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COMING EVENTS
FEB..
15-Tides: High 12.30 am and 1.20 p.m. Low 6.55 am. xid 8.14 pm. Sunrise: 657 a.m.; Sunset: 8.19 p.m. Air Raid Syren Test at Stonecut- ters, 2.30 p.m.
Chess Championship continued. Ladies Working Party (BW.OP). Govt. House, 9 sm-1 pm; St. An- drew's (B.W.O.F.), 430 pm.
GENERAL
Radio Programmes
HONGKONG
Humphreys Estate and Finance Co Ltd., annual meeting at HK Hotel 11 m.
Z
On Wavelengths of 955
B
W
motres (845 kc'x) 31,49 metras (9.52 megacycles).
Extraordinary Gen. Mgs of Chi- nese Commercial Co., Ltd, and Kwong Kú On Mining Co., Ltd., 18, Pine St, Kowloon, noon.
Busy Bees, Knitting and Bandage- Making. Central Fire Station, 9.30
8.12.
Cathedral Women's Fellowship Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 330
D.ML
Cheero Club, Contract Bridge Les- sons. 8 p.m.
R.N.Y.
Police Recreation Room, Whist Drive; 8.30 p.m.
S, and S. Home; Social Evening & Presentation to Rev. and Mrs, Evison, 7.30
p.m.
:
Claims against enemy firms due. Violin Recital by Mr. Chao Prewel at HK, Hotel, 9.30 p.m.
Theosophical
Society: Lecture "Fourth Dimension" (Part 1) by Mr. A. Lebedeff.
YM.C.A.: Games Morning. 10 am.; A.D.C. 9 p.m.
RA.OB Club, General Committee Meeting. 8 p.m.
H.K. T's Men's Club. Tin Mtg. 1 p.m. Speaker: Mr. William Yinson Lee The Chinese and the Philip pines."
St. Andrew's Club Committee Mtg. 8.30 p.m.
Vagabond Rotarians, Cafe de Chine, 1 p.m.
Ladies Bible Study, 218, Nathan Road, 10.30 a.m.
St. Andrew's Women's Felowship. 2.30 p.m.
Exhibition of Chinese Art on Fans, Fung Ping Shan Library, 10 - p.m.
Physical Culture Inst. for Boys: Visit by Dr. and Mrs. P. 8. Selwyn Clarke, 5 p.m..
Charity Bazaar at Chinese Cham- der of Commerce.
16-Tides: High L16 am and 2.09 p.m. Law 1.10 am, and 10.05. p.m.
HERBERT & BERNHARD RUFF FROM THE STUDIO Children's Hour
as
12.13 p.m. Short Service of Inter- ceulian.
12.30 Haydn-Symphony No. ("Farewell") In F Sharp Minor.
Sir Henry Wood conducting the London, Symphony Orchestra.
12.55 A Schubert Song.
Bollington with Anton & The Para- mount Theatre, Orchestra.
8.35 Songs by Tina Rossi (Tenor). Catari Catari (lm Naples au baiser de feu); Ecoutez les Mando lines (film Naples au baiser de feu").
Fleurs
Cat De L'Amour (Montier Tillymoon!.
8.45 Studio-Talk an “Iraq.” 9.05 Sea Shantie
Ten Thousand Miles Away (Wilan). Blow The Man Down: Tom's Gone To Hilo (an. Terry); Lowlands: High- land Laddie (arr. Taylor · Harris)- John Goss (Baritone) and the Cathe dral Male Volpe Quartet.
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9.15 London Belay-News Summary. 9.30 "Old and New"-A Potpourri of Popular Melodies arranged by Herman
Finck
Inc.
Herman Finck and His Orchestra. 9.45 Favourite Ballads. Unmindful of the Roses (Coleridge.
Der Doppelganger Alexander Kip Taylor); Thou Hast Bewitched Me, nis (Bass) with Plano accompaniment
Beloved
(Coleridge-Taylor); This Is by Frank Bibb.
The Taland
of Gardens (Coleridge- with Orchestra. When Love Is Kind Taylor-Arthur Reckless (Baritone) Crofts): Bantry Bay (Molloy)- Roddy (Soprano) with
1.00 Local Time Signal and Weather Report.
L03 Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) and the Orchestra' Mascotte.
Kathleen
I Know of Two Bright Eyes
my Mavourneen (from
10.01 Eric Coates-Springtime Saite. Light Symphony Orchestra conduct-
by The Composer.
Waltzes-After the Ball (Harris); Songe D'Automne (Joyce)-Orchestra The Lay of Killarney'-Benedict & Mascotte. Je TAlme Fille-Tabct)Others)--Heddle Nash (Tenor) with Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) with Orch. Piano. Waltzes Amphitryon (Amberg & Others: You Will Never Know (Karl Berbuer) Orchestra. Mascotte. Soned Regard Jamblan-Einer), C'Est Ma Faute Dawson-Delettre) Lucienne Boyer (Vocal) with Orchestra & Piano. Waltzes-Freut Euch Des Leberis (John, Strauss); Roses of the South (Jon. Strauss)-Orchestra Mascotte.
130 Beuter & Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announcements.
1.45 Carroll Gibbens (Piano) and March the Savoy Hotel Orpheans,
10.17 Mendelssohn-Quartet in D
Op.44, No. 1, Stradivarius String Quartet 10.42 Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
"Carmen"--Prelude to Act 1 (Bizet) Delllah"-Bacchanale (Saint-Saens):
-Entr'acte. Act
4. "Bamson
and "Damnation of Faust" Rakoczy (Berlioz Op.24). "Hungarian Dance No. 1.
11.00 Close down.
SHORT WAVE
Anything Goes Selection (Cole Porter). Fox Trot-Pr Me Behind Bars: Slow Fox-Trot-Roses In De cember (film 'Life of the Party) Carroll Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel Orpheans I Want A Fair and Square Ain't She The Dainty (Theme Song G.A.G Man
(Theme Song Aunt Sally');
Calla and and GSB Green (Plano
Dueta) accom panied by Their Boy Friends. Fox G.S.D. G.S.H Trots-Nice Work If You Can Get It
Damsel (film
Distress'): A Foggy
'Aunt
Sunrise: 6.56 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20 p. John Sally') Camali Gibbons
Entries close
for All-Day
TED-
als Tournament in aid of B.W.OF. at HK.C.C.
DAVENTRY
Wavelength 17.79b.a... (18.86m.) 1.51m2 (1.55m.) #LA7m.a. › (31.97m,) 18.18m.5 (19.79x1.)
H.K. Tramways Ltd, annual meet-Day fflm Damsel in Distress')-CR-Transmission I-News Sum ing. 12 noon.
"Star" Ferry Co. Ltd, annual meet-Orpheana. Fox-Trot--Take My Heart
roli Gibbons and the Savoy Hotel mary Ing Jardine Matheson & Co., 1130-Carroll 8.774.
Y.M.CA Badminton Match-Y.M. C.A. Ladies v. Recreto Ladies.
Exhibition of Chinese Art on Fans, Fung Ping Shan Library, 10 am-8 p.11.
Charity Bazaar at Chinese Cham- ber of Commerce.
T Ladies Working Party (B.W.O.P.), Govt. House, 9 am-1 pm.
NEWS IN ENGLISH
*4.00 D.D.
Full Bulletin
4.00 pm
Gibbons and
Hotel Orpbeans.
the Savoy Trans. II & II-News Sam-
mazy
6.46 paz
Full Bulletin
7.30 p.m.
2.15 Close down.
da
do.
Transmission V-News Sum-
mary
5.45 Studio-Children's Hour, 6.45 Closing local Stock Quotations. * 6.47
Compositions of Richard Strauss
"Don Juan"-Tone Foem, Op.20 -London Philharmonic
Orchestra conducted by Fritz Basch., Morgen, 3.09-Elisabeth Schumann (Soprano) with Op.27, No. 4; Standchen, Op.13, No. 2 Orchestra, Rosenkavalier Waltzes - Bruno Walter conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.
17-Tides: High 2.35 am, and -p.m. Low 7.30 am and 11.40 p.m.
Sunrise: 6.56 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20 p.us. HK Jockey Club Annual Meet- ing First Day, 12
DOOEL RE.O.C.A. Supper Dance. Exhibition of Chinese Art on Fans. Pung Ping Shan Library, 10 am-8 p.m.
Cottage. Club, Cavalcade, 3.30 pm: 18-Tides: High 4.55 am: and 4.16 p.m. Low 8.02 aan.
Sunrise: 6.55 a.m.; Sunset: 6.21 p.m. Semi-finals of HK. Golf Club Junior Championship due for ecm- pletion.
Tennis Tournament in B.W.OF. at. H.K.C.C. ID 2.m.
of Claims against estate of Paul Lau- der due.
ald
Mixed Doubles Tennis Tourney at CS.C.C. 2.15 p.m.
7.20 Violin Solos by Eml Telmanri. Danse Champetre, Op.108, No. 1 (Sibellus); Romance, Op.78, No. 2; Danse Champetre, Op.106, No. 2 (Sibelius) with Piano accomp. by Gerald Moore,
7.30 London Relay-The News 7.50 Studio-Short talk on the forth. coming Hongkong Dog Show,
8.00 Local Time Signal. Weather Report and Announcements,
8.03 Studio Two Plano Recital by Herbert & Bernhard Buff (from the Gloucester Hotel).
8.23 Al Bollington at the Organ. A Day In London Selection-Intro: The Changing of the Guard; There's Marble Arch; Old Father Thames; a lovely lake in London: Round-the Let's all go down the Strand; Knights-
19 Tides: High 7 am and 5.28 p.m. Low 12.40 a.m. and 946 am.
Sunrise: 6.55 am.; Sunset: 621 p.m.bridge March-Al Bollington (Organ). H. K Jockey
Club's Annual The Life of the Party"-Selection: Meeting-Second Day, 12 noon
"Lovely to Look At Selection-Al
HK. Area Individual Novices' Box- ing Finals, 5.30 p.m.
20-Tides: High 7.55 am, and 6.35 pm. Low 1.98 a.m. and 11.50 a.m.
Sunrise: 6.55 a.m.; Sunsci; 6.21 p.m. H, K. Jockey Club's Meeting, Third Day, 12 noon.
Claims against cstate of Chas, Maguire due.
KK Area Individus} Novices' Box- ing Finals, 8.30 p.m.
Full Bulletin
9.15 p..
12:00 mid- night
7.30 am. 8.30 8.2.
SHORT TALKS FROM B.B.C..
(All Hongkong Time MondaysBackground
to the News..... 11.00 p.m. Tuesdays--Background
to the News ...
8.15 a.m. In England. Now.... 11.00 p.m. Cards
on the Table 8.00 p.m. Wednesdays In Eng-
6.45 B Cards on the Table 8.15 am Matters of Moment 11.00 p.m. Thursdays-Matters of
land
Now
Moment Background to the
News
Fridays
6.45 8.10.
11.00 ..
In England
11.00 pa
Saturdays In England
Now
6.45 a.m
London Log London Log Sundays-London Log
3.30 p.m. 11.15 p.m. 6.45 A.L
LONDON GAZETTE STARK HUNGER
the London
Supplement to Annual
Gazette of Friday, Jan. 19:
*WAR OFFICE, JAN, 23
REGULAR ARMY COMMANDS AND STAFF The follg. appts are made:4- Maj. W. H. Green, M.C., King's Own R., to be GS.O., 3rd Grade (temp (Aug. 1, 1830): Lt. E D'E F. Coke, Foresters, to be ADC. (Aug. 23, 1939),
St. Andrew's Church, Annual Meet- ing, 9 pm:
Busy Bees Working Party Bridge & Mahjongg Drive, Cathedral Hall, 3 p.m:
21-HK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting-Fourth Day, 12 noon.
HKAD.C. presents, "The Circle" at China Fleet Club.
Third HKVD.C. CampStarts.---- 22-Launching at Kowloon Docks, 6.30 p.m.
HEAD.C. presents "The Circle" at China Fleet Club,
Chess Championship continued, YMCA Ladies Night-Programme of plays by AD.O.
Theosophical
Society: Lecture "Fourth Dimension" (Part 2) by Mr. 'A. Lebedett.
HK. Area Individual Novices Box ing Finals, 8.30 pm,
23-ELKADO.present "The Cir- cle at China Fleet Club.
BL Andrew's Club, Whist Drive, 8.45 pm,
Institute of Engineer's and Snip builders: Lecture on Television" by Mr. P. V. Reveley,
Entries close for Dog and Cat Show. Kowloon Guides and Brownies.. Bridge and Mahjongg Drive, St. An- drew's Hall, 3 p.m.
Diocesan Old Girls and Old Boys' Azan. Supper Dance at Peninsula Ho- tel. 8 p.m.
Meeting. Fifth Day. 2.30 p.m.
24~H.K. Jockey Club's Annual
REOCA Amual Ball. Entries close for Colony Lawn Ten- nis Championships.
in the dangerous West of Tombstone, Arizona...
Nancy Kelly has never been The thrills of a lifetime await the role of the woman who follow- loveller or more effective than in you down as the Majestic Theated, the man she loved into tre, tomorrow where the 20th Cen- dangerous spot to save him
this tury--Fox production Frontier Full of furious gunplay, break- Marshal" will be screened
Randolph Scott is at his top vivid romance and hearty humour, Adelaide Harry due.
neck action, blood-tingling thrills, completion.
Claims against estate of Helen notch best in the title role of Frontier Marshal" is one of the Wyatt Earp, the gun-fighting finest dramas of the West to
25- Golf Club-Final marshal, whose fabulous explolacome to the screen in years
Junior Championship piction.
HK, Golf Club Final of Stubbs Round of Mixed Foursomes due for Shield due for completion. First
of
for com
INFANTRY
ROYAL ARMY PAY CORPS To be Capts. and Payms, (Jan.
THEIR PROSPECT
Bohemia, Moravia Suffer Under
Nazi Heel
NEW YORK, Feb.. 14 (Beater)— Further evidence of the way the minorities are suffering under the Naz! heel is provided by an article in the New York Times.
1), with seny. Jan. 1; 1938:-Capt. So much food has been taken HR. Beauchamp (from Leicester from Bohemia and Moravia, it B.); Capt, S. c Rogers from N. says, that there is now not enough Stafford, R.).
wheat and re remaining to pro-: vide food for QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S IMPERIAL Stark bunger is their prospect.
the population. MILITARY NURSING. SERVICE
NO FOOD
appts:-Miss N. C. McMinn (Jan. stock, because there la no food- The follg, Sisters resign their Farmers are selling their live-
stock, a
1) Miss K, M. Edney (Jan, 181
MEMORANDA
Nevertheless, the Prague Cabinet hogs by spring, although there is has been ordered to provide 100,000
Hon. Maj. Gen. Sir Fabian A. G. Ware, ·KGVO., K.B.E., C.E... CM.G., LL.D., is granted an emer- no food to feed them, Hon. rank (Sept. 3, 1939). (Sub- Nevertheless margarine factories gency comma, and retains the is only 12 per cent of normal The production of butter fats
stituted for the notifn, in the must continue to ship definite Gazette of Dec. 1, 1933)
26 China Light and Power Co. Hok Un Station Inauguration, 5 p.m.
amounts, all carefully wrapped in Russman paper to bolster up the courage of the German consumer.
28-Third R.KV.D.C. Camp ends. Puppet County Chief
HK and Shanghai Banking Corp. Annual. Mtg, 11.30 am
Shanghal Bank shareholders payable 29-Final dividend to HE and
Chess Championship 'continued. in aid of BW.OF. 9.30 p.m.
Leap Year Ball at Oloucester Hotel Central British Assa. Dance, Theosophical Society: Lecture "Re incarnation" by Mr. M. R. Dab,
Urban Council Election.
Executed
SHIUHING, Feb 14 (Central Leung Mou-ha, a county chief at Kunyiu, 15 miles north-west of Canton, is reported to have been executed on February 11 by the Japanese for his incompetence in commandeering labour
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