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SPORTS

STORIES

PUZZLES

MENTAL GYMNASIUM

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1949.

The BOYS and GIRLS PAGE

Spies Use Strange Codes

INCE the earliest times

men have found it

to necessary

send secret messages. The early

What is the difference be-Spartans would shave the tween a tragedy and a yielding head of a slave, write the Krandmother?

message on his shiny scalp then with indelible ink, allow his hair to grow enough to hide the writing before sending him off.

2. When is a boy hospitable

and a faker at the same time?

3. What is the difference be- tween a trial wliness and an old

hat7

4. What insect does a black- smith manufacture?

4.

Why is n

- correspondent?

Upon arrival at his destination the slave would spider a good get a second hair trim and the secret of the scalp would be read.

ANSWERS

CROSSWORD:

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ZZT ANY CODE THOUGHT UP

CAN EVENTUALLY BE

SOLVED BECAUSE OF

QBU THIS, SPIES LEG A

SYSTEM FOR ONLY A SHORT TIME--

FOREIGN AGENTS HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH THEIR PURPOSE BEFORE ANY MESSAGES

CAN BE UNSCRAMBLED

TIPO!!!

ONBAV

WORKING OH

SUPER

CATAPULT-

DOPE!

CRAFTS

GAMES

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

MMALE HUMMINGBIRDS DESERT THEIR MATES BEFORE THE EGGS HATCH...THE MOTHERS.BRING

UP THE FAMILIES...

NOTHIN' TO IT

1 Behold!

ACROSS

3 Preposition

4 Afresh

Part of a circle

7 Companion word for

"elther"

Earth's ratellite

10 Musical note

11 Near (ab.)

DOWN

1.Our puzzle is on the

silhouette om

2 Individual

4 Upper limb

5 Was victorious

9 Rowing implement

DIAMOND

GENERAL

of

Is the centre our diamond this week. The. second word is "n igal point," the third "raves," the fifth "a narrow piece," and the sixth “a tree fuld."

our

GENERAL I

COUNTRY SQUARE

Seven countries aro hidden in square. Find the right starting point, then read every letter up, down, backward, er forward (never diagonally), and you'll have little trouble finding them:

RLAST EHND LIA |E|T|O|C|Y]M- NDAIXE AN MERI LGNE AC ANCIENCIA RFADIAN

Rupert's Elfin Bell-45

After a long run downwards the piece floor on which the two friends are standing slows down and stops.

When they recover their with they gate around." There are to switches here," quavers Bill. miserably. How on earth are we to get up again to our little guide?" Ahead of them is a dimly lit pass sage through the rock with pale daylight showing beyond, and they step timidly to it. "It' awfully misty.

whispers Run

"I do believe we're back where we started

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

BRONCHO BILL

I'LL HIDE

YOU IN THIS GR

BLACKIE, AND

THOBLE INJUND AFOOT

RIDDLE ANSWERS: 1—One is melodrama, the other, IL mellow gramina. 2-When he takes you . 3-One's sworn in, the other's worn out. 4-Be makes the fire-fly. 5-Because he drops a line by every post,

DIAMOND:

G RES RANTS

GENERAL STRIP SAP

TODAY, transmission of secret messages has deve- loped into { highly apecialised business. The chief tool of the Inter- national spy is the encipher- ed code. But given enough time and smart helpers, the Secret Service experts will decipher the most puzzling message ever written.

Spies know this. Time is

A the big factor.

code message is used until it has served its purpose and then the system is changed in order to keep the Service men guessing.

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USUALLY

Secret

$1

spy uses

THIS BUSINESS OF SENDING SECRET MESSAGES ISN'T NEW- MEN HAVE BEEN DOING IT EVER SINCE THEY HAD ANYTHING TO CONCEAL

A key card might read ns follows:

Code Words the eur

market

quotation

price

any even number ony odd number hih

Iow

Head new

continurd Tucket tenta atomic festa

nt

Kame alte

new site

Fast Const West Coast fractional number undisclosed ne

because to be RPENGUIN CAN SWIM

for example, no chances

message is: caught means 95%. This trouble.

Suppose, that the coded Our quotation in itself is the tip-off that atomic tests will be con- tinued at some undisclosed

site. The code message is HE then written: OU RQ UO

now

plenty of

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the

on puts final touch of secrecy letters

that they appear meaningless symbols. scores of

are

TA TI ON 95 142. The Z by changing the is called a "null" and is add- MO cd only to make the letters 18 "come out even." Even this There writing of the message in ways to do this. A simple groups of two letters makes method when using a type writer is to press a key one it less apparent.

to the right or left of the letter intended to be read. Next the

are words

&

With such a code a spy could send quite a harmless looking message such as: "The market price is 80."

Messages of this sort ap- both codes and ciphers. pear to be innocent stock scrambled further by plac- Spies, however, do nothing In a code one word stands market quotations.

ing in each space a dummy this simple. for other words previously

letter and then regrouping Spying hus become To anyone but an expert, in sets of four. The second highly specialised science. agreed upon. It is neces-

a code mesenge must seem stage brings the message Agents are carefully select sary to have the "key" be to be nothing out of the

to: OUN RQBUOSTATTI ed and well schooled in fore the message can be ordinary. A ciphered com- PONN95414Z. The third picking up secret informa-

munication on the other land, Netherlands, Italy, Mexico. understood,

stage comes out as OUNR tion and transmitting it. hand, will Immediately QBUO STAT TIFO NN95 But counterintelligence arouse suspicion because the

4ZZ.

men are equally well trained apy has substituted some Does the spy stop there? to catch them at it. It is a figure or symbol for each He does not! He must take great battle of wits.

Hongkong may read XPQCVPQY or even U2833289.

COUNTRY SQUARE: Americo, Canada, France, Eng-

Everyone Had the Same Idea letter of the alphabet and

-Cows, Dogs and Ducks Felt Like a Bath-

By MAX TRELI

KNARF, the shadow-boy with

the turned-about name, was sitting under a buttercup (for he had

himself very made small), and was thinking about nothing in particular, when he heard two robins talking,

"I think," said the first robin,

"that I'll take a bath."

"That's a wonderful idea," re-

plied the second robin.

Then they both flew off, over

the garden wall, where there

was a bird bath.

It was very pleasant under the

buttercup, and Knarf turned Even the dragon fly was planning over on the other side.

It seem-

od like a good morning to take

a lite nap.

Heard Footsteps The next moment he heard footstep. It was the duck and her famly.

"Children," said Mrs Duck. "we're going down to the pond." "For a swim?" cried several of the duellings.

"No, for n bath! Come along. Waddle faster!"

So all the ducklings and the duck went waddling down to the pond.

Knart yawned and stretchied hlmselt, He was just shutting his eyes when two dogs went passing by.

to take a bath,

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SUCH a message can al- ways be interpreted by an expert and the longer the message, the ensler it is to

CHE HUNDRED MILES A DAY WITHOUT EXERTING 'HIMSELF..

AXWELLTRAINED AUSTRÁLIAN

NATIVE CAN RUNDOWN A

KANGAROO...

Boy-Girl Quiz

By WALTER KING

statement that

you believe that girls F after a are made of "sugar and you are quite sure is false. spice and all things nice?" Your score will be the num Or are boys just about as ber right minus the number sweet anyway?

wrong. When in doubt, Just to And out what you don't try to answer.

1. As a rule, girls are know, sharpen your pencil and wits and have a go at fatter than boys.

the truth of this quiz on

2. Girls use up their some of the queer ideas going around shout boys energy more quickly than

boys. and girls.

Mark T after a statement 3. Girls live longer than which you think is true, and boys.

4. As a rule, girls are shorter and lighter than boya.

Dolls Were Once Made

For Grown-Ups!

decipher. Hence, codes are THE doll is the oldest of used for secrecy and ciphers children's

toys. But

only as an added precaution once dolis served a purpose or to delay the unravelling for grown-ups too. of a message.

Years ago there were no Important international magazines, newspapers, or messages are usually coded shop windows. But men first and then done in cipher and women were interested to make an enciphered code, in new fashions just as the chief tool of the spy.

they are today. "Fashion" dolls" were dressed to show Then a dragon-fly alighted on a leaf right near Knorf and A favourite method of new styles and these caused asked: Is

there pond enciphering

n

a code mes- as much excitement as any sage is us follows:. First, fashion photos today. nearby?"

"Right down at the bottom of the message is written out the hill," said Knurf.

and divided into groups of Fashion dolls wore in Thank you. I'm going to letters.

exact miniature everything take a bath"

a real person did: clothes, hair-dos, make-up, jewellery, gloves, fans, purses, canes, lace, and embroidery, all in. exactly the right cloth, cut

Still Trying

In the next few minutes Knarf, still trying to take a nap under the buttercup, heard some pigeons, some sparrows, some swallows, a beetle, a turtle and some frogs, all talking about taking a bath.

Finally Knarf got to his feet When he and started for home. renched the back steps he found the cal and the kittens all

"I'm going home to have a scrubbing themselves with their bath," said the first dog.

"So am I." said the second. Then they both wagged their tails and ran off in opposite directions.

Hardly a minute later Knarf heard a cow say to another cow; The water in the brook is cool

paws,

That settled It Knart ran Inside the house. And what do you think he did?

Io eurled up and went to sleep on a pillow.

You see, he had already taken

and fresh. Let's go and have his bath, much, much earlier

a bath in it."

than anyone els

Red Man's Surprise

THE

BUH IS BETT13~

I'LL DE DARK

SOON AND----

HELLO: A REDDYIN,

„KEADIN

THIS

WAYN

SEITH MURDER IN MID HEART. THE BIDUX MOVES STEALTHILY, BUT DUUDEN »

FROM ÖVERHEAD =

Only

Himself

To Blame

A workman opening up his lunch one day groaned disgustedly: **Ja sand- wiches! Nothing but jam sandwiches! I'm getting

Your

sick and tired of them?"

"Why don't you nuk wife to make you some other kind?” one of the other men wanted to know. "Wife nothing!” moaned the workman. "I made 'em myself."

and colour! Sometimes the

DO-IT

By Dale Goss

DOLLS AT ONE TIME SERVED A PURPOSE FOR GROWN-UPS AS WELL AS FOR CHILDREN

fashion-doll sat in a minia- ture carriage drawn by little doll-horses. One doll we have from olden days is mother-doll holding a little girl-doll, who in turn holds an even smaller toy-doll-

Things to Make With Materials at Hand

Test Pilot

GOGGLES

By Harry F. O'Neill

1.Cut a piece of light weight, CARDBOARD Sinches long and 2 inches wide

ES ON HIN WILL. 138% DE-

2. Cut out eye holes and nose test...round corriers.

010

Fóniftizing OR

RISKER BAND

3. Fasten squares of COLORED CELLOPHANE overege holes with ADHESIVE TAPE.

YOU'RE READY FOR THE NEXT FLIGHT!

all three completely cos- tumed!

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5. Girls are smarter than boys.

6. Girls have a better colour sense than boys.

7.

Girls are better cooks

ONCE ench year, in Paris: than boys.

un

dressmakers and hair- dressers would hold exhibition of new fashion dolls. Then they would send the dolls to other countrics.

These dolls were expen- sive, so only the well-to-do

8. Girls are more patient than boys.

9. Girls are usually more honest than boys.

10. Girls, as a rule, stick

could afford to buy them. at their tasks better than Ás cach Benson

brought boys.

new dolls, the children of

the family would get the NOW the answers: 1- True, Girls have more old ones for toys.

fatty tissue. 2-False. Girls No dolls of olden days use up energy about 10 had jointed legs and arms, percent more slowly than

FASHION-DOLLS

as

an of

so they couldn't "walk" or boys. 3-True. For every "alt." They couldn't shut 100 women living 90 years,

of there are only 20 men. 4. their eyes, and not one

"Ma-mu." them could say,

True, and girls are not These improvements are

strong. G-False. Intel- An ligence is the same. only about 100 years old.

average boy's brain weighs slightly

more than went average girl's, but size out of date in 1800 after the brain doesn't determine 6-There is 400 years of popularity, intelligence. Magazines by that time some dispute on this, but were printed every month, the answer generally is with pictures of new styles. that boys can match girls Magazines were cheaper and in colour sense, providing. handier than dolls. They there is no defect such as could be made faster and colour blindness. More boys Your colour blind. to more are could be sent

answer should be "false." people.

Some grown-ups are still 7-Girls usually know more interested in dolls, but not about cooking, but they are for fashions. They collect not naturally better at it. dolls for their stories, or The answer is, "false," 8" their beauty and value. True: Scientists say girls Just recently n Philadel-are moro patient, 9-True, but when a girl is dishonest [phin (USA) woman died

and left

she is simply horrid. 10- collection of more than 2,000 dolls. While Truc. Boys are the dolls in the estate were fidgety and restless.

subtract To score, than appraised at more £1,250, her friends say that total number wrong she would not have parted the number right. If your is eight or more with them for £25,000, since core they included some of the points, you are in the few- A score of rarest examples of early-can-do-it class. day doll making in the five or better is passing and you have sensible ideas {world.

about boys and girls. If you And strangely enough, are less than fivo, or if you modern French designers have a minus score you'd once again are using little better get acquainted with dolls carefully dressed to somebody of the opposito ladvertise now styles.

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