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Orch. de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoiro.
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DB-3601
Concert Grosso No. 23 (Handel).
DB-3602
Concerto Grosso Conclusion
DB-3551
L'Ultima Canzone (Tosti)
Occhi di Fita (Denza)
DB-3535
Danse Espagnole (Falla)
.DB-3439
DB-3198 DB-3199
DB-3146
Ronde des Lutins (Bazzini)
Boniamino Gigli,
Jascha Heifetz.
Fidelio-Leonora's Recitative and Aria..Kirsten Flagstad Introduction and Allegro 'for Strings (Elgar)
Introduction and Allegro.....B.B.C. Symphony Orch. Sospiri Op. 70 (Elgar)
Harmonious Blacksmith (Handel), Sorgo Rachmaninoff. Midsummer Night's Dream-Scherzo (Mendelssohn! DB-3036 On the Road to Mandalay (Kipling-Speaks)
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TURKEY'S PART IN CHAMPIONING THE INTEGRITY OF THE BALKANS
Two Fronts Open to the Threat of Aggression
HE Balkan Entente has un- State would start mobilising, the Russian lines of communi- frontier and has made great: Tdoubtedly been a factor for thus reducing the labour cation. The Turks are prepared efforts in the Thrace sector. peace between its members. It able for the fields, with a conse for any Russian move towards Allied preparations in Egypt,. has definitely dissipated all quent restriction of cereal crops. the East. But, as recently Syria and Palestine arouse much isanimosities and all causes of But, as a prominent Turk said foreshadowed, what they most interest and there is much. ก concentration satisfaction at the large force- disagreement which previously to me, we now live in a world anticipate is
between Jugoslavia, whence logic seems to have been within the Russian frontier as that is being assembled. existed
banished and one can make no a diversion while action la pro- A bloc between the Entente Rumania, Greece and Turkey.
No longer does the word deductions based on normal ceeding in the Balkans.
States and Bulgaria and Hun- "Salonika" arouse national pas- reasoning.
There has, however, been so gary would, of course, be the sions at Belgrade, or "Byzan- Despite the defence works much talk about German or ideal protection against Nazi or tium"
excitement in now ereate
being erected
Bulgarian the Russian
Germano- Soviet aggression.
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Hongkong Telegraph. Athens, or doce there exist in Russian banks of the Black Sea, Russian action in the Balkans territorial demands, however
Tuesday, April 9, 1940. Wyndham St., Hongkong
Telephone: 20615
THE prefix "special to the Telegraph"
Turkey any irredentist feeling a Russian offensive in the with a possible Russian offen- are the main obstacle. Bulgaria. regarding her lost provinces in Europe.
The new methods of waging war bring dangers to the
is used by the Hongkong Telegraph to "exceptions" and render neces- tidicate nows which is strictly copyright
under the provisions of the Telecommualary some provision for concert- cations Ordinance, 1938. Such sowed action at the first attack, bears the indication "Um is received in
Hvagkong on the date of publication by whether, from within or outside the United Press Associations, rue re- the--Balkans.-Failing It-the- serva all rights and forbid republication. either wholly or in part without previous arrangement.
"At The Pictures"
Entente States risk sceing themselves treated in similar fashion to their Baltic friends. That action, predetermined, would be more satisfactory than
WHERE are you going to the present situation is recog- night? To the pictures?
nised, but it is extremely doubt-
Consider some of the bless-ful whether all the Balkan ings and benefits which the States would feel themselves cinema has conferred. Think free for the time being to agree what you get in return for the to any such change in their moneys you pay at the box-office. present relationship.
The films are a levelling force, The situation, I find, is a a force for democracy. The mil-constant topic of conversation lionaire may build himself aat Ankara. Uncertainty whether private cinema, but he sees the same stars as the worker in the thirty cent seats.
The screen is a force for education, the poor man's blick- board. It takes you out and round the world, into the homes of every class of people.
of anxiety.
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Germany and Russia ure acting in concert, in spite of appear- ances at times of independent action; whether Italy would seize a German move into Rumania as an opportunity to occupy part of Jugoslavia, and how the Allies propose to assist It teaches more about life Rumania under their guarantee,
Turkey, in relation to Russia and the Balkan States. than any book. It sharpens the adds to the complexity, of the Caucasus or Central Asia is re- sive in the Caucasus, and the demands the return of the wits, quickens the thought. outlook and causes a good deal garded by many authorities as rumours of German troops Dobrudja, which Rumania re-
American comedies, for in-
out of the question. Russia movements have been so persis--ceived under the Neuilly Treaty stance, have taught us to apprc-
IN THE CAUCASUS would have great difficulty in tent, that feeling is growing and declines to cede because she cinte subtle and intricate" "bu-
Opinion as I have sounded it carrying on a campaign so far that all this may well be a part would then have to admit Rus- mour. We learn as we laugh. seems unanimous that it is not from her bases as Afghanistan of the "war of nerves" which sia's claim to Bessarabia and
Films are bringing the Eng-in Germany's interest to invade, or Iran, even if in either country Germany has been waging since Hungary's Transylvania,
allow these claims would leave lish-speaking nations together.or encourage Russia to invade, the revolution broke out which September, 1938. We see America's films, Ameri- the Balkans, since she would Russian and German agents are If, it is said, Germany really her relatively where she was in ca sees British too.
then lose the food, petrol and so actively trying to promote, intended to invade the Balkans 1914. Bulgaria also demanda The same pictures are shown other supplies she now obtains. and even if the Finnish cam- she would surely not put the from Greece the return of De- in London and New York and It is anticipated that; os in the paign permitted it.
Allies on the qui vive so obvious deagatch, with access to the Sydney; in the villages of Eng-last war, the moment Germany
Her claim is far An incursion by Russia into ly as this. The opinion is that Aegean Sea. land, the plains of America, the or Russia sets foot on Rumanian Central Asia would, it is ad- this persistent chatter of what from strong in this case, since outback of Australia. Go to soil the oil wells will be destroy- mitted, mean Turkey's abandon- Germany and Russla may do in she never possessed the area for | Canada or South Africa or Coyed. At least a year's work ment of the neutrality which her South-Eastern Europe may be long and there is practically no lon: you will still see Ginger would be necessary before Rogers and Clark Gable.
traditional policy of friendship inspired with the idea of in- Bulgarian population. production could be resumed. with Moscow has dictated. velgling the Allies into sending For some time Turkey has Consider the cinema as ก Furthermore, every Balkan
heavy reinforcements there been concentrating on a rap- means of propaganda. During
when all the time the Nazis' prochement between Rumania. the last war it helped to sustain With You," "Mr. Smith Goes to A Russian move into Iran is spring objective.may be Holland, and Bulgaria. She can piend and uphold the morale of the Washington"-all have a mes- a menace to Turkey; it may be Denmark, Belgium, or Switzer with Rumania from her own people, after the newspapers had sage and a moral. They are only indirect, but it is a menace land. It is remarked that (Lan- bitter experience that it is. exhausted their utmost efforts. sermons in celluloid.
Turkey cannot afford to ignore. don and Paris seem to share this wiser to give way peacefully Newspapers make, the best Of course, there is nothing It may be recalled that one of view since, according to the than under war pressure. Tur- form of propaganda. But the new in preaching being com- the Russo-Turkish wars was due latest declarations, a large force koy remembers that she refused. films come second. They are farbined with amusement. Tho to Russia's invasion of Iran. is being held in England in anti- to cedo Crete to Greece and then, more effective than the radio. first stage plays in England Were the Straits then opened cipation of a German push to as a result of the Balkan War, Winged words from the radio were the mystery plays, miracle to the Allied Fleets, Russia, the sea. fall on the car and are soon plays and morality plays of the whose Black Sea floot is negligi» TO MEET ALL DANGERS forgotten, like snow-flakes fall- Middle Ages." They showed |ble, knows well that that means |ing on a flowing river.
stories from the Bible, legends the loss of Batum by bombard. Meanwhile Turkey is concert- of the saints, and allegorical ment from the sea as well as ing measures to meet all oven- Rumania would cede the leaser
Sho is kooping a tales with virtues and vices as attack by land by the Turks, tualities.
who would, in addition, harass careful watch on the Caucasus characters.
The screen can be a pulpit. Capra's films "Mr. Deeds Goca to Town," "You Can't Take It
IS IT GERMAN BLUFF ?
Jost not only Crete but also a large slice of her European territory.
It has been suggested that it'
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