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ANTHONY QUINN - GEORGE TOBIAS
JANI OYLER
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January 31st, Monday only.
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BETTY GRABLE DICK HAYMES
THE
Shocking
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- February 1st, Tuesday
THE SECRET LIFE OF
WALTER MITTY" Danny Kaye - Virginia Mayo
SPECIAL MORNING SHOWS Saturday, Jan. 29, 12 noon Spencer Tracy in "NORTH WEST
PASSAGE"
Sunday, Jan. 30th, 12 noon Humphrey Bogart in "ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY-20, 1949,
RUSSIAN STRENGTH AND HER WEAKNESS
Berlin, January 28.
What are the strength and weaknesses of the Soviet
Union and its policies in Europe?
A top American general summed up this question privately by saying: "Why should 400,000,000 people (North and South America and Western Europe) with three-fourths of the world's pro- ductive capacity fear 180,000,000 - primitive people with only a fraction of this production?"
This is an over-simplification The Soviet position has several of the relative strength of Rus-outstanding weaknesses. sia and its puppet states. Russia
First of these is its low in-.
compared to has some strength out of pro- dustrial potential portion to its size, but is far the West. Modern wars are run werker than the united Westh Industrial strength, and sicel is the Index Russia's Bur-year which-is-not-yet-omutprogramme calls for 20,000,000 tons of steel yearly by 1950. This large armed is about one-fourth as much as fore in Europe, with advance U.S. can produce in even an guards deep in Germany, through average year,
Carlly.
Russla
han
the use of its occupation zone.
This automatically gives it a power advaninge by holding over
Uncertain Allies
the West of Europe the silent but Britain produces now 15,000.000 thrent of initury tons. Even with reparations de-
potential #tion.
liveries, crippled Germany has a
Canadian Premier To See Truman
Washington, January 27. President Truman has in- vifid the Canadian Prime Minister,
Mr. Louis St. Laurent, to come_to_Wash- Ington on February 12,
The President told his press conference that he does not intend to ralis, any speel. fle questions with Mr. St. Laurant. The purpose of the vielt is to permit the Cana. dian Prime Minister and „himsdif...to pansivchain10-
quaintance.
The President sald Mr. Bt. Laurent has accepted the in- vitation. The visit han no- thing to do with the nego. tlations for a North Atlantic Pact, now in propres here. ---Reutér
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Peer As Private In The Guards
· Kajala Lumpur, January 28,
|The 19-year-old lad who is 12th in line of succession to the British throne is just plain Private Jamia Camogie to his fellow soldiers in the Scots Guards.
Looting
Increase In Manila
Manila, January 28. Looting of telephone and telegraph wires and cabled in Munila has reacted scrimy pro portions, and the Constabulary and police have bech urgód to exercise the utmost Villance
Lord Carnegie, son and heir to the Earl of Southesk and the late Princess Maud. arrived, ro- cently" in "Slngapore aboard the troopship Dunerd. Soon after- wards he felt by train for this Federal capitul.
wns con
- Private Carnegie scripted under national servier cumulations for a year of mill- tary service. Then he plans to do some farming" on the family catales in Seoshare th back to the 17th century.
Tho
poor gets young Guardamian's pay 'and Ilves un der exactly the same condi higrany stretches whiche the
tlons'as do his follow.privatea
He explained that he falled In jhieves are operating.
the exam fór a commission. Mr. Felipe Cuaderno, Direct should be exciting," of the Telecommunications Bureau,ald, as he spoke of prospective Bald that if the stolen wires ture
be
fall end to end they will stretch fighting against the terrorista and agriculture, but lacking in from one end of the Philippines who have reen waging guerilia industrial potential,
to the other and half way other residents as well as the warfare against planters nod Some help might be obtained Furthermore, tito from Industrial Czechoslovs Balkans, ruled
explosive "plus enough lengths to hang the
authorities for some time. kla, but Czech production imincritles,
by Communist footers."
The Government loss alone is would be uncertales within reach of Western then and
bombers,
atom allies in the event of war. Count-more than 150,000 pesos and the can
less thousands would welcomong-distance telephone company The rest of Russia's satelites the opportunity to throw off the also suffered heavily. are like her-rich in mnapower' Soviet yake.-Associated Press.
This advantage is offset senne-empacity of 12,000,000. what by the presence of Ameri- ena troops in Western Germany. As long as these troops are there, Rusia must overrun involve, America before it 'get at the rest of Germany,
Fifth Column
The Soviet Army is the lar gest in the world and has quick land access to Europe, and this will always bo considered in diplomacy, just of small na
the
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tions always had to consider This is Ratio Hong Kang threat of overwhelming broadcasting on frequency of Nazi force in their negotiations. 845 kilocycles per second and on Adderl to Soviet military P.52 megacycles per second in the strength is the diplomaile and, 31 metre band.
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strength that tan lie exerted through Communist Party cells. Germany this
In
Western
strength is negligible. In Britain, it scarcely has nuisance value. In France and. Italy. It is a potent fuctor.
As, an espionage and fifth column force In war, it would be even more threatening. There Is a growing feeling. however, that its effect in war would be about the harassing and crippling, but not strong enough to be decisive.
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Goodwill Gone
peace
There is no way of telling until war comes. It can only be listed ast source of Soviet strength effectiveness unknown,
One of the Soviet's chief sour-
of €
strength has dwindled away to nothing. This was the reserve of good will it had coupled with thousands of honest sympathisers at the end of the
war.
Ruthless Soviet destruction of civil liberties In Eastern Europe And "rule" policy for the rest of Europe have delvon this large group into oppoel. ilon.
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and Concert
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·Davidson and His Orchestra. 10.15 am-Harry Hay'a Tiger Rauf
finTwo Plans with Strings and 10. am."ĺ
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10.30
11.00
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And Anne"-Am- tro and His Orchestra and Anne Shellan (Vocal) (UCTS). 11.30a.m.-Fred Hartley and a Music.
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11.45 -"Jars Oztet." (NBCTB) 12.00 .est-Come Jato
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12.32 pm A Ight Orchestral Pro- gramme with Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth.
1.15 p.m.-News, Weather Report and
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1.65 p.m.-A Concert.
1.20 p.m."Music Time" Gwen Catier. Helen Clare, Jerry Verne und
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4.00pm The Old Order Change"
This was the Cockney" (BRCTS) (By special request).
Until recently Lord Cornegie was 11th in the line of Royal succession. The birth of Prince Charles set him back a notch. I did see the baby
before we sailed
for
Quezon City, which adjoins Manila, was temporarily isolated the last night.. when cable thieves | Maliya,”- hét sold,' atole 160 yards of lead covered "The King and Queen asked: wire belonging to the telephone | me to come round to the Palace company.
bilbre the Christening. So I
The activity of wire thieves is had a proview, Charles looked |
to the great demand for wonderful, bin just snorted at scrop copper abroad.-Unitedine"-Associated Press.
Press.
18.15 p.Emma" The Novel by Jane due Austen stapted for nausting by H. Olddels Box, '(MRO) 0.15 .Symphony Concert" Nach Concerto in D Mur for Two Vlo In and Orchesten... Arthur Gromiaux and Jean Fougnet (Vin Binay with the Philharmonik Orch. Conilt by Walter Buskind Behn bert: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Majors...Bir Thomas
Bechain
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10.16 p.m.-Weather Report, 10.16 p.m.-"Symphony Concert
Cont'd) Debussy: Prelude a L'agron ', MUI d'an Faunte....Philadelphia 10: chestra un Leopold Stokowaky Medtner Concerti. (Ballatie) No. 5 In E Minnt, Op 80....Nicholas Medtner (Plana) and the Phlbar monia Orth Conducted by Jay Debrowen, Interludes Acherzetto (Whitlock) Gevre D Cunningham at the Organ, 15.40 pm-ple conducted by the
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This is Radio Hong Kong' broadcasting on a frequency of 045 kilocycles per second and on 0.52 megneycles per second in the 31 metre band. HiK.T.
800, .m-Dad af H:M Grenadier
Guarda old David Lloyd, (Tenor) 8,8 KM/"From the Bhair."
9,30 mm-"Music for Romanow" › Bag Leopold and Hla Plazepa with Jack Cooper to sing onors.
4.40 p.m.-Marie of Bir Edward Ger. 15.00 ."Film Memories,"
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6.00 p.m.--The Savage Great" A Comedy by Willlum.........ParzOW,, (BNCTS)
6.00 p.m-Programme Summery, 0.01 pm.Unit Requreis-Linda Daler Calling Bader Section, 88 Squadron
•Kal Tak (Studio)
7.60 p.m.World News and News An-
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1.10 p.m.-Carroll Gibbens (Piano) "On
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1.30 p.3.-"Orand Hotel" Albert Band- Jer and Palm Court Oreb, with, *Bylvia Cecil (Soprano)! (BÜCTE) 8.00 ."From the Editorials." (Lon
-don Melay) 5.10 matundar Bond-Up" The Chinese New Year's-An' Interview With Mr B, C, Lax, (Bludla). The Programme Secretary of the C): newb Division Radio Hong Kong, (Studio)
3.15 ports Rasults, (Btudio)
130 Warner "Die Vakura” Al
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George Crow and flis Blue-Mari *** Dance Band, with Darbars Sumner (Vocal) (NACTE)
1.00 pm-Favourite Walts Medleya. 1.15 p.tw.News, "Weather --Report' and'
Announcementa, Met
1.25 mhimire - Memories- played by
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Athens, January 28. The United States Ambasador and the chiefs of the British and, United States military missions to Greece will be entitled to alt on a bill passed by the Grack Cabinet War Council created in a draft
toulght.-Reuter.
2.50 p.m."[1'» ^{11 the Afr Variety. Request Programme presented by Bosan Howard. (Budio) 3.00 p.m.-The Mikado Comle Opera i glibert and Bulilian: secorded under the personal supervision of Rupert D'Avis Carte with a cast from the D'Orly Carte Opera Cómo. 4.20 p.m.-Mantovant and His Orchestra:
RUSSIANS GET GAOL FOR RAPE
Berlin, January 27.
The British-licensed German news agency, DPD, reports that a Soviet court murtial at Rathe- now, In the Soviet Zane of Ger- †mány; today found two Russian soldiers guilty of attempting to tape the wife of the local Rus- slan Commandant and sentenced. [thém to 25 years!
A German railwayman who E.00 pmChildrens Halt Hour. Budia) rescue the woman when the two 1.80 p.m.-Commonwealth Variety 'Band-
box with Artistes from the Britiabaldiers, both drunk, attacked her Commonwealth of Nations, (DCT) in the street, was rewarded with Bu Tour.two food parcels, the agency sid The Commandant's wife identi
0.80 p.m.-'ortuguese
-(Studio)
7.00 y.m-Weeld Naws and News And the two soldiers next morning
aly. Bán Rolky)
-the entire Russian garrison when 7.26. Tim Adventures of Cholomnisler was ordered to parade before her.
by Jonathon B19) (Studio)
7.20 p.m.-pital Request Half Hour Presented by Nan Dickinson (Studio).
8.00, pime" From the Editorials?” (Dame)
don Reix
8.10 p.m.-—-English 'Madrigale sung by
the "Cambridge "University" "MK3riqui' **Bociety.
8.30 pim-"We Like What We Like", presented by; "Mr. and Mrs, ¿Bes Tee." (Bluxlo) -0.00 pin.-Yrooie. Priatempe Entertaina -with Extrgets from "The Three Walises".
9.15 pm-Piano Recital kr. Baller
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10,00 pn-Radio News Reel." (London)
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