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FINANCE IS
IS COLONY'S BIGGEST RADIO PROBLEM
War Grave Wreath Service
The Brith Legion has com- pleted arrangements for the acceptance of orders for, Wreaths to be placed on war graves (1310 or 1939-45).
The service is primarily intend-, ed to servs Individunt relativas of war ensualties burtet in Europe
Interesting sidelights on local broadcasting were
given in a talk by Mr. D. Keith Hardy; Pro- gramme Secretary of the Hong Kong. Broad- custing Station, before-Hong Kong-Rotary_yos- torday.
The speaker was with BBC before he joined up in the last war. He arrived in Hong Kong with the Royal Marine Commandos after the libera- tion.
On repatriation he rejoined the and close relatives, in particular, BBC and was later seconded to have been assured at a careful-Hong Kong. and tactful peronal service.
sels difce of the British Legion.
support
The other main target of] crittetem of ZDW has been the
of method
announcing And There is no one presentation. annoncer on duty at the time who is responsible for linking announcements, explained Mr. Keith Hardy, Due to the ox- tremely limited budget,
ara no full-time announcers on the staff and the station ralies
in hardly fair.
THE CHINA MAIL, WED NESDAY, JULY 7, 1948. „N!
Guerillas Weakening
Kozina, Greece, July 5. The.. Greik. Army Chief of
Staff, Gen. Demetelos Yastis,
-claimed today that quoelila forces are nearing the and of thelë” reflitînce in the Gram-
mos Mountain Aghting/
A break in the inter security belt" is expected soon. he told reportera,"adding " am. vary,
satisfied with our
.
admitted, · however, that guerilla defènce positions.. ere organised in great width, making it extremely dimbult to approach them except un- der continuðun· firé-Agio.... clated Press.
Personalia
RETURN BUS PASSAGE FOR KOWLOON BATHERS
Visitors to the various bathing brothés in Kowloðn | ||
will, from July 18, be able to book a return pastage oil the butês, on the No. 16A route (Jordan Road to Cattle Pääk), fald Mr. S.¿T. Lover, General Manager of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. Ltd., to a "Ching Mail" representative yesterday.
- M. Louny said that the greatest dimeully axperienced by his com- pany at present is catering for The hundreds of båtliers who re- jum from the benches in the evenings of 'Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays.
crowded.
the
Kowloon Twin-Decker
Bus Service
Department
"They go out, between #am. sdd 8 p.m.,” said Mr. Lobey, “but return more or less together from {@ pari, "onwards. The number of buses we have been able 16 pul Arrivals from Southampton on on partime amateur announcers Monday by BOAC "Speedbird"
ca. that route provad totally Confirmation of wreath laying, radio is that
The Colony's vexed problem in
Inadequate for thò large crowds, who give up their spare time of finance. It has
flying-bont, included
Messra. with the result that the vehicles together with a report on the con- just over 20,000
for a nominal fee. Comparison
The Forestry licence-holders
A.H.T. Turner W.D: Brown particularly with BBC in the dition of the griyo and cemetary.
circumstanos
temporary have, during the last few days, C. T. K. Doyle, M.J. Prior, B.N. will be sent direct from the Brus-ench paying only 12 a year, and
buies) were Invariably over been busily engaged in lopping ZOW and ZEK cannot
Cooper, 11. Cowan, R. Fairburn,sey
off branches from the Nathan themselves.
And what of television, of which Sun Po-un, Mrs. S.R. Scheffer We plan to place "additional Road trees in readiness for the
and Miss L Woolman. everyone nowadays is thinking,
buses
on that No. 18A roule dur-inauguration of Kowloon's and will telovision eventually kill
ing the week-ends. The vehicles double-deckor On the same aircraft were
bus service sound brendcasting, asked the Messrs. S. Smith mid K.5. Gilinin between Jordan. Road which, according to Mr. S.T. speaker. Mr. Keith Hardy suid in Calcutta); Mears., Edward sad Castle Pook every 20 minutes
take place his opinion it will be a very long from cut from dang up to 8 pm. Special buses will Louey will not time, if ever, before this happens.
cun up to the 13-mile, beach until the coming September. sides murty There are 50
an interview with a "China ut (kok).
from 7 pm onwards to pick up
representative yesterday, the swimmers along that sunsich Mai""
the broadcasting, for example news,
General Manager of
the music and serious talks, where to
of the road.”
Bus Co. Ltd Kowloon Motor ses tut well as to hear would
said that the recent dock strikes merely distract the attention.
in England has, no doubt, held
further shipments of the, uses ordered for this service.
The price of the wreath is HK$12 Inclusive of all costs of dispatch and of placing on the grave. Photographs of the graves, showing the poppy wreath placed.
can be arranged for smul extra charge.
Kaloy Service
With the Introduction of the Radio Relay Service next year, there may be several thousand
more licences, but still not enough Application forms and full do-to provide the public with what
they want.
falls may be obtained from the Hon. Secretary, Itong Kong & China Brunch, 915, Marina House, (Telephone 33004).
SANE JULY 4 OBSERVANCE: 564 KILLED
Chiago, July 0. The Fourth of July vacation ended today with 504 persons killed in holiday accidenta.
One of the things the au- thorities are most anxious to find out, sald Mr. Kälth Hardy, Is whether listeners would ba be willing to pay a few
few extra dollars a year, provided they felt that in doing so they would get the better programmbs and longer time-on-the air, includ- Ing an early morning BESSION that most people ars for,
Tolovision?
to have
•
BOAC arrivals from Singapore were Messrs. Lie Fen-plang. A. Jones, i.J. Baekond. Hầu
Chang Ten-you, Liong Yoko-sle, Chong Ee-seng, Teo Sit-bin, C.S Mino, E. Oltp Thompson and Lu Sui-syang.
Reservations
Asked how the envianged "booking plan" is to be operated,.. Mr. Louey explained that bathers | going out during the day can make reservations for the retur
When are we going
Departures from the Peninsula television in Hong Kong in hol an easy question to answer, sald Hotel on Monday were Mr. and
Mess Pip Mr. Keith Hardy. Technical dim- Mrs. R.P. Toulson,
ulties may be overcome,, but Rendu, J. Marcuse, M.A. Deutsch television Aaking
is extremely costly,P.H. Stover, J. Fromm and R.M. involving a huge staff and main-Marques, tenance, and he could hardly see a small place like Hong Kong in -position to support" such an undertaking.
One of the mast vital-functions of the local broadcasting stations, he added, is 10 entertain, and to entertain in the fullest schise
of
the word-brondenrting to inform und to educate, to create a public conscience and help publie opinion.
to form
!
up
Chassis Arrivo
"We have been informed by of the man- "Suppose," he said, "e person the local agonts
ufacturers that Borne of the desires to return from the beach at 6 p.m. He makes his reserva-chassis have arrived," said Mr. tlon, at either the Star Forry or ordered, We are expecting to re- Latey, "but not all of the 20 Among the arrivals at the Jerdan, Road terminum, fuld ceive a telegram anytime now Peninsula Hotel on Monday were bus lodying at that time. Should Messrs. Chester S. Miao, R. Falche be unable to take up his rand I prefer not to say anything bum, C. T. A. Doyle, M.J. Prior, servation Ave minutes before that more until I have heard from
the other side." The speaker won thanked by H. Cowan, E.C. Harrison, Major time his seat will be given to un- He revealed, however, that
and Mrs. R:R Prewitt, and Miss | ather passenger.
recent tests of improvised double- Rotarian A. W. Ingram.
8.R. Scheffer.
There is, course, nothing to
deckers (that is, ordinary chassis Hong Kong Rotary's new Fro-T
stop him from returning earlier
"skeleton' with
upper decks) who sident. Mr. D.S. Hill, presided at Among the passengers
OF later. Should he decido to take Jesterday's luncheon He ex-boarded CPA on Monday for
later bus than that on, which proved entirely satisfactory. The trees which have lined Nathan were Mr. and Mrs, he had made a reservation he will Road for years need not tended a cordial welcome, to two Manila schools must ultimately be plan visiting
eome ned. This is most important now, Cleme,
Rotariana Mr. F.C. Eulers, Mr. and Mr Green then have to wait for a vacant down, he said, but only required President of Kowloon wood, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hollings seat, or, in other words, until topping off
lower some of the with the present shortage of schools and teachers, although anotary, and Mr. Horace Kadoorie worth, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nestly,
Buses does not take up his re- Each double-decker will be fact school broadensting is only rom Shanghai,
servation.”
capable of scating 60 passengers, intended to be complementary to
"Yes," said Mr. Lousy in reply he said, adding" smilingly, "which to another question, "the ticket is will take quife highway accl-ordinary school teaching.
a load off the good for any bus along that road, other small busas during the provided there is a seat available, rush hours." en the day of issue."
Compared-with-inst year-when-i Kas died accidentally during the slonite three-day period it was a sole and sine observance,
The number of traffe deaths climbed slurply on Monday night
6 millions of weary vneniorer
returned, horne, ¿A štate vy #láte survey shower between 15. pm.
on Friday and midnight on Men day 202'died in -dents-The National Safety Con
ell had predicted 238, before the holiday began.
In addition 188 drowned, fpur were killed by fireworks, wh died in plane crashes and 120 kBied
niscellaneous accidents.
au-
An estimated 30,000,000 tomobiles were on the move dur ing the holliny,
A broadcasting
Bërvice
Radio Education
to
In order to make a. start with educational brondearting. two new expertments in radio educa- tion, will be presented this au-
tumn.
The first is a series of talks under the title of "University | Talks showing some of the
Guests present were Mr. J. H. B. General) Mr. Lee (Postmaster Candia Nie, and Dr. Rand. ··
methods employed by the univer-The
California, as usual, jeg dl) tha sitles at home in teaching their other states in the number of dead students. The other is 4-series-of- with a total of 54 tucluding 21 English by Radio” which will traffic deaths and 11 drownsstart over ZEK this autuinn, cou- Michigan was segund with 5, insisting of more than a hundred cluding 18 drownings. New York had 34 and Texas 33, United simple conversations in English. with accompanying Cantonese' or Mundaria commentaries.
Press.
MELBOURNE
UNIVERSITY CYCLOTRON
San Francisco, July 3. The Australian Government is considering installing an alom- amashing cyclotron at Melbourne University as part of its plons for defence," Radio Australia Bald today.
The broadcast, heard by
the
"Our local nawe bulletins are not entirely satisfactory, and have been criticised as not being local enough," said the speaker, who added that improvement might be expected very soon and a greater local coverage provided.
Woman Stabbed
scineone on any of the subsequent branclics. Messrs. Carl Kreutzigor, Emill
Vivoda, Commander W. Kirk wood, C.C. Mouter, Paul Scheffer, Francis Stremel, Robert Henkel, Gilbert Herant, E. Humar,. Miss
LATEST TURN IN ALBANIA CRISIS
Belgrado, July-5.. Yugoslav Legation in Tirona reported today that Albanian-police had prevented all-food- from being delivered to Yugoslav mosses in the border town of Scutari."
"This made feeding of Yugo- ble", sald the report_published slav. representatives impossi- in the Yugoslav Communist Party newspaper "Narda."
This is the intest turn In Al- relations with bznia's strained Marshal Tito. There Was no editorial comnient, e
Body
to
This booking concession, added the speaker, will be open everyone, scholars' Included:
Can't Meet Last Ferry
New Circus Programme
of:
The change in
programme the Kamala Circus attracted, an audience of more than 1,000 _last" night...
The cast of the show is pre- dominantly one of girl-artistes who perform with grace and skill in a number of unusual acts.
The Kowloon Motor Bus Co. is prepared to extend its early morning (after mid-
The audience last night reacted night) service, to meet the
mest appreciatively to the Stand last ferry from Hong Kong Cycle act by Nani, which is said
Not Found but is not in a position to do to be unequalled in circus his-
Was
SINO BRITISH
ORCHESTRA ·
As the schedule now stands, he while said, the drivors and conductors work aufficiently long hours and it would hardly be fair to ask them to do more. Furthermore, he added, it is doubtful. If the
A special meeting of members Drivers' Association would be of the Bino-British Club Orchestra agreeable to an extension of the will be held today at 6p.m. at hours.
rehearsal will not
50, sald Mr. S T. Louey, [tory. This is a cycle balance per- Police search for the body of General Manager to a "China formance at a. 35 feet. height
without supporting net." Mr. Victor MacDonald, Assis- Mall" representative yester-
The trapeze act Onale was also lant United Kingdom Trade | day.
well received. Yugoniny newspapers, today
Commissioner, .who wore filled with reports of re- newed allegiance to Marshal Tito drowned or June 27 with local committees of the salling near, Green Island, has Communist party. all aver the so far proved fruitless. country sending messages to Bel- "Not a sim" was the only grade that they are "with the given to an inquiry last night. ¡Marshal."
Mr. MacDonald fell overboard The National Organisation of while fitting an outboard motor -A 33-year-old married wo-
War Invalids resolved today to his craft when sailing with his tion of Matauwei Road
toward helping to build so- the American Express, Company, Baliey Road carly- yesterday ciulism under the programme of Despite Mr. de Jong's efforts to have to report for work at 6. d.m. Object of the meeting is to dis morning by a young Chinese.
save him, Mr. MacDonald sank. Hau So-lan, wife of a Shanghal
The MacDonalds arrived here fost men got in after I am which curs the future of the Orchestru barbershop owner, was on" her.
February. Mrs. Machonald flew to England last Sunday. means a total of 30 hours in two and elect. officers, Refreshments way to work at the China Cotton
Diplomatic representatives, in Yarn
anife. Anyone who has been drive will be provided. Factory when she was ac several countries have
Following the drowning traing for 10 hours continuously will altacked costed by the young man, who the Cominform charge declaring edy, constal stations and all oppreciate the strai still at large.
that they are with the Yugoslnyce Launchies have been alerted, The victim, who was delained Cavemment. The latest to make but the 10-day vigilance has at the Kowloon Hospital, was re-such a declaration was the Tu brought no reaût yet.
United Press at San Francisco, man was stabbed at the June that they will renew. their efforts wife and Mr. Pierre de Jong, of you ate", he explained, "come St. John's Cathedral Hall. The
said that Australie had set aside US$134,000,000 from the defenco budget for selentine reserch, in- cluding atomic experiments. roc. ket rosearch and "top secret" ac tivities:United Press.
MISSIONARY LAND RETURNED
Tokyo, July 0. . Property consisting of 721,000 square feet of land and buildings near Yokohama been, restored by General Mac
several has
Arthur's headquarters to the Franciscan missionaries of Mary,
a Catholic religious order..
parted to ha "improving.”
and
Marshal Tito.
·
Loan Success
goslav representative in Swit-
No reason for the attack was serland.-Associated Pres given estima
1
AAG CANTON TRAINING CENTRE
'Nanking, July 0..
|
Manchester, July 5. -Britain's government sponsored
raw cotton commission cut prices. of American cotton sold to British milla on Sunday. It wás. the Brit cotton price out in five years.
la
PAKISTAN CRUSADERS
| Karachi,: July '8. The Paklatant `Constituent Ak-
usual
of the drivers. (and conductors) place,
to take out the frat buses. ThS.
90 Vehicles
Asked how many buses (ox- eluding the converted ones) are on the 'roads ať přežent,⠀⠀ “Me- Taniny sold the company Has à working feet of 10 venteles. In are 47, "Commer** and charis on which bodies sembly's deputy president, Tanico- Brig-Gen. Laurence B. Kelser,
Following a drop in prices on zuddin Ahmad, announced today are being built a rapidly In 1943, the sisters were forced Director of the ground division of the New York market, the Board that "well trained, fully equipped possible. There are eight more èso ́navy, who used it for medicni |Group, 'left Nanking today for American fibres by 1-2 pence per Pot the Zionist agressoru to sell the property to the Japan- the Amerion Army
Advisory reduced its selling
price for Pakistan trusaders will soon be 18-passengers ones to the com
the Palestine front to aunty's other garage, he said, with Canton to help in the establishe and athlelle purposes.
* soina more vehicles arriving soon. mont of an AAG Canton training pound (2 conis US).
Since 1943 prices have steadily He appealed for
"When all these new buses are After the war, the sisters re centre.
enormous turned to thair property and are The Canton centro will advise climbed from less than eight funds because "our volunteers put on the road (which, I hope, operating a home for old Japan- the reorganisation and training of pance to a peak of 28 1/2 pence must be provided: with adequate will be within the next month of Cre-women and also noviliate three chinese divisions, United per pound this year. The Beard arms and, all viher ssential two), we shall be issuing, benson for Japanese stateRenter
for both dúlte “ 'and. tickets buya qotton for all British Lists | equipmimi"--Ansdelatud: Prem.–
scholars. At the moment we can do nothing as the torry-bites, though operated, by us, do not belong to 116
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"Furthermore, we shall be in troducing." second-class" atcorn- modation on all the buses. As ses can see for yourself, pre parations for this are being made.
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Masterpiece OF YESTERDAY
“The Duchess of Davönáhlen"** wat peinted by Gainsborough in 1793, Stolin and missing for- twenty-fivo' yosin ka- moovery restored to the world a diétia». guished-portrait.
Martell too has been lost to the world of recent yezhi but it returns”onça more sparkling and untulliedThe Classic-ilandy.
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Cladra Hall
Minions Seamon, 4.30 pm. Amateur Dramatic Club, Europe
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West Lounge, 0 p.m.“ Sino-British Club Orchestra
members meeting: St. John' Cathedral Hall, 0 p.m. d
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Toc # Club meeting, Talbot
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Golf Club extraordinary meeting, Roof Garden,, ILK Hotel, 5.30 p.mk.
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