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ANTI-BRITISH PROPAGANDA
MORE RADIO ATROCITY STORIES FROM REICH
LONDON, May 1-In Palestine for the last few days the WenL Yorkshire Regiment has been conducting a careful search in Bèit Rima village for. arms and ammunition belonging to terrorista.
The total arms found amounted to 37 rifles, one shot-gun and 1,100 rounds of rifle ammunition.
Although the search took place quietly and without “any' Incident, the German radio broadcasts in Arabic have invented stories of appalling atrocities by troops, thus following up last week's Juvention of Incidents in Jerusalem which local listeners knew well had never, taken place.→→British Wireless,
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YESTERDAY'S FRONT PAGE NEWS
ITH the help of broadcasting, propa- ganda has become the fourth great weapon of war: Navy, Army, Air Force and Radio.
Radio propaganda is used for preparing the ground. The people to be conquered are first plied with pro- grammes and news broad- casts, making them discon- tented with their own sur- roundings. Small
groups of listeners are formed, mostly with the help of a central organisation outside the country. These listening: groups disseminate among
the ideas they have heard.
RADIO
PROPAGANDA-
THE NEW WEAPON OF WAR
it will have 15 or 16 exclusive wavelengths.
sleep listening to Moscow in a West German town. He left the window open. He was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for AT Montreux it has been preparation of high treason.
'suggested that Britain People in Czecho-Slovakia should give up two wavelengths, were not allowed to invite friends Italy, it is suggested, should ob- to listen to the German stations. tain two new waves, to bring the Some people once belioved thatTM total to six "exclusives."
radio would be the great link of It is to be hoped that the Bri- motto of the B.B.C. used to be friendship between nations. The tish delegates will make a firm "And nation shall speak, peace ber. They were the first to stand in view of the vast politi- unto nation." In this manner broadcasting, brave the dangers of "enemy" cal importance of international has become an instrument of But broadcasting as used by Germany, has become country. They entered Karls- broadensting. For if Britain the maid-servant of that new bad long before the protective only has three waves we cannot method of "peaceful" penetra- troops had arrived. They even make ourselves heard beyond tion which leads to unresisted met some Czech soldiers. But our frontiers. armed invasion.
nobody molested them.
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Car Thefts
war.
in wartime? Will we
our
SINCE the beginning of the year, Radio propaganda is like the They became courageous, sat the B.B.C. must first consider allow people to listen to foreign Sir Stephen Tallents says that WHAT of broadcasting the Police have dealt with some fascinating eye of a serpent that down and quickly scribbled post- the local requirements of British or enemy stations? Will thirty cases in which motor cars have been stolen by unauthorised attempts to hypnotise its vic- cards to their friends. When listeners. This may be, because stations be destroyed long before persons for "joy-riding" purposes. tim until it allows itself to be the troops arrived and later the we do not wish to acquire neigh- the end? The value of this property, on u conservative estimate, probably ex-swallowed without resistance.
Fuehrer, their microphones and bouring countries. But we must ceeds $50,000.
loudspeakers were all prepared. Without the help of brond-
be able to hear our voice, other already solved the problem: One country in Europe has Only in a few instances have the casting and its systematic work cables. So they recorded the wise they will believe the sta- Wireless acts will be made use- But the Czechs had cut the culprits been apprehended and, de- spite, Traffic Department pleas for of preparation, aided by well- victorious taking of Karlsbad on
tions they do hear. heavy punishment, these have been organised, enthusiastic listeners, records and sent them by air to
less for ether reception. They released by the Magistrate payments of absurdly small lines.
upon it would not be so easy to march a neighbouring German town yet it is highly important that system. Those that have no This may sound technical and will be linked to the telephone
In the majority of cases, the Without loudspeakers and micro- to cables and broadcast.
a neighbour's country. from where they were passed on we should enable people living in telephone will gather in rooms people who take these cars without phones great masses of people permission hre unlicensed drivers
into
who hardly know how to start a could not be told to keep quiet. vehicle, let alone drive one. They
the
not only commit a larceny: they also endanger the lives of pedestrians and the passengers of otlier vehicles by wildly careening down the streets. There was a recent case in which u young man who smashed a "bor-
sum even it had been shown
condition,
Czech stations.
those countries where Press and and halls, and on street-corners radio are controlled to hear the where loudspeakers have al- truth about Britain and the Bri- ready been installed. tish people. We must fight
WITH the fall of Czecho- against the impression dis- Slovakia, Germany seminated by certain stations GERMANY has recently becomes the most powerful that we are blood-thirsty Arab- developed an entirely broadcasting country in Europe. killers; that we are all Jews and rowed", car was fined a ridiculous new system of expansion. After Until then Germany had 34 Freemasons, Bolsheviks and "de In court that he had driven the a period of "build-up" to win the broadcasting stations. It has mocrata." veliicle in n hopelessly inebriated confidence of foreign listeners, now added the
they are gradually treated to Two of these are super-power radio stations, are weak; they Democracies, say the German The usual charge against a car-more and more propaganda de stations: Prague and Melnik. are struggling against the on- thief is "driving without the owner's scribing the beauties of Ger- Germany, with 41 atations now, slaughts of inner unrest and dis- permission."
It should be larceny, many and how smoothly every will be able to swamp the Euro- content. Roosevelt is on the and should carry a penalty that does not provide fur the alternative of a thing work there. Then they pean ether with its programmes. edge of ruin, Great Britain's Em- fine. A man who possesses car has as much right to respect for
motor- are told of the terrible conditions
Even now, at Montreux, a pire is falling to bits. These are fountain pen. Yet the penalties for
excuse may be made that stolen cars)
in other countries, including
Edgar Weir
A Look Through The Telegraph
50 YEARS AGO
May 3, 1889.
been settled in Russis in the afirma- The question of female physicians has
what only attend on adults of their own sex and on children of both sexes.
International conferences for the adop
his property as a man who owns their own. They are taught to Government conference of Euro- typical remarks that may be tive, with the stipulation that ladies taking the latter without the owner's be discontented with their own pean countries has gathered to heard in the ether these days.. permission are tenfold more severe Governments. They are than those for taking a car. The mised mountains of gold and according to which broadcasting used its broadcasting system to Uruguay. Japan and lawall have ac
pro- prepare a new wave plan. A
Italian atations are wave plan is the arrangement aggressive. Hungary has mis- Spain, Italy. Eweden and Norway, the no less Great Britain, Franco, Germany, are sooner or later abandoned and good things. recovered by the owners; that the
Netherlands, Denmark, stations agree not to interfere gull the Slovaks. Russia, which cepted Invitations to participate in the Brazil, Chile, insurance companies pay for any Finally, the broadcasts take with each other. To be able to has very powerful stations, is don of plans for securing greater dainage. Those excuses should not on an aggressive tone. They broadenst you must have a clear well received in Germany. Yet enfety at sea, be considered. In many of the cases become less truthful. the cars are abandoned for the
What the wavelength of your own. These its news is not concise enough, simple reason that there is no means Germans call "Hetzpropaganda," waves are called exclusive. of taking them out of the Colony. and "Atrocity Propaganda," and
nor quick. Germans are forbid- who had stationed himself on Broadway, An enterprising American reporter That excuse will disappear when of which they accuse the foreign waves just now,
Britain has five "exclusive" den to listen to Russian stations, New York, noted that among a hundred Kwangtung returns to normal and
that it can reach out to Europe on the dials of sets sold in Ger-ize, 28 in greatly reduced proportions, which means and their names do not appear carded the bustle, wore it in modern well-dressed wamen, 16 had totally dis
on five channels. Germany has many.
and 10 sported the glant also. But the 12 and, with the Czech stations,
obsorver was thrown out of his bear. There was a man who went to ave-and-twenty damsels he was unable inge when he found that in the case of to decide whether it was bustle or girl. 25 YEARS AGO
own sta-
the new highway allows vehicular Press and radio, is used with traffic, Colony-bound throughout our great effect by their history, to proceed into the interior. tions. The second excuse means that the loss has simply been transferred from the owner of the car to the shareholders in an insurance сот-
pany. Naturally, the latter passes on is losses to ear-owners in the form of increased premiums.
Traffic Noise
☆
QUITE recently German Broadcasting played
an important part in the "libera- tion of Slovakia." Without THE ANNUAL REPORT of the radio the country-wide appeals Hongkong General Chamber of from Vienna would have been Commerce has an interesting section impossible,
on the subject of Tramc
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Noises,
the frontiers,
It reveals that the Commissioner would have been closed. Slovakia of Police last year suggested that was without the technical means
the Chamber obtain the views of the of making Vienna' inaudible. Hongkong Automobile Association on
the question of a 24-hour silent zone
On January 1, the German
in the elly area bounded by Jackson Minister of Propaganda, Dr. Road, Queen's Road Central, Pottin- Ker Street and Connaught Road Joseph Goebbels, granted the Central. The suggestion was vetoed German Broadcasting Company by the Automobile Association on the the right to use as title and for trounds that the imposition of a announcements: allent zone" would be fraught with
"The Great
loo much danger unless legialation German Broadcasting." This was introduced whereby pedestrians title was given as a sign of re- | were afforded the means of crossing cognition for the preparatory the roads in safety at regular in work done by the German sta- tions in the perioda prior to the
fervals,
With this we agree. But the cause;
of most of Hongkong's traffic noise anexation of Austria
has nothing to do with pedestrians, Czecho-Slovakia,
It is caused by an unfortunate trait
In certain classes of Chinese-and,
and
And truly, the German radio
for that matter, in Europeans toomen did great things last Octo-,
who regard noise as a pleasurable sensation. The remedy is either to prohibit the use of electric horns, or
as la done in most parts of the condemned; and if, at the same time. of a certain number of decibels were world to enforce examination by
the Police of nolso-producing de unnecessary sounding of horns was vices. The Hongkong tram regula penalised to the extent that the tions already provide that car horna cence of the driver or, in persistent shall be subject to the approval ceases, of, the vehicle itself, could be the Commissioner of Police, but revoked, the problem would quickly uppears to be a dead-letter regul erid. tion. If car-hora were..subject to regular examination and tests, and of the, nolalost" modern cities in the]
As it is, Hongkong Is probably one those which created noises in excess world.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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DWORCE DURT
By Lichty
Lich
This is the last law work you do for me-not only do I get nickes for alimony but the judge awards me custody:
of my math er-in-law!”!
Villa, the one-time bandit will be the
May 3, 1914. next President of Mexico. That is his ambition, and, despite all reports on the contrary, it will remain his ambition until he withers, is dead or President. (He died.-Ed.).
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The new skirts are out wider at the hips, still taper at the ankles, then faring out below except in the case of the short gown. And we are to sen many of the short skirts this suminer. In contrast to the ground-sweeping models at the present
Ono new skirt model, which overal of the lending dress-makers have been attempting to force to the front, has an effect which, at a distance, resembles a dah's tall. Below the knees the skirt narrows rapidly to the ankles, when it suddenly florea out in small ruffles and. plasts.
10 YEARS AGO
May 8, 1920. Inelted by Communist agitators who have been active for days, a huge mob Indulged in serious rioting in Deriin. thie evening, as the result of which six parsons were killed, including three pallesofficers, and over 80 were wounded.
The "Kausing stands condemned, with ameini sanction, as the whitent of white elephanta, incapable of carrying out the duties for which she was built at cost to the Colony of a quarter of Amillion dollars, The Kanding war- wrecked In the 1937 typhoon, Govern ment la now constructing a new lights house tender-Ed.).
5 YEARS AGO
Violent disturbances broke out in the working class district of Paris at mali- night, when Hay Day slemunskäytöku, after a day of comparativa immctivity, altnekad taxi-cab drivers taking out. their ears for the night service.redza