SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
Bolivians Hide In Mountain Eerie
People Who Never See A Single Tree
SPAIN'S TREASURE HOUSE
THE CHINA MAIL.
To-Day's Short Story:
FRADIO THE
TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
MAN WHO
The following programme will HATED FLIES
bo broadcast to-day from the Hong Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W.
Columbia records.
port.
the Management (During the intervals
H
By J. D. Beresford.
much
on a wavelength of 855 metres| (845 K.Cs)-
TIS wife laughed at that one Their only child, Bertrand, a 12.30 p.m.-European programme of scientific explanations of the seven, who was doing very well at weakness of his, and all his steady, intelligent little boy of
1 p.m.-Local Time & Weather Re-harm flies may do as germ-school, used to watch his father's 1.15 p.m. A relay of the Hong failed to convince her that his shrewd stare. And it was he who carriers, spreaders of disease, impatient battles with a quiet, Kong Hotel. Orchestra by courtesy of detestation of them was not an one day started the brilliant mind Bolivia is one of the most spec- are Choloa of mixed Indian and recorded masle will be broadcast from amusing eccentricity. She was of Professor Albert Aumonier on
the Studio). tacular countries In the world. It Spanish blood, and the remainder,
one of those women who have a that investigation which was to 1.30 p.m.--Rugby Press News, etc. is divided into three sharply con- a bare 800,000, including foreign-
2.15
quiot contempt for science, al- have such a vast and unanticipated pm-Cluse Down trasting zones. The "altiplano," jera, are Whites. Hore, therefore,
4.5.30
though her husband was a scien-influence on the future of the world. 4-5.30 p.m. (approx:) A Running from 12,000 to 14,000 feet above sea is a country approximating in alze Commentary of the Football Match tist and would almost certainly "If you think files do so level, in almost without vegetation to a third of Europe, not only and the Chinese Athletic Association, because he had the rare gift of
the Kowloon Football Club be famous in a few years time, harm, father," the child thought- Many of its inhabitants can never governed, but financed, by one-tenth by courtesy of the Kowloon Football becoming entirely absorbed bying attentively to one of the Pro- fally remarked one day, after listen- of its population.
Club & the Hong Kong Football A his work. There was no need for fessor's fiercest lectures to his exas- to relay the Speech of 11. M. the King vate means. But he always that morning on some absurd theory 3.30 p.m.-Aa Attempt will be made him to work. He had ample pri-peratingly careless wife, who had of Siam from Bankaken the occasion of worked twelve hours a day...... 10
had all the gauze blinds removed. His presenting the Constitution to the Nalfon,
"Ah! You want to improve the of giving the place a good clean: 6.20-7.30 p.m.-Chinese recorded pro would say to her husband. "I am world too much," Mme. Aumonier
"Why don't you invent something gramme.
to kill them all?" gramme of Columbia and Regal records flies you make so much fuss about,
7-11.30 p.m. - European pro-satisfied with it as it is. As for the In his uninstructed mind he had no doubt some romantic idea of a 7.30-7.47. p.m. Operatie.
you may be eure Providence gave got the able mind of the Professor super-trap, but the childish remark them to us for some good reasons.
have seen a tree.
It is a table-land of brilliantly At present the Indians are topsociation. coloured rocks, split into winged shapes. La Paz, the capital, lies in a hollow of this "unar" plateau, surrounded by a painted forest of cliffs and dominated by the snow of Illiman).
Dle Meistersinger - Overture
(Wagner)
quiet, and possibly tuo cowed, people, to require more than a min- imum of rights, providing they are left alone. Some of them have evolved a simple type of commun Ism. The land, in such case, be- Yet within six hours it is possi longs to a group, who annually ble to cross the snow line, pass elect a chief. This Cacique col- through a cleft walled with icicles, lects taxes; and does all the buying and drop down, first by lorry and and selling on behalf of the com- then on mule-back, to the sub-munity, who share labour and pro- tropical Yungas. These are the fit. most beautiful of the many val
When the Indian's family is levs running eastwards, which overlarge, he is apt to hell a child, constitute the second and most fer- for a few shillings to work in some port), tile zone of Bolivia.. Most of them, better-class household, until it is Band- bogin as crevices between 1,500ft.)
grown up and realises that it need .cliffs, completely barren. They
not labour without wages. widen as they descend. Vegeta-| tion increases until, at 6,000ft., the Jand is preposterously fertile/
Indians Conscripted.
Four or five thousand Indianaj are conscripted every year. They
In the Yungas. tobacco grows return to their villages with ideas wild, Coffee trees spread high across the mule-tracks. Ferna and of discipline and of force. When glant maidenhair, poinsettias and they consider themselves ill-treat- bougainvillea are the weeds which led by the Cholo farmers they re- Sometimes they Oranges run riot. There are for-turn on their landlord, and blood eats of oranges and whole hillsides flows, chiefly Indian blood, for they of bananas. Among them the pink are shot down irrespective of right by hastily-summoned
threaten the
terraces of coca.
washed mud huts of the Indians are so deeply sunk that only the thatch is visible.
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the
fuse to work.
or wrong troops.
in the Middle Ages the Spanish A road through the Yungas, is took 500,000,000 doubloons out of under construction, but generally the 5,000 mouths of Potosi's metal in the dry
mountain. During our generation river beds of the eastern section of Bolivia became rich water-shei
the
two highways on
successive booma-first! of traffic. and the only luk silver and then tin. Even between the "altipinno" and the landowners say, "Come and see my third zone. This is low lying and mountain," instead of, "I want to tropical. It consists of plans, Bra-show you my farm.".
are
дож
zilian in character, called "lun- Bolivia is inclined to look in the gas" of the rubber swamps of the wrong direction. Certainly she Beni, and of the forests or scrub of needs a seaport. the disputed Chaco.
DX86.
Bruno Walter & Symphony Orch: Aida-Grand March. (Verdi)
Milan Symphony Orch: 9806.
.
Why don't you forget them?" thinking in a new direction.
"I can't," Professor Aumonter At the moment he merely shrug- would reply; they worry me.”. ged his shoulders and replied, "If was free only. I could, my little one." follow-
In his laboratory he
8 p.m.(Local Time & Weather Re-from them, since they were atrictly. Ing that up by a dissertation on the 7.47-8.30 p.m. Variety.
scientifically excluded. But his brief lassitude and Indifference of the hours of, rest were spoiled for him world at large. For it, as he said— Songs of Scotland
seven or eight months out of the ho had said the same thing so often Reg. Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards year, and he complained that the before that his wife never even Vocal Duet
annoyance. was telling upon his 'Leven Pounds of Heaven
health, spoiling his work. Layton & Johnstone
Speak to Me of Love
Song
DB942.
When he came in for his mid-day ment, still absent-mindedly intent
Torner Layton (Tenor), DB337 upon his research, he would suddenly become aware of his tormentors. So often the skull-cap he wore in the house had been mislaid (he had been) bald for ten years, although he was only, $7), and that smooth, shining head appeared to offer an irresistible Jattraction to the flies. Even when
Piano Solo
Words and Music-Selection
Billy Mayeri DB039, Ventriloquist Act-Insubordination
Arthur Prince & "Jim" DX412. Band-
What's Yours?
A Convivial Medley
More Melodious Memories
(Arr. Finek)
Herman Finck & His Orch. DX197/8 8.47-0.30 p.m.-Instrumental. Memories of Mendelssohn
(arr. Senr)
Octet
9610,
MONDAY'S STORY.
Monday's short story will .be. "The Murder of Mon- tague Harris," by C. G. Learoyd...
Debroy Somers Band DX385. (it was covered he found little relief. pretended to listen-If you could 8.30-8.17 p.m.-
The brutes would settle upon his stimulate people to concerted action,] face and hands, or engage one an-the thing could be done. Scrupulous other, with a maddening buzz clase attention for a few years to the to his ear. They were so exasperat destruction of all waste and putrefy- ingly foolish, so completely careless ing matter; the avoidance or treat- of the wild waving of his handker-ment of all stagnant water; a little Chief, so disdainful of his dignity, care and forethought exhibited by so impudent, so apparently uncon- the many; and the pest of Aies and selous of his rage, AL DENT mosquitoes could be grently
He had had gauze blinds made alleviated and
perhaps finally! for the windows, but they were nl- eliminated. "But the mass
f the ways being taken down by Mme. the people are careless, indi rent, Aumonier to air the rooms. They even to their own welfare," 1. con- lived near Avignon, and it was very cluded, with a glance at his wife. hot there in the Summer months. Nevertheless, that casual sugges- Also it was a great place for flies-- tion of Els little son's returned to all kinds of flies.
Fiano Solo
J. H. Squire Coleste: Octet Liebestraum (Dream of Love)
(No. 3) (Liszt)
Piano Solos
(a) Waltz. in A Flat (Brahms) (b) Springs Song (Mendelssohn)
William Murdoch 9274. A Venetian Barcarolle-Serenade
(arr. Willoughby) 3. H. Squire Celeste Octet DX211. Violin Solo
Indian Lament (Dvorak-Kreisler) Bourred (Sammons).
Albort Sammons 1484.
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 in F
(Liszt, arr. Sear)
South America could put every Octet One Third of Europe. other agricultural zone out of ac- Bolivia is supposed to have a tion if she faced the rest of the "population of approximately 3,000,- world as federation. Instead of
000, of which 60 per cent. are Inn, series of blindly competitive dían; anything up to 30 per cent. 'units.
ODD NAMES FOR
Southwark Is" Hops," What's "Liberty"?
GREAT MEN REMEMBERED.
By Ralph Bretherton.
We do not know now why fathe
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automatic system, that no two ex- change names shall begin with the same three letters, the good people who give us our telephones have been rather hard put to it to know quite what to call each new tele phone area. A
The Hop. Idea was good, of nam- early days of London's telephones ing an exchange after the chief an exchange across the river was local business, and it might have called Hop. It may have been been carried further. Then Min thought that strangers might mis-cing-lane. would have auggested pronounce Southwark-or, rather, Groceries or Mark-lane Corn, As pronounce it too Ilterally aright, it is, where the City begins to be the Port we have Royal That is according to its spelling..
On the other hand, it may have about as vague as can be, and it is
Octet
"
JH. Squiré Celeste Octet 9209. Harpsichord Solo-
Toccatina (Scarlatt)
DX58.
Fox Trot-
9.30-11.30 p.m.-Dance Music,
Sweethearts Forever There's a Crowd
Walt
Girl of a Million Dreams Fox- Trobi
News in Brief.
him that afternoon; got between him and his work, bothered him al- most as much as the flies them-1 selves.
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Moonlight on the Colorado exchange was christened Hop Royal.
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I think that that was the first ex- Terminus, too, is hard to place.
Oh . change to be, as it were, nick-nam- London has more than a dozen blg One Step *red. Others bad geographical termini, and we never give as a
Carry On names, from their districts, which direction, "Oh, go down by the Ter Fox Trot seems a commonsense plan, giving minus. Yet Terminus is the name Smile, Darn Ya, Smile rus a clue to the subscribers ad- of the telephone exchange in Hole Me
Alone With my Dreams dresses. But now, with a new ex- born...
31 Lost my Hoart in Heidelberg change, Liberty, added to the Fame Honoured,
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