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The Most Comprehensive Survey Yet Compiled of Reconstructional Progress in 'Modern China.
CHINA'S
NEW CURRENCY
SYSTEM
By T'ANG LEANG -1.1
A survey of Chinese Currency and Banking System in Historical perspective and of the reactions of the World Slump upon Chinese Trade, Industry, and Finance, from the beginning of the depression to the " Establishment of State Control of Silver-with Statistical tables relating to movements of Gold;" Silver and Prices in General.
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1 p.m.-Local: Time and weather
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5.45 p.m.-German Reader..
6 p.m.-Aloha from 'Hawaii (A love. greeting from Hawail). Songs
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daby (Soprano).
1.20 p.m.-A Selection from The Dubarry" by the New Light Symphony Orchestra.
1.25
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The Music of Puccini "Turandot"-Weep not, Llu!
Nobody shall sleep.-Alessandro
Valente (Tenor). "Tosca "-I have fulflled by (So- promise.-Carmen Mells prano) and Apullo: Granforte (Baritone). "Tosca"-Day now is breaking.-
Giuseppe Bottin! (Treble). "La Fanciulia del West"-My father died just six months ago, Let her believe that I have "gained my freedom.-Alessan-
dro Valente (Tenor).
DJE (German, English). German Folk Song.
and
DJB
| 7" p.m.-Concert of Light Musie
1 p.m.-News in English. 8.15 p.m.-Greetings to our Listen- ers in the Netherlandish East Indles and Call DJQ. 8.20 p.m.-Concert of Light Music
(continued)." p.m.-News and Economic
view in German. 9.15 p.m.-Quartette in E flat major Op. 125 by Schubert. The Fehse
"La Soneme "-Selection. - New
Light Symphony Orchestra. 7.30 p.m.-Closing local stock,,!
quotations and Hong Kong ex- change market report 1.35 p.m.-
Front the Studio Piano Syncopations by Pomping
уша.
7.50 p.m.-Hermann Lohr Gems by The Columbia Light Opera Company.
Quartette.
PARACHUTE LANDING
Dropping Troops On The Enemy
NEW RUSSIAN- INVENTION
fight, by Successful human means of the "para-plane," a de- vice enabling parachutists to glide through the air at will and select their landing place before opening the parachute, has recently caused a sensation in the Soviet aviation
·world, states a Home paper.
B. Pavlov, a young Russian en- gineer, the inventor of the appar- Reatus, demonstrated it before
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Comprising:
large crowd at one of Moscow's
Jumping from main airports. plane at the height of 10,000 feet, ne allowed himself to fall for ten 10 p.m.-News and Economic Re- seconds. then spread out a pair view in English on DJE, D3Q of wings attached to his pack. With in Netherlandish on DJB. this support, he gland downward
Teak Drawing Room & Dini 10.15 p.m.-To-day in Germany. for 2 min. 8 sec. to an altitude. Room Furniture, Black Wood Wa
Sound Pictures.
of about 2,500 feet.
Bed Room and Office Furniture, Ca Having selected a landing point, pets, Rugs, Ornamente, Curios, Cu 10.30 p.m.-A new song and new
words. Music and Poetry. Pavlov discarded the wings, drop-fory, Electric Table Fans & Lamp
Pro- Youth 11.15 pm-Hitler
ped to 1,200 feet, opened his para Gramophones and Records, Sewin gramme; New songs of work-chute and came down on the cho- Machines, Radio Sets, Typewriter ser spot. The discarded wings Old Paintings, Pictures, Ratt were brought down by a special War, Porcelain & Glass Wa automatic parachute. The entire Tinen, Brass and E. P.Ware, Alum course of the descent was marked nium & Silver Ware, etc., etc.- by Bares and smoke devices which
also the inventor carried..
men.
11.30 p.m.-Solo Concert: Gaspar
Cassado.
12 midnight-Close DJE DIQ. DJB
(German, English).
RADIO MANILA
5.30 am-Breakfast Hour of News and Music-English and Span- ish Current Events and Vaude- ville of the Air, conducted by Don Alya.
7 a.m.-Sign Off.
9.30 am-Nielson Financial Review
and Musical Varieties. 11.15 am. Bign "Off.
8 p.m.-Local: Time. weather re- | 2.30 p.m.-Nielson Financial Review
purt and announcements.
and Musical Varieties.
2.02 p.m.-London-"Aretic Sledge 3.46 p.m.---Sign Of
Dogs." A talk by Andrew Croft of the Oxford University Aretic . Expedition, 1935-1936. 8.17 p.m.-
A Recital by Paul Robeson (Bass)
1. Shenandoah (arr. Terry). 2 Jes Mah Song (Strickland)
3. Swing Along (Cook).
:
4. (a) I stood. om de ribber, (b) Peter, go ring dem bells (arr. Burleigh).
5. Go down, Moses (Burleigh). 8.30 p.m-London: Primo Scala's Accordeon Band, in a pro- gramme of Dance Music.
9 p.m.-London: News and $11-
nouncements.
6 p.m.-Song-Movie Magazine of the Air, sponsored by the Liter- ary Song Movie Magazine, 6.15 p.m.-Spanish Informational
Period
6.35 p.m. English Informational
Period.
6.55 p.m.-Stock quotations," through the courtesy of Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz.
7 p.m.-To be announced. 7.45 p.m.--Commercial Monitor. 8 p.m. To be announced. 8.45 p.m.-Stock Quotations
Local Market Reports.
Quotations p.m. - Stock
Spanish, through the courtesy of L, R. Nielson & Co.
and
in
9.20 pm. A Relay of the Band of 9.05 p.m.-"Sampaguita," conducted
the 1st Batth. The Royal Ulster
by Remigio Mat. Castro.
Rifles, Conducted by Bandmas-10 p.m.--Sign of.
ter H. Alfred Hole, A.R.C.M. from the Officers' Mess, Murray Barracks, by kind permission of Lieut.-Col. R. M. Rodwell and Officers.
10 p.m.-London: Big Ben. Talk: "Imperial Affairs," by H. V Hodson.
10.16 p.m.-
Variety and Dance Music Fox-Trot-Take my heart. Humorous-Bats in the Belisy- Mr. Flotsmam and Mr. Jetsam. Organ Solo-Dixon Hits No. 7.-
Reginald Dixon. Fox-Trot-Empty Saddles. Humorous Public Sweetheart
No. L-Florence
(Comedienne).
SINKS
'PLANE IN CROMARTY FIRTH
Crash On Way To Manoeuvres
SPEEDBOATS SEARCH FOR PILOT'S BODY Desmond
Banlo Solo-Three Little Words-
Len Fillis.
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The "para-plane," which is at- tached to the back of the user, nas two wings. shaped like those of An insect. The frame-work is constructed of duralumin. over which is stretched heavy linen. The wing-span is more than twelte feet,
the weight of the whole "para-plane" about thirty pounds. STABILISING DEVICE
A stabilising device is also re- cessary, in order to insure against "spinning" or somersaulting before the wings are open.
Two Upright Pianos
♥
and
Que 1980 Studebaker Director
5 Seater Bedan" (In good running condition mileage 15,0(0)
On View on Wednesday at Daddell Street from 11.00 a.m.
O VIEW FROM TUESDAYË THE 27 OCTOBER, 1986.
Mass production of the "para- plane," despite Pavlov's success with it, is still placed at an inde finite date in the future. The de- TERMS:-CASH ON DELIVERY. vice is apparently considered prac tical, but as yet Insufficiently de- veloped for wide use. Aerial ex- perts, at the same time, regard it as far from impossible that next year may see the organization of "Para-Plane Battalionis" by the
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The mass parachute descent has been the most spectacular feature of the Annual Red Army mag- oeuvres for the past two years, and has both times proved itself a most effective weapon for disrupt- ing the "enemy" rear.
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The 1938 manoeuvres, concluded THURSDAY, OCT. 29, 19
at Minsk, White Rusia, last week, included a mass Jump of 1,200. heavily armed men, These troops,
carried over the lines in several large planes, were able to land in less than eight minutes 150 ma- chine guns and 18 heavy field- pleces were lowered with them by parachute, and these were manned and in operation within a few minutes of landing.
The potentialities of this tactic are obviously considerable, espe- cially-against an advancing army. | During the 1935 manoeuvres, an "attack" on Kley, the capital of the Ukraine was completely dis- organised and defeated, just on While flying to take part in the verge of success, by the para- manteuvres with the Flest in chute aquad. The men were drop- Vocal-Let Yourself Go-The Moray Firth recently, an aero-ped between the main body of
Boswell Sisters.
plane belonging to the Fleet Air the enemy and his approaching Fox-Trot-When I'm with you.
Arm crashed and sank in Cro-support. Communications were Vocal Duet--You can't pull the marty Firth. states the "Dally demolished, and the attack on the
wool over my eyes. Curtis and Telegraph."
city was completely stopped with Ames.
the smashing of the enemy rear. Fox-Trot-Your heart, and mine. Song I'm an old cowhand-Bing
Crosby.
, Xylophone Solo-Rio de Janeiro.
-Rudy Starita,
11 p.m.-Close down.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
1.05 p.m.-Call DJA, DJB" (German.
English).
No trace was found of the plane of the body of the pilot, Pilot Oficer J. G. Spencer,"
The machine belonged to No. 801 (Fleet Fighter) Squadron, attached to HMS. Furious. It was one of three which set out from Novar
aerodrome, Ross and Cromarty.
Commissar of Defence. Voro- shilov, however, insists that the in- novation is still an innovation, which provides vandable training and has theoretical importance, but which is far from a part of standard tactics. Its development will continue, he states.
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It was seen to drop out from Major-General Waville, at the greatly encouraged and subsidi the formation and come down in head of the British delegation by the Government. The sup a spin from a great height. It hit which viewed the proceedings at or expert plots, it is believed, the water opposite Ferryton, Farm, Minsk, was reported to have said. be perhaps the most decisive f about 200 yards from the shore.
"I should never have believed such tor of the next war, and " Two speedboats from the sub- an operation possible without see-mindedness has been promo marine depot ship Lucia and the 1ng it myself." 216 pm-A Happy Celebration | cruiser Cairo went to the spot, but
(continued).
German Folk Song.
1.10 p.m.-A Happy Celebration.
2 p.m.-News in German.
So
the 'plane had sunk -
2.55 p.m.-Greetings to our listen-
cra in New Zealand.
3 p.m.News and Economic Re-
view in EngiH 1.15 pin-To-day. 111 Germany,
Sound Pictures, 9.30 Little Evening Entertain-
ment.
4.15 pm-Germans abroad.
and Poetry
pm,
abroad,
Music
Concers:
and Economic Re
among the population by ev THE NEW SPORT.
possible means in order to la The military use of the par-
base of personnel from which draw in case of necessity. The Air Ministry has issued the achute on a wide scale has follow- following statementzentr
ed naturally out of the growth of Parachutes are more and m Parachuting as a sport among Rus-Widely used for every type of o sia's ambitions younger generation | munal erviceps from the Many thousands of young factory Date workers and students devote their en
"The Air Minisky regrets to announce that pilot Omeer John George, Spencer let his life in an accident which occurred in Oro-.. marty Firth to an aircraft of No. pare time to it. Soviet Russia
claims to have 801 Squadrons, Proc Officer Spenger body of tra cer was the pilot and sole occupant perta than
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