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The Most Comprehensive Survey Yet Compiled of Reconstructional Progress in Modern China.
CHINA'S
NEW CURRENCY SYSTEM
By TANG LEANG-LI
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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THE "X" RADIO SERVICE GO. 12.30 pm-Dance masic.
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1 p.m.-Local; Time signal and
weather report. ther report.
1:03
p.m.-Excerpts from Light Opera
Rugby 130 p.m.-Reuter Press,
Press Local: Time, weather forecast and announcements. 1.45 p.m.-Relay-from the Rotary Club Tim at the Hong Kong Hotel Roof Garden. Speaker: Bishop Hall. Subject: "The Boys' Club."
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pmLight Orchestral music 2.15 pm-Close down.
'Talk by G. B. Gifford Hall from
the Studio
*Jazz Piano Recital
4 to 7 p.m.-Chinese programme.
0 p.m.-News and Economic Review.
in German and 'Oal DJQ.“. 9.15 p.m.-Folk Song Singing by the
Hitler Youth. 9.30 p.m.-Solo Concert: Prox. Hinze-Reinhold, Cembalo. Suite G minor by Handel German Aria with variations by Alen- sandro Foglietti:
10 pm-News and Economic Re- view, in English on DJE, DJO in Netherlandish on DJA, DJB 10.15 pm-To-day in Germany.
Sound Pictures.... 10.30 p.m.-A little German Reader. | 10.45 p.m.-Concert of Items by Re- quest; Hallo, hallo! You wish- we play.
11.45 p.m.-Topical Talk.
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I p.m.-
"De Meistersinger”—Wagner Act 2 Jerum! Jerum! (Cobbling Song)-Friedrich Schorr (bari-
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Act 3. Gruss' Gott, Mein Junker (Sir Knight, I greet you); and Mein Freund, In Holder
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in Interesting and Valuable Collection of Early Prints of Canton, Macau and Hong Kong
The Collection comprises : Engraving published Sketches by Captain R. Elliott B. N.
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Siamose Beer, Teak Wood, Rubber Rope, Dyos, Barbed Wire, Scrap Rubber, Porcelain Ware, Iron Bars, Galvanized Wire, Nails, Electric Lamps, Steel Bars, Plate Trou, Iron Sheets, Disinfectant, Dates, Wire Ropes, Fishmaws, Ground Rosin, Flour, Matrix Cardboard, Camal Hair Balting, Vicunas, Fancy Goods, 530 am-Breakfast Hour of News Woollene, Rice Mill Machinery, and Music-English and Span-Powder Machine, Rice Machine, Ish Current Events and Vau-Lithographic: Machine, Singlets, deville of the Air, conducted by Lighters, Meat Juice, Window Glass, Don Alva.
Marble Table Tops, Perfumery, Nail C. Polishing Sets, Glassware, Chlorate of Potash, Candy, Cotton Trimmings, Piace Goods, Diorel Oil, Gasoline D. Engine, Worsted Yard, Lubricating Oil, Iasulated Wire, Blow Lamps, Wolfram Ore, Tee Iron, Dog Spikes, Rail and Samples Liquor, etc,, eta:
Jugendzeit (My friend, when youth's desires compel).-F.
(baritone) Schorr
and Laubenthal (tenor). Finale of Opera-Verachtet mira.m-Sign on.
die Mélster Nicht; and Was 9.30 am-Nielson Financial Review Deutsch und echt.-Friedrich and Musical Varieties. Schorr (baritone),
11.15 a.m.-Sign Of p.m.--London; Christmas 2.30 p.m.-Nielson Financial Review Poems and Legends from
and Musical Varieties. Ireland. Rend
7.20
7.30
Marks.
by Florence 3.45 p.m.-Sign Of
p.m.--Closing local stock quotations and Hong Kong ex- change market report.
7.35 p.m.
De Groot and His Orchestra Ay, Ay, Ay (Perez and Freire)......... Standchen (Strauss).
Gipsy Love-Selection (Lehar). In the Night (Tate)...
6 pm--Song and Movie Magazine of the Air, sponsored by the Literary Song-Movie Magazine 6.15 p.m. Spanish Informational
Period.
6.35 p.m.-English Informational
Period. al
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6.65 p.m.-Stock quotations, through: TERMS-Cash on DeliverY.
the courtesy of Swan, Culbert- son and Fritz.
Under the roofs of Paris (Moret-p.m.-Ladies' String Quartet, with
ti).
I Love You (Grieg).
Romance (Rubinstein).
8 p.m.-Local: Time signal, weather
report and announcements.,
"Jose V. Carreon, pianist.
7.30 pm-To be announced. 7.45 p.m.-Alma Corro, Charmain Boomer and Bill Coe (Chain KZEG).
8.03 p.m.-London: "Empire Maga-
zine.", No. 19. Christmas Num- 8.05 pm-Records.
8 pm-Programme Preview.
ber, specially enlarged and de-8.10 p.m.--"Sampagulta," conduct- corated. Edited by Pascoe Thornton.
8.45pm
From the Studio" H. L. Ozorio at the piano:
1. Lee Sims transcription: Gotta
feelin' for you.
2. Old favourites medley: Some- day Sweetheart; I ain't got nobody; Dinah.
3. Moon-glow.
4. Medley: Leaving memories be- hind; Solitude; Must I forget?
5. Swing: What a night; I'm
confessin'; Rose room.
9 p.m.-London: The
announcements.
news
and
9.20 p.m.-London: The Second Cricket Test Match: "Australia v. England. An account of the fourth day's play by Alan Kippax, from Sydney Elec- trical recording).
9.35 pm.-Berenade from "The Student Prince" (Donnelly & Romberg). Sung br Allan Prior, Raymond Marlowe, Paul Clemon, Olaf Olson and
Chorus.
9.40 p.m.--
From the Studio
A talk by G. B. Gifford Hull:
"Uncontrolled Water."
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ed by Remigio Mat. Castro.
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One Set of Hyron's Werks (17 Vols.),
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8.55 pm-Stock Quotations
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REVIVING A FROZEN PIG
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COMMENCING AT 10.30 A.M.
At Lok Angeles recently Dr. At Nos 9 & 11, Kansu Ralph Willard froze a guinea pla
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sold, then revived it. The guinea Street, Kowloon, (adjoining plz immediately nibbled a piece of spinach, apparently none the Worse for refrigeration. Dr. Wil lard, 32, a swarthy, Russian-born chemist, next proposed to freeze and revive a dog, then a monkey. then
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an ape, then perhaps human. His ultimate purpose: "To use freezing to kill bacteria of certain diseases while retaining suspended life in the tissues,
Before freezing the guinea pig, Dr. Willard injected sodium citrate into its veins to prevent its blood from clotting after the heart ceased beating. Next he put the creature a soft, brown bandful, into an asphyxiating chamber which he pumped full of ether and oxygen. When the guinea pig was uncon- scious Dr. Willard replaced the ether-oxygen with carbon dioxide, and with that atmosphere slowly cooled the guinea pig until it was 1.05 D.m.--Call DJA. DJB (German.ee-hard, in that dead state the
English).
10.15 p.m.-Dance music.
11 pm. Close downi.
BERLIN PROGRAMME
German Foit Song. 1.10 p.m.-Light Concert 2.p.m.-News in German. 2.16 p.m.-Light Concert
tinued).
2.65 pm-Greetings to our listeners
in New Zealand
hard, brown handful remained several hours,
To revive the guinea pig. Dr. Willard gradually warmed it until (con-1s body temperature was normal
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Vin English.
3.15 p.m.-To-day - iri Germany.
Sound Pictures.
3.30 p.m.-We have an Hour in the
Twilight.
Music and Poetry.
4.15 pm-Great Entertainment
Concert.
5.30 p.m.News and Economie Re- view in German ? kam 5.45 p.m.--Little German Reader. 6 p.m. The Tree Short Radio
Play by Walther Gottfried Klicke
6.15 pm-Sign off DJA and DJB
(Gerin, EngiA, NAZAR
6:55 pm-Call DJA, DIB. DJE
(German, Englah) y dyd Cerman Folk Song
7 pin. Concert of Light Muste -
8 pm News in English and
6.15 p.m.--Concert of Light Musto * (continued),
MAYFAIR 2912.
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Comprising:
also
Black Wood Ware, Office and Drawing Boom Furniture, Bed Room and Traing Room Furniture, Oil Paintings, Pictures, Ornaments, Bugs, Carpets, Ice Chests, Brand & Aluminiums Ware, Glass & Porcelain Ware, Cutlery, Wardrobe and Cabin Trunks, Electric Table Lamps and Hester, Gramophones and Records, Dodin had just finished an imTypewriters, Baby Pathe" Cinema posing statue of the poet, Victor Projector, Radio, eto, etc. Hugo, standing upright on the crest of a rock, with Muses and Ocean delties circling about him. Two Combination Safes One morning the sculptor brought a troupe of Journalists to his stu- dio to contemplate the hew work. Unfortunately, the evening before, be had left the window open-and, as a terrible storm had broken out during the night, a stream of wa- ter had reduced the huge group to formless pulp. Victor Hugo had TERMS -Lase on Delivery, flopped down into a sea of mud
Rodin opened the door and al- lowed his guests to go in first, Bud- denly he beheld the disaster. He The progenitor or procrastina-all but tore his beard with despair. son and destroyer of the epistolary But the chorus of praise had al- art" was the description by Major ready begun:
Lan Hay Beth (Tan Hay) of the Wonderful! Marvelous! Victor telephone, peaking at a London Hugo rising from this bed of slime; w what a symbol! Master it is a inner recently, de
stroke of genius! You have tried to represent the ignominy of ap epoch in which the inspiration of the bard alone survived, noble and pure. How beautiful!
In the Victorian era, he said, the telephone was restricted to its proper sphere the cupboard under, the back stairs, where it was em ployed only in extreme emergency and did not exert its blighting: "Do you think so?" Rodin asked induence on correspondence and timidly. conversation, as at present,
For
It is the master-
Major Belth's telephone number piece of masterpieces." "Anatole
France Mayfair 2912.
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