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6.00 p.m.-Indian Programme.

6.45 p.m.-Closing Local Stock Quote-

tiona

6.47 p.m.-An Irving Berlin Programmò. I'm Sorry For Myself; When Winter **Second Comes (both from Alm. Fiddle)....Mary Honly with Orch. "On The Avenue"-Piano Medley....

Vivian Ellis.

A Little Old Church In 'England: Because I Love You....Barry Wood (Baritone) with Orchestra,

Easter Parade: Say It With Music (both from film "Alexander's Rag-

THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 12, 1941.

FAMOUS LONDON BUILDINGS HIT

IN RECENT RAIDS

FURTHER DETAILS of damage inflicted by the time Band")....Henry King and his enemy on famous London buildings and institutions Alexander's Ragtime Band (from in recent raids may now be revealed.

Orchestra.

film)....The Boswell Sisters (Vocal) with Orchestra.

les-Intro: Kitten off the Keys:

Queen's Hall, London's internationally famous

7.16 p.m.-Billy Mayart at the Piano. Concert hall, has been severely damaged, and in- Billy Mayerl's Savoy Havana Memor struments valued at thousands of pounds belonging Ukulele Lady: What'll I Do: Caro-to the London Philharmonic Orchestra have been

Kcep destroyed.

lina in the

Morning:

Chill-Bom-

on

Indian

Bom:

Dancing Time: Humming: April Showers; Love Call: I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise.

Parade of the Sandwich-Board Men. Phil The Fluter's Ball. Where The Blue Begins-Intro: Love Stay In My Heart (from film "Top of the World").

7.30 p.m.-Portuguese Programme.

8.00 p.m.-London Relay-The News. 8.15 p.m.-London

Com. Relay-War

After the raid the LP.O. ar- rived to give a concert, and found themselves without hall or in- struments.

Other instruments were bor- rowed and the concert was given In the Royal Academy of Music.

The manager sat at a table on the pavement to direct the audi-

B.25 p.m.-London Rolay - "Listeningence as they arrived. Within an

mentary.

Post".

Examination of Points Daily German Propaganda. 8.30 p.m.-Programme Summary, 8.32 p.m.-Primo

R.A.F. URGES

SABOTAGE

Britain has

called in

In hour the orchestra gave their ad propaganda to aid the

vertised programme without al-R.A.F.'s offensive

northern France, which

Accordeon Scalefa Band and Dick Todd (Vocal).

Meet Me Down In Sunset Valley (Gilbert): My Heaven In The Pines (Campbell, Sigler, Conrad)....

Primo Scala's Accordeon Band. When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano (Leon Renc).... Dick

Todd with Orchestra.

When Shall We Two Meet Again? Go (Bradbury-Smith-Kennedy);

To It (Hill-Titheradge)....Prima Scala's Accordeon Band. It's A Hundred To One (Kemper-

Blue Orchids Jurgens): Carmichael)....Dick

Orchestra.

teration.

OVET

Queen's Hall was opened in is being relentlessly con- 1893, and two years later the first tinued with increasing

the first of the Iamous "Proms" was conducted there by Sir Henry daring.

A member of the Air Staff Wood. Paderewski was once paid £1,000, a record fee, for a con-broadcast a call to Frenchmen to cert there. Richard Strauss and

factories which sabotage French Toscanini made their Lordon fle-

were working for Germany, buts at Queen's Hall,

Ile declared: "The R.A.F.'s 'ham- mer-blows have caused havoc to armament factories, and German workers engineers are panic-striken

"Germany is now replacing her own nationals with Frenchmen

Bt. James's Palace was hit by two high-explosive bombs. The the German (Hoaxy Todd with main damage was done at Friary Court, in Marlborough Gate, the part

precincts of the palace most familiar to the public, as

Six Hits Of The Day, No. 40-Intro: All Over The Place; There'll Come Another Day: Bless 'Em All; Ferry- boat Serenado; Sierra Sue; I'm Scala Nobody's Baby....Primo Accordeon Band.

9.00 p.m.-Local Time Signal and An-

nouncements.

9.02 p.m.-Studio"A Marriage Ha

Been Arranged", A One-act Play by Produced by Leonard

Alfred Sutro. Starbuck.

9.25 p.m.--The New Symphony Orches.

tra.

Valse Triste ("Kuolema"-Sibelius). Solemn Melody (Walford Davies). "Henry VIII" Dances (Edward Ger man)-Shepherd's Dance; Morris

Dance: Torch Dance, Mediterranean (Bax}.

9.48.10.00 p.m.-Newe

Short Wave only).

and

The Germans are striving to their production in counter-balance the

it flanks the road into the park who have been lured from their and is often the scene of the homes, Changing of the Guard. Residential quarters on the side accelerate order to of the court nearest the park were badly damaged, and so was the American aid to Britain. There- fore, Germany needs new centres office of the Superintendent

of production, and is taking over Works.

French factories.

London Museum

Damaged

of

The London Museum, which is in the precincts, was also hit. Part In French (on of the building will have to be de-

molished and rebuilt.

Lambeth Palace, home of Archbishop

9.45 p.m.-Liszt—Ballade in 8 Minor.

Louis Kentner (Piano).

"French workers; Your out- put is being used In the fight against your liberators. Remem- ber that the R.A.F. la determin- od to smash German Industry wherever it is altuated.

"Therefore, follow my advice and abandon work in factories for the work in the country. Evacuate and children from of Canterbury, was your women

10.00 p.m.--London Relay The News hit by a number of incendiaries, the neighbourhood of the factories

and News Commentary. 10.15 p.m.-B.B.C. Recording - "The Land We Defend" - "The Western Highlands and islanda". 10.48 p.m.-Comnositions of Eric Coates. Four Ways Suite: Northwards-South-

wards Eastwards--Westwards The New Light Symphony Orch. A Song Remembered. John McCor-

mack (Tenor) with Plano. London Bridge March....The New

Light Symphony Orchestra. Music Of The Night...John McCor

mack (Tenor) with Piano. By The Sleepy Lagoon....Orchestre

Raymonde. 11.15 p.m.-Close down.

FIREPROOF LIQUID

Most of these were extinguished before damage could be done, but the chapel was burnt out.

The chapel is now a mass of

The charred timbers.

private

If you are forced in stay in the factories run to shelters when the

alert sounds.

"If the Germans do not sound an alert, listen for the zooming of pew used by Queen Elizabeth in the 'planes and then forsake your badly benches. If there Is no shelter, the 16th century was

cloth force the Germans to build you damaged, but the Altar and other valuable articles were jone." saved.

15th-century

dam-

Juxon Hall, the ecclesiastical library, was aged by fire, and thousands of its books were either destroyed or damaged.

Court-Room Vanished

The Old Bailey has had its New- gate Street wing shattered by a high-explosive bomb. One of the court-rooms of the Central

Sir John Madsen, Professor of Criminal Court has vanished.

The central part of the building Electrical Engineering at Sydney and the other wing remain In- University, who is one of a group tact, and the figure of Justice still of five Australian scientists who stands on the dome with sword will establish headquarters in the outstretched and scales balanced. United States and England in con- Two porters on duty, Harry Dart nection with the war effort, has and Harold Sheehy, were killed been invited to attend a demon- in the raid. This is the third time, stration at Washington of a new that the Old Bailey has been fire-proofing liquid which the bombed.

United States War and Navy De- St. Clement Danes Church, in partments are investigating.

the Strand, has been reduced to 'Australian officials in the United charred walls and a tower, after States are taking a keen interest being hit by incendiary bombs for in this material, which will be the third time. Two days after- made available by the inventor, a wards the smoke still curled up Scandinavian occulist, who, after from the rubble. many years of experimenting, per- fected it at Los Angeles,

The material is said to have very high military advantages, and: aeroplane fabrics, treated with it will not burn, A blazing thermite bomb can be doused quickly with a few shovels of sawdust treated with the liquid, and a blazing tank of crude oil can be extinguished with a spray

NIGHTINGALE

BANSHEE

Of Ita 12 bells made famous in the nursery rhyme "Granges 'and Lemons," two are cracked, but the balls may yet peat again. The parlah registers were saved. The church was designed by Wren and completed in 1682.. The Salvation Army Headquar ters in Queen Victoria Street have been burned out. Most of the re- cords were destroyed, though some may still be safe in the strong room. Headquarters, work is be ing carried on by the Salvation Army at its college at Denmark St. Thomas's Hospital, has twice been bombed again recently.

A nightingale sings when the Nightingale House, where the Lady sirens sound at Hanham Abbots, of the Lamp founded her nurses near Bristol, and an expert on home, has been partly destroyed, bird life declares that the song is and Florence Nightingale's car➡ I in a spirit of rivalry.

riage was wrecked.“

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