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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1932.

ROYAL DRIVE OVER

LONDON'S NEW BRIDGE.

A GREAT CROWD THERE

TO SEE.

London, July 13-The King dropped a gold pen in a special! place in a marquee in Millbank this afternoon. As he did so thanks to an ingenious electries contrivance he opened the new £550,000 Lambeth Bridge cross the

Thames.

WORLD

POPULATIONS

DECLINE.

LARGE RETROGRESSION IN

WESTERN COUNTRIES,

WHAT IS HAPPENING.

Changes in the structure of the population of most highly civilised countries with a gradual falling. off in birth rates are reported in official vital statistics compiled by the health section of the League of Nations.

TO-DAY'S WIRELESS

PROGRAMME

BROADCAST BY Z.B.W. ON 355 METRES.

DISTILLATION OF COAL.

DUKE OF MONTROSE ON NEW PROCESS

Speaking at B

representativo

ST. JOHN AMBULANCE

BRIGADE

́6,607. N.T. · CASES TREATED.

DURING AUGUST,

The return of cases treated by the gathering of industrialists in Lon St. John Ambulance Brigade in the: 11 am to 12.30 p.m.-Chinese re-don. His Grace the Duke of Mon-New Territories, for the month

corded programme.

12.30 p.m.-European programme,

trose announced that the low-of August, totalled to 8,607, 2,050 temperature carbonisation of coal cases being from Cheung Chau.

1 p.m.-Loenl time and weather by plant established at Ashby has With the exception of 19 maternity report. A relay of the Hong at last been brought to the state esses, and thice cases which were Kong Hotel Orchestra by of being proved a successful com- send to Hospital, they were general. courtesy of the Management.mercial venture.

Failments.

(During the intervals recorded Commenting on the achievement, The returns for the other dia music will be broadcast from the Duke said he felt confidenttricts are:-Fanling, 1,342 cases;. the Studio.)

2.15 p.m.-Close down.

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"that we are now at the dawn of Un Long, 1,323 cases; Kam Tin

1,081 cases; Tai Long, 758 cases and a vastly important commercial en, Taipo, 84 coses. Taipo returns are. to 8 p.m.-European programmeterprise in which the, future of our for one week anly. --- of Victor and H.M.V. records.

country is involved.”

The King termed this bridge "worthy to be compared with those already spanning the river," and spoke of his personal birth rates, With the death rates interest in London's traffic and practically stationary. Germany's bridge problems, and of the chan-record shows the maximum in de- ge the Motor Age has brought to London.

cline in both birth and death rates

England, France, Italy and Gere to 7 p.m.- many all show rapidly declining

All the route between Bucking. Since the first of this century Ger ham Palace and Lambeth Bridgemany's birth raté has decreased 47 was lined with people when the per cent, and her death rate 30 King and Queen drove along this | afternoon. And thousands thousands of people were gathered at the approach to the new brid- 80.

upon

per cent. By arresting her death. rate, Germany, as well as Austria, Hungary and a few other states, has been able to offset the effects of diminishing' fecundity.

In Italy, where Premier Mus-

When the King and Queen rived they went to a marques on & platform, wherein

were gathered leading public men and women of Bolini is encouraging large fami London, and outside which were alics, the death rate has declined thousand guests of the London more than the birth rate. County Council.

Mr. Angus Scott, chairman of the L. C., read the Council's address to the King, and the King replied.

Then

elinc

the

France, where the population has been nearly stationary for six ty years, for along time had the lowest birth rate among civilised

moment for nations. Now she stands ahead of which the thousands of spectators Britain, Austria, Sweden, Nor. had, waited. Mr. Scott, asked the King to accept a gold pen from the chairman of Dorman, Long and Cb., the builders of the bridge.

The Lamp.

The King took the pen and signed the Council's record of his pre

Then he handed the pen to the Queen, who also signed, and returned the pen to the King.

Rance.

way and Switzerland But even so,

whereas there were 1,340,000 births in France in 1988 and 918,000 in 1891, they had dropped to 741,000|| in 1830 and are still dropping. It is estimated that before the begin

next "ing of the

century France' population will have decreased by one-half.

The King next stepped forward, The United States was not in- and dropped the pen with a sharp cluded in the twenty-nine countries jerk on to a special receptacle. Im-considered in the survey, but a mediately a miniature street lamp similar tendency is noted there, ac leaped into fame. An electrical cording to cansus returns. The switch had been touched, and the rate of population increase 40 years great crimson-covered barrier at ago was about 3 per cent.; 20 years the entrance to the Bridge slowly ago it was 2 per cent.; to-day it began to lift and hoist a Union is 1 per cent. In Europe, Poland Jack into mid-air,

"I declare the Bridge open," said the King, smiling at the auc ceas of the arrangement,

is the only country to show an in- creased birth rate; of extra-Euro- pean countries, Japan.

For this century, of the 20 coun There were shrill cheers from tries studied, nine show à decreas the 2,000 children of Lambeth and ❘ed birth rate of more than a third; Westminster gathered on the Brid.eight others show declines of from ge, and the cheering was taken up 23 per cent, to 33 per cent.

by the crowds in Millbank.

The King and Queen afterwards drove across the Bridge in an open landau, drawn by four horses, with postilions, and escorted by Life Guards.

Natural Increase.

In Britain, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Belgium the natural increase of population to-day is about one-quarter of what it was From the bridge the King and 25 years ago. In Austria, Switzer Queen drova in semi-state over land and France it is one-half. In Lambeth-road, past lines of cheer- Japan, Portugal, Spain, Ireland ing people to Kennington-road, and Russia there are greater na- along Upper Kennington-lane and tural increases than in 1900. then back across Lambeth Bridge,

Ono deduction

from the survey.

on their way home to Buckingham is that mortality to-day is sub- Palace,

stantially the same in rural as in urban districts, while the birth

The King and Queen were ac companied on their drive to Mill-rate is lower in towns than in the

bank, and on their drive across the Bridge, by Mr. Pybus, the Minis ter of Transport....

country. Likewise, the proportion of elderly people is greater now then to the past

The King wore Admiral's uni- What will happen when popula form, and looked wonderfully fittion of highly developed countries The Queen wore a long coat of censes to grow is an interesting gold lame, with toque to match. question. That the political, social When the Bridge was declared and economic world structure will opeu trumpeters blew a fanfare, be vitally affected, no one doubts," and for the next few minutes the The serious decrease of marri- air was torn by the discord of in ages, due to the severity of the numerable sirens. Many people in economic crisis; the reduced gen- the marquee were forced to put eration during the World War, the their fingers to their cars, and the effect of which will become notice- King and Queen seemed greatly able between 1935 and 1840, the amused by the din.

impending stabilisation of birth The ceremony, was closed by the and death rates - and the rapid Archbishop of Canterbury, offering | apread of the birth control move- prayor, and asking mercy. and ment, are all factors, in a possible protection for all who should pass, accelerated "population. decline across the Bridge or beneath it, within the next five years,

A: Concert,

Orchestral In the Moonlight" (Ketelboy).—The London Palla- dum Orchestra, C2309.

"Stojowski).—Igrace Jan Pade-

rowiki.-1449.

(Pestaloz-

Song" Giribiribin"

za).-Lucrezia Bori (Soprano).

-1902. Song

-"Songs My Mother7 p.m.-Local news. Taught Me" (Macfarren and 7.03 to 8 p.m.---·

Dvorak).

Song" Since First I Met Thee" (Watson and Rubenstein).— Rosa Ponselle (Soprano).-1318. Piano Solo" Suggestion Diabo-

lique" (Prokofieff). Piano Solo - "Fairy Tale"

(Medtner), Benno Moiseivitch. -1449. Song" Who Is Sylvia" (Shokes-

peare and Schubert). Song" None But A Lonely Heart" (Tschaikowski).—John McCormack (Tenor).-1306. Violin Solo Hebrew Melody "

(Achron).

Violin Solo-Zapateado " (Sara gatoj.-Jascha Heifetz,--6695. Sorg-Waista. Maori)" (Hill). Song "A Maori Slumber Song" (Princeen Te Rangi Pal), Francis Alda (Soprano)-1330. Piano Solo-"The Prophet Bird" (Schumann). - Ignace Jan Paderewski. —1996,

Song" The First Caress" (De

Cresenza). SongBois

Epais 31 (arr. Lully-Enrico Caruso (Tenor). --1437.

Piano Solo" By the Brookside" (Continued on next caluran,

GLOUCESTER

Variety.

"The Cat and The Fiddle

Selections.-Now Mayfair Or- chestra.-C2979.

"Violet Loraine Modley."-Vio- ¦

lat Loraine with Orchestra,~~~ C2337.

}+

"Helen "Vocal Goms.-Light

Opera Company.-C5359. "Clarice Moyne

Medley."- Clarice Mayne with Orchestra. --CZIJI, "Minstrel Show of 1931."-The English Minstrels with Alex- ander and Moza.-C2305. Scene from Julian Wylie's Pro- Com- duction The Good panions."Adele .Dixon, John Bascomb Gielgud, Lawrence and Deering Wells.-C2288. "My Maryland "Vocal Gems.. "Rio Rita." Vocal Gems-Victor

Light Opera Company.-35816.. 8 p.m.-Local time and weather

report, etc.

8.03 to 10.30 p.m.--Chinese record-

ed. programme, 10.30. p.m. Close down.

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