1938-07-01 — Page 11

Governor's Broadcast Speech On Z.B.W.'s

Tenth Anniversary

Broadcasting last night on the occasion of the tenth birthday cele brations of H. K. broadcasting, His Excellency the Governor, Sir Geof- frey Northcote, said:--

ficient knife with which to open that immense molluse."

NOBLEST USE

"I do not know to which era bely, but what do they not import? "One speaks of each things light- longed "The Good Old Days" in The noblest use to which Broad- which some people are wont to pro-casting can aspire is to be the

fess that they would rather have means of spreading Truth through- had their existence, but certainly out the world and so to serve as the they must have been before the handmaid of Peace. One has only coming of the wireless: and in that to look at the nations whose news fact lies, perhaps, one of the rea-services are the freest to recognise sons why the good old-and rather in silly old-phrase "The Good Old among the peoples of the Earth. them the most peace-loving Days" is less often heard to-day "Mercy and Truth are met together: than it used to be. For the Wire-Righteousness and less has very few unfriends, while kissed each other? Could there be Peace have its friends are Legion, and the rea- sons for that are multifarious in- thoughts, and more especially for a better, an apter, text for our deed, as the extracts from the B.B.C. our hopes, on, this anniversary in fan-mail, published in their latest these troublous times.. Like every Handbook, show. One writer elicit-powerful instrument for good the ed such full and sincere concur rence from me that I must quote abused

Wireless can, as we know, be him. Speaking of the Test Match loss, but such methods recoil upon to the world's harm and accounts, he said "I had great dif- their users and there is no real need ficulty in prolonging my illness so for fear on that score. There is an as to have breakfast in bed and to listen in comfort."

ancient maxim "Magna est veritas One feels that such praise comes straight from the the test of time. The desire for et praevalebit" which has long stood

heart."

BIRTHDAY PARTY

the

thwarted:

Sonja Henie, Don Ameche and Cesar Romero in "Happy Landing" showing at the King's Theatre to-day.

NEW

CURFEW HOURS FOR HUNGJAO

Shanghai, June 28. al public up to 7 o'clock at night on Revised curfew regulations in week-days until 9 o'clock on Satur- the control of the Japanese military Association possessing special pas- the area west of the Shanghai In- days and Sundays.

authorities, were announced by a ses issued by the Japanese garrison ternational Settlement, now under Members of the Hungjao Area Japanese Embassy spokesman yes- headquarters will be allowed passge ings will remain open to the gener-Cumming, secretary of the Hungjao terday.

until 10 o'clock. The barriers at the railway cross-be obtainable through Mr. K. M. These passes will

civilised men and not all the Truth lies deep in the hearts of ideologies in the world will root it many talented helpers may feel out or smother it. In many parts of both proud and happy to-night. For world that desire is being they cannot but know that the ser- will come when Truth will prevail

vice which is their care is one that nevertheless, the time and, hand in hand with her, Peace will come again into her own, And in that struggle Truth will have no more powerful ör loyal an ally than the Broadcaster."

Area Association, the spokesman said. After 7 o'clock at night, the only barrier open will be Great Western Road, he added.

at

"Those persons who pass by mo-

has the warm approval not only of tor-car after 7 pm are requested to its hosts of subscribers in this. Co- have a light inside their car. When lony but also elsewhere in far dis- they approach, the sentry line, they tralia and Chinese in Vancouver are their special permits to the sentry, tant places. British folk in Aus are requested to stop and Show loud and frequent in their praises who, if need be, may search the of Hong Kong Broadcasting; and interior of the car," the spokesman to-night, throughout a circle radiat-declared: ing as far as that and further, The purpose of such a search there will be many who will echo was to prevent the transportation my congratulations on this anniver- of firearms and other dangerous sary. And they will add to them, goods the spokesman said, recalling

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"This evening we are, so to speak, at a birthday party, so perhaps I shall be forgiven if I appear so far not to have taken my subject with proper seriousness: for all that, it is certainly one which calls for de- corous treatment. It is a common saying that with the swift growth of scientific discovery the world is quickly growing smaller; but to

AIR OF MATURITY my mind no modern marvel of science has so annihilated space as "As I have said already, this is has Wireless Broadcasting. As a birthday party. The Hong Kong listened across the Atlantic to the Broadcasting Committee is ten description coming over the air' of years old and is, one is glad to as I do, their warm good wishes for the incident involving the Coronation last year, I began to know, going very strong. It may not the continued success of the Com-shooting" party consistir feel-Ibelieve in common with seem-a-great-age, but when one mittee during its second decade.” minent local residents. many thousands of others that I realises that the great B.B.C. itself actually was in the Abbey, a wit-will only be sixteen this year, ten ness of that solemn, beautiful ser-years carry quite an air of ma vice: and when later I heard the turity. The Committee is beginning roaring cheers as the Royal proces-its eleventh year amid. circum- sion went by, they were so real that stances which have brought this it might have been just round the part of the British Empire very next corner and about to appear much into the limelight, and shown before my eyes: so utterly can one it in a setting which we here, like be transported in imagination by all other friends of humanity, hope this miraculous invention, that the most earnestly will soon cease to body itself come to have followed be." the mind."

"But grave though that thought. VIVID PERSONAL TOUCH is; and heartfelt as is that wish, we need not dwell on it to-night. "Or take again those rare occa- This is an occasion on which the sions when His Majesty the King Hong Kong Broadcasting Com- broadcasts to his peoples around mittee has every right to feel proud the globe. As we listen, does not and happy. No wise man-or com- it begin to seem as though the King mittee tries to please all tastes all were in the midst of us or, at the the time for all listeners there are farthest, next door? To me, at any moments when they are impelled to rate, at those times. the few thou-a twiddle of the thumb and silence sand miles between are but as a like a poultice comes to heal the room's width. The vivid, the per- blows of sound. Tyrants they are, sonal touch of the Broadcast has of course, these Committee men, wrought a psychological miracle but theirs is a benignant tyranny, such as the mechanised processes Like the Western American waiter of the electric telegraph never sug in the story, they stand, pistol at gested."

the ear of the over-pernickety client, and say "You'll take hash.” "But there is another and a more But the point is that the bash is so appealing aspect of that miracle. In one sense the Wireless has shrunk good that the restaurant becomes up the world for us: in another it fuller and fuller; and, moreover has enlarged the field of our daily the cook will always.

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who makes use of its magic carpet can call himself in truth a Citizen of the World: every owner

taste

WARM GOOD WISHES

"So, as I say, the Committee,

of a 'set' may boast that the world whom I associate their founders and television is and past members, and besides the even morò ef- Committed their able staff and

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