DONALD DUCK
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January 16, 1940.
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ZBW, 355 metres (845 k.c.) and 31.49 metres (9,520 kilo-cycles) Tchaikowsky Symphony No. 7.00. Closing Local Stock Quota-
tion:
6, the "Pathetique"
7.02 Gracle Fields, Arthur Askey Its Orchestra, Radio
Broadcast by and Mantovani ani Programme 2. D. W. on Frequency of 815 kes London in Saying Goodnight, Gracie Dreams, Love's and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pan. Fields; Moonspun and 8-11.15 p.m. na 9.62 me's. per Serenade, Mauiovani; All To Speci- scorul.
#eation, The Cuckoo, Arthur Askey:; Tango Medley, Mantovant; Look Up and Laugh, Film Waltz Songs, Cracie
12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter- cession.
signal, weather
12.38 Compositions of Strauss- | Fields, A Night In Venice, Potpourri, March 7.30 Landon Relay-The News. Weber; Delirlen, Orchestra Mascotte; 8.01ocal time Values Or Spring, Marta Eggerth repart, announcements, (Soprano); Music Of The Spheres 8.03 Studio, Two-Plano Iteeltal by Orchestra Mascotte; The Gypsy Herbert and Bernhard Kuff (from The Baron Selection, George Boulanger | Gloucester Hotel). Orchestra.
1.00 report.
Local time signal,
weather
1.03 Frances Day (Soprano) and Victor Silvesters Orchestra-Jolly Brothers, Baby's Sweetheart, Victor
WALT I
Law Gives Way R.A.F.'s DEADLY
To Cupid
MOBILE, Ala. (UP), Even the law bows to Dan Cupid,
Fred Schell was arraigned in inferior court on charges of passing another automobile on the Moble viaduct.
He pleaded for a continu. ance on grounds it would in- terfere with his coming mar- riage.
"Okay," said Judge Tisdale
J. Touart, “because you're go- ing to cross your bridge sure enough this time."
8.20 Selections from Kalman's
Edith Lorand | so♦ Countess Maritza,” and Her Viennese Orchestra.
8.33 ... Recording, "Poor Polly," Sketch.
8.47 Barnabas Von Grézy and Ils
Silvester's Harmony Muste; Midnight} Orchestra-Hindu Song, Vaise Triste, and Music, Frances Day; We're 8.53 Studio, "Chinese Paintings In Friends Again, What A Night, Victor Ironglong."A talk by Ebie Choline- Slivesterf Ballroom Orchestra; ley, Secretary to the Hongkong Com-66 Music, Maestro, Please, A-Tisket, Amittee of the Chinese Industrial Co- Tasket, France Day. Kisses Are operatives.
Dewdrops. Why Stars Come Out At 9.05 Studio, Comments on Recent night, Victor Silvester's Ballroom Or Events.
chestra.
9.15
London Relay. News Sum-
130 Rouler, Rugby press, weather; marg.
9.30 London Relay, "Cards on the forecast, announcements,
Table."
9.45 Tchaikowsky, Symphony No.
MULTI-GUN
BATTERIES
(By RONALD WALKER)
FRANCE, Dec. 18.
FROM an inspection to-day of another of the Ger- man Dornier bombers brought down yesterday it is clear that the destructive effect of the multi-guns of the British fighters is very great.
Before I left England 1 heard some doubts casts. by experts on the value of the battery of machine-guns ******] which equip our fighters.
SPOTLIGHT ON
GERMANY
99 Were
"Invaders"
Nazi Deserters
DISCONTENT.
among
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Even a quick glance at these shot-down | bombers, however, would dispel any doubt. Multi-- machine-guns tired as one gun make a terrible weapon.
Where the machines have been struck exactly at the cone of fire the stream of bullets has torn great holes through the metal covering and structure of the aircraft. These İholes have been blasted Eirough fuse-| [luge and wing.
Accurate Shooting AL greater 145 Binet. Symphony No. 1 In
distances or shorter Major-London Philharmonic Or
Some men did manage to cross the British pilots, who demonstrate, very thej chestra, conducted, by Walter Gochr 6 in B Minor, Op. 74 (The "Patheti
2.15 Close Down.
que")Baston Symphony Orchestra German Army-there have been border, but they were persuaded to accurate shooting, have been able to
return.
spray their opponents with bullets G.00
An hour of Dance Music conducted by Serge Koussevitsky.
using only very short bursts. Afternoon, Wishing One Sunday
10.30 A Concert by Simon Barer many cases of troops, crossing
THEN there is more news that will This German machine was landed Blily Thorburn: I Paid for the Lie (Piano) and Natan Misteln (Viola) into Switzerland because of poor, that I told You, Small Town, Geraldo Sanetto No. 104 Del Petrarca (No. food and bad conditions-was cause worry to the man-in-the-street. by its pilot in a feld not far from Germany's economic position is be- Menehould, He pulled off the land- Jaloude, Xavier Cugat; Tu Sala 5) of Deuzieme Annee-L'Italle Gno-revealed in curious fashion re-
coming so parious that a new loan, to ling with his undercarriage up. Henry King; I'm Gonna Put You merelgen-(Liszt), Simon Barecently.
be introduced this month will be Apparently it had been jammed_by Your Ince, Got No Time, "Fats" Consolation (No. 3) (List), Natur During the week-end there were
compulsory.
Aghter-pilot machine-gun Waller; Where Is Our Blue Bird Of Milstein; Etude in F Minor (Liz); constant rumours that the Nazis were
An Exchange Zurich message says Previously his navigator and gunner Melody Lane, Sweethearts, Victor Waltz In A Flat Major, Op. 42 Silvester; Where Is Alexander?, Chopin), Simon Barer; Nocturne In about to invade luxemburg. Many that under the "loan" the owners of had jumped with their parachutes.
savings bank and post-office accommls
The gunner, badly wounded, died Frankle and Johnnie,
The Six Sharp Minur (Chopin), La Came troops were seen noir the frontier.
will have to contribute from three ts on the way down. The top turreli
was battered by, bullets. Swingers; Ciertos Amores. Desprecio panella (from Concerto No. 2 in B
Nator
40 per cent of their holdings. Orquesta Tipica. Francisco Canara; Minor, Paganini. Op. 7). Romany, Lonely, Geraldo; Never Milstein (Violin). Break A Promise, The Organ, the 11.00 London Relay-In England
Dance Band and Me; Cuckoo In The Now," Clock, Shut-Eye, Kay Kyser,
11.15
Close Down.
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the
fire.
Then the mystery was soived, The soldiers were not intending to commit another act of agression,
Even the Hitler Youth must pay |
Arrested By Civilians for their loyalty. They are lo cup- All they wanted was to get out of Germany. They were would-be de- tribule a minimum of three marks after his machine had bumped and
The pilot was arrested by civiliang) serters from the Army.
each a year to Ühe
State,
slithered to a halt over the muddy ffield. These people had watched the EVEN the cheery, roaring fire battle between the British fighter and around which in accordance with the bomber breathlessly. It lasted tradition, German familles congregate for a quarter of an hour. each Christmastide was smaller last The German pilot did not set fre to his aircraft, which is practically The railways, neglected by the intact except for damage by bullets Nazis, are proving unequal to the land the landing.
emands of war and ordinary distel- Evidence from the plone proved bution.
that the Germans are attempting to "Coal supplies have broken down make a very detailed survey of a and severe rationing is already in wide area of Franec. force..
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PERHAPS the authorities are j THE EX-KAISER MAY worried that these family gatherings | will be a little discontented. They! night even listen-in to foreign broadensts-an action which has been illegal since early in the wur.
And so the drive against "hereny" has been intensified.
One man in Berlin (says Exchange from Zurich) has been sentenced to four yeura" penal servitude, another at Dusseldorf to 12 months, and a third at Bremen to 18 months.
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would be given. Further flood-gates Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
and sluices would be opened, others closed, and the waves would then i be diverted cantward to flow, ro-
morselessly towards Germany.
Eastern Holland would be separat-
ed from the west, where lie the key towns of Amsterdam, the Hague, and
The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Rotterdam-separated by
vaxt ex-
PARLOPHONE
PRESENTS
says that Germans must not forget panse of water, encompassing nearly TWO MOST POPUlar dance ORCHESTRAS for a minute that, enemies remuin one-third of the whole country. enemies, even, if they are disarmed
This in the Dutch plan to resist
and taken prisoner. Nu social inter- course whatever is permitted. Com-invasion by Germnay, and it would plete detachinment' and reserve must talce only six hours to carry out. be shown towards them.
STOCK MARKET REPORT
The Dutch Government has pas ed the Emergency Degree proclaim- int large scellons of the country areas for flooding, but because of the heavy sacrifice entailed and the fact that there appears at present to be no direct threat at invasion, the vital word of command is with-
Hongkong Stock Exchange-Offlelu? | held. Summary issued yesterday says:
of
the
This decree was primarily intended The rush of cnquiries has temper- to warn the inhabitants nully ensed, and to-day's trading was districts concerned that they must not on to an extensive a scale as has expect to be compulsorily evacuated bien the experience of a few pre-jul'a moment's notice. coding #ersions.
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Natural Floods
IN my tour from Utrecht,
where
life in quite normal, to the Ger-
man frontier, just beyond Nijmegen,
KAY KYSER'S
F1521-Tears from ly Inkwell.
Concert In The Fark. F1494-East Side of Heaven.
That Sly Old Gentleuan. F1450 Chopsticks.
All God's Chillum Got Rhythm. F1303-Hurry Home.
Between A Kiss and A Sigh.
VICTOR SYLVESTERS F1553-Love Never Grows Old.
In the Middle of’A Dream. F1554—We'll Bitei Aguda. Your's for
(No Vocal)
W
QS.
FT.
Song. F1534–Wih Me Good Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye.
I poured My Heart Into A Song.
F1533—White Salls.
Cuban Lady,
F1508- Never Knew Heaven Could Speak. There's Danger in The Waltz,
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY
I saw no signs of unusual activity, MARINA HOUSE
Many felds were flooded, but it was [pointed out to me that this was 'due
to the unusually high water level of the River Waal,
A certain amount of deliberate flooding; has been undertaken but this was also the enno in 1914. The arcin ato then
be which cannot hicluded in to alx hours' scheme.
If and
Is when the "bl flood" ordered tho fertile meadows will be covered to a maximum depth of 2ít. This will be quite sufficient to make it impquible to distinguish between the felts and the myriads of 121. canals i ditchos.
the
Dutch 11
If any tank tries to cross that, trap, I will be just too bad for the tank, say the Dutch; So - poor, are prospects, indeed, that the Army itself has only one tank. was bought at the end of the last war, and ofter becoming bogged alx times in a mile, during lis trial run it was transfereed to a Dutch- war museum, where it still remnina.
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