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Are You

Sure?

The "Telegraph" Brains Test

Answers on Page Three

1. Which of these took part in the famous visit to Widdecombe Fair?

Sam Small

- Jan Stewer

Peter Russett

Dan' Whiddon

Harry Hawke

Bob Pretty

2. In which Inngunges were these

written? The

(a) Gospel ne- (c) Hiawatha

cording 10 St. (d) ad

John.

(c) Divine.

(b) Rubaiyat of

Comedy Omar Khayyami (1) Arablan

Nights

3. "The lights are going out in Europe," said:

1't!

Diardell

Wellington

Sir Edward

Grey

4. Tennyson wrote "Idylls of the King" the king being:

Alfred

Arthur

Richard Coeur

de Lion

Charlemagne Cymbeline

5. Before the war (n) Memelland and (b) the rest of Lithuania be- Jonged to:-

Finland

Poland

Germany

Russia

Sweden Austria-

Hungary

6. How many men are there on each alde in (a) Draughts and (b) Chess;

U

8

10

12 10 24

7. "I came, I saw, I conquered,"

suld:

Julius Caesar

Hitler

Trotsky

Clive Napoleon

8. "Curmudgeon" is used correctly

in one of these sentences; —-

obtained

(a) Germany

manp planes, howitzers and curmudgeons in Czecho-Slovakia.

(b) Serba, Croats, Albanians, Turks and Curmudgeons were a few of the subject races in the Turkish Empire. (c) Dr. Juhuson must have been au awful old curmudgeon.

(d) When milk comes of the boll

it starts to curmudgeonl.

(e) They beat him senseless with

their curmudgeons.

9. Lager is:

Beer made without hops

Without molt

With a large proportion of hops Subjected to fermentation at low temperature

wa

Any beer that comes from Germany 10. In which American State is ur |

WHAT'S ALL THIS PA

NEW DRESS FOR THE PARTY TOMORROW?

- BITTY DEAR DONT FIDGET SO -- AND PERASI STOP BITING YOUR NAILĖ,

THAT NIGHT"

HÅND WHEN I REALIZED CHR

TALKING ABOUT

DESTY, I COULD HAYE CRIBD......... | WONDER WHAT SHE

MEANT WHEN SHE SUGGESTED OVALTINE

SOME TIME LATER

JUST LOOK AY THIS, MOLLY! SEE) HOW SHE'S GAINED IN NO TIME AT ALL

(a) Hollywood

Puzzle Corner SLEUTHS

Cryptogram

An anonymous quotation on the subject of "fine feathers” that make "fine birds" forms the basis of to-day's cryptogram:

“'NQZ XZ_YXNABXC DEB (b) The place where the Mayflower FEGJY NE KBQLJ NMJGZJ

landed

COJZ EY DQYJ POENMJZ XZ 'NQZ DEB X KJXPEPS NE (d) The Declaration of Indepén | ZKBJXL MQZ NXQC.”

(c) Manil

dener signed

(e) Chicago

The first English settlement

11. Which of these characters were crented by Charles Dickens;-

Mr. Bingley

Mr. Jingle

Martin Tupper

Bill Siken

Word Diamond Words are to be filled in which rend the same both nerons and

UXURY liners and the popularity

SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1939.

OF

THE SEA

of pleasure cruises have provided Detectives' Work At one time this was so common on

sen-captains who are responsible for good order on board their ships with a serious problem.

The professional gambler hos "played the liners" aver since the Atlantle became a highway; in fact, skipper of my acquaintance swears that the original card-room expert went out with Christopher Columbus and that his descendants have been rooking travellers ever since.

But it is not the gambler who wor ries the caploin so much nowadays. Most of the clever-fingered gentry are well known, but other crooks

have discovered that big ships. curry

Edna May Oliver down. Definitions are given be-confidence men and women who in-

Polly Peachum

12. Sir John Simon, who sits for Spen Valley, will now fight:---

Montrose Oxford

University Yarmouth

Darwen City of

Lontion Colchester

13. He nothing common did or

uncan

Upon that memorable scene Who didn't and what was the scene? 14. (a) Scottish and (b) Irish member of the House of Lords

fre

Appoluted by the Crown Legislators by hereditary right Elected for life.

Elected for the life of a Parliament 15. Which of these are English breeds of sheep:-

North Dun

South Down

Witney

Hereford Cauterbury Sugoik

16. In what elty is the:-

(a) White House

(b) Brown House

(c) Mauritz House

(d) Trinity House

low:

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*

(2) Drink in small (1) 500. amounts. (8) Stendy gaze. (4) A gem. (5) Haughty,, (6) Con- clusion. (7) 500.

Letter Changing

Infinite possibilities of lont.

Hence your jewel thieves and your

vade the luxury linerz, not to men- tion black-mailers. To deal with these folk the steamship companies have had to employ special detectives

who work with the ald of

official police departments and with that of United States Customs agents, who travel to and fro on most of the big steamship routes in order to keep an eye on smugglers.

Must Not Look the Part

Your sea-sleuth must not look like a policeman or give the slightest hint he is a detective. That would annoy a number of the passengers, apart from the crooks, Often, the only man who knows his real identity on

on

Luxury Liners

do not like the idea, and that is one of the reasons that the steamship companies keep very quiet about the arrangements they make to protect their passengers.

Your good sea-sleuth must be a man who can play a good game of cards, hold his liquor well, and be able to mix with all sorts and condi

tions of men and women. He must dress well but not too well, and have a knowledge of languages and of various

races, their manners and social castes. He must know his ship as well as any officer, and be on good terms with the official pollee of the various ports at which the ship may touch,

money

This applies especially to pleasure cruisers, where inexperienced pas- sengers often go ashore and lose

or valuables or get them selves mixed up in some trouble. Ship's officers have enough work to do nowadays without having to rescue passengers from

harples ashore, and while the sen-sleuth has no official status on land he can be very useful both to the company which pays him and to the shore

board ship is the purser. The cup, let alone the passengers.

tain knows that the detective is on board, but does not know the man (or woman) personally.

Prey

There are sharks on board ship as well as in the sea, and here your deterlive of the passenger service has his hardest work when he has

By transferring the first let- ter from MITE to the end of the word, we have ITEM. This gives an opportunity to change like that of insurance Investigators to rescue some Innocent from their

MITE to ITEM in 10 moves-or fewer.

How Much Has Euch?

Messrs. A, B, and C each have the same number of pennies, quarters, and dollars, respec- tively. If they have $18.90 17. Which of these railways stil! altogether, how much has each?.

(e) Trinity Itall

(f) The Jew's House

exist:

London and North Eastern

Great Western

London and South Western Midland

Great Northern

Grand Trunk (of Canada)

18. One of these

Forest Park:-

is A National

New Forest

Ashdown Forest Epping Forest

Fun With Synonyms Wednesday brings another list of words and their synonyms;

Icebim

Forest of Dran

smural

18. Where were the first Olymple Games held?

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20. What was the real surname at:.....

6

hotable

oral decorative

todigidol Leis

Spokan

patienz

577

partial

(a) Dante

(d) Ist Duke of

(b) Voltaire (c) Boz

a

Ind

Marlborough

fel Trotsky

9

peaceful

(1) Lenin

personal

#71X1 Daoui

bikend

BETTY THE NAIL

She was

IFORGOT!

WELL, WHY HOT PHONE TOHA JACKSON >

VISHT IT WONDERFULE AND HAVE YOU. NOTICED HOW MUCH LISS NERVOUS SHE IS--SHE KARPLY FIDGETS AT ALL

ANT MORE. AND NEVER BUTTS HER

HAILS

BITER

s painfully thin and nervous

AT THE SCHOOL PARTY NEXT DAY

MAY I INTRODUCE MYSELF? VPS MAG BROWN. WE MOVED ́HEAU A FTW WEEKS

ALD

HAVE EVER HEARD OF OVALTINE? WHY Q* COURER I HAVE MOLLY -- ITS A MARVELLOUS TONIC FOOD BEVERAGE

FOR MAKING CHILORIN HEALTHY & STURDY

THE NEX)

GORION

SCHOOL

JSMIT

THUMB

BITTY

SWEET?

SO GLAD TO MEST YOU W DNA MKE. FLETCHER...ENT IT A LOVELY PARTY. FOR THE CHILDREN?

REALLY, ROHA? WELL, NL CERTAINLY GET JOMS FOR BETTY THE FIRST THING TOMORROW MORNING,

WHAT AN ADORABLE LITTLE GIRL THERE ALL ALONS

BUT WHAT A THAND SHE'S So

AND HIRVOKIE

WHY HER MOTHER

DOESN'T TRY GIVING

HER OVALTINE?

WERY AFTERNOON

UM-MI THIS TASTES IWONDERFUL, MUMMY. MAY) HAVE SOME

MORE?

ÆRS, FLETCHER, I CAN'T GET OVER THE CHANGE THAT'S COME OVER YOUR BETTY LATELY / SHE LOOKS LIKE A DIFFERENT CHILD /

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YES, AND WE REALLY OWE IT ALL TO YOU,

MAS, BROWN--

ESCALPER IT ALL DATES BACK TO THE

DRY YOU DIDN'T KNOW I WAS HEE

MOTHER AND TOLD ME ABOUT OYALTINE.

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{THINKE} GOODNESS! SHE MEANS

BEITY!

INDRED YOU ĮMAY, DARLING.

1 THINICS

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WELL, THANK" DOODNESS, AT JATT WISH FOUND

SOMETNIMA SAM REMLY LIKET).

Give

YOUR

Children Ovaltine

- and note the

Difference!

The work of sen sleuths, is not un-

There must be no scandal and no pro- secution, if possible. Crimes on the high seas do not do the shipping companies any good. They make bad publicity.

The greatest difficulty the detective has is dealing with the silly women with money who are to be found nowhere in such numbers as on board the big liners and pleasure-cruisers. These good ladies, who are probably monuments of all the virtues in their home towns, go

crazy directly they set foot on board ship. They are almost defenceless prey for sorts of adventurers and gigolos who still abound in numbers in the Americas, both North and South. They land themselves in the most compromising situations, and the de- tective

to be extremely tactful S and worldly-wise to steer them out of entangling positions. Even then they turn on him, in many cases, and even report him to the ship's officers for interfering with them. Man of Many Talents

The man responsible for the ship's Intelligence work may have two or three unofficial allies among the crew. In certain cases he may plant mea or women in his employ among the crew as stewards or stewardesses or even as deckhands. It is a big job to preserve law and order in a big ship which carries severoi hundred passengers, often of all nailons, not to mention a large crew. The re- action of passengers when they know that there is a detective on bourd is usually unfavourable. Most of them

BRIDGE PROBLEM SOLUTIONS

100

SOLUTION TO PROBLEM South wins the first tricks with the uce of spades, and follows with the queen of clubs, which East wins. East returns spade dight, which South covers with the jack. West wins with queen, North discarding a small club. West leads a small heart, on which North plays the queen. East wins with the ace. Eust puls South in the lead with a small diamond.

South leads a small spade which West wins with the four, North and Eust discarding diamonds. West leads heart ave, which North covers with the ten. East plays the Jack and South wins with the king.

South now runs oft three spades un which North discards a heart, a diamond, and a club., South wins with diamond ace, and follows with Club deuce, and North wins two more tricks with king-ten of clubs.

If at trick three, East leads a dia- mond, South himself will lead the jack of spades.

This was little-more-than an exer- else in correct defence and the best method of defeating it. Worth should never be allowed to get in the lead except in clubs, and North-South should not be able to win more than one heart, ault which should be. led by West only. East's ace of clubs should be extricated early. South's queen must be used for the purpose.

maws.

There are none so deaf as those

who will not hear, and the beautiful young grass-widow from Memphis, Tennessee, or Cleveland, Ohio, thinks she knows all about this wicked world and will not take notice of quiet words of warning. Our own young people are more amenable to reason, but it is the middle-aged English business man who usually falls into the clutches of the sharks, or the clergyman

parish, is treating himself to a pleasure trip.

plenty of champagne before retiring. occurrence of the New York-Panana bonts that clever thieves used to bribe their way in as stewards.

Tiresome Telephone Talkers

On British lines the crew and ship's staff are usually old servants of the company or men and wonten who have come well-recoinmended.

Do you use or abuse the telephone? All the difference in the world So detective work on one of these lles between those two words. Tele- ships is easier than on an American phone talkers are divided into two vessel, where crows are here to-day kinds those who Use the servico and gone next week. But even then when the need arises and those who precautions have to be taken against regard it as possible black sheep, especially when desultory conversation, or a vent for an Instrument for there is a big shipment of bullion

bad temper. aboard, or some woman with a large fortune in Jewellery which she does not confide to the purser's keeping for bestowal in the ship's safe. Words from the Captain

The authority of a enptain on the high sens is absolute, but naturally he does not want to manifest this too much on a passenger cruise, and he does so only as a last resort.

There are a surprisingly large number of the latter, and the odd thing is that their offences arise be- cause they will not realise that courtesy and thoughtfulness are as necessary in communicating on the wire as anywhere else.

The man who occupies a public when others are waiting patiently to phone-box for quarter of an hour innke urgent calls would be furious. at the suggestion that he was be- Sometimes the skipper, after a re having badly. So would the friend port from the ship's detective, will who makes a point of ringing up late send for a passenger and give him at night when most people are ready (or her) a few pithy words of ad- for bed, and will not curtail his vlce. It may be a young man with conversation despite the none-too- not too much sense or a wealthy tactful reminders of the inteness of woman who is indiscreet. On the the hour. oth other hand, it may be Cuban nd- Under this heading, too, eames the venturess posing as a famous Spanish wife who rings up her husband nt dancer, or a pseudo-nobleman who the office with unimportant domestic is "on the black," hoping to com- messages, and cannot be made to promise some grass-widow or allly understand that the wire is being girl.

used all day for urgent calls and sho is possibly blocking it.

James L. Hawkins

Novelist Wife Ready

As n some-time telephone opera- for. I have been amazed at the dis- play of bad temper by subscribers either through being unable to ob tan n number, by being cut off in

"To Go To Prison" the middle of a conversation, or by

some other person cutting in on the line.

Mrs. R. H. Rash-otherwise Doreen I believe it is because the speakers Wallace, the novelist who is chair- cannot see each other. A man will man of the National Tithepayers be much more abusive in his anger Association, has been threatened it he is in the dark, or shouting at with bankruptcy unless she pays someone in another room, than if he £103 orrcars to the Tithe Com- were face to fee with the other mission.

person.

Presumably, this difficulty will be surmounted if and when television but if everyone were unselfish and polite in his use of the telephone, What a perfect service it would be!

years of toll in his o, after long live at Wotham Manor. Ipswich. replaces the use of the telephone,

women

The South Americans are anoller problem. Many of them will carry inrge rolls of bank notes, and their urc Hol careful of their Jewellery. An Argentine millionaire cattle-breeder will gamble heavily at stud-poker and go to sleep with his winnings under his pillow. What a temptation lo the astute "rat" thief or dishonest steward, for our millionaire will have consumed

CHESS PROBLEMS

Black

White

Nos. 104-105

Problem No. 101

White to play and male

Problem No. 105 Black

控

9 Piecen

8 Plccta in two.

10 Pieces

White

3 Pieces White to play and mate` in three. SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS No. 102 I-Q1 No. 103 1, -7

2. R-K3 mate

Qxfiel

threatens

QxKtPeli

Q-Kich

Q-30

"Q-Kid

Q-BU

Q-Q3

Q-Qich

Q-X7

QxDPch

P-Kta

Q-Dach

KOKI

DxKtch

A Lay Sermon

TT is to be feared that not a few easy-chair Christians have made of these words a lullaby for their consciences. They have read into them something that isn't there, something which justifies Inaction when, to them, it appears the ensler course.

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Whatever the passage may mean, doct not Their strengths it mean that. Gad to it still is apeaking of IBAJAH, XXX. 7 His rebellious prople, and warning them not to "add ain to sin" by turning to Egypt instead of to Him for help in the troubles occasioned by their rebellion.

The reference may be to Egypt; og a land thai would not stir a Anger to help them, or it may be read in relation to verse 15, as a word of command to Israel in special elrcumstances.

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We should do well to take the warning to ourselves, and not add our sins by turning to tho Wrong quarter for deliverance when We are overtaken by their consequences. But we are. cer- tainly not being told to adopt a do-nothing policy. Rather are we being exhorted to seek, through quiet faith, that strength from God, through Christ, in which we can do all things.

She and her husband, a farmer, which was the scene of the famous 1034 "battle" in which police made arrests and £470 worth of stock was seized.

Mrs. Rash is puzzled why she should be threatened with bankruptcy while other farmers have had their stock Impounded,

"I think it is because the commis- sion fear another war," she said.

She says she is ready to go prison for the tithepuyers' cause.

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Kauleen Treves

IMBIBERS GET BREAK

MELBOURNE, Australla. Australia is the one country in the world where a drinker really gets a break. Police courts are not al- lowed to necept the testimony of a policeman that a man is drunk. Only the testimony of a medical man is legal on that point.

News About Music

a moment's

THE news that the Czech Na- he found in England (though I ima- tional Opera is not to visiting some of them might), Paris London this season is a dismal could immediately supply our needs. There is time enough to arrange disappointment. Such д visit this, especially in view of Covent would have been welcome at any Garden's propensity for getting for- time and it is to be hoped that sign artists flown over to London at notice. The orchestral it really is only postponed..

side of the business is provided for Heaven knows

"L'Heure Espagnole" is there

little

A poc-act enough chance to hear

opera. It, therefore, could form part operas at Covent Garden outside the stock run

of a double bill with, say, Puccini'a of places

"Gianni Schicchi." put on to attract box- holders. And now Smetana's "Secro!" and Dvorak's "Rousalka" are to be denied.

The Covent Garden authorities are certainly having a rough passage this year. Their difficulties, as re grettable as they are understandable, are by now common property and since that is the case it may be per mitted that a potential member of their audience suggests a few works which would fill the gap left by the Czechs more interestingly than re- peats of Puccini. Now that the prin ciple has been established of admit- ting even a more couple of not very new but unknown operYAL the ro. parloire of the International Season, let us do all we can to support the venture,

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i auggest we be presented some modern French operas. In the cir cumstances, time being desperately short, the obvious choice is Ravel's

and oxquisite

witty extremely "L'Heure Espagnole.” It would not bo difficult to put on, for there is no chorus and if the five singers cannot

Dat there are other one-act operar, and modern French at that, which would suitably partner the Bavel work and bo divorting to hear. There are, for instance, the two short-operas-by-Darlus Milhaud, "Lo Pauvres Matelote" and "Esther de Carpentras."

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Then there is Honegger's one.act "Judith" and the Napoleonie opera "L'Aiglon,"

which collaboration with Jacques Ibert.

ho wrote This has lately been played in Paris and the material, should be easily available for London,

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Finally, seeing that Poland is much in our thoughts at present, why not put on the great Polish" 'national opera, "Haika" by Monluszko? Those who have seen it in WariaW speak of it with interest. It appears to be for Poland what "Boris Gedu noy" is for Russia. And then there is Simone Mayra "Leonora" duced in the same year

* Best- hoven's "Fidello" and founded on the #ame libretto, but with the action placed in Poland instead of Spain. SCOTT GODDARD

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