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Are You Sure?

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1. Which were the lands Lord Tweedsmuir

Duchan) described on lavinc

"names like cocktails"

Orkneys, Inner · Hebriden, Shetlands, Aran Islands?

2. The sen-bird the pelrel fakes lis name from apostle

Poter. Do you know why?

3. When we use the word meander we are using the name of-

A anake, drunken Athenian, river, Aslatie gipsy, butterfly?

4. An oologiat collects

Birda eggs, clocks, Anger- prints, dust?

5. Norma Shearer is lo maka 4 new film. Her last one was-

"Idiot'a Delight," "Strange Interlude," "The Women," "Her Cardboard Lover" "Riptide"

6. These words are all talls Can you fix. the animals to the tall

Wreath, acut, stern, target?

7. Oxford or Cambridge? To which universities do these col- legea belong

(a) Magdalen, (b) Magda- Ignje?

8. In what game would the players Include~~~

Goalkeeper,

centre, point.

cover point and third man?

D. How many legs has — (a) Grampus, (b) ho0pbe.

(c) mock turtle?

10. St Patrick's cabbage f Savoy. alamrock, London

Pride, Trish moss, broccoli?

YOUNG GIRL IS

SACRIFICED

Lerotholi

heard

When Mahlola that the South African Government intender! to dismiss him from his post as chief of a lonely mountain village in Basutoland he consulted his witch doctor.

After

a lot of dancing and talking. the witch doctor recommended a medicine unknown even in the long and varled pharmacopoela of Africa. The Ingredients includod herbs and liquids, and portions of a young girl's body.

There was

more dancing. then the villagers seized nine-year-old Malefu Gura while she was tending gools.

They took her to a hut where after more mystle riles, pieces were cut from her living body.

Then she was flung over a high The medicine worked for n while remained chief for 011- other few weeks.

-Mohlola

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Then poller took-kim, the witch doctor, and 10 of the villagers and hanged them.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 1948.

12-YEAR MYSTERY OF MR. LLOYD

✅ NEW YORK police re- open one of their greatest unsolved mysteries, tho disappearance of British ofl magnate Frederick Lloyd, in | 1936, preparations were belug made today to take over as A research centre his old house, Walton Oaks, Walton-on-the- Hill, Surrey,

His £85,000 home is

now research centre

By GORDON CORNER

the £500,000 Petroleum Conver-

The receivers sold the hall to sion Company may still be Vitamins, Ltd., for an undisclos-: alive.

•

It was the mysterious theft of keys and papers, some of

ed Buni. them relating to Walton Oaks,

Between the price paid and the from a New York Inwyer's Inquiries today reveal that a sum advanced by the mortgagees office, not far from the spot City assurance

balance understood to where Mr Lloyd disappeared, vanced to Mr Lloyd a sum

company ad-, there is,

total some thousands. of that has revived police interest. money on the security of the another sale of the hall's costly fur- This curplus money, together with The fact that the thief over- Walton Oaks estate, which was Jooked other valuables selected only vital deeds and Windsor when Prince of Wales. and once offered to the Duke of

keys fitting Mr Lloyd's lug- gage, still in a New York hotel, has started a full-genle CID in- vestigation there:

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And it has given rise to a theory that the former owner of Walton Oaks and president of

From Here and There:

The company, as mortgagees, applied to the courts to appoint a firm of estate agents as coivers some time after Lloyd's death had been legally presumed in 1944.

ME, LLOYD

Püst before his disappearance.

nlture, will form a large part of Me

o four nieces in the United States driver of a cab, "Go Narth on Broad- Lloyd's British esinte

The beneficiaries are understood to club. He was heard to say to the at New York's exclusivo lawyers'

west End firm of lawyera. who are already in touch with .Away."

Soon there will be application. be- refore the Probate Court for letters of Mr administration both for the wills of who in 1843 died after years as -Mr Lloyd and of his wife Genevieve recluse in a New York hotel, bellev. ing almost to the end that her hus band would return.

The whales were scrappy

篩

He was never seen again.

The

THE THEORIES disappearance over 12 years has given rise to endless theories and opeculations.

Did Lloyd take his own life?— This theory is discounted by many who any that Mr Lloyd, a devoted husband and lend of a flourishing business, had every reason for living. Hend a personal bank balance of £15,000. my

of

'DESCENDANT OF KINGS' When Mrs Lloyd visited England in, 3037; she said: "I know In

Did Lloyd lose his memory?— PERTH--Two whale-chasers Repatriation Hospital and gained two heart that he is still alive."

These words are re-echoed today had been worried and ill, though this Shortly before his disappearance he have reached Australia from hours freedom after a 200-yard swim by Mr W. Watts, of

through the shark-infested waters.of Hammersmith, formerly

Eyot-gardens, the Antarctic damaged by

was thought to be nothing more than en Mafürs Bay. He

chauffeur temporary stress on a high-pres- Jumped through counters with frenzied

sperm a window and cluded the attendants and confident of Mr-Lloyd and one sure business man. whales. The Norwegian chaser who unsuccessfully pursued him in of a rapidly diminishing group of A New Jersey woman did report Thorbrann limped into a rowhig boat. He was later captur Peopic in England who knew him that she saw, a man like Mr. Lloyd

ed by police in a street near the bas well. Freemantle today to replace a pital

MI feel now that he might still be begging in the street. damaged propeller. Skipper H.

But the U.S. olive, or at least that some light, can Persons circulated 25,000 copies, HE SHOULD QUIT-

Bureau of Missing Larsen said a whale in its denth

be shed on his disappearance," he Johannesburg, — Harry Manners, sald today.

photos, and descriptions of Mr Lloyd, throes charged the 400 ton last of Afclen's professional ivory "He would be 75 If he returned. what was already well-known and chaser, smashing a propeller hunters, has just killed two elephants He was devoted to his wife, and one

publicised. blade with its head. Larsen of one hot. In the Gulf district of the most delightful men you could

Was Lloyd murdered? He was of Portugurse East Africa, he came ever meet." wald other fleets operating in his on two big bull elephants standing

carrying several hundred dollars, but not sufficient, It was argued, for any To Mr

Watts Mr Lloyd would con- region included English, Dutch, side by side in n clearing. Flis but-nde some of the secrets of his early thief to risk the electric chair. And Japanese

and Russian. The let went in at one ear and out of the life, which, like his disappearance, who could dispose of the body with-

other of the first elephant, Norwegian-manned chaser penetrateit the

out trace? .. then was wrapped in mystery. brain of the second Terge II,, operating with the bull.

Mr Lloyd claimed that he was the direct descendant of Welsh kings.

SECRET PROCESS British factory ship Balacną. DUTCH FOR CANADA

He said that he was taken to reached Melbourne for a

Was Lloyd kidnapped by Nazi rush Rotterdam-Two hundred and America. as a baby from England. At agents? This theory replacement of a danraged pro-

found Dutch farmers and their nine

he was doing odd jobs for considerable. favour with families, totalling 10,000 persons, are money. peller caused by a harpooned emigrating to Canada this year. The

people. It was a time of German sperm whale which killed itself first 700 left yesterday (March 12). home and later married the girl who German-American Bund, very strong When he was 14 he ran away from rearmament and a resurgence of the in a wild crash into the stern In 1949 double this number are to watched him climb to fame until his. in New York. of the chaser:

disappearance..

Mr Lloyd was known to have a FIRST CREMATION

secret process for syntheile oll. He £85,000 HOME

was known to the Germans through There followed! trips to England, his Rhineland visits. dred years, 43-year-old Ans Van Scafleld Gardens, Aberdeen, Scat-where he had ofces in Bush House,,

And

now the missing keys. The Dyk, a Jewess, who bestrayed 300, land, was cremated at the Indu Aldwych, visits to the 300-acre Wat day after they disappeared from Jews during the war, was executed cemetery in Ipoh, North Mainya. This ton Oaks with a staff of 20 servants Lloyd's lawyer's

office a mystery recently.

is the first time a European has been and refiled with brick facing in the caller telephoned: QUITE AN IDEA

cremated in the history of Malhynearly 30's.

"The keys are in a desk in the next Adelaide New Guinea natives, Aged.53, Mr Nichol was a business- Mr Watts says that Mr Lloyd paid office," said the voice, and then rang revelling In their new postwar free man. He came out to Malaya en De- about £65,000 for the estate

and o uff. dom, are now gambling their wives cember 29 and died ufter a short ill- £20,000 on furnishings and altera- The keys were found. But, the at cards, reports Methodist missionary ness,

tions ions,

police are asking, "Who knew where Rec. f. Brown, just returned from

local Lawyer-Rowan kept the keys "tting There were rounds on the Cape Town Lying dying after golf course, where he was a popular Lloyd's trunk still at New York's drinking ant poison, Phyllis John-member, and visits to the lonely Hotel Salisbury?" stone, uged 20, sald "If I had known | Isle of Grain.

And who could be interested in it would take so long to kill me I Then came the night of October those trunks and in those docu- would not have taken it."

20, 1900, when Mr Lloyd walked out ments?

£0.

CENTURY OLD RECORD Amsterdam.-The first woman to Singapore-At the wish of his re- be executed in folland for a hun- latives, the body of D. Nichol of 10

New Britain.

ESCAPE

23.

Sydney,-A pyjama-clad, year-old ex-serviceman escaped from a psychiatry ward at the Conford

AFTER-THOUGHT

hos

some

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Unusual lighting, plus a well-chosen point of view, provides a dramatio effect in this winter skiing shot,

FOR DRAMATIC EFFECT

IF YOU'RE looking for drama- Normally, when shooting into the

sun, tic pictorial effects you've hood or otherwise shield the lens no need to go any farther. Here from

slindow

'B necessary to use a lens

the glare. Here the gloves

is a truly dramatic shot, made serve the same purpose. For the by an expert photographer, yet camera position is such that the made with

of the gloves falls on the simple R technique

lens.

In effect, a straight line might that even a novice be drawn from the lens to the sun, can duplicate it.

passing through the gloves,

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With the lens in shadow, all that In the final analysis, a snapshot remains 18 to make a normal ex- such as this is interesting because posure. An exposure of 1/100 at of its lighting. It is is that pro- t/11 vides the deep shudow effect, the such as this on most black and white would be suitable for a shot dark sky, and; the "halo" outlining Bim. Underexposure, the gloves atop the ski poles in the overexposure, is preferable for such foreground. The sun, if you love a shot. gloves. not already guessed it, is behind the

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Beauty Preferred

The Beast

Modern Museum's private screening Carbo atiended the New York

of the new. Jean Cocteau lm, "Beauty and the Beast."

At the end of the picture, when the frightening Beast turns into the handsome Jean Marais, Miss Garbo was heard complaining:

"Oh, no. I wont the nice beast back:"

rather than

While Ughting, to be sure, "makes" this shot, it does not depend on tricks alone. Its composition is good; the curve of the snow, piled in. a drift along the peak, makes an in- teresting line; the ski poles in the foreground lend a feeling of depth; the Agure at the crest's edge serves to balance them.

For good"pletures won't come by It is well to note these things." tricks alone. Subject matter, com- position, tone-all play a part in picture making, A dramatic effect of this sort can make a good picture better, yes: but the wise snap-. shooter never makes the mistake of Counting on tricks to save a picture that otherwise would be poor.

John van Guilder

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

*TRY IT AGAIN! GO ON! HE WON'T KILL YOU, YOU KNOW!

• WE HAVE

A DATE FOR SIX O'CLOCK..

WHAT

TIME VILL YOU BE THERE

THE HARDEST APPOINTMENT TO MAKE IS THE ONE WITH THE DENTIST..HIC LINE IS ALWAYS BUSY. „THE MAN SAYS.

#THODE THEY HAVE

ROAST BEEF

Wat DO YOU HOPE... CAUTE OF HUMMING

BIRDS

LAST!"

Appointments

Bu KEMP STARRETT

SOME PEOPLE THINK THEY'VE KEPT AN APPOINTMENT IF THEY DRIFT IN ANY TIME THAT WEEK. ESPECIALLY IF ITS ABOUT A 3031

"EXPECTED YOU ON MONDAY... THIS IS

FRIDAY:

IN MAKING SOME APPOINTMENTS ITS WELL, TO HAVE A COMPLETE

UNDERSTANDING IN ADVANCE,

400

THE LAD WHO ALWAYS SLEEPSÍ JUNTIL NOON HAS AN APPOINTMENT

FOR WINE AM. VATI A LAWYER. | ABOUT 415 UNCLES WILL.

"HE'LL ONLY

BE ANOTHER

HALF HOUR ORSO

AND WE DON'T

ALLOW SMOKING IN "HERE"

RIVATE

MARRETT-

Ledger Syndicate

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ?

YOU TOLD ALE TO BE AT: 5 AND BEVERLY AT FOUR O'CLOCK AND WIERE DO FIND YOU AN HOUR

LATE...

ETC.

IF IT'S A DATE FOR DINNER THEY'LL BE ON TIME... HOPING THE MEAL WILL BE RICA AND FILLING... AND WITH NO ATTEMPT AT ECONOMY.

DAWHY IS IT THAT WHEN THE PLACE HAS A SUMPTUOUS, COMFORTABLE. RECEPTION ROOM. YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TWO MINUTES FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT, BUT IN A DUMP WITH HARD BENCHES, AND NOTHING TO READ, YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR HOURS ON END?

WHEN YOU'RE AN HOUR LATE FOR YOUR APPOINTMENT STE ALWAYS A GOOD IDEA TO JUMP ON HIM BEFORE HE CAN OPEN HIS MOUTH... THAT FIXES 'EM, BUT GOOD?