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12.30 p.m.-Excerpts from
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12.50 p.m-Two Cello Solos by
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1 pm-Local: Time dignal and
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The German Shortwave Orches- tra, conducted by Eugen Sonn-
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1,53 p.m.-Dance Music. 2.15 p.m.Close down.
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Light Opera and Music Comedy Vocal Gems Monsieur
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Beau-
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Vocni Gems-Mercenary Mary,
Selection-Please Teacher 7.30 p.m.
Violin Salas by Albert Sandler
pm-To-day in Germany. Sound Pictures. 10.30 p.m.-A German Poet from Overseas speaks; Peter Zoege v. Manteuffel. 10.45 p.m.-"The Excursion into the
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12 midnight.-Close DJA, DJB, DJN
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RADIO MANILA
MORE STAY-IN STRIKES
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
Involved
Munition Workers PUBLIC AUCTION.
EMPLOYERS' DECISION
(Special Air Mail Service)
Paris, June 4. The stay-in strikes, which nave now assumed the proportions of a national movement and can bard- ly be checked except by legisla- tion which will give substantial satisfaction to the workmen, con- tinued to
spread rapidly to-day and are beginning to affect the
THE Undersigned bave received
Instructiona
TO SELL AT
PUBLIC AUCTION
אסי
FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936
COMMENCING A 2,30 PM.
AT THE SALES ROOM; DUDDELL STREET
A QUANTITY OF VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
FURNITURE
Comprising:-
A Play with Music, by Werner everyday life of the community.
It is estimated that about 500.- Tiling.
000 men are now on strike through- out France. The figures change from hour to hour as new strikes break out and as new settlements are reached. The armaments in-.
Chesterfield Suites, Black Wood dustries are particularly affected. Ware, Teak Bed Room and Dining played by the Cell arms factors Office Furniture, Steel Filing Cabinet,
Room Furniture, Rattan
have joined the stay-in strikes. Typewriters, Sewing Machine, This factory was fully engaged on Gramophones & Records, Rugs, Car- War Ministry contracts for heavy pets, Porcelain Cigar Safe, 01 shells and
The guns.
strikers Paintings, Pictures, Ornaments,
3.30 am-Breakfast Hour of News
and Music-English and Span ian Current Events and Vaude- ville of the Afr. conducted by Don Alva.
1. Spanish Serenade (Jonnny 7 a.m.-Sign Off.
Heykens).
2. The Child arid his Dancing
Doll (Johnny Heykens
3. Always (Smith),
4. Song of Paradise (King). 7.43 pm-
Lesile Hutchinson in Songs at the Plano
1. Dreaming. Madam").
a
View and Musical Varieties, 11.30 am-Sign oft
At Valenciennes 10,000 men em-
Ware,
9.30 am-Nielson Financial Re- maintain that the war industries Electric fable Fans and Lamps, are making good' profits. thanks! Cutlery, Silver & E. P. Wars, Bronze to large Government orders, and and Brass Ware, Cloisonne Alumi- that they can therefore well afford nium Ware, Porcelain and Glars to grant their employees better conditions,
2.30 p.m.-Nielson Financial Re- view and Musical Varieties, 3.45 p.m.--Sign Off
6 p.m.-Tirso's Mabuhay Orches-
trá
ก Dream "Yes 8.20 p.m-Spanish Informational
2. This is no Stn ("Hi Diddle-
Diddle").
Period
8.35 p.m.-English Informationa
Ware, Washing Machine. Geysers, Cooking Stoves, Curios, Ice Chests," Filters, Curtains, Linen, Billiard Cues and Balls, etc., etc. i
The leaders of the CGT are meeting to-morrow to consider the position. They are making every effort to prevent the move- ment from getting out of hand.
NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF
As a result of the spread of the the courtesy of Swan, Culbert-strikes in the metallurgical and Son and Fritz.
mechanical Industries the em- ployers have broken off the col- TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVERY.
Period
3. I only have eyes for you 4.33 p.m.--Stock quotations, througn
("Dames").
4. Love is like a cigarette.
5. The Morning After ("Hands
across the Table"),
8 p.m.-Local: Time Signal Wea- sher Report, Stock Quotations, and Announcements.
8.05 pm-A Relay from the Lee
Theatre (Chinese).
11 p.m.-Close down.
8 05 to 10 p.m.-European
pro-
gramme from ZEK. on a fre quency of 640 kllocycles.
3.05 p.m. We'
The New Mayfair Orchestra Venetian Nights.
Britelodia (Humphries), Roberta-Selection (Kern).
E
Sweet Adeline-Selection (Kern), Medley of James Tate's "songs. 2.35 p.m.-"Songs without Words"
(Mendelssohn) played by Ignaz! Friedman (Pianoforte), 5.48 p.m.-
Four Songs by Rose Bampton (Contralto)
1. When I bring to you colour'd
Toys.
2. Light, my light.
3. Swans (Kramer).
4. Do not 54. my love (Hage-
man).
9pm-A Relay of the Daventry News Bulletin and Announce- ments (Copyright by Reuters. 9.20 p.m.-
Saxophone Solos by Howard Jacobs
1. From the Land of the Sky
Blue Water.
2. Down in the forest (Landon
Ronald).
3. At Dawning (Cadman). 9.30 p.m.-
Tunes or not-so-long-ago by The Four Musketeers
1. Young and Healthy.
7 p.m.-To be announced.
7.15 p.m.-Commercial Monitor, lective negotiations which had been 7.30 p.m.-General Motors Concert, pursued since the Whitsun holl-
sponsored by the Packie Com-i mercial Company General Motors Symphony Orchestra. conducted by Erno Rapee. Guest Artist: Charles Kull-
mann.
8.30 p.m.-On Wings of Song with
"Ramon Alberto.
8.45 pm-Stock Quotations and
Local Market Reporta,
$ p.m.-Listerine Amateur
Hour,
with Baron Unterheisen, Mas ter of Ceremonics.
9.30 p.m.-Popular Requests. 10 pm Sign. Off
days. In a letter to M. Sarraut, the outgoing Prime Minister, they explain that they agreed to begin the negotiations » on the express condition, that the works were evacuated. Instead, they say. more works are being occupied, at the risk of paralysing the whole of French industrial life, They cannot, therefore, continue the negotiations, and they add that
tor the responsibility
restoring normal conditions now rests on the Government.
At the Renault works, where a stay-in strike had been settled earlier this week, the men stopped
SIR. S. HOARE IN work again
CABINET
Official Statement
FIRST LORD OF ADMIRALTY
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, June 10, The appointment of Sir Samuel Hoare, the former Secretary, as First Lord of the Admiralty on the resignation of Lord Monsell was officially announced last night.
Sir Samuel's return to the Min- istry, six months after his resigna- tlor from the Foreign Secretary- ship, was announced from No. 10,
Downing Street, in the following
2. Take me away from the River statement:- 3. Musketeers Melodies, 9.43 D..s
Court Symphony Orchestra Selection-The Damask Rose
(Chopin themes).
With a Bong in my heart--Sym- phonic Rhapsody (Eric Coates), 10. p.m.-Big Ben: Close down.
4.55 p.m.-Call DJQ. DJA, - DJB
(German, English). German Folk Song.
The King has approved that
Str Lieutenant Colonel
Samuel Hoare, MP.. be appointed First "Lord of the Admiralty in place of
Viscount Monsell, resigned.
this afternoon, and
Ox VIEW FROM THURSDAY. Tax 25TH JUNE, 1936
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS
PUBLIC AUCTION
THE Undersigned. have received
Instructions from the Holder of Bill of Sale No. 16 of 1981
TO SELL BY
PUBLIC AUCTION
"...
ON
35,000 strikers reoccupied the FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936".
works in order to show their soli- darity with the other strikers in the metallurgical and other Indus- tries A total of about 100,000 are now again on strike in this indus- try in the Paris area.
At 12 O'CLOCK NOON
"AT THEIR SALES, ROOM, DUDDELL STREET.
The supplies of petrol for the Junk "Leung To Fuk", No. Paris area are now so reduced by T50H (formerly No. H. V. the strike of transport workers
that a stoppage of the Paris om-2236) as she now lies in the nibus and taxi services may occur Yagmati Typhoon Shelter within 24 hours if the dispute is not settled. Petrol pumps along the main roads leading out of Paris are running dry, and many TERMS: -As CustomArt, small retallers have no more, fuel to sell At Le Bourget some air liners from London and elsewhere were unable to return for lack of petrol, and arrangements are be- ing made to send petrol from Eng- land in other machines to keep BUS CO. COMPRADORE
GETS 7 MONTHS ...
the air services running.
NO NEWSPAPERS TO-DAY Newspapers distribution, broke down this morning owing to a strike of carriers employed by wholesale newsagents, and it was
the not until late in
day that
LAMMERT BROS.,
AUCTIONEERS.
Misappropriations Of $73,000 Charged Against Him
Cours
The
Sir Samuel, Hoare resigned from the Ministry in December on the Parisians were able to buy their
Shanghat, June 17. rejection of the plan which He had favourite newspaper to the kiosks. prepared with M. Laval, then the The newspapers were
Mr. Boong Tse-on, until recently distributed the compradore of the China "Gen- French Premier, for settling the by the clerical staffs, who drove erai Omnibus Co., was sentenced BERLIN PROGRAMME Italo-Abyssinian dispute. The re- from klosk to kiosk in taxicabs. to seven months' imprisonment by
signation took place only a month The Paris Newspaper Propriethe First Special District after the Government had been tors Association decided to-night yesterday, on the charge of suc- returned at the general election by to suspend publication of all mercessive misappropriations.
overwhelming majority. As
was suspended for two 5 pmHitler Youth Programme: Secretary of State for India Strning and evening newspapers to- sentence
morrow owing to the impossibility years, Samuel was in charge of the Gov-
of having their papers distributed. į A total of over $73,000 had been ernment of India Act, which was.
Reports from other parts of unlawfully appropriated to his own the prificipal feature of the Par-France show that the stay-in use by the compradore, consisting lamentary programme for 1934.. strikes arc rapidly spreading. of over $50,000 in copper coins,
He is 55 years of age, and for 25
Боте nervous Parisians are al-about $12,000 to pay the company's years has been Conservative, M.P. for Chelsea. He was Secretary for ready speaking of the possibility of staff, and over $0,000 from the bus a general strike and are hurriedly receipts. The more than $50,000 in
an
Hour of the Nation's Youth. 5.30 p.m.-News, and Economi” Re-
view in English. 10.45 p.m.-Melodies from the Operetta. "Gekommen ist das ...Gluck" by Helmuth Rosendahl, 6.30 p.m.-The 1936 Olympiad. 8.45 p.m.-News and Economic Re-Air in Mr. Baldwin's Cabinets of buying foodstuffs against this pos-copper cofits were accumulated in 1922 to 1924, and November, 1924, sibility. At Lille 12,000 men in the the company's cash room in Con-
view in German.
p-Concert' of Light Mukta.
8 p.m.-News in English-Blen vit
DJQ.
8.15 p.meetings to our listen
ers in Australia.
.8.20 p.m.-Topical Talk.
8.30 pm. Concert of Light Music
'(continued),
9 on Sign off. DIA and DUB
(Germ. Engl
9.05 pm Call DJA, DIE. DIN
(Germ, Engl
German Folk Bong. 9.10 pm. Greetings to our Listen-
ers in the "Far East,"
to 1929.
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During the war he served in the metallurgical and textile trades are naught Road and were alleged to on strike and the miners are foin have been sold to native banks by British Secret Service in Russia,
ing them.
At Marseilles 1,500 the compradore who was the sole and in 1927 he was created G.B.E. workers have occupied one of the custodian of the money. The com- for the first civil flight to India. dockyards and two other works pradore admitted the charge, say He is the second baronet.
1,500.
Lady Maud Hoare, his wife, was have been occupied by anothering he lost heavily on speculation formerly, Lady Maud Lygon. a daughter of Lord Beauchamp
'The post of First Commissioner of Warks, vacated by Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore when he succeeded Mr. J. H. Thomas ás Secretary of State for the Colonies. has yet to be filled.
Teacher "No, can any little boy or girl tell me why a mother bird sits on her egg?"
Little Girl: "Please, miss because she hasn't got a chair...
and was forced to violate the laws. —(N.C.D.N.)...
"Did our painter retouch your woodwork?
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