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COVETED HONOUR
FOR MUSICIAN
Sibelius
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC GOLD MEDAL
London-Jean Sibelius, the: 70-year-old Finnish composer. has been awarded one of thei Imost
which coveted honours
any
can
be bestowed од musician, the Royal Philhar monic Gold Medal
After his Sixth Symphony had been played by the London Orchestra st Philharmonic
Queen's Hall, the medal was presented by
Sir Thomas]
Beecham to Mr. G. A. Gripen-j berg, the Firmish Minister, who received it on behalf of the composer.
com-
Sir Thomas said that Sibelius was an international figure.
"Like any other true poser," he added, "appreciation of his works has been slow and gradual, but they have now taken a firm hold on the affec tions of the whole of the musi cal public."
Message Head
Mr. Gripenberg read the fol- lowing message from Sibelius:
"This great distinction, the
Premier Mussolini's sons, Fitocin (at right in the foreground)) and Bruno (middle facing the camera), pastorraphe, arter bombing attack on the Algesiniza Fura.
RESCUE FIRE SETS SHIP ALIGHT Embarrassing Choice For Crew
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COSTS ON
RADIO Secret Station In Operation
Genera
Beethoven' Gold Medal, great- Berlin-A choice between dayn-
For more than a week. the lest that can be given to a coming or being burned to death faced
feel poser, makes me
very the crew of the German motor-police here have been searching in honoured and proud. The freighter Regulis when she ran on vain for a secret Communist Royal Philharmonic Society has a reef off the German North Sea Broadcasting Station.
It has been operating from here| jalways shown great interest in coast...
my works and admirable under- When she struck, the captain lit on a wave-length close to that of standing of them. The syma fire to summon help from land. Scottens, the principal French-lan- pathy my music has always met He was feeding the fames with gange station of Switzerland- with in England is such that petrol when the storm knocked the The station has been broadcast- ing Communist songs and speeches. can never forget how much it
Beater.
I
petrol can out of his hand.
has meant to me, and my grate- The petrol burst into firmes and fulness towards England will spread all over the deck, setting last to the end of my life." the whole ship alight.
were
The Finnish Minister told
But just as the sailors Reuter that the medal would be about to cast themselves into the RADIO taken to Sibelius by a diploma-boiling sea, the lifeboat from tic courier. together with a pro Norderney, Hanover, which had gramme of the consert signed seen the leaping-fames, came to by Sir Thomas Beecham and their rescue-and saved them all the Directors of the Society--Beater.
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WEATHER-REPORT. ed up, and a V-shaped depressult of a wiring defect which
sion has developed over the enveloped the coach-in flames at North-east winds 11 o'clock on Wednesday night, The anticyclone is moving Loochoos.
the train was passing slowly eastward, and pressure fresh, fine generally, was the when is now highest over the Sea of forecast for to-day,
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