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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1932.
TO-DAY'S WIRELESS PEACE OR WAR-BY
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PROGRAMME.
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES
to 11.30 a.m.-Stock and ex change quotations, weather re- port, fic.
11.30 a.m.-Chinese, recorded pro-
gramme.
19.30 p.m.-European programme of
Columbia records.
1 pin-Laval time and weather
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1.30 p.m.-Rugby Press news, select
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4.30 to 7 p.m.-Chinese recorded
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pru-
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Request Items.
3. p.m.-Local time and weather
report.
Song My Sin." Song -- "Junior."-- Franklyn
Bäär (Tenor).-Victor 22080. Octette Liebestraum " Love's Dream) (Liszt, arr. Willough- by). Oclette Nocturne in E Flat" (Chopin, arr. Willoughby).-J. HT. Squire Celeste Oclette. DX362.
Accordion Solo - Wedding of
AIR
MR. WELLS' VISION AND WARNING
WHEN THE BOMBS BEGIN
TO RAIN
ABBEY HOME FOR
CLD SAILORS
A DREAM THAT STARTED IN RANGOON
MONKS WHO. BAKED THEIR
OWN BRICKS
MAKING JAPAN THINK
KYUSHU THREE HOURS AWAY FROM CHINESE AERODROMES
According to a report received by the War Office from Shanghai, the Nanking Government has embark. ed on its programme of providing efficient air forces, a programme I which is spread over three yours... Alton (Hants).-Hidden in a In this connection, the Mainichi corner of the "Hampshire High- says that a recent dispatch to the "Will there be no loresight until landa," near Alton, is a quiet. an- paper reporting the conclusion those bombs "begin to rain on us "chorage for old sailors, who are with America a loan contract for This question was asked by Mfr. cared for by Benedictine monka. 815,000,000 represents part of the above programme, "dropped his hook and waited, which involves a total expenditure H. G. Wells in a talk entitled "A Here many an ancient seaman has cost of the
which he
of about $830,000,000, warning to humanity broadcast from London as the con- contentedly for the end.
It is intended that three big! clusion to a programme, of sound
the Chinese coast, pictures illustrating developments
military sorodromen should be! ie methods of communications dur-
established on the first one to be provided at ing the last ten years.
Haichowin Kiangsu provinér, south of Tsingtao. A distance of only 300 kilometros separates Hai. show from the industrial centre of Kyushu, and hostile bombers can reach Kyushu frein their. base in three hours.
"
We need to organise Foresight in these matters, very urgently in- declared Mr. Wells. Be- deed," cause you see, it is not only that men will be able to get at and are and talk to their friends anywhere. They will also be able to get at thuse they suppose their enemies, with an equal facility.
"Let me ask you how long you suppose it is before this becomes possible-that men will be able to pack up a parcel of explosives or poison gas or incendiary matter or any little thing of that sort and send it up into the air to travel to just any chosen spot in the world, and drop its load. Far my own part I do not think it is going to be so very long before that is prae ticable.
Thirty years or so ago the place was a lonely piece of copseland frequented by poachers; but to-day it is ofte of well-ordered lawns and paths and flower-beds, with church, a gate-house, oratory, and cabins for the old sailors.
The story of Alton Abbey is a romantic one. The founder of the Abbey and the Order of St. Paul's was the late Father Hopkins, who came of a race of anilor and was a descendant of one of the Pilgrim grounds is the last resting-place. Fathers. In his late years
he There are about 40 plain crosses, spent a wandering life, and even- and on them are inscribed such tually became the organist of St. names as "Old Lamps," "Frenchy." "Skipper," and "Fine and Dan- Paul's Cathedral in Rangoon.
dy." The simple names of the fo’c'ste-nothing more.
Drunk in Rangoon,
In Rangoon one night I rescued
The temporary wood and iron six drunken. English ship's ap cabins served their purposes for prentices from a jeering mob and took them home. Asked why they many years, and two years ago was "Be-opened the new pensionary, built got drunk, one answered, cause we knew no one in Rangoon at a cost of something like £8,000. and had nowhere to go.".
Father Hopkins invited them and other sailors to visit him during their stay in port--and that really was the beginning of the Order of St. Paul's
Bomb, Gas, and Flams.
11 the Winds (Hall)..
Our military people still stick Accordion. Salo" Estudiantina" to guns that carry only twenty The work of the Order is carried (Waldteufel)-Mario Perry.-miles or so, or aeroplanes that must on under the title of the Seamen's Victor 20155.
fight their way through hostile Friendly Society of St. Paul, and Humorous Song National 'planes and gun-fire, to drop what consists of the care of "destitute
Economy."
ever they do drop. But nobody be--and homeless sailors. The morks Humorous Song I'm Waiting lieves that these things mark the believe it is useless to preach to
Now for Any Kind of Sweet extreme range of offensive. activi-hungry men. heart." Norman Long.- tice.
Father Hopkins founded his first DBG70.
"Air torpedoes for anywhere, community house in Barry, Bouth Octette Memories of Johann homb, gas and flame delivered wher-Wales, in 1897, and two years later, Strauss " (arr. Willoughby).- ever you like, or don't like, at any in search of a site for a permanent JH. Squire Celeste Oetette.-time, this is one of the manifest home, he tramped with eight breth- DX203. Orchestral -- " What's Next?" possibilities to which all this im-ren to Alton, where he acquired a Herman Finck and his Orches-provement in communication is rough piece of ground on the top tra.-DX201
Song- Wheu I Sing My Yodel
Song,"
Song" I'm Always Happy.'
Fried Lusser (Yodler)-DB036, 9.15 to 5.33 p.m. --
Concert Waltzes.
leading.
one
"Either we must make peace throughout the world, make world-state, one world-pax, with one money, one police, one speech and one brotherhood, however hard that task may seen; or we must prepare to live with the knife of the stranger always at our throats,
"Nights of Fragrance (Zich-in fear and in danger of death,
ror).
"Vienna Maidens" (Ziehrer).
New Concert Orchestra-9096. "Freuet Euch des Lebens "
(Strauss).
Thousand and Ons Nights " (Strauss)-Johann Strauss And Symphony Orchestra.--0220. 9.23 to 2.10 p.m.-
Variety. Soug-What Are You Thinkin'
About Baby?"
1 Like Song"That's What
About You."-Phyllis Robins (Comedienne).---DB653. Orchestral With a Song in My Heart"-Court Symphony Or chestra.-DX63.
21
Vocal Quartette Here We Are -Song Medley." The Big Four.DX170.
Organ Solo-"Ballad Memories." Quentin M. Maclean-DX135. Vocal Gems" Hold My Hand." -Columbia Light Opera Com pany.-DX332. *** Vocal
Gema Bow Bolls." Columbia Light Opera Com
pany,
0.10, to 10.30 p.m.---
Orchestral Concert.
Die Meistersinger."-Overture (Wagner).-Bruno Walter and Symphony Orchestra.-DX88. Song La Traviata-The One of Whom I Dreamed" (Verdi). SongRigoletto-On Every Festal Morning" (Verdi).-A. M. Guglielmetti (Soprano). D1603. "Concerto in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra" (Elgar, Op. 83)-W. H. Squire 'Cellist) and the Ifalls Orchestra con- ducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. -DX117/DX120.
enemy neighbours with the rest of our species.
Distance once was protection. For good or evil, distance has been done away with. This problem of communications rushes upon us to- day-it rushes upon us like Jehu the son
of Nimshi. It driveth furiously. And it evokes the same question: Is it peace?
Because if it is not to be, peace foreseen and planned and establish ed, then it will be disaster and death.
"All my life. I have seen the abolition of distance becoming more & little and more complete. In while there will be no more distance left and little separation. Before another half-century has passed everybody, so to speak, will be on call next door.
"For all practical purpossa wo have not even begun to think yet what we are going to do about this abolition of distance. We are all of us behaving as though there were no need whatever to adapt our lives and ideas in any way to these new conditions
Departments of Foresight,
"See how unprepared our workl was for the motor-car. The motor- car ought to have been anticipated at the beginning of this century. It was bound to change our roads, tuke passenger and goods trallic from the railways.
"It was bound to make it por- Bible for a man to commit a rob bery or murder in Devonshire over- night and breakfast in London or Birmingham,
"In the case of the motor-car we have let consequence after con- sequence take us by surprise. Then we have tried our remediez-be-
1st Movement (6) Adagio, (b)latedly. We are abolishing dis-
Moderato...
tance heedlessly, recklessly.
"Isn't it plain that we ought to have whole Faculties and De (b)partments of Foresight, doing all they can' to anticipate and prepare. for the consequences of this gather
2nd Movement-Allegro molto, 3rd Movement-Adagio. 4th Movement--(a) Allegro,
Moderato, (e) Allegro ma non troppo.
Song Judas Maccabacus-Re-ing together, this bunching up,
eit. and Aria" (Handel). Song The Meistersingera".
Prize Sung (Wagner).-Francis Russell (Tenor).---9024. Symphony No. 4 (“Italian "') in
which is now going on, of what wors once widely dispersed, 'human'" re- lationships.
A Major (Mendelssohn).-Sir Piano..Co. Hainilton Harly conducting
The Studio programmo between.
the Halle Orchestre.-X342.30 and 7 p.m. many, on say day, DX344...
he replaced by a relay from Eng- land, it reception of the Intter happens to be good.
1st Movement--Allegro Vivaco. 2nd Movement — Andante
moto.M
con
3rd Movement-Con moto moda-
'rato.
4th Movement-Baitrollo:-
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of a hill. Weary and foot-sore, the brethren arrived on the ground which held all their hopes. There was no shelter, and they spent the first night under the trees in the pouring rain.
Hats of Mud.
Their first task was to orect shel- ters of "wattle and daub," in which they lived while they built more permanent quarters. Soon! after, wood and corrugated build- ings sprang up to accommodate the sailors...
There are about twenty there atj the moment. All have spent years " in soil," and their taler tell of windjammer days, of nights up aloft round the Horn, when finger. froze to the ropes, or of weeks of calm in tropic sess.
The Abbey Church, as the work of eight men unskilled in building and architecture, is a remarkable building, capable of seating'a hun- dred people. It is in the early English style and built mainly "of flints picked up from the ground, of bricks made in the Abbey ovens, and woodwork fashioned by an old ship's carpenter.
In secluded corner of the
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The dream of a lasting work which Father Hopkins dreamed in Rangoon years ago has come true.
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