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6.13-7.00 11., Organ Balos. The Swan (Saint Saens). The radio programme to be broad. Valso Mystericuso (Meale).
Marcel Dupre, 518. cast by . B. W. on a 'wavelength. of
Arthur Mente. 3060. 350 metres to-day is:-
Chelsen Fayre (Goss-Custard). 6.00-8.00 p.nz.
European Pro, Reginald Goss-Custard F.R.C.O. 2375. grammo of Victor and H. M. V. Re-Shepherd's Lullaby (Howitt),
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7.03-7.37, p.m. A Concert. Song-Arendy Is Ever Young.
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Doll.
De Groot and Ils Orchestrul, 3071. Humorous Song-The Clutter of the
Cings.
Gracie Fields. 1415. Chorus-Fire Down Below~-~-
Hullabalo Balay. John Goss and Male Quartet. 2420. Dinlogue-The Bullfighter,
John Henry and Gladys Horridge. 3484.
Song-The Pirate.
Sir Harry Lauder (Baritone). 1434. Humorous Sang-You Can't Kill Flies
By Scratching Them.
Gracie Fields. 3381
Chorus-Sen Songs.
Nautica Male Chorus, 1774. Pianoforte Solo-Wake Up And Dream
Medley.
Carroll Gibbons. 3031. Humorous Song-Soused 'Errings.
Will Kings. 3101, Monologue-A Cockney Girl At The
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Wish Wynne. 3349. Song-Git on Board Lil' Chillun- Dure's No Hidin' Pince (arr. Lawrence Brown}..
Paul Robeson (Bass), 3034. 5.49-6.15 p.m. Band Music. The Bells of St. Malo (Rimmer). Semper Fidlis March (Sousn). Suite Francaise (Faulds),
Winnie Melville (Soprano). 3286, Violin Solo-La Serenata (Angel's
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Marjorie Hayward. 2594. Sung-The Gay Highway
(Drummond). Song-The Vagabond (Vaughan
Williams).
2141.
2672.
2394.
Peter Dawson (Basa-Baritone). 2297. Piano Solo-Rusile Of Spring-
(Sinding). Pinay Solo-Le Jet d'Eau (Sydney
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Un Bourne. Song-Valley Of Laughter
(Sanderson). Mavis Beanet (Soprana). Tria-Humoresque (Dvorak).
The Venetian Trio. Song-Little Indy Of The Moon
(Contes). Sydney Coltham (Tenor). 2742.
Musical Comedy. 7.37-8.00p.m. Clowns In Clover-Selections.
The New Mugfalz Orchestra. 1456. Duet-The Churölnte Soldier,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1931.
"RED" MENACE IN UNITED STATES.
FACTS IN OFFICIAL REPORT.
STRIKES ORGANISED.
Washington, Jan. 18. The dangerous Inroads which the Communists have made on United States industrial and sucial life are set forth in the report. presented to Congrosa yesterday, by the special committee of the Touse which has been engaged in a nation-wide investigation since May last year.
Measured mathematically the Communist menace is not great: there are probably not more than G00,000 of them In the whole country; but they have established cells in all big industries, In the ranks of the National Guard, and in centres of agricultural disaffee- tion, an that strategically they are in a very strong position,
In the background stands Am- torg, the Sovief trading corpora- tion, with its headquarters in New York. The committee were unable to obtain direct evidence of the part this organisation played in subversive activities, but the cir- cumstantial evidence is conclusive enough,
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DEATH THREATENED.
NEW SHIPS.
GRAVE FEARS THAT BANDITS | THE BLUE FUNNEL STEAMER
WILL KILL PRIEST,
Peking, Feb. 25.
DEUCALIGN.
Constructed by Messrs. H. and W. Hawthorn, Lealle and Company, Gravo news has been received re-
Limitel, to the order of Moser, garding Father Tierney, whose
Alfred Halt and Co., Liverpool, the captors nee seriously threatening Deucalion ran highly successful trials to kill him if the ransom they de-off the Tyne on December 19th. Her. mand is not paid in a very short dimensiona nro: 451ft. Gina, by Goft. while.
by 35ft. in., and who has a dead- weight carrying capacity of about 000 tons. She is constructed with a Pecially-designed raked stem minimine the amount of damage the event of collision and alão to giva special protection to ropes, and Bas a counter stern.
The British authorities continue to make very strong representations to the Central and Provincial Gov crnments on the subject.Reuter-
[The Very Rev. C. Tierney, is the Superior of the Irish Mission of St. Columban. He was captured by Communist bandits at Kignchang, 80 miles south east of Nanchang, on November 19 last).
to In
The vessel is of the two-deck typo with naop, bridge and forecnetic. Four helds are arranged with large hatches suitable for cargo of a bulky kntare, such as machinery, while ano Insulated hold is arranged for carrinte of frozen cargo and fruit,
of numerous facts which surgeat and two holds are arranged as doop: it is approaching."
Links. The vessel has nine water- tight bulkheads, 27 derricks suitable for 2 to 10-ton lifts, and one special dorrick for dealing with lends up to 50 tons; 24 electric winches are fitted for the rapid handling of cargo, one specialty large lifting barrel genred to the windlass in provided for deal- ing with heavy lifts,
house on the Winnie Melville and Derek
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Now York's 100,000. The vigorous efforts at present being made by Communists to stir up trouble in districte suffering from the depressiou have as yel mot with little success. Com- munists, the report shows, are mainly concentrated in the large cities, especially New York, where The they number aver 100,000. consensus of testimony was that 70 per cent of them were aliens. Three thousand cablegrams bec There is only one daily paper tween Amtorg und Moscow have printed in English among the been intercepted by the Govern-twelve Communist daily papers ment, and for the past five months | which circulate in the country. the code and signal section of the The work of penetration of in- Navy Department has been at- | hustrial centres is carried out by tempting to decipher them with the Trade Union Unity League, out succesY,
The three most violent strikes of the past wear have been traced to the artivities of this organisation.
Baffled by Code.
The Navy Department code ex- perts are considered the best in the country, but they state they have never met a more complicated cipher.
Spacious accommodation in что- vided for a limited number of first- class passengers in n large deck- where the engineers, saloon, pantries bridge deck
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The propelling machinery consists of two-diesel engines constructed by Burmeister and Wain, at Copen- lagen, and Installed by R. and W. and Company's Tuwthorn, Leslie engine works department, The For one of these strikes Gus.
engines are of the 4-strake single- tonia raised a funt of 89,009 dnl.
acting type, working with airless fuel which only injection, and supercharged by means lars £17,400), of
on the main en- 12.000 dollara (£2,480) went to the of blowers situnted
from the relief of strikers, the remainder gings and driven by chains being spent on Communist pro-engine crankshaft. Each engine has right cylinders of 140 mm. hore by 1,500 min. atroke, and a total shaft Great efforts are being made horse-power of 8,600 is obtained at the Communists to enlist the youth 170 revolutions per minute. A staall of the country, Twenty surmer multitubular boiler in arranged in the camps were held last year by memengine room to supply hors of the Young Pioneers and heating and auxiliary purposes.
lie Young Communist League. dozen permanent There are a schools in the cities, and the most promising pupils are sent for post. graduate work in Russin. Negroes are also sent to Russia for train-
Successive chairmen of the Am- torg Corporation, which was estab-paganda, lished in 1924, head high positions In the Soviet Government and the Communist Party, before coming to the United States. The pre- sent general manager, Fendor Ziavkin, who told the committee he was not a Communist, was demon- strated by later witnesses to have chief of the Orpa of the
bee
Dun.
It was evident from his testi- mony that he knew little of the of Amtorg. In business side general, Amtory officials, when subpoened, showed a complete lack of frankness. They professed to be unable to remember names and material facts, and twenty-five of their number were declared to be on vacation.
The Young Pioneers are used extensively for distributing sub- versive literature in the Regular,
Communista Army, Adult covered The danger of being man- thin them. handled !! they did selves,
dia.
In National Guard. The Communists have establish ed nuclei in the National Guard. who correspond roughly to the English Territorials. They make special efforts to enlist in the machines-gun corps.
The special committee to in- vestigate Communist activity was appointed when it was made clear that the Department of Justice had no power, authority, or funds from Congress to carry out the
Interesting testimony was offer- work. The rapid strides which Communism had made in the ed the committee by G. Agubekoff, United States date from that year. a former Ogpi agent, who declar The importance of the Ameri-ed that a man named Kalsky had can Communist Party was recog- acted as resident Og agent in nised by Stalin, the report points nut. in May, 1929. Ic 'then stated:
the United States from 1924 to 1929, when he returned to Moscow and was placed in charge of the the Anglo-American branch of Foreign Department of the Ogpu. Agabeko also declared that re- ports received by the Foreign Office from the British Embassy at Washington on the activities of the American Government were a
"I consider the Communist Party of the Uniteit States one of the fow Communist parties to which history has given decisive tasks from the point of view of the work revolutionary movement. The revolutionary movement has not yet reached the United States, permanent source of information but we already have knowledge i to the Ogpu.
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Melbourne, Feb. 25. Mr. Theodore hus produced a new plan for the financial re- habilitation of Australia.
It understood that R provides of credits of for the creation £25,000,000 by the Commonwealth Bank.
The Premiers' Conference, dis- cussing the plan, has adjourned without any agreement being reached.-Reuter.
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