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THE CHINA MAIL; JULY 31, 1941.
RADIO WING WALKING PILOT
6.00 p.m.-Indian, Programme,
6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quota-
tions,
0.47 p.m.-Half An Hour of Hill Billy
Music.
It Ain't Nobody's Biz'ness What I Do (Browne & Others); Oh Susannah; We'll Rest At The End of The Trail (Poulton. Hose). The Rocky Mountaineers,
QUELLS FIRE, SAVES
CRIPPLED R.A.F. BOMBER
A SMOKING, CRIPPLED WELLINGTON NIGHT BOMBER The Hill Bly Band (Al & Bob Har-
vey): Susanna From Alabama (Tod LANDED AT A ROYAL AIR FORCE AERODROME, SAVED BY A with WING-WALKING PILOT WHO FOUGHT FLAMES IN MID-AIR & Ezra)...The Hi Billies Novelty Accomp.
OVER THE TURBULENT NORTH SEA. THE WELLINGTON HAD Home On The Range (Mr. & Mrs. HEADED HOME AFTER BOMBING MUENSTER, IN GERMANY, William Godwin) The Last Round WHEN A MESSERSCHMITT 110 ROARED UP FROM BELOW Up (Billy Hill)....Hank Keeno
WING TIP TO (Vocal) with Violin, Banjo, Galtar WITH GUNS BLAZING AND RAKED IT FROM WING TIP, THE CREW RELATED RECENTLY.
& Piano Memories Of An Old Cow Hand (HM
The Billies)
FX111 Billies with own Novelty Accomp Down The Old Road To Home (Rod- Rers & C Harvey); Prairie Lullaby (Hill) Jimmie Rodgers (Yodter). 7.17 p.m.-Piano Duets by Moreton and
Kaye.
I
No 20-Intro: Tin Pan Alley Medley
Any I Can't Love You
More: Haven't Time To Be A Millionatre: We'll Go Siniling Along: Mist On The River. Fools Rush In: Make Believe Island
Tin Pan Alley Medley No 30-Intro: Whose Little What's-It Are You?; Turn Your Money In Your Pocket: I'm Nobody's Baby: I'm Stepplat
AID TO CHINA DOLLAR
Everything seemned to happen. The front gunner was wounded in the foot. The starboard engine was badly damaged. The radio was knocked out. The undercar- bomb riage flopped down. 'The doors swung open. cockpit Alled with smoke.
The pilot's
A sheet of flame four feet long flared out where # gasoline feed pipe in the wing had been hit by a cannon shell.
the
The freezing of Chinese Apparently confident that Oul Wuh A Memory Tonight and Japanese assets by bomber was nearly finished,
German plane closed in twenty
When the Swallows Come Back to
Capistrano, Until You Fall In Love the democracies can be in-yards. The
7.30 p.m.Mits from the Shows".
(Wall Disney Alm)
& Chorus Orchestra directed by Jay Wilbur
Waltzing Irt "Spring Parade“
the
Wellington's rear fired a 200-round burst and the Messerschmitt went into
"Snow White & The Seven Dwarf" terpreted as an effective gunner , measure to put China's a spin. The currency position on a Durbin with Charles Previn's Orch firmer basis, says
Clouds (Robert & others) Deanna
trouble
But the Wellington's the was just starting. She was over
"Andy Hardy Meels A Debutante"~ "Kung Sheung Daily the Netherlands at the IJsselmeer
I'm Nubody's Baby--Quick-Step Oscar Rabin & hla Band "Down Argentine Way"--Two Dreams
| News,
(Zuider Zee) at 13,000 feet. The
leading Chinese pilot headed for the nearest Brit-
Met (Gordon Warren) Kenny financial daily in Honglish land.
Baker with Orchestra
*Irene-Alice Blue Gown Waltz Kong.
-
Tierney)
Glenn
an ex-
A Flames raged in the wing. What has troubled China most crew member knocked a hole i in that she, with the Anglo-Am- the fuselage and pumped Sweet
but the erican stabilisation fund in her tinguisher at the fire, Monacol:
Paradise hand, could not "feed" the Shang-propeller blast blew the chemical the crew tossed Dorothy hai market with foreign exchange away. Then
To do this, would have meant to coffee on the flames, but the fire let the Japanese have exactly raged on. what they wanted.
¡McCarthy Miller & his Orchestra. "The Road to Singapore"
Potato Piper (Burke of "Typhoon"-Palms (Loesser-Hollander) Lamour & Orchestra "Rhythm On The River"-Only For Ever (Burke-Monaco).Al Bowlly & Jimmy Mesene with two gultars, 8.00 p.m.-London-The News. 8.15 p.m.-London-War Commentary.
Post". 8.25 p.m.Landon "Listening
Examination of Points in Daily Ger- man Propaganda, 8.30 p.m.-Programme Summary, 8.32 p.m.-Fritz Krelsior (Violin) and
the London Symphony Orchestra. Jota (De Folla);
Serenade (Glazounov. arr. Kreisler)....Fritz Kreisler with Plano. Persian
Spanish
Dances (Moussorgsky, arr. Sym- Rimsky-Korsakov)...London
phony Orchestra cond. by Albert Coates
Dancing Doll (Poldin'-Kreisler)...
Fritz Kreisler with Piano Triumphal March
(from "Caracta cus" Op. 35-Elgar) London Symphony Orchestra cond. by L. Collingwood Llobesteld (Love's Sorrow); Liebes- Fritz Kreisler freud (Love's Joy).
with Piano
9.00 p.m.-Local
Announcements.
Timo Signal and
9.02 p.m.-Popular English Songs.
Widdicombe Fair (Arr. Jacob): Rich- art of Taunton Deane Arr, Molloy
Stuart Robertson & Male Chorus with Piano.
Now the Shanghai banks. by
the controls The pilot turned virtue of the "freezing order."over to the navigator and climb- He kicked a can refuse to sell foreign ex-ed out on the wing.
to the change
Japanese. while hole in the upper surface to hold the fire they can sell to legitimate Chinese on to and tried to beat merchants with the approval of out. the authorities, the paper points out.
"Once or twice," he said, "I This can save for China a lot thought I was going." of foreign exchange.
If this aim is achieved, it
Finally he stuffed reasonable to believe that com-cover into the hole
modity prices in Shanghai show a downward trend
is
will that
is to say, the national dollar will show an upward trend, the daily predicts.
ALL ITALIAN EAST AFRICA
CONQUERED
the cockpit the flames were coming from and it seemed to smother them.
"All the time," he said, "I kept thinking it would be prison camp for us."
Over the North Sea the crew guns, am- jettisoned the front munition and all flares.
It
took
an hour and a half to cross to the English shore.
When the bomber was still len England the gasoline the whole of the Italian line flared again, but suddenly died out. The pilot flew on and East African Empire has now
wire- been conquered is made by the the radioman repaired the
less outfit. When the 'plane Foreign Office and War Office.
aero- a strange British They state that "the whole of reached
drome he sent the message: "We known the territories, formerly
I hope as Italian East Africa, are areas have been badly shot up.
we don't mess up your flare path in occupation of His Majesty."
The Board of Trade have ac- when we land." cordingly issued an order author-
Jack The Fiddler: The Ballad-Mon- First official announcement miles from
ger: Fairings: Come To The Fair that {"Songs of the Fair) Percy Herning (Baritone) with Orchestra.
9.15 p.m.-Studio-Broadcast to Evaou-
ated Families in Australia.
in 9.45-10,00 p.m.-News French (on
Short Wave only). 9.45 p.m.-Light Orchestral Selections.
The Clock and the Dresden China Figures (Ketelbey)... Ferdy Kauff man & bis Orchestra; The Skaters -Waltz (Gung')....Marck Weber & his Orchestra; Sweet (Young)...ising the resumption of trade with Jack Hylton & his Orchestra,
persons within this area. 10.00 p.m.-London-The News and fish Wireless.
News Commentary,
10.15 p.m.-Now Dance Music and
Variety.
Vocal-Good-morning. Sergeant-Major 11.00 p.m.-London-"War
dance".
11.15 p.m.-Close down.
Correspon-
A.B. TURNS FILM STAR
An ordinary able seaman, Billy' White, is the screen's newest star, writes Reg Whitley, "Daily Mirror" Film Critic.
He makes his highly success- twenty-minute documentary filmm made by the Crown: Film Unit.
Acted entirely by a cast of actual seamen they found Billy White, aboard a ship returned from China it is a real-life drama of a convoy."
Has His Revenge
Billy joins a ship which is mortally hit, and is rescued by lifeboat I'll get my own back," he says.
So he joins another ship, takes up a gunnery course," makes a perilous voyage through a mine- field and then spots a U-boat,
There is a crash of guns and Nipper, A.B, has his revenge.
A simple story of our gallant seamen, but with more genuine thrills than many a full-length feature film"
The 'plane landed without flaps Bri-or brakeş-and without a crash.
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