Can you decipher the following common phrase?

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

If an electric train is travelling south, then which way is the smoke going?

Detective John was investigating a murder in China.
It was a difficult case, and John was completely stumped until he noticed a message sent to him by the killer cunningly hidden in a newspaper advertisement selling Car Licence Plates.
Detective John thought about it for a while, and when he had solved the puzzle, immediately arrested the guilty man.

Q1) How did John know the advert was a clue for him?

Q2) Solve the code and tell me who John arrested.

This is the newspaper advert (Car licence plates for sale) that Detective John saw.

Plates For Sale;

[W 05 NWO]
[H 13 HSR]
[O 05 EBM]
[D 08 UNE]
[U 10 HTY]
[N 04 BRE]
[N 16 TTE]
[I 26 LHC]
[T 10 AEE]
[I 26 CNA]
[X 22 VDA]

Spelt forwards I’m what you do every day, spelled backwards I’m something you hate. What am I?

How many letters are in the alphabet?

Why did Buffon take the goal with him after every Juventus match?

It has horns but can’t beep. It is like to bleat but It is not a sheep. What is it?

When my father was 31 I was 8. Now he is twice as old as me. How old am I?

There was a blind man. He had four socks in his drawer either black or white. He opened it and took out two socks. Now the probability that it was a pair of white socks is 1/2.

Can you find out the probability that he had taken out a pair of black socks ?

How can one talk without saying a single word?