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PREMISES TO LET

PMAK MANSIONS:

5-roomed iste.

PRINCE EDWARD RÓAD

DISTRICT.

14 zoomed fata,

4-8 roomed residences.

CAMBAY BUILDINGS:

3-roomed flats.

CHEUNG SHA WAN:

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KOWLOON CITY:

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PREMISES TO LET.

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APARTMENTS WANTED

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8 to 6.30 p.m.-

From the Studle

7 to 11 p.m--European programme.

7 to 7.30. p.m.→→

(Mendels-

Milliary Band Music Ruy Blaa Overture

sohn). Tancredi Overture (Rossini)./ Slavonic Rhapsody (arr. Winter-

bottom).

The

Black Domino Overture (arr." Winterbottom). The Old Fog Pond (Alford). Parade of the Elephants

(Chenette). 7.30 to 7.45 pm-

From the Studio A Recital of Bird Songs by Amy

Bath.

PROGRAMME.....

1. The Little Red Lark-Need-

ham

2. Cuckoo-Shaw.

3. A Little Birdie

4. A Thrush's

Travers

Puccini.

Love Song.—

6. The Owl-Weles.

6. The Captive Lark-Ronald, 7. Spring-Henschel. 7:45-10-7.50 p.m.-"March" of the Toys" (Herbert) (from "Babes in Toyland'-).

7.50- to 8 p.m.—

From the Studio "Book Reviews" by Sabrina.

8 p..Iocal time and weather report, closing local stock quotations.

↓

8.05 to 8.10 p.m.-"Savoy Scottish Medley" (arr. Debroy Somers") 8.10 to 8.30 p.m.-

།

From the Studlo

A Pianoforte Recital by Caroline

Braga FT.CL. ·

PROGRAMME

1. Clair de Lune.-Debussy. 2. Arabesque. Debussy.

3. Prelude in B flat Major-

Chopin," 4. Folonaise in a sharp minor

Chopin 8.30 to 9 p.r.-

A Relay from Daventry" The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra,

directed by Henry Hall

there was no inn for stabling beasts as the station. When for-

many of the stationa Isolated houses. After. China it seems à deserted · land. But the railway deceives topographically as it does politically. The railway Xuda through "Manchukuo"; the real country seems to shrink back. The This disregard of the weather branch lines reveal much more. they regard as a foolish foreign: But they are not lines driven by obstinacy. But their submissive- British and Russian engineers. ness is really a question of money. majestical and straight, through | It is only the destitute or the plu- the land. They are toy lines lald tocrat who can defy the weather, by Chinese over fields and hills. and in the East all foreigners, save Russians, are plutocrats. The peasant, whose possessions are few and represent months of toll, has no shoes to withstand the rain, and no change of garments. Bo

eign obstinacy proved invincible | ways were found. A horse was

offered, but I preferred my legs. But they were obstinate in lend- ing a large blue cotton umbrelis.

COMMERING AT 10.30 A.M.

AT No. 287, PRINCE EDWARD

ROAD, KOWLOON

A QUANTITY OF · VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD

FURNITURE

ON VIEW FROM THURSDAY, THE 21ST NOVEMBER, 1935.

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It is when you take̟ to, a cart or to your legs that the real coun- try appears. The uniform plain becomes alive and varied. Bach village is unique. Some villages are spread out in a park of trees. Others are pressed, tight in a net of blossom and vine. Some seem to float or water, some to cleave to the side of a hill, while others In the rain, for it does his Work seem part of the mud from which | better than he could do it. For they rise unredeemed " by any with the rain-the first for many "touch of green. And there is con- weeks-the felds had taken on a stant change of crop and wilder deeper green overnight. It was vegetation, constant variety of hill peaceful to walk through the mud.. and stream. Even more than the No one was at work 'in the fields scene, the weather is ever offering or travelling on the road. The fresh contrasta; and not only the dripping of the rain made all dis- WEDNESDAY, contrast of the cruel, biting win-turbance, seem remote, ter, when icicles hang by the beara › But it is never remote, and tra- as by the wall, and the languid; vel is not always so peaceful.. summer, but the contrast of sun and shower from day to day. And that is more than an outward change. All primitively rural com- munities are at the mercy of the weather, and life stems to change with the sky. For it is not the true peasant who defles the ele-

ments.

A few weeks ago I set out in cart to travel some thirty miles to the south The wind raised a fos of dust and through its thickness

"bus.

INTERRUPTED JOURNEY

27 NOV., 1935-

„Commeno ng at 10.30 A.M.

Ar "CAMERON LODGE"

No. 548, THE PEAK.

A QUANTITY. OF

HOUSEHOLD VALUABLE

FURNITURE

also

Ona Upright Piano by "MOUTRIE & CO."

Some weeks earlier I was sitting in a 'buş reading. The two other passengers were dozing and the three armed guards Bussiping about the foreigner while they sat leaning "on their rifles. We had "gone eight miles from the rallway. when the 'bus stopped. The road, was blocked by the south-coming Our driver got out to have, as we imagined, the usual chat bus was empty save for two pas- of two passing drivers. But the

engera lying on the floor. Our guards left their gossipingTM and looked out. "Bandits," they said, and-pointed to some horsemen about a hundred yards away in a clump of trees.. Our guards got Tags:-Cash on Deliveat. and our teeth to grind. Two days out and, crouching behind the later I came back by another way wheels of the other, 'bus, prepared to fire, We got put a Ettle more

the sun shone nerce. Everything

was dust. There was no escaping it, cover one's face as one would. Even the river seemed liquid dust Then with relief we left the sandy stretch and reached good earth. 9 to 9.20 p.m.-A Relay of the Our wheels sank in, the going was Daventry News Bulletin (Copy-slow, but our eyes ceased to smart 9.20 to 10 p.m.-

right by Reuter).

From the Studio

to the railway. Rain had come on

A 51st Recital of Gramophone and

Records by the Rev. C. B. B. Sargent.

10 p.m-Big Ben: Reuter Press

Bulletins.

10.10 to 10.20 p.m.-

From the Studio

10.20 to 11 DM-

Variety and Dance Music " Vocal-Melody Trumps." The

Four Aces.

all the scene was changed quickly and lay in the ditch. No carts would go. I had to walk, phots were fired. They struck the The good earth was a quagmire, body of the bus and whizzed over Our shoes raised Httle felds. But our heads. We lay in trepidation

ON VIEW FROM TUESDAY, THE 26TH NOVEMBER, 1985.

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when we came to sandy stretches trying to fit the ditch. I began by our encounter and even more

the mid fell from our "shoes, we

"

to think of the book I had left

by our escape. Then as we looked A Talk on "Safety First" by an sand, and the air seemed fresher."

walked lightly on the top of the lying in the bus, of the peculiar round and collected our things, we aspect of mud and grass when Owner Driver.

saw the cause. The men froin a The weather had upset all values.

scruchised from the distance of near-by village, aroused by the an inch. My companion, taught shots and by the arrival of the OBJECTS OVERCOME by previous experience, employed driver of the Arst bus, were com- And the rain had stopped every-

himself more wisely in burying his

ing at a run with three rides and, Fox-Trot-Red Salls in the Sun-To travel was folly. It was not thing. Everyone kept to his house.

wristlet watch and pocket-book in

many boes and spades. They the dust. Then all was silence, set.

were much concerned and very i-that the ros'd was Song A Little Dash of Dublin

I put my head up to see if the

helpful. They did not use the rifles bandits had been driven off, to ("Peg of Old Drury")-Anna') ma

the bandits were now out of find them a few yards from us sight, but they used the spades Neagle (Soprano).

leading their horses, with their Fox-Trot-I couldn't be mean to 11.45 pm-Ringel, Ring, Rosenkriflea slung across their shoulders

to dig a way for us round the Tanz Jolly renderings from and their revolvers pointed at us:

other bus

you.

Bong-Seein' ix

Allen (Baritone);

believin'--Les

+

Impass

the 19th century (so called four wretched-looking despera-We climbed into the bus and "Biedermeir time).

Humorous Albert Comes Back | 12,18 a.m.-News in English or

Stanley Holloway,

DJA and in Dutch on DJN Fox-Trot-You're on Top.

12.30 1.1--Close DJA. DJN (Germ. Song-Two Tired Eyes ("Cock o Engi

the North".-Leslie Hutchin- BOXI

Fox-Trot-The Girl with the i

dreamy eyes.

Fox Trois-Chasing Shadows

Kiss me goodnight.

11 p.m.-Close down.

9

BERLIN PROGRAMME.

D.m.-Call DJA, DJE, DIN

(Germ; Engl.).

German Folk Song.

RADIO MANILA

8 p.Are You Listening con.

ducted by: Bernie Nolasco, 6.30 p.m-Spanish Informational

Period.

6.40 p.m.-English; Informations:

Period.

6.55 pm-Stock quotations, through

the courtesy of Swan, Culbert

son and Fritade

1.7 pm-Studio Musicly (Germ. 17:15 pm The Magic Brain with the Magic Eye presents "Music in the Air" with Mai Partridge.

Programme Forecast

Engl.)!

9.1b Dm Sonata in C minor op.

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continued our journey. A mie further on we made up on our armed escort still --running across the neids with their backs to the fight. We called to them. They seemed relieved to sea DB afe, but did not offer to accom pany us further, preferring to gó

back to report that we had been attacked by a hundred; bandits, but had escaped, thanks, doubt.

does. They were in a hurry and in no mood for speech. One seized me by the hand.. That action rou÷ sed my sense of "d'guity and also a strong feeling of resentment, at the idiocy of the whole business. And then it appeared that he did not want me but only my ring He got it. Meanwhile another, of them had ordered my companion to strip. The third passenger lay unregarded with his face buried less, to their protection:

We were lucky. A few weeks in the ditch. Then they seized all the baggage in the bus later a bus with a Japanese guard and hauled it on to the road. One was attacked. Three men were parcel enticed them. They tore it killed and all the passengers strips open. It contained & toy motor ped of their clothes and posses car. With disgust they flung itlogs

TR Morton, in the Glasgow Herald'

30. Nr. 2 for Violin and Piano 7.30 pm The Town Crier presents on to the road and turned to my by Ludwig van Beethoven. a Quarter-hour of Melodies suitcase. Its locks defied them. Lothar Ritterhog Egon Steg-7.45 pm. Elizalde y Cis Pro- Bo, st holding their revolvers at mund

gramme.

us, they ordered me to open it.

9.45 p.m.-News in Engilah on DJA | 8. p.m. Listerine Musical Trave-And conscious of the revolver and | 7 and in Dutch on DJB, DIN,” logue in Spanish presenting ever more of the shaking hand,

“Germany."

10 p.m.-First Performance

Jakob Bchagners.

"O Foreign Lands!”

of

8.15 pm-Hispania,

10.45 pm Popular Tunes all over

the World."

Arranged and introduced by

Lotte Thelle

Jack, dident even wait for his

I obeyed. But they seemed to notebook. He siithered down, the think my things-pyjamas, brus- beanstalk as it a tax-collector had 8.30 pm-Welcome Tourist Pro-hes, papers and a volume of Gib been after him; and a crashing gramme : For passengers bon—a poor lot as they lay in the of branches above told him that aboard the Dollar 8.8. President dust. They were not worth stoop Coolidge: MANAGER THAT ing to examine. Then they seized 8.45 pm-Block quotations and my companion's spectacles and

focal market reporta

were off at a gallop.

11.15 pm News In German on

DJA DIB, DJN Close DJB | 9 pm-Hispania--Zarzuelas,

Germ. Engl.Y

10 pm-Fopular Tunes and Re-

quests.

11.30 pim-To-day In Germany.

Bong Pictures,

11' p.m. Bign of!

the glant was hot in pursuit.

He reached the ground not a moment too soon. Pulling out his kaite a present from hi Unele Eber he slashed throu | beanstalk: “If tattered Self We got up from our resting- and the giant met the phee n the dich rather amazed & terrime cash.

TO THE RESCUE