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view-in German. 1015 pm-Dance Music.
12.30 to 2.15 p.m.-European re- 10 p.m.--News and Economic Re-
corded programme. 12.30 p.m.-Band Music. 12.50 p.m.-Twa Songs by Richard
Crooks (Tenor).
from the
I p.m.-Local: Time Signal and 12 midnight-Close DJQ and DJR
Weather Report
| 1.03 p.m.-Light Orchestral Music.
1:30 pm-Reuter Press Bulletins, Local: Weather forecast, time and announcements.
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1.40 p.m.-A Variety Programme. 2.15 pm-Close down.
5 to 8 p.m.-European programme.
5 to 7 p.m.-Dance Music from the
Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden. ¡ 7 p.m.-
Alfredo Campoll and his
- Orchestra Magyar Melodies (arr. Piercy). Wedding Dance Waltz (Linckel With the Classics (arr. Crook). 7.10 p.m.-
A Recital by Peter Dawson {Bass-Baritone)
1.-There'll be no South.
2. I see a tree (Hodges).
3. Sons of the Sea (Coleridge-
: Taylor).
4. Watchman,
What of
the:
Night (Sarjeant),
1.25 p.m.--
The London Plano Accordeon Band..
Six. Hit Medley No. 1.
Maid of Brazil.
Six Hit Medley No. 2. 7.43 p.m.-
Vocal Gems
The Belle of New York (Morton). The Geisha (Jones).
8 pm-Local; Time Signal, Wee- ther Report and announce- ments.
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11.30 pm-Reports
Olympic Games.
(Germ.. Engl.).
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London, July 17. Hidden away in an estuary of 6.30 am-Breakfast, Hour of News Inland from Clacton, there was in TUESDAY,
the River Blackwater, a few miles and Music-English and Span-1918 a secret naval base. It was Ish Current Events and Vaude- the home of the coastal motor- ville of the Air conducted by boats, frall, 40-knot torpedo-drop- Don Alva. Morning Exercises pers, depth-charge throwers, and by Prof. G. T. Suva of the In-smoke-makers. The coastal motor- sular Life Assurance Co.
boats came twice into prominence during the
years, bace in the Zeebrugge operations and ister in the attack on the BolsheTM vist ships at Kronstad. Two years after the war ended the secret base at Osca Island was still in being and there were plenty c naval "omicers who foresaw a de- Music-Radio Practice Hour, velopment of the coastal motor- 6.10 p.m.-"Melody Lane," featur- boat Then the Admiralty closed the place down, the boats were 8.20 p.m.-3panish Informational scrapped, and to all appearance
Period.
7 a.m.-Sign on. 9.30 am-Nielson Financis Re.
view and Musical Varieties- 11.30 am-Sign Off.
2.30 p.m-Nielson Financial Review
and Musical Varieties
3.45 pm-Sign Of
5.30 pm-UP. Conservatory
ing Marlo del Rio.
of i
635 p.m.-English Informational pedo-dropper
Period.
was
jettisoned.
Ost VIEW FROM MONDAY, THE 32D AUGUST, 1986.
the idea of the high-speed tar-TERMS-CABX ON DELIVERY.
Some foreign Powers continued 6.35 p.m.-Stock quotations, through to experiment with the type; a
the courtesy of Swan. Culbert-rew were built for the son and Fritz.
7 pm The Mystery Singer. 7.15 pm-Manila Motor Company presents Richard Humber and his Studebaker Champions, 7.30 p.m.-Child Health Programme 8 bm-To be announced.
8 p.m.-RCA Magic Brain Pro-
gramme-Mal Partridge.
8.30 pm--On Wings of Song with
Ramon Alberto.
mizor navies by British Arts who. specialised in the design. But so far as the Royal Navy was con- cerned there appeard to be no further interest in the idea.
The
illusory appearance was What had happened was that the
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Shing Theatre (Chinese),
11 p.m-Close down.
8.05 p.m.-European
programme
from Z.E.K. on a frequency of 640 kilocycles.
8.05 p.m.-Turner Layton (Tenor).
Charlle Kunz (Piano)
1. Songa-Solitude.
Sophisticated Lady.
3. Plano Solos-Medley No. 11.
3. Songs I feel like a feather in:
the breeze.
When my Mammy Smiles.
4. Piano Solus-Medley No. 10.
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Light Orchestral Music "Simple Avea (Thome).
Queen Mary's Song (arr. Haydn
Wood)
Like to the Damask Rose (arr.
Haydn Wood).
Two Symphonic
(Eric Coates).
Rhapsodies
1. I Pitch my lonely caravan,
2. Bird Songs at eventide;
heard you singing.
Cavalcade of Martial Songs (art.
Nicholls).
"Her Arst Dance.
The Music comes.
9 p.m.-
A Relay from Daventry News Bulletin and Announce
ments.
9.20 p.m.-Cricket: Surrey v. Notts, at the Oval: a commentary by C. B. Fry.
9.36 p.m.-Dance Music,
10 p.m.-Big Ben from Daventry.
Close Down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
1.05 pau-Call DJA, DJB (German,
English).
German Folk Song. 1.10 p.m.-Merry music,
2 p.m.-Reports from the Olympic
Games.
2.30 p.m.-Merry music (cont'd). 2.55 p.m.-Greetings to our listen-
ers in Austraa.
3p.b.-News and Economic Review
in German,
3.15 p.m. Orchestral Concert 4.15 D.m."Belm
Wirt zum Rolandsbogen, da kehri ich
ein!"
Music and Poesy.
Local Market Reports.
plains that it was only atted to 9 pm-Dance Music from Legaspi short range of its base. The Ad-
work in smooth water within.
Garden.
10.30 p.m.-Sign Of
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TRANSMISSION 2 Hong Kong Times The following frequencies will be used:--
QSH 21.47 14c/s (13.77 m.) GSG 17.79 Mc/s (16.86 r.)
7.30 p.m.---“Remembrance of Things
Past,"t
miralty wanted something more seaworthy, more like a real ship |
which could go to sea with the feet in almost any weather and cruise for a couple of days win. out refuelling "
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HABITABLE CRAFT This provided a most dificult problem for both the naval archt- | VALUABLE
A QUANTITY OF
HOUSEHOLD
2
FURNITURE
Comprising
tect and the marine engineer. A 7 p.m.-Big Ben, The Leon Wayne great deal of secret experimental Sextet. Springtime Berenade work was carried out for nearly (Vallini): Old-Fashioned Rhy- ten years before a boat way mes - (Ackerman arr. Crooke). | evolved that 'met the require- Tesk Bed Room and Drawing Selection. The Dubarry (Mil-ments. Now it is in existence Room Furniture, Black Wood Ware, locker). Toy Soldiers (Kreis- and the navy has its first flotili | Office and Dining Room Furniture, ler). More Modern Tunes of the "new motor, torpedo-boats. Ornaments, Pictures, Curtains, Linen, (Davis and Caesar). Lustaplet To most people the striking thing | Brass & E. P. Wars, Porcelain and . (Keler Bela).
about the craft is their speed. | Glass & Ware, Typewriters, Gramo The exact Agure la secret, but it is phone and Records, Radios, Film officially admitted to be mora Projector, Bewing Machines, Clocks, 8 p.m.-Jack Simpson (Xylophone) than 40 knots, and it is probably Piano, Refrigerator,, Ice Chests, and Harry Carter (Saxophone). nat unfair to say that it is rough-Chitlery, Filters, Blectric Fans and 8.15 pm-An Organ Recital by equal to a land speed of fifty Lampe, etc., etc.
Douglas Hawkridge, from the miles an hour. To the naval Chelsea Parish Church of St. student, however, this is rather a Luke. Fugue in € (Bach), secondary point. The fact that Folk Tune; Allegretto (Whit- the craft are habitable, that in lock). Concerto in 'B fat, Op.❘ them two officers and eight.men 4. No. 2; Allegro maestoso;
can live and cruise far out, at sea Allegro; Adagio; Allegro ma
for forty-eight hours gives them a tactical importance that speed non troppo (Handel, arr. Best). Impromptu: Berceuse: Carillon alone could not give. de Westminster
The "M.T.B." is a curious examu. (Vienne).
од
this type we
Choral Prelude "Rhosy-ple of the way in which history medre" (Vaughan Williams). repeats itself. In Allegro maestoso (from Sonata bave gone right back to the me- thods of the 1880's, when the first in ) (Elgar).
steam-driven torpedo-boats of : 50 tons or thereabouts came into the naval
9 p.m.-Greenwich Time Signal.. 9 p..-The News and Announce-existence and balf
J
ments.
Or VIEW ON THURSDAY, THE SIE AUGUST, 1986.
TERMS: CASH ON DELIVERY.
'bour.
LAMMERT BROS..
AUCTIONEERS
experience with the new craft 9.20 p.m.-Cricket-Surrey v. Notts, world declared that the battleship admit that the sense of speed be- was dead. It was the torpedo-comes dulled so that when ap- at the Oval: a commentary by boat that died. put out of exproaching a berth or a harbour C. B. Fry,
tence by the torpedo-boat destro-entrance it is as well to declutch 9.35 p.m.-The BBC Variety Oyer, craft a little heavier and a and take the way off the boat for chestra, leader, Bernard Rell little faster. True, the speed of a minute or two before actually He; conducted by Charles
those days was 20 knots, less than trying to run alongside or up har- Shadwell The Banctuary of half that of the "MTB," but re- the Heart (Ketelbey). "Robins latively the original torpedo-boat and Roses (Joe Burke).
was the equal of the new type, 9.45 p.m.-Close down.
Mechanically the "MT.B." is since battleship speed in those similar to a high-powered motor- days was 15 to 18 knots. And just car. Actually three engines are as the 50-ton torpedo-boat of late fitted each of 500 hp. They are Victorian times grew into the pre-modelled on aeroplane-engine de- sent-day 1,850-ton destroyer, so sign and can be throttled down to we may expect these first motor, comfortable cruising speed of 20 torpedo-boats to evolve into large knots. At that speed thefe fuel motor-driven destroyers,
consumption is such that they have a range of 600 miles. Al- though the full complement i
TRANSMISSION 3 Two of the following frequencies will be used:--
08H 21.47 Mc/s (13.97 th.) GRG 17.73 Mc/s (16.58 m. GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.)
5 m-Reports from the Olympic 10 p.m.-Big. Ben, The BBC. Welsh
Games!
5.30 p.m.-News and Economic Re-
view in English..
5.45 p.m.-Children's Hour:
Children singing:
"Aurikelchen, Aurikelchen steha
auf meinem Beet."
5.15. p.m.-8ign off 'DJA and DJB
(Germani, Englikli).
8.35
pm-Call DIQ
and (German, English). „
German Folk Song.
DJR
Orchestra: leader, Frank Thomas; conductor, Idris
NEW "FIRING" TECHNIQUE-
Lewis. Marion Browne (80- The handling of the motor tor- ten. the first boats are being run prano)." Orchestra: Overture, pedo-boat is something entirely with one oncer and six men, and Martha (Flotow), Cassandre new to naval officers. Apart from the accommodation for them. (Gabriel Marie).` Marion the speed, the method of dist though naturally cramped, iz Browne: Songs.
Orchestra: charging the torpedo, involves a quite as good as that in a small Three English Dances (Qui-new technique. For it is not submarine and indeed much bet- ter). Marlon Browne; Bongs "red" from a tube as the torpedo, ter than it was in the early C Orchestra: Scenes from ari is with other ships. It is dropped class of underwater craft, Imagi Ary Ballet (Coleridge- while the vessel herself is heading Taylor).
7 p.m.-Concert of Light Music; in 11 p.m.-London Ple." Book, lyrics,
the interval.
and music by Harry Howard Presented by John Pudney.
8 p.m.-News in German,
1
11.55 Operatic Music,
8.15 p.m.-Greetings to our Listen-11.30
ers in the "Far East.” T
8.30 p.m.--Reports from the Olym-
* plò Gumes, R
9 p.m.--News and Economic Re- view in English on DJQ in Dutch on DJR.
9.15 Brass Band. 9.45 p.m.-Piano Compositions by Pachebel, At the Plano: Al- fred Wang.
at full speed towards the target. The torpedo falls into the wake
RANGE OF TORPEDOES
What is the tactical importance of the boat, which must be of the new destan? Ever since promptly swung to port or to star- the torpedo, was invented the aim board to give the torpedo clear of its enthusiasts has been to ap- p.m. The News and Ann. And swinging a 50-ton boat proach the target at high speed that is moving at anything be in conditions of poor visibility. Midnight Greenwich Time Signal tween forty and fifty miles an The range of the earliest torpe- 12.15 am The BBC Dance Or-nour through a quarter of a circle does was only about 500 yards, 80 chestra, directed by Henry is not the kind of thing one does that the torpedo-bost came un- Hall
nouncements.
12.45. pmCricket Surrey
Notts, at the Oval: a commen- tary by C. B. Ft. pm-Close down.
successfully without considerable dar a murderous are if she was training. Handling a vessel that spotted: The present-day torpedo moves at such speed, too, is a has a range of more than 10,000 new Bensation, and indeed men yards at a speed of more than 40 who have now had a few weeks' knots.