- munist; council; revolution.

8. Maybe you didn't do his. tory at school, but one of the first things they drummed into me was that India was added to the Britain's possessions In reign of:-

Anne; George 1; George 11; George III; George IV: George V.

9.-Quai d'Orsay is often mentioned in the cables, so don't admit you skim over it without knowing it is:-

A French port; Paris art centre; French Parliament; President's residence; French Foreign Office; Paris opera i house.

ARE YOU

SURE?

SATURDAY, JANUARY 21,

1939.

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR: EPISODE

O in does the Big Shot live.

10. The Mikado is such He was the man who cleaned up well-known opera that I don't Carthage, which was in:- expect a single one of you will not know that the story for it was written by:---

Goethe; Wagner; Sullivan; Friml; Berlin; Gilbert; Schubert,

11.-A rapid mental calcula- tion will show you that New Year's Day holiday next year will be celebrated on a:--

Saturday; Sunday; Mon- day: Tuesday; Thursday: Friday,

12-As an all-rounder the potato is in the championship class. You can bake it, boil it, but fish with it, and use it to make:-

Cider; rum; brandy: beer; whisky; cough mixture; sherry.

Greece; Spain; Portugal; Sicily; Africa; Britain.

Na bright morning in curly pressed laughter, asked: "And where "That I can't tell you," said Alleleula, "'cos I dunno. He always pick me up in the car somewhere

was putting Alleleula through her paces.

. Alleluia, 'Gadsdoll's niece and protegee in crime, was, at 14, one of the most hardened little toughs with whom the police 20. The word is weal and had ever come into contact. She was by no means the least the meaning la:-

valued member of the gang of expert housebreakers and sneak- thieves which looked to Gadsdoll, for leadership,

What motor cars run on; young calf's flesh; n district in England; welfare; Scotch for well,

21.--Someday you might take weaver so up the career of a here is a chance to learn that the woof:

Is the looms; the machine that drives it: is the finished article; is the thread that goes up and down; is the thread that goes from side to side; is what the workmen call the foreman,

22. Sometimes you hear old- fashioned folk say that a certain man is very good at husbandry. 13.-Take all the letters of¦You might prefer to say he was the alphabet (but be sure and very good at:— put them back again) and sub- tract all the consonants and you will find that the number of letters left is:-

2

10: 18; 5; 6; 20; 22; 21. 14.-Grapnel is simple enough word-simple enough to spell, anyway. But ah!--do you know that grapnel is at---

Tropical fruit; garment; Indian court oflicial; explosive shell; anchor; miser.

15-If you've been thinking the others have been hard you'll smirk at this easy one-what was the first American talkic film and when was it produced?

16. Knowing how good you all are at geometry, I'm just throwing two points at you by asking you to tell me that the segment of a cirele is:-

The distance round it; the width; half the width; the area; part between are and chord; the centre.

17. The other day down the street-no, I believe it was up the street-I saw a man wear- ing a toupee which is a

Long flowing robe; ribbon attached to spectacles; pith helmet; bouquet în his button- hole; wig hair cloth.

18. When you hear one wo- man refer to another woman as obese you can be pretty sure they are not bosom friends be cause obese means:-

Very untidy; slovenly in the house; given to strong drink; extremely skinny; over- weight; flirtatious,

19. Never read Roman his- tary? Never heard of Scipio?

Rifle shooting; wood-cary- ing; glass-blowing; looking after his wife; farming; fish- ing.

23--Montpelier, according to the tourist guide, is a lovely little city which you should visit next time you go to:-

Denmark: Belgium; Hun- gary; Capri; West Australia; America,

24-Farmers would look ask- at you-and you'd be ance surprised just how farmers can look askance-if you referred to one of these as a pulse crop:-

Peas: beans; lentils; barley. 25,--Unless the sergeant puts one over you or there are special circumstances, generally you can count on the police court magis- trate giving you a

for:-

remand

Two days; four; six; seven; eight; 10; a couple of years; as long as you like.

(Answers on Page 3)

FREDRIC MARCH

ON VACATION

FREDRIC MARCH, unable

to find a suitable play in which he and his wife, Flor- ence Eldridge, may appear on Broadway has decided to take a vacation in Bermuda after finishing "Trade Winds."

March was extremely an. xious to have made good on the New York stage in order to erase the memory of his las! Broadway effort, which ran three days.

!

Already this morning she had given a demonstration of lock- picking which would not have boss himself. disgraced the "Smart work, kid," said Jeff, as this demonstration concluded; and Wally Rder, his second-in- command, joined enthusiastical- ly in the applause. And now,' said Jeff, handing Alleleuta a bar of chocolate, "tell us all about the Big Shot."

Alleleuja grinned. "The Big Shot." she began in somewhat the manner of the juvenile prodigy who has been asked to reproduce Portia's famous speech"the Big Shot's a guy named Charlie Bird. He's n Louth guy, Is Charlie: tall 'n power ful 'n very lerce-like; everyone who

him. knows him is afraid of drives a very fast car, though I don't know what make it is, or what its never remembered number is, 'ros I

to look. He's generally accompanied by a young woman-as you right say, a gangstes moll. He calls her Beauty, but I guess that's not her real name, and I during what her real name is 'cos no one's never told

nic,

At this point Alleleuia paused for breath and Jeff, heaving with sup-

A Lay Sermon

Ac-!

in the street. last time it was out side Camden Town Station and next time it's going to be somewhere in Notting Hill.'

"And how many times has he picked you up altogether?"

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her to considerable risks which By an unlucky chanco, the might well lead (Jeff thought) to marauders had arrived just as her being captured-while the rest Sergeant Harris, a courageous of the gang got away. In such a and efficient officer, was return- contingency she might just as ing to the neighbouring station. well-in the interests of all Jeft and Wally, to whom the better

રી police concerned-tell cock-and-bull story

true

one.

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part of valour was, so to speak, accond nature, made instantly for the car, Alleleula, cilnging patheti cally to the window-ledge, fell un enay victim to the redoublablo Harris.

"This'll be the third time.

That night this carefully laid

"A fascinating ense, this," was The first time we were going to do a job down in Surrey, but scheme was to fructify. Gads- Playtair's comment to his sergeant information when, late the following day, they nothing came of it, and the doll, "acting on

reviewed the evidence. "The kid's second time we were going to received." had planned a bur story is obviously a sheer fabrica- do a job, I think it was Reading glary at the temporarily un- way, but I'm not sure 'cos no- occupied residence of Major- body told me and nothing came of that either."

"And how," asked Wally, "did you meet the Bl Shot in the first. place?"

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"Outside public house," an- Allelettin swered promptly. "Mother Kone in for aport in' lemon and the Big Shot come up to те and asked if I like to earn half- ("Aile- #-crown."

it should leuin. be explained, lived With

her

widowed mother the

in

of Jne

General Indshell.

THE

BIG

SHOT

with

more dilapidated parts of Bays- water.) "And mother said it was him all right me going out so long as he always behaved his- selt like a gentleman. Mother has never seen the Big Shot and don't know anything about him, nor about Beauty neither."

That part of

"Okay," said Jeff. the business seems to be all right, Wally, so I guess we can go ahead with the arrangements for to-night.” The astute reader will doubtless have, guessed that this story of the Big Shui was, from start to fish, an invention on invention, in the first instance, of Jett's, to which varlous touches hd, from time to time, been contributed by others.

Alleleula's part in the occasional housebreaking raids which Jeff or- ganised was to climb through the windows of unhouses, or squeeze through railings or gaps in fences and so sentire access for her prin- cipals. This role obviously exposed

Here, in a mote part

Sussex, housed

IC- of was

valu-

tion. Yet I can get nothing more out of her, and nothing out of her

mother either. The latter, I should

think, is genuinely ignorant of the identity of Alleleuta's associates."

"You've taken the kid's finger- prints, I suppose?" sald Dumbell, "Don't they throw any light on her past?"

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able collection of "No, they don't. She's been In oriental Jewellery trouble before, but not, so far as the fruit of our records go, in connection with

kind. Nor anything of this years of activity Harris furnish any elue us to who of the gallant were the two men whom he saw?"" General while on "So we've nothing to go on," sald Dumbell, is that it?-unless the kid active service In India and China. spills the beans." Jeff had already arranged to dis- pose of this booty should shoul

he

and

Wally be success- ful as they ex- pected to be-in

rung

11.

At about midnight Jell'a car drew up in a shindy lane about 50 yards Alle- from the Rindshell residence. leula, half asleep, was in the back seat; in front sat Jeff and Wally. The former brought the car noise- lessly to a standstill, while the at- ter, without wasting any words, slipped Into the road and dis- appeared.

In about 20 minutes he was back ngain. "Everything looks Okay, Jelf," he whispered, "but we shall want the kid. The scullery window's open. We can have her through that in a jury."

the

"Swell," sald Jeff. He turned on his electric torch. "Wake up, Ally-

Rummaging in Zero hour." recesses of the ear he produced his tools and three hutse-breaking pairs of rubber gloves; two of these he handed to his confederales, put- third himself. "Now ting on the

By Hugh Redwood

WHAT is a peacemaker? W

cording to the dictionary, "one who reconelles enemies" or "one who exercises a peaceful_in-}} fluence in an atmosphere of strife.", Both definitions, of course, are ne- curate, but both fall short of the

we're all set," he saki. full in eaning Blessed are the with which peacemakers Christ's teachingt MATTHEW, V. invests the ward. Jesus said, be It noted, not "blessed are they which keep the peace, but

blessed are they which make i Real peacemaking is something much more Con

quarreis: it in the cet Composing

of conditions in which quarrels cannot occur. There is a pacifism which ignores this fact, Trying to make peace in a bad temper in ke trying to cast out devils through Beelzebub.

The only sure way of establish- Ing peace by securing the general acceptance of one supreme and forgiving Fatherhoud. This was purpose of Calvary (Colos- stans., 20). Men and nations: who are reconciled to the same God must

of necessity be re-i conciled one to another; it is as one of Euclid's ixtoms. The way of peace is therefore the way of Jesus, and that is the reason why|| they who make pence shall be enlled the children of God.

YOUNG Bank Assistant Promoted! CAST

when he got rid of NIGHT STARVATION

I HAD EARLY TEA HALF

AN HOUR AGO, I MUST

GET UP WISH I DIDN'T

FEEL SO DONE UP IN THE,

MORNINGS I'M GOOD

FOR NOTHING

ALL DAY.

M-M-M. TASTES, DELICIOUS) GLAD I BOUGHT

THE MIXER

HORLICKS REGULARLY SOON GAVE HIM NEW VITALITY

Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix-- er. Obtainable at all good! stores-80 cts. large size and 40 cts. small size.

2 MONTAS" LATER

LOOK HERE YOUNG MAN, YOU'RE |LATE AGAIN THIS MORNING, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU LATELY? YOU WERE ONE OF OUR PROMISING

YOUNG MEN ONCE!

THEY HAVE PROMOTED HIM I KNOW BECAUSE I SAW A LETTER FROM HEAD OFFICE ON

THE BOSS'S DESK.

SORRY, SIR, BUT I'M NOT FEELING WELL. I'M ALWAYS

TIRED AND... ..I SUPPOSE I'D BETTER

SEE THE

DOCTOR

I WISH I KNEW HIS SECRET SINCE HE

WENT TO SEE HIS DOCTOR HE'S BEEN FULL OF VITALITY,

TAKE

|AT THE DOCTORS!

TIRED, WHEN YOU WAKE UP NO ENERGY ALL DAY-LOOKS PLIKE A CASE OF NIGHT STARVATION, ENERGY IS STILL USED UP DURING SU{} YOU MUST REGAIN IT I STRONGLY RECOMMEND, HORLICKS, REGULARY LAST THING AT NIGHT

If you wake tired, if suffer from

you 'nerves' enervation and that' dreadful feeling of exhaus- tion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION

YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY

HORLICKSON

BRIDGE PROBLEM

This Week's Problem

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No. 93

10 07

3 2

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J 10 7 5 4 2

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KAS

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• A Q 7 +7 6 5 3

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AQ 10 8 2

There are No Trumps. West leads spade 10, and North- South have to win seven of the thirteen tricks.

day

Solutions by first post Wednes- to "Bridge Problem," Hongkong Telegraph.

SOLUTION OF PROBLEM NO. 52 South leads club eight and North ruffs with jack of trumps. | North follows with king, queen | and small spade the third of which is won by either East or West according to their discards on the previous tricks, South discarding hearts. (a). If East! wins he must lead a heart and South wins with queen and ace of hearts and jack of clubs. (b) If West wins the fourth trick he must lead back a dia- mond, and South must win a diamond, a club, and a heart.

Some thought this problem easy but the many who were wrong obviously did not find it! Ho. Others who gave only the! variation where East wins the third spade or claimed that East-West could win seven of the nine tricks failed to see that South's two first discards must he hearts and must have missed} the real intricacy of the prob. lem and the effect of proper de- fence on South's discarding. A solution can be found with a heart lead but it must be the Ace and if not ruffed must be followed immediately by a club lead and South must carefully manage his discards.

·

The lights were switched off and the three adventurers, in single file, stole warlly round the corner in the direction of their objective,

Unfortunately, Wally's recon- naissance of the house had not been equal to

the occasion. Alleleuin, perched precariously on Jeff's shoulder, was half-way through the window when a light flushed upon the scene and the traditional "'Ere, wot's

the oll this," of

county con- stabulary shattered the autumn silence.

CHESS PROBLEMS

Nos. 75-76

Problem No. 75

8 Pieces

1

Playfair stroked his chin. "Come, Dumbell," he said, "1 wouldn't go quite so far as that. Even experts, like Jet Gadsdoll, make mistakes

sooner or later. By the way, we've and gol a warrant here for Jeff, yours shall be the privilege of arrest» ing him."

ON WHAT EVIDENCE?

(Solution on Page Three)

PUZZLE CORNER

Cryptogram

This cryptogram is an old- time verse. EX YKNBRA VRB EX YKNBRA, EXF BTRK ORAR YKNBRAN

BOY; BOY YKNBRAN VNB BOY YK-

NDRAN,

EXF BTÍK ORAR YKNBRAN,

BYY. GYMÄ YKNDRAN VRB E ZHXB

YG VHUI EXF BTRK

NBRO.

ORAR YKNBRA

Use 'Em Again Follow the usual rules, which call for using the letters in the words given as many times as necessary to form words defined. The figures after the definitions indicate the number of letters in the words:

HAVENS RAP (anxious 12)= DIP TEN (self-reliant, 11)- TRIO NAP (conciliation; 12) —

Letter Juggling

Try forming 2 different 12. letter words from the 12 letters given below. Use all 12 letters in each word:

ACEINNOORST V

Find the Number

A certain number exceeds the sum of its 3rd, 4th, and 10th purts by 38. Find the number..

Fun With Synonyms Here are more words and their synonyms to be paired off:

Black

204

ора

2

Itap preumt Andline

4

ADATE

33

ry friend

alex

od

not lan

A BIOD

White

6 Pieces White to play and mate in Itwo.

Black

Problem No. 76

7 Pieces

White

5 Pieces White to play and mate in three.

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS Rolutions to Problems 13-74

Q-195 No. 73 No. 74 1. Q-KIS

2. Q-KB

2. K-Q2

7. QxKIP

K-DI

H-Q

P-K17

P-Q4

and

. z. q-Kich

Correct solutions from S. Shaw, A.E.G., "W. J. S.." "R. E. T.," "P, O'D, :"D. N. C."

Surf

jatar

Elguid

(Answers Appcar on Page 3)

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