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TO-DAY'S RADIO PROGRAMMES
BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES
3 p.m.--News and Economic Review
in German
Monday, Aug. 17. Radio Programme Broadcast by ZBW. on a Wavelength of 355 Metres 1845 kc'a). Daventry Relay of 3rd Test Match ZEK. Progr EMMG 12.30-215 pm. European record-p.m.-Closing Celebrations at the
3.15 pm-Reports from the Olym-
pic Games. 3.45 p.m.--New, and Economic Re-
view in English.
Olympic Games.
ed programme. 130 p.m. Dance Music by Am-pm--Hitler Youth Programme:
trose and his Orchestra,
Senga from the time of Frede- rick the Great.
1 p.m. Local: Time Signal and
Weather Report.
1:03 pm. Sydney Gustard (Örgan)
and The Hill Billes.
1.20 p.m. Selection from "Lido Lady" by The Savoy Orpheans. 1.30 p.m.
Reuter Press, Local: Weather forecast. time and announcements.
1.40 p.
chestra. 2.15 pm. Close Down.
ان
ASKING "TIM” THE TIME New Service Begun
APPARATUS BUILT BY THE POST OFFICE
at
London, July 25.. In the presence of, many guests!
the Tandem Telephone Ex- change, High Holborn, yesterday, the Astronomer Royal, Mr. H. 5.15 p.m.-Sign of DJA and DJB Spencer Jones, opened the Post
(German, English).
Önce speaking-clock service, by 6.55 p.m.-Call DJQ and DJR means of which 1 subscriber in
(German. English).
the London
area, on dialling German Folk Song.
"TIM," is automatically given the 7 p.m.-Concert of Light Music: in time at any period of the day of
the interval,
night in the tones of the winner of the Golden Voice Competition.
8.15 p.m.-News in German. London Palladium Or- 8 pm-Greetings to our Listeners In due course the service will be
in the "Far East."
provided at two provincial ex- 8.30 p.m.-Reports from the Olym- changes, probably Manchester and
pic Games.
Bristol. p.m.-News and Economic Re- The apparatus consists of four view in English on DJ in rotating, glass disks, on which are Dratch on DE.
A number of concentric sound tracks: The words are recorded in much the same way as speech and music are recorded on the track along the edge of a cinema- Re-tograph sound film. Speech is re-
58 p.m. European Programme, 5-7 pm. A Relay of the Dance, Orchestra from the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden.
I p.m. A Relay from Daventry,
BIG BEN: England v. All In- dia: a commentary by Howard Marshall on the Third Test Match. from the Oval, London. 1.15 p.m.
A Recital by Danny] Malone (Tenor) and the Regal Cinema Orchestra.
1. Song-When Irish Eyes
are Smiling.
2. King of Jazz--Selection.
3. Song-Believe me if all those endearing young charms.
4. Orchestra-The Gold Dig- gers of Broadway-Selec- tion.
7.30 p.m. From the Studio,
A Violin and Pianoforte Recital
9.15 p.m.-Famous Musicians: Prof. Emil Frey, Pianist, "Carneval" by Schumann, Ballad in A flat major by Chopin.
9.45 p.m.-News, and Economic
view in German.
produced from the disks by focus-
10 pm.-Closing Ceremony at the ing a beam of light on to one of
Olympic Games.
the tracks and allowing the light
it midnight-Close DIQ and DR to fall on to a photo-electric cell,
(Germ., Engl).
EMPIRE RADIO
G
TRANSMISSION Z Hong Kong Times The following frequencies will be used:--
GSH 21.47 Meja (13.37 mL) G80 17.79 Mc/ (18.30 m.)
by Eileen Fitzgerald and Lilian 6 pm-Big Ben, England v. All- Quinn,"
India: a commentary by Ho- ward Marshall on the third Test Match, from the Oval, London.
Programme
L Pianoforte Bolo-Audante
!!
and Rondo Capriccioso..... Mendelssohn.
2. Violin Solos-Ave Maria ......Cherubini. Canzonet- ta......D'Ambrosio,
*
6.15 p.m.-The Whitby Municipal Orchestra; leader, Tom Jen- kins; conductor, Frank Gomez. From the Spa, Whitby.
3. Pianoforte Solos-Ballade 6.45 pm-Closing Ceremony of the
In G. Minor......Brahms. Į
Olympic Games. From the Spinning Song from “Fly-
Olympic Stadium, Berlin. ing Dutchman"....Wagner. 8 pm-Dance Music. 4. Violin Solos Solveig's Song. Grieg. Rondino.... Kriesler."
8.15 pm-Monologus in Melody." Iyor Dennis in Syncopated Pianoforte Music,
6.25 p.m.-England v. All-India: a commentary by Howard. Mar- shall on the third Test Match, from the Oval. London.
8 p.m. Local: Time Signal, Wen- ther Report, Stock Quotations and announcements, 8.05 p.m.
A Relay from the Ko 8.35 pm-Marer Weber and his Shing Theatre (Chinese).
Orchestra: Pot-pourri of Wal- Close Down,
tzes (Robrecht).
11 pm. 8.05 p.m., European Programme.8.45
from Z.E.K. on a frequency of 630 kilocycles,
."
8.05 p. Three Songs by Kitty
Masters.
1. When the Swallows nesto
again.
2. Sweetheart, let's grow old
together,
3. A Melody from the sky.
8.15 pm. A Relay from Daventry. Monologue in Melody. Ivor Dennis in Syncopated Plano- forte music.
8.25 p.m. England v. All India: a commentary by Howard Mar- shall on the third Test Match, from the Oval, London 8.36 p.m. Light Orchestra Music. Irish Rhapsody - (Herbert). March of the Toys (Herbert). Pan Americana (Herbert). Manhattan Serenade" (Alter), When Day is done (de Sylva). @p.m. News and Announcementa
from London
9.15 p.m. Excerpts from "Please
Teacher"
Bung by Bobby Howes. Sepha Treble, Wylie Watson, Winifred Izard, 9.32 p.m. Varlety Items. Bongs-Sweetheart let's grow old
together.
Lost......Turner Layton, Plano Duets Plano-Time Melo-
dies......Baldwin and Howard. Fox-Trot-Sammy Saxophone...... Bcott Wood and his 6ix Swingera. Songs-My 8.08. for you.
Dirty Face...... Turner Layton, Quick-Step I Like Bananaa Fox-Trot Madam Ah! La Mar-.
quise Ahi
10 p.m. A Relay from Daventry.
BIG BEN: England v. All In- dia; a commentary by Howard Marshall on the third Test Match from the Oval, London. 10:15 pm. Close Down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
1.05 D-Call DJA, DIB (German,
English). derman Folk Song.
1:10 pm-Musical Prelude to the
Week,
4 pm.Reports from the Olymple
Gramen
2:30 pm --Musical Prelude (cont'd). 2,55 mm-Greetings to our listen-
ers in Australia,
p.m.-"An Australian Gar land." Verses in the vernacular. collected by John Hood.
thus producing an electric cur- rent which can be amplified by means such as are employed in sound him apparatus. Each of the tracks on the disks corresponds to a number or phrase, all being synchronized to bulld Emp the spoken sentences.
of
200 CALLS AT A TIME The Postmaster-General (Major
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE MORTGAGEE
·PARTICULARS AND CONDITIONS. OF SALE
of
THE VALUABLE LEASEHOID
PROPERTY
Situate st
VICTORIA IN THE COLONY OF HONG KONG
and Knowna
No.. 13, D'AGUILAR STREET,
To be Sold by
PUBLIC AUCTION
on
MONDAY.
THE 17TH DAT or AUGUST, 1936, AT 3 O'CLOCK P.M.
by
Huis, LAMMERT BROTHERS, Auctioneers,
AT THEIR SALE ROOM, No. 6, DUDDELL STAKIT, Ноча Кола
PARTICULARS.
No. 19
The property consists of the piece or Tryan), who presided at the open-parcel of ground situate at Victoria in ing ceremony, said the apparatus and registered in the Land Office is the Colony of Hong Kong and known was the latest and most wonderful Section B of Inland Lot No. 975 clocks. Every month 100,000 Together with the message or tane Londoners rang up their exchanges ment thereon known as to ask the time. In future they D'Aguilar Street. would be able to get it with greater accuracy from the speaking clock of the term of 999 years created therein The premises are held fort e residuo He hoped telephone subscribers by a Crown Lease of Inland Lot No. would remember that the clock 975. Ares 743 sq. ft. or thereabouts only deal with about 200 callers Crown Rent $7.99 at the same time, and that if too many people rang up in the first few days they might find the line engaged and suffer disappoint- ment
OF
For further Farticulars and Con- ditions of falo, Apply to :---
* Mässa, HASTINGS & COS
Solicitors, Marma House,
or to t
Maana. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
Auctioneers.
The Astronomer Royal, after ex- plaining that he had to keep clocks that recorded, both sidereal time and mean time, said the signals sent out by the standard mean- time clock included an hourly signal direct to the General Post Office. The time of that signal rarely differed from the clock time Hong Kong, the 10th day of Aug., 1938.. by more than two-hundredths- of a second. Allowing for the posal- ble error in the clock Itself, the
With musle by Dudley Glass, † signal was generally accurate with- played by the composer. p.m.-Greenwich Time Signal.
in five-hundredths of a second. That signal would control “Tim,'
9 p.m.-The.. News and Announce- || and ensure that it told "the truth,
ments.
1:
the whole truth, and nothing but 9.20 p.m.-The Gershom Parkington the truth."
J
No. 4, Duddell Street.
BY ORDER OF THE
MORTGAGEES.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
Quintet. Under the Balcony Captain B. B. Cohen, staff engi- (Heykens). Irish Fantasia.neer, General Post Office, said that (Mulder). Prelude (Schutt); the speaking clock had been de- Deep River (Coleridge-Taylor). aigned and constructed in the Post Of the following Valuable Lessebold The Marionette and the Wood- Office Engineering Research Sta- Property situate at Kowloon, in the en Soldier (Mordish), Pierrot tion at Dolls Hill. It would give a Colony of Hong Kong, being All That Piece (Scott), Selection. No, No. 24-hour time service with the an- piece or parcel of ground registered Nanette (Youmans), The Tryst nouncements changing every 10 in the Land Office as Kowloon Inland (Bibelius). Tick Tock (Vienna). seconds, and having an accuracy Lot No. 3168, together with the
of within one-tenth of a second,
9.45 p.m.---Close down.
TRANSMISSION 3 Two or the following frequencies will be used:---
GBH 21.47 Me/s (13.97 m. G80 17.79 Me/s (15.88 m.
GSF 15.14 Mc/s (19.82 m.
BRITISH PLANES
FOR SPAIN
message 'eractions and Evildings- thereon known as No. 30, Jordan Road, Kowloon aforesaid,
Ares 2,234 Square fent Annual Crown rent $26,00.
To be Sold W
IN ONE LOT
by:
("Hong Kong 'Dally Press” Special) 10 p.m. Big Ben. England"v, All-
London, Aug. 14. · India: a commentary by Ho- ward Marshall on the third of British commercial panes to The question of the exportation Test Match, from the Oval, Spain is being investigated by the British Government at present 10.15 p.m.-"Street in Havana."
Informed Featuring Bernard Monshin that the British, Authorities fully
quarters here assert PUBLIC and his Rio Tangó Band, with share the French view relative to Ramon (Tenor).
London.
10.54 p.m.-Musical Interlude.
the Neutrality Agreement, but are. 11 p.m.-Balad Concert. Gwlady's fore the Agreement has been form- anable to prevent the export be-. Williams (Contralto). Bernard Lewis (Tenor), Gwladys wii-"
ally signed.
The British Foreign Once how-| Hams: My Ships (Augustus ever, so political circles state, still Barratt); Fairy Pipers (Bre-
hopes that an international agres- wer). Bernard Lewis: Toment will be reached. It is stated Daisies Julla's Hair (Roger **Quilter). Sigh no More (W, A. erament has intimated that Por- here that the Portuguese Gov- Alkin)," Gwladys Williams: Where Corals Lié: In Haven pact if Britain guarantees Pur- tugal will join a non-interference
(Elgar), My Sweet Sweeting (Keel), Bernard Lewia: As Ever I saw (Warlock); 11.25 p.m.-England v. All-India; a commentary by Howard Mar-
tugal'a inviolability.
of
No applications have as yet been tendered for the exportation military planes, but the press as- serta that 300 British com-
AUCTION
on
THURSDAY,
THE 17TH DAY OF AUGUST, 1936.
Ar 3 O'CLOCK P.M.
Mas28. LAMMERT BROTHERS;
21
AT THEIR AUCTION Roos, No. 4, DUUDELL Brakes," VICTORIA, Hong Kong,
For further Partioplars and Condi
shall on the third Test Match,mercial planes have been sold to tions of Sale, Apply to
from the Oval, London. T
11.35 p.m.-Roland Powell's Quintet, Spain within the last three weeks. from the lleve Donard Hotel, some to the Government and some
to the Nationalists Newcastle, County Down,,
Transocean News Service, 11.55 p.m.--The News and Ar-
nouncements, bendr
Midnight Greenwich Time Signal 12.15 am-A Rectal by Norbert
Leaf (Wagner, arr. Wilhelm)); Wethmar (Violin). Rondo Valse caprice (Walter Munn), (Mozart, arr Freiger). Ta 1140 a.m.--Sports Talk. Precieuse (Kreisler) (Couperin). | 12.55 am.-Envol Legend (Wieniawski). Altum ! 1 a.m.-Close down,
ME JOHNSON, STOKES MASTER,
Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Building,
Bolicitors for the Vendors,
'or to
MERKKI. LAMMERT BROTHERS,
The Auctioneer Hong Kong, 14th Angust, 1936