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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1932.

THE B.B.C. AND FREE

SPEECH:

[BY LIEUT. COHDR. THE HOS, J. M. KENWORTHY, R.N.]

RADIO 2

Mr. Churchill was amongst thoro invited to speak over the Columbia which he did; and be gave system, a talk on the causes of the present business depression, how the slump could, in his opinion, he ended and what monetary reforms are neces sary to restore world prosperity, Mr. Winston Churchill's trouble | This happens to be the hottest (in with the B.B.C. raises once more, the journalistic sense of the word) and in an acute form, the whole subject of any today. Great in question of the function of this terest was shown in the United

Statés. body,

I am not referring here to the B.B.O. pregrammes of entertain- ment and education, nor even the news bulletins, but to wireless as a Dedium for reaching the public and as a means of permitting well-known men and women of varying opinions 'on politics and economies to ex 'press their views.

The absolute monopoly of the B.B.C. and its freedom from Parliamentary criti- cism, unlike the Post Office itself, imposes & peculinf Hsponsibility upon ite governors,

Not Playing the Game,

When the Indian controversy was raging last year a series of talks, presumably passed and censored by the Indin Office, was given by various visiting Indians, and by Englishmen with a knowledge of the Enst Mr. Churchill was at that time the leader of a body of opinion, in Parliament and outside, which was not negligible. Indeed, his views have since been adopted by the present Government, as he himself has admitted and taken credit for.

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Mr. Churchill then attempted to give a similar the 6 to British public. The excuse for barring him appears to be that the Lausanne Conference was sitting,

Perfectly Harmless.

In view of the actual results of this much trumpeted mocting over rephrations and debts and its fore gone conclusion, it is difficult to understand how any expression of opinion by Mr. Churchill or any one else could have done any harm. Everyone knew that inter national debt and reparation pay ments would not continue, in any onse, and that they are only one of many causes of our present troubles.

FEATURES

TRACKING TROUBLE.

SOME USEFUL HINTS ABOUT VALVES AND VALVE HOLDERS

A HANDBOOK ON RADIO.

USEFUL REMINDERS.

It is imperativa. that the right.

by Jack The "Wireless Manual

Frost, 3rd revised edition, Pit-filament pin of a metallised valve › Han, 5/-..

should go to low-tension negative. As a faulty valve holder may be Capt. Jack Frost has a great If it does not you run the risk of overlooked when conducting teste, deal to say to the non-technical either. shorting the LT. aceumula- remember that the safest way to listener about wireless in his hand-tor ercise burning out all the make sure that a vive it renity book, the third edition of which has yes in the set. faulty is to connect its finment rently been thoroughly revised by legs directly across its accumula-Howard Gibbons.

The first may happen when the valvo is an 8.G. and passes through

The

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME-

BROADCAST BY · Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

RELAY OF SOUTH WALES BORDERERS' BAND.

11 to 11.30 alm.-Stock quotations. tor, to which is joined the negative The result of this commendable; a hole in a metal screen. of an HT. battery, the positive of venture is 107 pages of close print valve coating will be LT. positive 11.30 a.m.-Chinese programme. this going through a millimeter which deals with such widely the lament is connected up 12.30 p.m.-European programine.

of Victor and H.M.V. ́ncorda. to the plate of the valve under separated subjects as baile boards wrongly, and the Boroen L.T. negn- |

and batterics-pick-ups and poten- the screen to cause the short.

tive, so the valve has only to touch, 1 p.m.-Loen! time and weather test.

report. tiometers.

p.m.-Close down.. B to 8 p.m.-European programme,

to d p.m.-

A good rough and ready test to

The other trouble would happen 1.30 p.m.-Rugby Prese news, etc. The manual is profusely illus discover whether an H.F. valve is pulling its weight le to take it out!trated with oircuit diagraths, valve if an H.T. lead such as that going?

to the terminal on and attach the aerial lead to the pores and photographs, and cons.C, valve were to touch the metal the top of an load which formerly want to its tain useful bibliography for plato terminal (usually on the those who feel the urge to probe coating. bulb), thus converting the set into deeper into. Any if the subjects a detector with or without low-mentioned. frequency, as the gase may be

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Great care must always be takon when inserting or removing metallised valve, owing to the liability of

a short. occurring through the metal coating.

Not the least useful part of the book is the appendix, which con- tains every possible detail about the leading makes of valves as well as

Uist of British and continental broadcasting stations.

Capt. Frost is rather apt to let his style run away with him and,

as a result we get such a passage as this: "The microphone l

Oh,

Testing Jelly Filled Cells, Timo and time again we are told that a voltmeter test is not enough for Bm aéciimulator and that a hydrometer should be used as well. Bus what fabout those accumulators (4 where the electrolyte is in jolly form t

For testing such accumulators it is necessary to have a load across

them when reading the voltage. A

It is just possible that Mr. Chur- this country, and particularly the chill's talk might have done some good. But no; his views are not. way it in used for advertising, some

motor car bulb of the svolt type the energy, the time, the effort makes a good load, and should be orthodox, and therefore he must be times in a rether blatant manner

But as regards expressions of which is wasted if he loses faith connected in paralled with the volt banned. Mr. Churchill threatens to make arrangements to speak to opinion, the two great systems and conses duty! Or águin, we ineter..

in the fringe the British public from Paris or National and Columbia-allow an ars paddling Brussels, and that is what some of open forum. Anyone with anything of the waves that belong to the

to say that is of general interest Great Unknown of the other of Broadcasting House! us may come to. But what a re flection on our boasted liberty

to listeners.can go "on the air "paco."

But taking it all round, the in the United States without let or And this advice to listeners-thatWireless Manual is a useful hindrance, or censorship, or oven they should write and tell the little book to have about the house submitting the manuscript of the B.B.C. whenever they are dissatis if you are just entering the ranks talk beforehand.

fed with the programmes-is not of hom's constructors or if you are likely to meet with much favour at feeling the need to "brush up your

(Continuéd át next column.)

radio! "!

Thus, the American public were allowed to hear this Englishman, Mr. Churchill, on the financial and monetary problema of the day, although we English are not allow

I feel no personal tenderness to But because his opinions were eb-wards Mr. Churchill, who can well noxious to the then Government look after himself; but a question and there was no other discoverable of principle is, as I say, raised. renson-he was not allowed to speak Any of us can be barred, apparent over the ether.

ly, who wish to speak on any sub- We are now in the midst of anffect where we might express views ueute economic crisis which affects that are not on all fours with those every mah, woman and child in this of the Government of the day. country hid the prosperity and

Last year we had a pcialist livelihood of all of us. Mr Chur-Government; this year the Govern- chill holds certain views--which,ment is predominantly Conserva again, are not those of the Gov-tive; next year there may be a in America the companies never ernment of the day-as to how the Government of some other com- crisis should be met and a remedy plexion. Are those who happen to found. And once more he is banned from the microphone.

ed.

A Free Hand,

When I am asked to broadenst

even suggest the subject to me, but leave it entirely to my own choice. I prefer to speak from a manuscript, and did so in the United States; but there was nothing to prevent

be out of agreement with the Gov. crament of the day to be perman- ently silenced and only allowed to His Views are Interesting.

speak on what the B.B.C. gover-me from speaking extempore. On I doubt if there is anyons in nors, in their offer to Mr. Char one occasion I. did so, when I found "non-controver I had not exhausted my time, but public life who has attacked Mr. chill, describe as

had finished my notes! Churchill more vigorously on the stul" aubjects!

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platform, in Parliament, and in the Ara we only to be allowed to des- Press, than I have; and he and Icribe the mating habits of butter- gree on very few subjects. But flies, or the writings of Chaucer ha is an ex-Chancellor of the Ex-Is the B.B.C. a politican organ of chequer, and has held a number of the Foreign Office, or the Treasury { other important posts under the brown.

Ha is also & Privy Councillor and

Taking Away Our Liberty?

It looks very much as though this is one more encroachment by the

The Americans are allowed far more liberty in this matter than wa in England, the traditional home of

liberty.

his views on the needs of monetary bureaucracy on the liberty, of the in the balance. But in between

pre-

feform in order to meet the beat business depression are not subject. They daren't suppress the only interesting, but are supported newspapers, though no doubt they'd like to censor them; and the right by a large number of thinking

of free speech on the platform was people.

won after a long struggle with the America Did Not Object,

all-powerful officialdom of the day. The boycott of which Mr. Chur-

But apparently the bureaucrate chill complains and he is not intend to keep an iron grip on this alono-therefore raises a public wonderful new medium of expres- question of the first importance,sion and information, and to see

The history of this stage of the that only the views in fashion at the moment shall reach the public. ining And yet we boast of England an

Churchill episode is entertaining,

The Columbia Broadcasting Com pang is very active in arranging for prominent Europeans to speak to the American public over their chein of wireless stations from this

a free country!

HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?

Here are Histä of-long-wata and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who hit

has a mode- rately good sat suitable for re- ceiving such signals. Success in picking up there stations also depends very largely upon fav. gurable atmospheric conditions. Readers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in ploking up any station not in cluded in either of these lists.

The only time that the B.B.C. has allowed an open forum bas heen during general elections, when no Parliament is in existence, and when the fate of the Government is

elections the bau has been vory rigid on all views that might not have commended themselves, to those those who happen, to be in temporary authority in Downing 67.65 Street, and the Civil Service and. Treasury officials who are the real rulers of the country.

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LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Call Kile- Bign cyclo K.Z.L.B. 1,163 E.S.M.S. 1,083

WAVO length (Metres) Station

200 Manila 277 Shangbai 345 Tokyo J.O.A.K 870 353 Hiroshima J.O.F.K. 860 365 Hong Kong Z.B.W. 848 357.1 Bombay

301 Sappor 308 Keijo

370 Nagoya 370,4 Calcutta

V.U.B. 840

J.O.LK. 830

O.DK. 20 J:0.0.K 810 V.U.C. 800.9 380 Kumamoto 1.0.0.E. 790 300 Sendai JO.H.K. TO 395 Dairen ·J.Q,A.K!== 780 400 Osaka .-J.0.B.X 710 C.M.B. 580 K.Z.R.M.

410

Cáhion

480 Manili

SHORT-WAVE STATIONS:

STATION

CALL BION

60,12

Dobists (Germany) A.F.K Khabarovsk (Euàñía) |HA.97.

50 iz 42.4

Nanoaw. Mosco

A.GJ.

R.V.N.

Rome

IM.A

Farth

0.A.0.

Singapore

V.8.1.A.E.

Kootwijk (Holland)

Bangkok (Birm)

HSAPJ.

Bydany

7.B.L.

Melbourne

ALO.

Sabenectady

Eindhoven (Holland) FCJ; Sydney

9.3.0.

7.2.0.

Like the Spanish Inquisition 18.9

37 As the B.B.C. is a public cor 31.65

85.3 poration and is supposed to be free 31.48 from political influence, this, I sub-

81.30

27.8

··P.Q.L^···

Then (Howa Kona) or Wokking

4,136 Mon., Wed & Fri, 6 p.m. 1,900 0-10 p.

0,291 Not regular

6,000 Tam, Thurk, Sat, 8

6,896 Sunday midnight

7,143 | Dally 6.30 p.m. & 11 pm.. .7,810 | Net Togalke

7,780 | Daily 11' pain

8,108 Tues & Fri, 0 pin~~), 86, 50k

9,230 | Not regular

9,508 Not regular WAX.A.E.] 0,830 | Dally 7 1.00,

9,020 Fri, 8 am. Sat. 8 a.m. è 10 a.m 9,600 | Not regaláz D677 Midnight daily 10,526 Not regular

mit, is a highly objectionable state 117 | Nairobi (Kenya)

2.M.E. Sydney of affaira. Far better to have it 28.5

P.LE Bandoeng

11,020 Afidnight 3 am daily Chelmsford (England) 6,8.W.*, under the open political control of 25.68

11,761 7.80 The Statue of Liberty..

7.80 p.m. & 8 am, dally, except

Saturday and Sunday the Party in power; beonuse, then,

1.5 Manfla

K.1.X.B. 18,240 Nightly 98 Some people in Britain era fend for the very sake of their eva op- 13.85

Bebenectady

W.B.I.O... 12,650 | 4 Alm. Wed, Fri, Sat. Bandoeng

P.LG. side of the Atlantic. They havo of jearing at the Americans and portunities when they are in op 18.88.

16.102 Daily 630 pm, to midnight Cabinet ||18.40

·POL Kootwijk (Holland)

16,804 Daily 7 pian. arranged for His Holineas the pretending that wealth rules the position, the Political

PLE, 17,280 | Daily B jum. tę midnight Bandoang would probably allow their oppon- |.17.9.

H.S.1P.J. 17751 Sundays 7 pm & midnight. Pope, Signor Mussolini, the French, Brest Republic on the other side

ents-opportunities of brosdonating-

Bangkok

POK

18,404 Baca afternoon, British, and German Primo Minip of the Atlantic, and that the on the great subjects of the day.

P.LE But to speak of the political in- 15.5 Statue of Laferty, at the entrance dependence of the B.B.O and then 13,98 lera, and a number of other people

W.8.I.K. of prominened in one sphere or an New York Harbour, is a colossal subject it to the dead hind control joke. There are many features of the bureaucracy is a state of about the American broadcasting affairs that should not be tolerated

in this twentieth century.. which would not commend them- It is too reminiscent of the days selves to the majority of people in of the Spanish Inquisition)

other to give these talks. I myself htive given several, speaking" from London

10.9

183

18.74

Kootwijk (Holland) Bandoeng. Nancy (Franco)

Pittsburg

19,200 Daily 5.307 p.m..

19,251 Daily s'am.

[21,640 | Not regular

[Allowance must be made for “submerstime in pean countries, which is one hour shead of trus time.

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