FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1932.
Empire Pays Homage
To Her Heroes !
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RADIO
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
The following programme will
Agony Of War Recalled
In Brief Silence (94%)
WORLD WANTS PEACE
An Armistice Day message was delivered in a broadcast specch last night from Z.B.W., by 'Rev. J. N. Lewis Bryan, B.A., senior chaplain to the Forces (Church of England).
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Mr. Lewis Bryan said:-"At 11 most clear and strong, and in this o'clock to-day in every land and the very youngest may take their
Ati, every
there is part, for there is no one too young where one member of the British Common-to do them 'reverence, is the thought wealth of free peoples, or one out of men who died that our country pust of Empire, the Two Minuted might live, who thought the freedom Silence will be observed.
of one acre of her soll was cheaply The hum of industry. and the bought by the life-blood of the very throb of machinery, will die away, best of all her sons, who died that workers in study, and shop, and; the Fing of Liberty might wave un- factory, in the open fields, and in trammelled on land and sea, for the the streets of our cities, will cease right of smaller nations to held up their labours, to keep again the two their heads, against tyranny and most sacred moments, in the his- supression, who went out to battle tory of each of the last 13 years, for Truth and Honour, for Right
and Simple Faith.
of the world's life.
2 p.m.-Close Down.
5-7 p.m.-Chinese Recorded
gramme,
THE CHINA
MAIL.-
WAIT
By Hal Pink.
Or did the
"Yes, but think of it," raced on be broadcast to-day from the Hong COCKTAIL time on board the
the liner Monrovia. Laugh-Alan eagerly... "All these weary! Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. ter, a buzz of talk. Glasses clink-weeks of enforced absence. And! on a wavelength of 355 metros ing. Strident American accents. now his clean-cut young face (845
The faint ding-ding of a bell be- aglow and his eyes shining-"es-1. low decks. And, running cape from it at last! And best of,
while I'm 12.30 p.m.-European, Recorded through it all, like the motif all, to hear her voice
through an opera, the soothing still a day from home!" Programme.
duotone of throbbing engines and The ship's siren boomed again, 1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather hissing spray, that never ceased asking its question of the fog. "Whooo-000-006? 'Who-are-you?" by day and night. Report.
The Monrovia, like all Trans-Was it the echoes? Atlantic liners, was a paradise for faint reply that followed come Pro-the gossip-monger. She was six from another ship?
"Take no days from New York, nearing the Sir John chuckled. 7-11.30 p.m.-European Program-west coast of Ireland, and every notice of him, my boy. He's only one on the ship knew that the jealous. How long before she
the comes on?" fair-haired Englishman in corner of the smoking-room was "Only a few more minutes now, sir. Six-forty-five's the time-" Alan rose and fingered the dials Alan Ransom, the brilliant young novalist returning home after a
on American lecture plat of the smoking-room radio set; forms: that his companion, the the sound of a dance band play- Alan turned white-haired old patrician in the ing jazz faded in. wheel-chair, was Sir John Leveson- the volume control gently until the Dreen, the distinguished scientist, music died to a low tone. who had just been awarded the "That's the band. Betty comes The waiter reappeared Nobel prize; and that the ship's next." doctor, now crossing the room to with the drinks. The three lifted! join them, drank like a fish but glasses. was a good fellow withal.
and
me.
7-7.50 p.m. Orchestral Band Music. in A Camp of Ancient Britons (Ketelbey)
tour Albert Ketelboy's Concert Orch
The Two Finches (Kling) The Lark's Festival (Brewer).
The Reg, Band of H.M.Grenadier Guards
*9866,
9243.
Land of Hope & Glory
Harold Williams with the Band of
Pomp (Elgar)
H.M. Grenadier Guards 9080.
doctor
"To Betty," said Sir.John, "Betty," echoed the doctor.
& Circumstance March "Evening, Alan. Evening, Sir
John. Cocktails" The
As they set down their glasses Then another Grena-smiled cheerily. As he beckoned the siren boomed.
the waiter, the boom of the ship's siren replied, almost as loudly. 9080, syren suddenly claimed all sound It sounded dangerously close.
The three men looked at each; for its own.
Regimental Band of H.M. dier Guards
The Thistle (Arr. Winterbottom)
Regimental Band of H.M. Grena- dier Guards
For fourteen years and more their In the heart of the Empi.e, as perhaps nowhere else, is the spirit bones have mingled with the dusy of these Minutes more fully realis in the stately cemeteries of France! ed, or so clearly expresed, Well do and Flanders, across Italy, through remember the scene in Whitehall in Eastern Europe passing over the 1929. The thronging thousands-sacred Mount of Olives itself, to, the the hushed expectancy as Big Ben furthest shores of the Indian and' struck the first note of the Armis-Pacific Oceans. From Dunkirk to tice flour, and the gun boumed out East Atrien there is one unbroken in
forever England. the quiet air-then human line, that is silence, complete and profound. The Clear-cut into the very fabric of thei great concourse of people had be-Two. Minutes Silence. is the very come inanimate, and the breeze ever previous memory Bu slightly stirring the last few dry found immortal achievement by the! The Rose (Arr. Myddleton) leaves, on the trees in the street, sacrifice of themselves. made, the only areompaniment, to, "They shall not grow ohl, as we who tiwe thoughts that locked through are left grow 'old,
our minds.
of those
whe
The Leek (Arr. Myddleton)
The Regimental Band of Grenadier Guardy
The Regimental Band Grenadier Guarda
"Fog again?" queried Sir John. other uneasily, but none cared to "Yessir. Thick fog just come, voice his thoughts. 9102. down, sir," interjected the waiter. "Nothing to worry about, sir. H.M. Even with fog to slow us down."
we ought to make Queenstown to-
9272,morrow."
"Well, Alan, my boy," said the' of H.M. doctor, "is it time for that extra-
special turn on the radio yet!"
Age shall not ither them, nor the
year's conuen,
8 p.m.-Local Time & Report Ete.
7.50-8.25 p.m-Variety.
9221. Weather
Song-
Problems of Pence.***
Loye Everlasting
Ina Souez
Organ Solo-
Believe In You Reginald Foort
National Economy Norman Long
When the second signal xun spoke a curious sound,-almost a At the going down of the sun, and in sigh.--seemed to pass over the: the morning we will remember crowd. Then the drums of the! .. them." massed Bands rolled and ceased, and! trumpeters of the Royal Air Force There followed by years of peace,] sounded the "Last Post." A short and Peace hath her problems no less service followed, the troops were difficult than War, and those who! again called to attention, there rang believed that Victory would mean a out distinetly the expitant notes of fresh start, with high hearts and "Reveille," sounded by the buglers clear eyes, in a new world, were Song of the Royal Marines and the cere- strangely forgetful of the facts of mong, so brief and so moving, closed history. The heavy burdens of set- with averse of the National Anthem. tlement fell upon shoulders already.
wenried and bowed. As with the Fox Trot- Dark Memories,
leaders so with the people. They What will our thoughts be to-day were as bewildered as their masters. in the silence of those Twe After the strain of distant vision. Minules?
they were apt to seek the immediate Into the minds of some of us,
advantage. After their toil they] there will come the memory of that Hour, on November 11, 1918, when claimed the right to apathy. A lurking madness was abroad in the we began to realise, but only dimly, world. The old sanction had lost that the four years of agony were at an end, that before us lay the something of their power. The pas- chance of life, the joys of home and sions of millions cannot be stirred kindred, God's clean sunshine and for four years, without leaving be
hind a hideous legacy. The crust the singing of birds-No more the which we call Civilisation had worn shadow of long lines of trenches
thin, as one pe-War writer de Where we had lived like moles, and clared, and benth could be heard even the coming of night meant the muttering of primordial fires. neither ease nor security-of shellj
Peace does not follow na- on 'victory'. It 18 itself A construction, 1 slow dreadful and awful fatigue-of long and difficult effort bridge lines of duckboard tracks, leading the chasm between two worlds. It back to rest, where one false stop! in the darkness meant possible death, in the sens of slimy mud.
holes where we had slept, standing turally
on our feet, of days and nights of
The Eastern sky painted in scar- let, that rose and fell to the thunder! of the guns, the wiring parties and! fighting patrols in No Man's Land, the night lit up by the flare of Verey lights, while dark death whimpered around.
to
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Plan Maori
TO-MORROW'S STORY.
To-morrow's short story will be "Dancing Partner," by Jerome K. Jerome.
"Is the date Axed yet?" Sir John
Alan laughed. Sir John smiled. "You know, Sir John," went on the doctor, offering cigarettes, wanted to send this likeable young "he's been bubbling with excite-author wedding present.
announcer
1
He ment all day, itching to hear the knew Alan's parents, and greatly {golden-voiced
Bay, enjoyed his company during the Miss Betty Cavendish will now trip. DB839. sing","
"A month from, to-day, sir." "Oh, shut up, Dec!" expostulat- The doctor winked at Sir John, ed Alan. "Wouldn't you feel that and said solemnly: "The condemn- way if you were me? Think of ed man walked with unfaltering DB679, fit!
Four months away, chasing step to the scaffold-"
all over America in a heat-wave, Alan turned with mock fury. on a super-torture called a lecture "If I have any more of this con- tour, pitching my voice to the demned man stuff from you, I'll-"
CRASH! DB676. clock miles away at the other end
of the hall, babbling on platforms The floor of the smoking-room I Guess I'll Have To Change My about the trend of the modern tilted at an angle as the Monrovia
novel,
thousands meeting
of shuddered like u stricken thing. people who insist with fiendish Women screamed. All the electric Rudy Valley & His Connecticut friendliness on ahaking hands lights went out. The doctor seiz "You've only yourself to blame," ed Sir. John's wheel-chair just in Yankees
2700-D. said the doctor. "If you will gu time as it started to move.
writing boat-sellers"
Song--
For We Love You Still
Mary Burke (Soprano) Love & War
Dennis Noble & Chorus Piano Solo-
Ooh! That Kiss Cabin In The Cotton Carroll Gibbons
Duet-
News in Brief.
As the first numbing sensation of the terrible impact passed, a roar of sound broke it. Men call-
to ad frantically their wives; Another delightful band concert ia women's hysterical sobbing added DB620. to feature the Peninsula Hotel pro-to the clamour. The doctor rais
gramme next Sunday night, when ed his voice in a bull-bellow:- interesting orchestral numbers will "Keep calm, everybody! Then be presented and also a Violin Solo to Alan-"By God, we've collided! by Mr. S. Marechek.
Give me a hand with the chair. We must get Sir John on deck."
DB899.
For the convenience of residents "Right." Alin was surprised at We're All Good. Pals At Last from the Island who will be attend- the queer, strained sound of his Put Your Loving Arms Arounding the Dinner Dance at the Penin- own voice. For a moment he had
Me
Layton & Johnstone
www.t-
No Equipment To Fight Outbreaks.
The memory of churned mud, Commander Sir Sampson Staden, thrashed by the lightning of burst- who was Chier umficer of the Lon-Song- ing shells, of men sobbing out their don Fire Brigade until shortly after lives, unheeded and unsuccoured, in the close of the war, is afraid that. the Haming inferno of an enemy's higher buildings, in London, which barvage, as the waves swept forward are likely to be sanctioned, will in-Piano Concerto-
sula Hotel on Saturday, November been terrified. Then fear passed. 12, there is to be a Special late He grasped one arm of the wheel- DB662, ferry leaving Kowloon at 2.15 a.m. chair. (All records in the Above Euro- (Sunday),
Four long blasts sounded on the SKY - SCRAPER SEENpean Programmes are kindly sup-
ship's whistle.
boat sta "All passengers to AS FIRE MENACE, .
Mrs. Butler, plied by Messrs. Anderson Music
a resident of the Co.)
Peninsula Hotel, was the victim of tions!" 8.25-10.30 p.m.-A Programme of a snatch-purse thief in Bowen Road' A ship's officer went running Classical Music
She yesterday afternoon.
was along the darkened decks outside Plano Solo-
walking along a lonely section when the smoking-room, a lighted storm- Partita No. 2 in C Miner (Bach) a Chinese crept up behind her, He lantern in his hand.
played by Harold Samuel
snatched the purse from her hand
to the attack at Loos and Festubert, croase the difficulties of dealing at Paschendale, at Ypres, and Neuvelwith fires.
not
Alan and the doctor, with Sir
and ran toward Magazine Gap Road, John in the wheel-chair, fought a Voi Cho Sapete from "Le Nozze
way through the shouting crowd on Di Figaro" (Mozart) ・
Able Seaman William George to the deck. Elizabeth Schumann (Soprano) Bugler, of H.M.S. Keppel, was "Alan," said the doctor, "cut sentenced to two months' hard along to our cabins for the life Concerto No. 5 in E. Flat Major labour at the Kowloon Magistracy jackets, will you? Mine's C81- (Beethoven)
by. Mr. Butters yesterday afternoon, your's is C20, I think, Sir John? Chapelle, and a thousand places: "While I cannot claim to be in Wilhelm Backhaus (Pianiet) with the hearing of the charge Quickly! And bring the heaviest more--of a grey mist creeping close touch with some aspects of
and the Royal Albert Hall Or- against him of assaulting Mrs. coats you can find." chestra conducted by Sir Lan-Watts, at the Peninsula Hotel on As Alan dashed away: across the open whose other name modern construction," Sir Sampson
don Ronald and. with it all, the writes in the new issue of "The
October 26, was concluded.
"Thank you, doctor," said Sir was Death,
John quletly. "It is good of you to memory of glorious deeds of hero- Parthenon" the journal of the In-Song-
an old iem, unrecorded save, in the books corporated Association of Archi-Madamina! from "Don Giovanni" Many interesting articles are con- take so much trouble over of God-the memory of tinkers, tect and Surveyors. "I am
(Mozart),
tained in the Hong Kong University man." tailors, soldiers, sailors, rich men, aware of any developiaents which Feodor Chaliapin (Bass) Beeth- Engineering Journal for October "Have a nip of this," said the poor men, gentlemen, thieves who would materially help the Fire Bri- oven's Symphony No. 9 (Chor- (Volume 4) just published by the doctor, producing a flask from his will "Whisky. It. shared with us the good days and gade to overcome a fe which had al) in D Minor played by the University Engineering Society. Of hip-pocket. bad, and proved themselves the come to a head in a building of the Symphony Graftestra Conduct-special interest is an article on steady your nerves and keep this ed by Albert Coates M-12. Anest comrades in life that any man warehouse class, v. are there can,
Pokfulum Survey. 1932, by Mr. S. V. damned fog ont.? | for all practical purposes, be no-res-
( records in this Programme, Boxer, B.Sc., and another on the has ever had.
They stood just away from the A triction on the nature and quantity with the exception of the Beethoven subject of Lightning written by Mr. door leading to the open deck.
jostling stream of humanity surged In all of us, except the very of inflammable material stored on Symphony, which is kindly supplied. Day, A.I.M.E.E,
by Mesara. Montric & Co, are from youngest, there will be memories of the upper floors.
past them; women in evening, dress four years of ceaseless strain,-of "My impression is that, given un- Z.B.W.'s Library or kindly loaned Mr. Chen Fu-mu, Political Vice- with fur coats thrown about their the dally tidings, that hundreds or favourable conditions, a fire occur by a Committee Member).
Minister of Communications and shoulders and life-jackets in their thousands of the bravest of our ring in a perfectly fre-resisting 10.30-11.30 p.m.-A Relay of "The concurrently Superintendent of the hands; husbands, supporting fain- wives; excited children; country's manhood, had been wound- building may, if the outbreak or Reveller's Band from the Hong China Merchants S.N. Company, ting ed or killed, of a cloud 'huge and curs a considerable height Kong Hotel by courtesy of the Mar-will arrive in Hong Kong to-morrow stewards policing the traffic that hideous, which in spite of the above the street level, prove prac agement. (During the Intervals en route to Europe to study threatened to jam on the stairs as: gleams of her lim, forever breaking tically impossible to check until it recorded Music will be broadcast economic and political questions, excited individuals attempted to re- through. darkened the heavens and has burnt itself out, even assura- from the Studio).
It is anticipated that Mr. Chan will turn to cabins for forgotten valu- the earth,
Ing that the carcase of the building 10.30 pm-Rugby Press News stay over for some days in Hong ables
Kong. But the memory' which will arisa is unaffected by the outbreak."
11.30 p.m.-Close Down
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