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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1928.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME.

BROADCAST BY GOW,

ON 300 METRES.

11.30 a.m. to 19.30 p.m.--British Official Wireless Press. Demonstra. tion Programme. Chinese and European Programme.

1.43 p.m.-Weather Repork

ARE THERE ANY LETTERS

FOR YOU?.

UNCLAIMED CORRESPON- DENCE, ETC., AT THE G.P.O.

THE OFFICIAL LIST FOR".

SATURDAY.

A General Post Office notification, isaned on Saturday, gives the fal

5.30 p.m. to 0.30 p.m.-Demos.lowing particulars with regard to atration Programme.

unclaimed correspondence, etc.. 7.49 p.m.-Evening Weather Rewaiting at the Post Office, and also unclaimed radio telegrams at the port.

8 p.m to 10.30 p.m.-Evening Radio Telegraph Office:-- Programme. (Columbia Records).

Liebestraum"

"

LINER STEWARD ARRESTED.

DIAMOND SMUGGLING

CHARGE.

New York, Nov 19th. William Ballyn, chief steward in the Berengaria; has been taken into custody after allegations by mem ibers of the Government diamond detetive squad that they found in his cabin packets of diamonds said to be worth thousands of pounds. The diamond squad also arrested John T. Mcintyre, a traffic con..

stable on duty outside the Cunard pier in Fourteenth-street.

McIntyre was taken after a state- It is stated that the action against

meat by Ballyn. The diamond. squad are understood to have been watching large passenger liners for a considerable time, believing that diamonds were being smuggled tron

one of them.

noon before. United States Com- Baliya, was arraigned this after-

Peste Restante Correspondence. R. Allix, S. Allen (Chief Stoker). Organ Solo by Pattman Dr. C. Darreda. I. T Boffa, A. F. Blunt, Balcombe & Co., L Ban- King's Serenade"

delier, W. N. Brewster, Miss Brown John-street. and his daughter,, Morris Landau, a jeweller, of Song of the Islands"

Hooper's Novelty Trio. (c/o Mr. Brown), E. J. Carinichact, Frances Landau, nged sweaty, were So Long"

Mrs. Elliott (General Chinese Hos-arrested later in the day in cöance-

tion with the affair, **Rosette

pital), W. E Ford, H. Feilmano, Eddie Thomas Collègians. R. Fukumoto, Admiral Sir Guy For My Baby!

and Lady Gaurt, Jack"Grant, Mrs. | missioner Cotter, and was held to The Man I Love"

bail in £1,000 on a charge of con- M. Griffiths, A. Galecki (c/0 Hotel Astor Orchestra. Mathias & Co.), J. A. Haynes, C.

spiracy.

The Wearin' of the Green "»

Hyman. B. Horwood, Dr. G., W. Believe me if all those endear

ing young charms

Hollings, A. U, Hyland, T. Jolokon W. F. Watt, Tenor, sky, H. Kadlec, V. K. W. Koo, H. S.. Lam. V. Magtulis, E. "C. MA, chell, Miss Florence Pike, H. R Will Fyffe. Comedian. Roberts (9. Quercus), E. W. Rafltic travellers as

ton, Sita Ram Rao, Capt. J. V. Reed (85. Sunpath), Jim Summer- ville (s.s. Saragusa), Jackie Scott, R. Seaman (China Inland Mission), W. D. Smith, Miss J. A. Shermer. horn, E. Starr, Miss A. Smedley. Mrs B. Tobia, R.. Wallace, G. M. Walker, F. Wysman, Mías N. Zahn.

Dr. McGregor " The Engineer"

Adagio

** Arioso "*

'Cello Solo by Antoni Sala.

**Praeludium” "Scottish Fantasia "

Celeste Octet. Squire

"Poet and Peasant "-Overture

Band of H.M. Grenadier

Guards...

1,

"Wildflower"

(a) April Blossoms (b) Bambalina "

Duet, Kitty Reidy and

Howard Worster..

"Minuet " "Les Millions D'Arleguin,"

Seranade

B.B.C. Wireless Symphony

Orch.

Betty in Mayfair Setections

Adelphi Theatre Orchestra.

10 p.m.-British Official Wireless Press.

Carateria Rusticana 1 ́

(a) Then Hero, Santuzza (b) No. No. Tuzidda

Duet by Lombadi and Merli

Unpaid Correspondance. 31. Bon, Miss M. J. Cannon, Miss Grace. Darling. J. E. Fisher, A. G. Hewitt, J. T. Hindle, A. Hornby, C. H. Johnson (c/o HK Hotel), Robert P. Merchant, Mrs. E. D. D. Merchant. B. T. Miles, F. Mirgoa, J. Russel (c/o American, Consulate), V. B. Velasco, Mrs. R. B. Womack (/o.H.K. Hotel).

Registered Articles, Conrad Andre (c/c Chartered Bank), Bedikton Publicity Co., R.. T; "Boffa, Wr& C. Dunlop, Ltd.. JDITE. Ford, fines - Flintoff ( Porea), Miss A Cerasizof, JM Gutierrez (Bedik ton Public Co. Henderson. T. Jolokonsky. E. Kustenko, Miss Ledink, Miss 7. Marriott (c/o HK. Day School), Omar Moh, Miss Squire Instrumental Trio. Niita, M. J. E. Mitchell, M. Rejzes, R. Roxburg (e/o Roxburg & Co.); F. Starr, Wang Yip Co., C. D. Wardle.

Dunky Trio

{A.B16]

(a) Allegro

Don't take risks. The adiseptic vapours liberated by Evans Pastilles quickly kill the germe that lurk in the obscure byeways of the nose, throat and chost, soothing the affected parta. Doctore strongly recommend them.

WATCH YOUR THROAT THIS WINTER/

EVANS Pastilles

ANTISEPTIC THROAT

kykla in Kapland to the formale of die Umirgsel *Throat Hospital and sold by Chemists everywhere.

(b) Lento Maertoso

(c) Vivace

**Messiah"

(a) Behold the Lamb of God (b) And the Glory of the

Lord

Handel Festival Choir.

Le Variazoni Di Proch

The Magic Flute **"

Gli Angeli D'Inferno "A. M. Guglielmetti. Soprano.

"The Valkyrie "

Ride of the Valkyries

Beyrouth. Festival Orch.

* Largo"

Danzas Espanolas No. 5"

Cello Solo by Gaspar Cassado.

God Save The King.. 10.30 p.m.-Close down.

TEMPLE OF THE CIGARETTE.

20,000,000 A DAY AT A NEW LONDON FACTORY.

Carreras" new factory, in the Hampstead-road, is the Temple of the Cigarette,

Mr. Bornherd Baron calls..the factory the realisation of his dream, and so he performed the opening ceremony himself, as father of the 2,000 emloyees who have helped him

UNCLAIMED RADIO TELEGRAMS.

Address. Luy Hing Wei Winnic Robertson Bardoert....... Kerasine

Zylomogy Walurs

Cigarette

Ching Nam

Wong Ning

Sixty members of the squad searched the Bérengoria from stem to stern, even entering the cabin of har commander, Sir Arthr Reatron.

Ballyn was kept. at the Custom house until released on bail. He i known to thousands of Transatlan- the singing steward," He has a beautiful bar). tone voice and always sings at the Berengaria's sea concerts. He train ed forty-ive members of the Heren- paria's crew, who are famous as the Atuntie's finest choir. Ballyn has Terazzini and McCormack, and sung-on-public-platforms with

also in leading churches.

Many photography, in his cabin were given to him by notable Beren- garle passengers, including the Prince of Wales, Sir Harry Lauder, and Mayor Walker.

travellers as Mac."

McIntyre is popularly known to He has been constable for twenty years. Mr. W. B. Leeds, the multi-millionaire, to Europe a year ago for his many gave him and his wife & free trip courtesies

THWARTED LOVE"

DRAMA.

MURDER CHARGE AGAINST YOUTH OF TWENTY-ONE.

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A LADY DETECTIVE'

of thwarted affection," said Mr. The case is a poignant. drama Digby Seymour, prosecuting Liverpool Police Court. when Joseph Reginald Clark, aged twenty-one, a ship's pantryman, Alice Fontaine, aged fifty-five, a was accused of murdering Mrs. widow, by strangling her, and at- tempting to murder her daughter, Miss Mary Fontaine, aged nineteen, at their home in Northbrook Street. Mir. Seymour said that the allega- tion against Clark was that he wreaked his vengeance on the mother, who had not favoured his suit, and attempted the life of her Manila. daughter. Clark was believed to Telemacus. have been educated at Princeton ......... Antenor. University, E.S.A., where his par- Portland, Orzents ved. He met Mise Fontaine San Francisco, in May this year while sheltering in

Saigon.

a doorway, and introduced himself Canton as Reginald Kennedy. He came to. New York. their house, and induced them to Saigon. let him live there and to use one of the rooms for the manufacture of wireless sets.

From.

Nam Kwong Chow Wan. Lab Tai Sing

Manila. Han Sen, Pinealde... Kwong Chow

Crispation'

Zincamyle

Statey Horsford

Clark's acquaintanceship with Miss. Fontaine ripened into love. Wa He called.ber "Boobie," and she Quinhon.and her mother called him "Teddy. San Francisco. Bear," Miss Fontaine then found Batavia. that he was corresponding with a young woman in America who ex- pected to marry him.

'FAMILIES LEAVE THEIR

HOMES.

"PETROL TANKS MENACED BY TIMBER BLAZE

S.E.

Hundreds of families left their homes when a disastrous fire broke out in a timber stack, and spread. to achieve success. It was his wish to Mayes timber yard on the bat his employees should be about Surrey Canal bank hetween Peck- him at that ceremony, and he called ham Park-road and Old Kent-road, it a family celebration of the cul- mication of one stage of his life's work. He presented each of his

Gusts of wind fanned the fames, employees with a silver medal, in-

which spread in all directions, scribed, My thanks for all help." threatening surrounding property The new building embodies alt All the motor omnibuses in the that is best in factory design. It is L.G.O.C. garage on the opposite well ventilated and a healthy as bank of the canal were removed to i is possible to make it, and it neighbouring streets, and special ensures the "ideal atmosphere for precautions were taken to safeguard the manufacture of the perfect tanks containing thousands of cigarette. The air is first washed gallons of petrol, Horees were re- elean with water, before being ad moved from the stables of nearby justed to the required temperature factories. Stacks of timber, were and humidity.

transferred to barges drawn up to the canal bank.

Eight hundred men toiled two years to erect the mammoth build- ing, and nothing but British ma-

terial was used.

The façade of the building is something fresh in London architec ture. It is a conventionalised copy of the Temple of Bubastis, the cat hended goddess of Ancient Egypt. Two gigantic bronze cats flank the entrance, and tall pillars rise Against the face of the building. The winged solar diac, emblem of Ra the Sun God, "the mellower of tobacco, is set over all.

Such in the factory that will turn out twenty million cixazulice a day..

Fire-engines were massed on the bank of the canal, and the hoses were carried across on a timber" laden barge.

A number of firemen were over- come by the fumes, and three were injured by falling timbers. Many of them were working close to a bigh chimney stack which threatened to collapse at any moment.

More than 140 firemen were en- gaged on the outbreak.

Passengers travelling to Waterloo by the Southern Railway saw the glow and smoke nearly six miles

The bearing was adjourned.

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