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TO-DAY'S PROGRAMME.
Progress In Modern Invention
(Continued from Page 10.) foundly influence developments in this part of the world during the Flying Puiman cars will cross-next twenty-one years. We must their influence and The following programme will cross the skies of Asia at no very not underrate be broadcast to-day from the Hong distant date. The caravans of the the effect of it upon world affairs. always had deeper Kong Broadcasting Station Z.B.W. future that will carry you over the Women have on a wavelength of 355 metres Gobi desert will have wings and spiritual feelings than men and have (845 K.Cs) :-
been responsible for most of the speed and power.
Power Within the Atom refinements that have changed the 12.30 p.m.-European programme of But that is only a beginning.cave-man into the good citizen of
Victor & Brunswick records What about these fascinating source to-day, kindly supplied by Messrs. of energy in electrons? You know
Fook
18th Century Minda
If the history of the last 21 years 1 p.m.- Local Time & Weather Re what work coal will do for you and
port
how much more reliable it is than teaches us anything it is that un-
energy.
What 1.15 p.m.-A relay of the Hong Kong musclar
about restricted nationalism will not work.) Hotel Orch. by Courtesy of the nuclear energy-the as yet unliber. We cannot run the twentieth cen- Management. (During the inter-ated power within the atoms of the tury world with eighteenth century Vnin recorded music will be broadcast from the Studio). carbon and hydrogen with make up minds. Communications have so im-}
Press, News, the coal? It is enormously more proved and nations are so dependent London & New York powerful.
on each other that socially the world Stock Quotations, elc.
The scientists have no doubt about has shrunk to the dimensions of s 2.15 p.m.-Close Down.
the energy of these electrons, these tribe. tiny planets of a world within thei
1.30
Selected by
4.30- 7 p.m.-Chinese programme..
Children's Concert. 6-6.15 p.m.
Wo must have this new kind of! 7-10.30 p.m.-European programme.atom-they have measured it. And, patriotism which is styled "World 7-1.18 p.m.-Operatie. Tales of Hoffman-Selection
Just as a human finger may explode Patriotism"; and there is nothing in in a second a gigantic mine, soit conflicting with our old loyalties (Offenbach)
may a human thought-wave reveal and our old allegiances. the key to this inexhaustible and The magic of mass production has tremendous source of power.
carried everything before it; it is
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. La Boheme-Selection (Puccini)
De Groot & the Piccadilly Orch. *.18 p.m.Selected London & New York Stock Quotations, elc. 7.30-8.20 p.m.-A Concert.
8 p.m.-(Local Time & Weather
port). Orchestral-
Gipsy Love-Selection (Lehar)
De Groot & His Orchestra, Piano Solo-
Pierrette (Chaminade} Dan-e Creole (Chaminade)
Song-
Una Bourne.
By the Waters of Minnetonka
(Licurnnee)
The dazzling unknown that we bringing before the masses this call electricity still hides within the chofce between order and chaos. It Re-atom, even though it blazes forth in still leaves unanswered the "Why?" the heavens as lightning and is and the "Whence?" No guide for chained to the service of man, by the daily conduct has yet been produced machines and cables planted in all that is better than the Golden Rule;} parts of the world.
nothing more difficult has been given The Transformation
us than to put it into daily practice.! And the biologists, what are they The mass publicity of broadcast- doing? Evolving new plants, clearing stations and the whirling print- ing the earth of Insect pests, making presses have given us the choice ing two blades of grass grow where of the wisdom of the ages. We now before was only one, and with the have available a literature ranging co-operation of irrigation experts, over millions of books, from the changing the desert into a land sayings of Solomon, the sage coun- flowing with milk and honey. sels of Confucius, the gospels of the Everywhere the battalions of religions teachers, the fables, the scientific workers
are making life tragedies and the comedies of every better, creating health and more country and every age. You have leisure so rapidly that now there is no excuse if you are a parasite on anxiety last leisure shall mean idle-society--you can chose a dynamic or ¡ness, for we know that idleness an idle life.
as we grow older, we Heads to deterioration of character.
Man was originally an utterly believe with the poet that "Life is improvident animal. An empty maw mostly froth and trouble" we can was his chief incentive to activity, at least remember his consolation. His leisure was the lethargy after that "two things stand like stone." a good gorge. But a long line of They are, he tell us, "Kindness in Inventora has provided him, not only another's trouble, courage in your with most of his material needs.4 own."
The Lass with the Dellicate Air
(Arne)
Mavis Bennett (Soprano), Instrumental---
Quartet in D Major-Necturne
(Borodin)
Budapest String Quartet. Violin Salo-
Potichinelle Serenade (Kreisler) Dane of the Marlonetle
(Winternitz)
Song-
Fritz Kreisler,
A Fairy Story by the Fire
(Merikanto)
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal
(Quilter)
John McCormack (Tenor),
Orchestral
Waldteufel Memories (arr. Finck)
De Great & His Orchestra, 8.20-9 p.m.-Orchestraf. The Grasshopper's Dance
(Bucalossi)
La Siesta (Barcarolle)
(Norton, arr. Lotter)
The Palladium Orchestra, animal if he lives by bread alone.
May Night Overture (Rimsky-Korsakow)
London Symphony Orchestra, Carnaval Sutte. Op. 9 (Schumann) London Symphony Orchestra con-
ducted by Sir London Ronald. 9-9.30 p.m. From the Studio. 9.30-9.40 pm-Band Selections. Softly Awakes my Heart
("Samson and Delilah") (Saint-Saens)
Band of H.M. Coldstream Guarda. Marche aux Flambeaux
(Meyerbeer)
Tannhauser-March (Wagner) Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards. 9.40-10.10 p.m. From the Studio, A Concert of Gilbert & Sullivans
Music. The Artistes include Mrs. N.
Mathieson, Mrs. Snowdon-Jones Andiss, Dr. Ride and Mr. Fre-, derick Mason.
*0.10-10.28 .m.
Nursery Suite (Elger)
Sir Edward Elgar conducting the
London Symphony Orch.
10.28 p.m.-Rugby Press News.
10.30 p.m.Close Down.
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Reb Motye And King Napoleon
(Continued from Page 7.)
Hong Kong Changes
And if.
but with sufficient leisure to make Those are ideas that remain true him realise that he lives only as an whatever happena in this changing world. Science and mass produc- tion has enormously raised the aver I think that of all the myriad juge standard of living, and let us be changes that have taken place since sanguine enough to believe that it I came to Hong Kong twenty-one has also raised the average standard years ago, none have been more re- of human conduct. For if we can- markable than the transformation not believe that, then is all our jof the Chinese girl. The new out-work wasted and our effort made in
look of these young women will pro- I vain.
He opened the door-put two fingers in his mouth and gave one shrill whistle, such as only a king! may indulge in, Soon the two generals rushed in with soldiers. "Take him. Arrest him. Shoot him at dawn," Napoleon commanded.
No use appealing for mercy. The king had said "Shoot," and shoot it would be. No monkey- ing with Royal orders.
The only favour they granted! him was permission to take his! prayer-book containing death- bed confession.
At dawn they took him into the courtyard and put himį against a wall. Six' soldiers were placed opposite him with loaded rifles, ready to fire. officer came up and blindfolded! him and the drummers began toj. beat a tattoo,
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