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1.40 fairs": A talk by H Wickham By Its terms there will be form-FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1937 time and announcements.
ed 2 p.m. Relay of the Rotary Club Steed. 10.17 p.m.-The Rudy Sta-
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D.J.A. 31.38m... (95,60 k.c.) D.J.B. 19.74m. (15.200 ka.). D.J.E. 16.89m. (17.760 k.c.), D.J.N....... 31.45m. (95.40° ́k.c.) D.J.Q. ...... 19.63m. (15.280 k.c.) 1.05 p.m. Call DJA, DĴB (German,
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In German. of a long long day. A melody trom | Review
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directed by Rosario Bourdon. 9.40 p.m. From the Studio: A pro- gramme of Modern Music by Helen Songs sung by the "Schutzstaffel." Mr. Howe estimated that, the Lockhart (Contralto) with a Short 10
News and Economic cost of the necessary equipment Talk by E. O'Neil Shaw. 10 p.m. Review in English on DIE, DIN, would be $1,750,000 and thê operat- London-Big Ben. "World Affairs" DUQ in Netherlands
DJB. ing expenses $1,000,000 a year, and -talk by H. Wickham Steed. 10.17 | 10.15
La To-day
Ger- it was proposed that $2,000,000 p.m. Variety and Dance Music: many. Sound Pictures. 10.30 p.m. should be held in reserve for ex-
Black Wood Ware, Teak Drawing Blow Fox-Trot Sorrow Coleman A little German Reader. 10.45 p.m. pansion. He said that the landin
Room Dining Room Bed Room Hawking and the Berries: Slow An appreciation of friendship. fields would all be completed, by and Office Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Fox-Trot-Love Cries- Coleman Music and poetry.. 11.30 p.m. Songs
the end of the year, and in view Sewing Machines, Typewriters, Hawking and the Berries. Hu- by Philippine Schick. Gisela Meyer, of the commitments made about Electric Table Lamps, and Fans, morons Bats in the Belfry: Plano soprano; the composer at the piano. the projected transatlantic air ser- Filters, Clocks, Ornaments, Pictures, Solo In the Chapel in the moon 11.45 p.m. German Reconstruc-vice, for which he estimated Gramophones and Records, E. P. light: Fox-Trot-Head over heels. eralarbeitsfuhrer Dr. Will Decker. Canada's contribution at $1,250.000, & Braas Ware, Forcelain and Glass There's that look in your eyes tion: Labour Service, the promotor it was desirable to have the Cana-Ware, Cutlery, Enamel Bath, Ice again; Sketch-"Cinderella"-A of
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Trunks, Books, etc., atc. -May I have the next Romance? CJB (German, English), Band-From Monday on, She's funny that way-Harry Roy's Tiger-Ragamuffins: Fox - Trot- Sing something in the morning, Waltz No more-Roy Fox and Hia Orchestra. 11 p.m. Close down.
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DIVORCE LAW 1 Pianola
“INTOLERABLE”
Bishop Approves Marriage Bill
The view that "there is "more
and weather for the Countryman. gain than loss" in the Marriage 5.30 a.m. Breakfast Hour of News 8 pan. A programme from the Mel-Bill now before Parliament and and Music. 6.55 am. New York bourne Studios. 8.30 p.m. Play that "It ought to pass" is expressed stock quotations Swan, Culbertson "Sending Granny off." 9.15 p.m. by the Bishop of Manchester, Dr. and Frits. 7 a.m. Sign on. 9.30 "Our Heritage of Song." 9.30 p.m. Guy Warman, in the Manchester. a.m. Nielson Financial Rerlew and A Talk. 9.45 p.m. A Recital by Diocesan Leaflet. Musical Varieties. 11.15 am. Bign Jascha and Tossy Spivakovsky.
After declaring that the present of. 2.30 pin. Nielson Financial 1015 p.m. A programme from the divorce law is "Intolerable" be Review and Musical Varieties. 3.45 Melbourne Studios 10.30 p.m. Aus- writes: p.m. 8ign off. 6 p.m. Tirso Mabu-tralasian News Service, including "There is a bill before Parliament hay Orchestra. 8.30 p.m. Spanish market and stock exchange reporta, amending the law of divorce. It Informational Period. 6.50 pm. Sporting Notes. 10.45 pm. The has been greatly changed since its English Informational Period. 7.10 National Dance Orchestra. 11,30 Introduction and may be changed p.m. New York stock quotationsp.m. Close. Swan, Calbertson and Fritz. 7.15 p.m. "Sampaguita"-Tagalog. programme. 7.45 p.m. Alma Corro
and
Spanish
Hannibal' And
"Heracles" Air-Liners
yet.
"It is true that it extends the grounds for divorce, but It attempts to make them real and to get rid of the flimsy pretext upon which divorce is now granted, and which is discreditable to English justice and disastrous to the moral sense of the community.
the Magic Strings, (Chain KZEG). 8 p.m. "Ecos Hispanos," 840 p.m. Manila stock quotations and local market reports. 8.56.p.m. Stock quotations in
Figures now indicate that over L.R. Nielson & Company. 9 pm. 200,000 passengers have been car- The present situation makes Mandaluyon Estate Programme. tied by Imperial Airways air-liners light of the Seventh and Ninth 9.30 pm. Recorded Varieties. 10 of the "Heracles' class on con- Commandments, and the bill at p.m. Sign On.
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OPIUM SUPPRESSION IN KWANGTUNG
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Canton, Apr. 11.
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Mr. 14 Ki-heung, Secretary of the National Opfum Suppression Com- mission, and newly appointed re- presentative of the Kwangtung Opium" Suppression Bureau, ar- rived in Hong Kong by the R.M.S. the 9th Empress of Japan on tinental air services. The air-liner tempts, at any rate, to better that instant, and left for Canton by the 'Heracles, according to recent situation.
5.3. Fatsban. statistics, has flown a total dis- The
Immediately on arrival, he call- on General Yue Han-mow, tance of over 900,000 miles. An- divorce for the first five years of
Commissioner of other air-liber of the same class, married lite. Some think that will Pacification Horatius, has own more than lead people to believe that marri Kwangtung Province, and Com- 640,000 miles.
age is merely a Ave years contract. mander-in-Chief of the Fourth "Others, I among them, belleve Route Army, Mayor Tsang Yang- that a marriage which has to face po, and the members of the the difficulties of the first five years Kwangtung Opium Suppression will not be lightly made and that Bureau. when it is made it will tend to last.
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Figures to the end of 1936, as regards Hannibal' class aircraft on Empire routes, showed that the air-Uner Hengist had flown more than 800,000 miles. Helena's mile Trans. I (G.3.0. G.S.G. G.S.B.). | age worked out at just over 888,- 2 p.m.-Big Ben, "Five Countles 000, Figuren for other Empire air- of Ulster 232 p.m-A Plano liners were: Hadrian, 684,600 Recital by Doris Hardcastle. 2.53 miles: Hannibal 652,600 miles: D.m. "Names that Are History Horsa, 839,000 miles; 'Hanno,' 612,- 3.20 p.Cue for Adventure." 300 miles.
bill, moreover, refuses
ed
Strict: measures will be adopted Until the bill is in its final form for opium suppression throughout it would be foolish of me to make a the whole province, and it is re- decision, but at the moment, I in-ported that the number of oplum cline to think that there is more addicts, who have already register- gain than loss in the bill and thated themselvm, is over 100,000. It ought to pass.”
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