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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Are

You Sure?

The "Telegraph" Brains Test

Answers on Page Three

1. Mrs. Ayrion's flapper was: Pre-war comedy-Anti-gas device in the Great War--Airplane propeller Wire instrument to #wat flic Notorious schoolgirl of the twenties.

2. Where was:

(a) Alfred when he burned the cakes (b) Dick Whittington when the bells rang "Turn again"-(c) Lady Godiva when the rode naked (d) Canute when he tried to stop the

sca,

3. Ranunculus is a name for a: Roman consul

Uncle by

Butterfly

Buttercup

marriage Overcoat

4. In what operas, plays, or films

are:

(a) "Sonny Boy"-(b) "Tea For Two" (c) "Anvil Chorus" — (d) "Jack's the Boy"(c) "Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyck."

year

5. When

by:

(a) Eclipse

(b) Hermit

(c) Sansovino

was the Derby won

(d) Minoris

(e) Humorist

(1) Mid-day Sun

6. The number of commands into

which the Home Establishment of the British Army is divided is

A

7. One of these denominations take the oath with a hat on:

Quakers

Buddhists

Moslemis

Seventh Day

Copts

Jeins

8. The red duster is:

Adventista

Stalin-A racing motor-car-The flap of Britain's merchant marine-A Sahara sandstorm-Scarlet fever.

9. Gipsles originally came from:

Hungary

India

Ancient Egypt Bohemia

Spain

10. Guam lea:

West Indian fruit-Guineajowi- Adhesive plaster-Hindu greeting- Taland belonging to US.

11. Which of these are Bank-holl- days in:

(a) England (b) Scotland New Year's Day, the King's Birth- day, first Monday in May, frst Mon- day in August,

12. How many pounds are there to

It

(a) Truss of old hay

(b) Truss of new hap

(c) Truss of straw

14. How many humps has:-

(a) dromedary

(b) A Bactrian camel

15. The Prayer-book dutes from

the time of:

Queen Elizabeth Edward VI.

Henry VIII,

James L

Queen Victoria Oliver Cromwelt

10. At Ave feet from the ground a

man can see:

One mile

800 yards

Three intles

Twenty miles

4.3 miles

2.9 miles

17. Of which country or city is the

patron saint;-

(a) David

(b) Denie

(e) James

(d) Stephen

(e) Mark

18. Which King of England died of:-

(a) An arrow-shot out hunting (b) A fall from its horse atumb- ling on molchill

(c) A surfeit of lampreys (d) Peaches and new beer

19. Where are the:-

Parthenon

Alhambra

Golden Gates

Golden Horn Sound

Great Orme

20. Rome is bullt on several bills. Among them are the:-

is:-

Viminat Valtelling

Celestine

....... Vatican

Lupercal Quirinal

SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939.

Speed kings to

abdicate?

'RE Britishers proud of their speed achievements in the motor world? It seems not. They are looking forward to a dismal season of motor-racing,

Nearly every organiser of motor races in Britain has lost money in the past year, and the programme of motor races for 1939 is accordingly being cut drastically.

And because there will be fewer

races

many of the younger drivers, though most of.... them are wealthy young men, any they can't afford to merely in a few events.

rice

The one real racing team, the all-British E.R.A., fathered by rich Humphrey Cook, and which has put Britain to the forefront

21. The official religion of Japan in small car racing, is in its last

Taoinn

Confucianism

Shintolam

Buddhism

Parsccian

Pauthelam

22. A hobo is at- Musical

Elizabeth porni instrument American tramp Croquet hoop Old friend Created bird

23. Which of these are primary colours:

Red-Green-Yellow-Blue-Purple

Brown.

24. The number of continents in the world

Four

Eight

Twelve

Fine Seren Str

25. "Heaven has no rage like love

to buitred turned, •

Nor hell n fury like a woman

scorned,"

Byron Virgil Marlotoc

Shakespeare Congreve Pope

Students Scan Civil Service

"Civil Service established

New York.

Reminder

senson.

Cook says that he can no longer bear the financial burden of run- ning the leam.

i

For weeks past a committee, which elected itself in an effort to discover whether something cannot be done to keep the team going, has been trying to organise a national appeal for funds.

Two important motor manufac Jurers have agreed to give the fund their patrounge, but time goes on and wo hear of no agreement on the matter.

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WORSE all, the trade" thinks

we should give the world land speed record, our greatest apeed achlevement, and one which has been held by Britalo since 1929, a rest until His won by a foreign country.

As I have already told you it section of the trade which, with finance and material, 110 always supported British challengers for the record, has decided that this support should not be given for the next three years un- less the recare La won from us.

Nevertheless, Jolin Cobb, who was the first mun to achieve 350 m.ph... but who held the record only for a day because George Eyston went out

PAINT FOILS ROBBERY

The Bureau"

at Hunter College to make information on

Middletown, Conn. A coat of paint frustrated a rob- government jobs more accessible to bery. When the paint dried on a the student is believed to be the first window cosing of John Delaney's!

of its kind in the country. For 5lling station, I so tightly sealed the cents, student will be notified of window that thieves were unable to any state, city, and federal civil prize it open, even after they had service exam for which she may quality.

broken pane of glass above the lock.

He's a happy

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MOTORIST'S

LOG

by T. H. Wisdom

with Thunderbolt and put it up to 357.2 m.p.h., is determined to again this year.

MO

He is going to pay the enormotis cost of the attempt himself.

EN years ago, Sir Henry Segrave

set the record to 231 m.ph. The following day the last American challenger, Lee Bible, an American garage proprietor who had been per suaded that it was pluck and not skill that mattered most in breaking this record, was killed.

Segrave gave up high speed on lond after that only to lose his life on the water at a year later.

Sir Malcolm Campbell took over the job of keeping la record for Britain, and year by year pushed the speed up he was the first man to pass the magic 300 m.pl. mark.

Yet when he retired and transferred his efforts to speed on water, he could find no resting place for his famous "Bluebird."

Our museums didn't want it so it has been sent to America.

Yet Germany, which loves building record-breakers in secret, may, at any moment announce that a car, most definitely under construction, is going out for the record. Then there are ramours that Ab. Jenkins, the Ameri- can driver, will actually produce his car this year,

I wonder what my friends Tim" Birkin, Clive Dunfee, H. O, Hamilton, Pat Fairfield, and those others wird lost their lives at the wheel of a racing car would say?

WITH Germany, France and Italy

all with subsidised racing teams -out to wia races and motor-trade, our own racing is in the doldrums.

There is but one bright spot I can Aad-the entry of two 12-cylinder Lagondas for the Le Mans 24-hour race.

In the great days of the "Bentley. Boys" and the Bentley team, we won the race four years running. And Captain W. O. Bentley, who founded the Bentley firm, is chief designer to the Lagonda firm.

But, in this age of speed, nre we con tent to see our great achievements, gained at such great cost, fade into Filstory?

HERE is a testimonial which gives me more than usual pleasure in writing:

I have just scrapped a pair of India

tyres which have covered 17,000 miles on the rear wheels of a fast 20 hp. car. Those on the front have atlit plenty of Trend and will do another 4,000 milica or co.

I have not yet had a puncture and. appreciated arently the non-skid attri butes of this tyre.

☆ ☆ ☆ THE Germans are using artife.al

rubber for their apparently, the industry is very worried and..

about its wearing qualities.

tyrės

FC.

Iller, when he visited the German Motor Show last week, spent a long time on the Austin stand and marked, noung that the Austin ex- hibits have not independent suspen. alon of the front wheels:-

"I think you are right-on small cars tyre wear is too great."

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WHILE the £100,000,000 Five Year Roads Plan is as dead na n door- nail, a Ave-stle plan in West London is being carried through-road news of Importance.

The Uxbridge-rond-A 40-3 now undergoing the last phase in its re- construction.

It will have a non-skid carpet of gmnite-asphalt five miles long, tha tram-lines and existing wood blocks having been removed. Nico work

THE proposed experimental "motora only' rond, which would cost £5,000,000, is "not an urgent matter." so I was told by a Ministry of Tmns- port umetal when I asked what tiad happens to the scheme for the North- South Lanenshiro Road, which Lanen- shire wants very badly.

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There Arc other maiters urgent. Though for the life of me I can't imagine what is more important to a Reads Ministry than new roads in the present state of things. However, La schema has not been turned down, merely postponed,

- We had road schemes without num. ber, some good and some indifferent (I made quite a few suggestions my- self), but nothing very much seems to be done.

Mr. Herbert Morrison recently opened an exhibition called "Road Architecture, the Need for a Plan" at the Royal Institute of British Archieels.

The exhibition deals with the com- bined problem of roads and build-

PUZZLE CORNER

Cryptogram

That's the question-A quola- tion and its author in cryptic form:

"QU QE STU ISTONP UT RI ROEG; ET VXI UPI VSUE. UPI XOIEUQTS QE: APVU VXI AI ROEG VRTOU?"— ⚫UPTXIVO.

Word Square

Definitions aro given for words to be filled in which will read the same across and down:

1. Untrue. 2, Around. 3, To dwell. 4, Cane Product, 5, Ever- lasting.

Letter Changing Following the usual rules, try ebanging MOON to STAR in six

moves.

How Long?

Fun With Antonyms with their correct antonyms:

Try pairing off the 10 words

indifferent gbesiete

OTTENBOLD

Garde

adibi

_considerate

[S] peaceful

7 tren

dull transparent

A

new

19

103 nocuto

indefinite RAMITO

One of the E.R.A. team of cara-driven here by Raymond Mays-which may soon break up.

inga. The organisers propose to re- vlow what is being done in this and other countries and suggest

what might be done.

The architects think that "An er tirely new national road policy. 1s necessary as the first step in cany traf- fle flow and in creating a framework for orderly development of residential and Industrial areas." It is added that the necessities of national defence make the need for much a policy still

more urgeat.

A PLEASANT little party took place recently to welcome home Humphrey Symons and Bertie Browning, back from Capetown after an adventurous ride.

. You remember they took an * 18/05" Wolseley from London to Capetown in 32 days, including crashing of a bridge into a river, denting the car very con siderably, but in spite of their own hurts repaired it and went on.

They put up a marvellous perform- ance, reflecting grent credit on the two drivers and the car.

Mr. W. M. W. Thomas. Managing Director of Wolseley Motors, Ltd., who has just been elected chairman of tha car section of the Bociety of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, was there. and George Eyston, who said that com- pared with driving across Europe and Africa, his land-speed record was easy.

CHESS PROBLEMS

No. 101

White plays and mates in three moves.

No. 99 No. 100

SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS

P-37 1. B-K10

Threatens 2. QxKich

Q-N2 RxKich

Kt-B4

B-KS

•QxPch!!*

2. Bxbek

2. N-Q3ch

Kt-03

Curfew. On Nuptial Ties

no more His

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. Lloyd Miller, county recorder has announced he will issue marriage licences after 11 p.m. reason--"It's worse than being a country doctor. They think nothing of getting you up at three in the

(Answers Appear on Page 3) morning."

Tread

Lightly On The

Stairs To Fame

THE corect of a doctor who is speech was reported recently in the

now at the top of the tree" British Medical Journal,” was nearly wrecked because one of his first patients heard him run up a beautiful oak staircase in noisy boots.

A good deal of nonsense is talked about the bedside manner, he added, and then gave the following hints for young doclors:

Always be patient and courteous; The patient is likely to be in a terrible fright and should be told the truth quietly;

"So blways wear a quarter-heel of rubber on the shoes," was the advice A triangle has an area of 80

given by Mr. W. McAdam Eccles, the square inches. The altitude is 8 told this story during an address to Ii is unpardonable to appear at the famous consulting surgeon, when he inches. How long is the base? | Anal-year medical students, Hig

beside reeking of alcohol ог tobacco;

A Lay Sermon

AT first sight this verse is not

very helpful. It is all we can say to someone who is sorc beset and desperately atrak, we had better say nothing. But read and explained in the light of ex- perience it is sound, practical counsel.

Suppose that you want to learn. n language of which you know Be of good cour-

nothing what- age, and He shall ever. Go to a strengthen our modern Jan-

heart,

guage school FOALM XXX, 24. and you will And that, once inside the classrocin, you will be forbiklen 'lo speak any languaga

except the one you are learning. The first lesson will be a matter of gesture and sound, but present- ly sounds will come to have meaning, and the more sounds you understand the more you will be able to understand.

That is precisely how courage and faith are acquired. To io man who feels that he has no courage, "be of good courage" means simply "be as courageous as you can.

The it grows by employment. "Lord 1 bellave; help Thou my unbelief," is an ex- pression of the same principle, flowever poor my best endeavour, God, if it be my beat, will givoy the Increase.

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Take care not to under-rato

patient's knowledge; for instance, all adults expect doctor to take the pulse and look at the tongue; Do not go into the room without doing something-raise the patient's head or turn the pillow.

Old Pastime Costly Now

Was

SAN RAFAEL, Cal. That the old order in Amerlen is slowly passing away again demonstrated here when James R. Whiting was fined $25 for indulging in the old time American pastime of haring the fire engines. It's against the elly ordinance here,

YOUR

ZERO

HOUR

(By A Doctor)

WHAT is your zero hour? Perhaps

you have never realised that you had one; but the fact is that every day all of us have a time at which we are at our lowest ebb, a une when we feel dull, perhaps dispirited, a time when problems toom dis proportionately large, when mental alertness slackens. That is the mo ment when headaches develop, when colds are caught, and the zest seems to fada from life.

This zero hour varies with in- dividuals, and the degree to which the clock runs down depends on o slate of health.

For some zero hour is Arst thing. In the morning, and that is definiteis one of the times when it should not be. The man who rises sleepy and irritable and is like a bear with a sore head at the breakfast table- even when there are no final de- mands in the morning's mail-is probably suffering from the sluggish liver or some form of excess.

With normal health and in normal conditions one should feel the truth of the Psalmist's words, "Joy cometh in the morning," and be fit and ready for the day's work.

Out of FocILS

At night, when the will is not so completely in control of the imagina- tion, whatever worries and triols one may have invariably appear enormously enlarged. The morning should bring a sense of proportion and a new courage.

It is only natural that in ordinary conditions one should begin to flag towards about four o'clock. It is exeusable to begin to feel a little weary in the middle of the afternoon, and it is during this period of Inssitude, when the body's resistance Is lowered, that such things as colds and chills make their successful attack.

The importance of the British in- stitution of the afternoon cup of tea cannot be overrated; it plays a salient part in restoring vitality and giving a new lease of energy for the completion of the day's work.

While tea is primarily a social meal, it has been found a business asset in a world remote from draw- ing-room small-talk,. Those nations like America which were at one time loud in their denunciation and lofty In their contempt of British tea, have now come to realise that the rattle of teacups in an office or the ten minutes break in a factory, are not foolish following of a mere tradition. Timely Stimulus

Tea and alcohol are drugs, but when taken in sensible quantities do no harm and often much good. Even the man who feels at his worst first thing in the morning, is brought round, as it were, by an early morn- Ing cup of tea.

But in spite of such aids those who find difficult to shake of weariness at certain hours of the day and have more than one rere hour, are giving too little thought to their health. Possibly. by burning the candle at both ends they are robbing themselves of sleep. of ar not caling the right food or are taking too little exercise.

The secret of avoiding zero hour is moderation,

exerciad and the right amount of food at the right time. For the majority of..omco-workers, -for-in- stance, a heavy lunch with meat is a mila- take, results in lasitude at two o'clock instead of four, deadens the wits, and may be the cause of afternoons of low output,

Of course there are no hard and taxi rules for everyone; but taking the aver ago person, the mental worker does best on a light lunch. The manual worker is more likely to have to "sipke up the fires" will a substantial meal with meat at mid-day.

The oflen worker who wishes to avoid "that heavy feeling" after the mid-day meal would find an early digested meal of soup, egg and milk, brown bread and butter, and, perhaps, cheese, an amplo stay for the afternoon's work.

There are other kinds of "zero hours -moment of acute lowness of spirit brought about by anxiety or shock. Those best able to withstand such montal stresses are the healthy in body; he who has lived cleanly is unlikely to kufor the attacks of despair.

During anxious times we show litla disposition to cat, and nature knows best, for to force oneself to cat without, relat or enjoyment at such moments is not for tha good of the system,

The poisons which assall the mind are best thrown off by getting into the open- air and taking exercise. No finer pre- scription could be written, as antidote to depression than "Take spade and dig until you sweat."

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