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AUGUST.
1-Tides: High 6.25 mm. and 8.40 pm. Low 2.11 p.m. 1
Sunrise: "5.54 am; Sunsel; 1.01 p.m.. Opening of Fits at North Point KEY Men's Club Meeting, St. Francis Hotel
GENERAL
Radio Programmes
HONGKONG
Cralgengower 0.0.: Weekly Whist
[Drive, # pm,
Victoria Chess Club, Gloucester Ho-
Z
On Wavelengths of 158
tel. 8. p.m.
Kowloon Chess Club, Peninsula Ho- tel. 5.30 pm.
B
mekre (34) Köw) 314
Volunteer Nursing Detachment, ARP. Hers. Happy Valley, 8.45 pm.
Eagle Photo
W
metros (3.52-megacycles).
Service..
Pottinger
I Met An Angel (Sievier-Morgan); Shannon River (Eran-Morgan). A Prayer to Our Lady (Ford); Charm Me Axleep (Banderson),
B.15
London Belay--"If the ̧· Inva-
|der Comes.”
Experiences of the Home Guard, 8,45 Studio-Local Newsletter. 8.55 Orchestral Interlude.
Street Exhibition of International "IF THE INVADER COMES” AND CLincko); Stephanie - Gavotte (C%l= }
Prize Photographa
Fellowship
Cathedral Women's Working Party, Cathedral Hall, 3 pm,
Cheero Club, Bridge and Mahjong.
St. Andrew's Ladies' Working Party (Medical). 10 am-12 noon.
2-Tides: High 7.15 am. and 9.12 p.m. Low-12.50 am, and 2.51 pm,
Sunrise: 5.53 m.; Sunset: 1.03 pm Crown Land Sale, D.O. South, 11
a.m.
Sale of Race Ponies, at Jockey Club Paddock, 5.30 p.m.
Volunteer Nursing Detachment. Les- ture on First Ald. St. John's Cathe dral Hall, 5.30 p.m.
Kowloon Union Church Club Meet-
8
p.m. “Cheero Gak. Darts and Table Tennis.
Ladies Working Party (B.W.OF), Govt. House, 9 am-12 noon.
3-Tides: High 808 dim. and S48 p.m. Lów 141 am, and 330 pm,
Sunrise: 5.50.am; Sunset: 7.03 p.m. H.K. Evacuees due to leave for Australia.
OTHER LONDON RELAYS
"Carmen" Act H
The Way to the Heart -- Gavotte
bulka)-Willy Steiner and His Balan Orchestra.
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9.00 London Helsy-The News and
12.15 pm. Short Service of Inter Topical Talks, cession.
12.30 Film Selections.
tha
9.45 Piano Solos by Egon Petri. Concert Study in D Flat Major (Liszt) 1-.- Gretchen Am Spinnrade (Schubert-arr. Liszt); Fantasia (It Memory of My Father-Busoni. After J. S. Bach).
10.00 Violin Recital by Yehudi
"Magyar Melody" Selection-Louis Levy and His Orchestra with Vocal by Brian Lawrence and Eve Beck "Broadway Melody of 1938-Selec tion Reginald Foort at the B.B.O. Theatre Organ. "Anything Goes” *** Selection (Cole Porter) Patricia Menuhin. (Piano). "On Roseborough
Caprice in G Minor, Op. 1, No. 8
March Avenue Selection Louis Levy and (Paganini-Enesco). His Gaumont-British
tian Symphony with (Beethoven-AUET): La Charse (Ca
Songs Vocal by Janet Lind, and Gerry Pita tier-Kreisler).
dy Mother Gerald
"Head over Heels"-Looking Taught Me" (Dvorak-Perainger); La Round Gorners for You: "That Oki Pile Aux Cheveux De Lin (Debussy- From Paris"
Love and Learn Hartmann). Spanish Dante (Grana- 'Sidney Torch (Organ),
1.00 Local Time Signal and Wes- ther Report.
1.03 A Scaith Programme.
(dos-Kreisler).
10.22 Bizet'a "Carmen" Act II, Stagers
in order of appearance: ¡Aurora Buades: Bruno Carmassi; Ebe Irma Benvenuto Franci;
McLeod's Galley (Kennedy Fraser); Team
11.00 Close down.
O Whistle and I Come to You, My Mion; Aristide Barsecht; Giuseppe Lad (Folk Songs of Scotland'-Ste New; Aureliano Pertile and Chorus 4-Tides: High 3.58 am, and 10.22 phen and Burnet)-Margaret Barrest of La Scala, Milan, with the Milan p.m. Low 2.31 am, and 4.06 pin,
(Soprano) with Plano
Petronella Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sunrise: 5.56 am; Sunset: 7.02 pm. (arr. Dlack); Strip The Willow (arr. Lorenzo Molajoli. YMCA Discussion Group, § p.m." Black)-Scottish Country Dance Or 5-Tides: Bigh 9.49 am and 1101 chestra, MacGregor's Gathering (Lee p.m. Low 3.19 am, sud ́4,48_pm.
arr. Kahn): Bonnie Wee Thing (Fox) Sunrise: 5.58 a.m.; Bunset: 7.02 pm. Os
Joseph Hisley (Tenor) with Piano Meder of Scottish Airs -- 6-Tides: High 1040 am and 11:40 accomp.
of the 2nd Batt. The Queen's Pipers | 16.03. Low 4.88 8.3, and 521 pm,
Own Cameron Highlanders. My Ain Sunrise: 5.37 a.m; Sunset:-7.01, p. Folk (Lemon, Mills)-Mary Kay (Con- Annual Meeting of HK.RA, Hong-tralto) with Plano gecomp. kong Hotel, 5.30 p.m.. --
HK. Rotary Club Tim Meeting HK Hotel, 1 p.m.
Crown Land Sale, P.W.D. 3 p.m.
Calls
SHORT WAVE
1.30 Reuter and 'Rugby. Press, Wea- | G.3.G. ther Forecast and Announcements. G.S.B.
1.45 Billy Cotton and His Band G.S.B. playing. Dance Music.
Fox-Trot-The House With The Lit- tle Green Tiles; Slow Fox-Trot-Don't
G.8.0.
DAVENTRY
Wavelength 1779KAS USED) 1.31m4 (71.53m.) 2147m (31,971.) 15.18ma (19,"79m)
NEWB IN ENGLISH
“THE AMAZING MR. Forget the Old Folks At Home. Fox-Transmission F-News Sum-
WILLIAMS"
Trol-I Shall Be Waiting, Waltz →→ Bella Bambina. Blues-Basin Street
Meet "The Amazing Mr. Wil- Blues; Fox-Trot Nobody's Sweet Trans. II & III-News Bum-
Slow Fox-Trot Over the teart lams." Said to be as amus Rainbow film The Wizard of OZIL ing ង. be la "amazing, Mr. Slow Fax-Trot-Good-Night Childre William, is a super-slenth who Everywhere. solves murder mysteries
the 2.15 Close down,
run, even while he is desperate- 6.00 Compositions, of. Brahms. * ly struggling to reach the altar
Tragic Overture, Op. 81-The E.B.C. and marriage to Joan Blondell Symphony Orchestra cond. by Arturo He is Melvyn Douglas, and he Toscanini. Vier Ernste Gesange, Op. Ich wandte wich und 121, No. 2: comes to the Majestic Theatre
sahe Alexander Kipnis (Bass) and tomorrow in what has been hall-Gerald Moore (Piano). Waltzes, Nos. ed as a merry melange of comedy. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 (Op. 39)-Ana- tole Kitar (Piano). Hungarian thrills, mystery and romance.
The story, briefly, concerns Dance. No. 8 in F Starp Minor
Royal Opera Orchestra, Covent Gar Williams" den.
Hungarian Dance No. 8 in B
The
Amazing Mr.
7.8,
his fiancee Maxine Carroll, two mat Major-Yehudi Menuhin (Vio- hearts which beat as one.
m) with Plano accomp.
6.34 Operatie Duets.
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Chauve-Souris Duet from Pique
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DIRTY Full Bulletin
1.30 am
8.30 .m.
JULY
KING VISITS TRAINING SCHOOL
Dame (Tchaikowsky) Eugente a 14,000 Civilians For
THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1940. —PAGE 3
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"He spends far more time in a squad room or in a careening police car than in her company.
Conora and Finalda Erchova with When his Dancee rebels Mr.
Orchestra. “Alda" -- Heaven! my has Williams really
"tough 'father! (Verdi) - Dusalina. Glanninı Case" on his hands, one far (Soprano) And Glovanni Inghilleri
"Lohen- LONDON, July 31 (Reuter) harder to "Crack"
the Baritone) with Orchestra. than
Tians The King yesterday visited men robberies and homicides he takes grin-Love Duet (Wagner)
Lemnita and Torsten Ralf with Or- from every walk of life who gre in dally stride,
being trained for engineering and 6.58 Cloning Local Stock Quota munitions jobs
chestra.
tions.
Training
7.00 Marek Weber and His Orches School in the London area, these
At the Government
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Solution No. 669 ACROSS: 1, Grim: 5.-Carp; &
"Viktoria and Her Hussar Selec men from all walks of life are Antler: 9 Cover: 11. Also: 12, ton (Abraham), Chinese Fairy Tales being taught to work as Entirely; 15, Tend: 17, Owns: 18. (Character Sketch-Dreyer); In The machine operators, draughtsmen Station; 19: Get: 20. off; 21, Temple of the Bells (Study from Pe- and so on. Prisons; 23. Mute; 24, Alls; 27, king-Yoshitomp). Siege-gui: 30,. Gist; 31, Older; 32, Lentil; 33, Knee; 34. Deal.
Down: 2, Riven; 3. Mart: 4. Star: 6, Crayon; 8. Resentful; 7, Scot; 10, Ends: 13, Imagine; 14. Epitome; 16, Execution; 21, Pestle; 22, Saul; 25, India: 26. Bore; 28; Gate; 20, Gold,
Waldteufel Waltz
HOTEL KEEPER TO FITTER One of the men the King spoke had been evacuated from Guernsey at half an hour's notice. 8.03 Songs by John McCormack He used to be a hotel keeper and now he is being trained as a fit- ter.
Potpourri (arr. bermann); Leo Fall
Potpourri (arr. Dostal).
1.20 London Relay The News. 8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather to Report and Annomicomments.
(Tenor).
CROSSWORD NO. 670
ACROSS
4 Laughed
6 It's many-
sided
9 Parvenu
13. Lodestone 17 Roman.
date
18 Coalition
VARSITY COURSE CEYLON'S GENEROUS 19 School
FOR RECRUITS
- DONATION-
LONDON, July 31" (Reutery - The Governor of Ceylon announces that the Colony's first contribution
Govt's Inducement of 21,500 was made to the King
George Fund for Sailors
To Candidates
LONDON, July 31 (Reuter)
20. Eager
21 Nasty to
look at... 22 Document 23. Red
coating
24 Call forth: 25 Fish
4 Antelope.
5 Vapour
trained in the ranks for three or 27 Plant five months.
31 Fawns
A new method of recruiting for the Royal Artillery, Royal Engi Those who pass this test will go. 34 Arouses. neers and the Royal Corps of to selected universities for a six-35 Behaved Signa's was announced, efst month course in mathematics, me-
DOWN
5. Conduct
7 Tiny marks
10 Captive
11 Repaired badly
∙12 Frees
16 Flowers 25 Short talli 26 Railway
28 Open
29 Refresh-
14 Before
3 Fever
15 Number
ments
Silence Obtain Dejected
SOLUTION TOMORROW
Candidates for commission bechanics, physics and so on at the 1 Shape tween the ages of 18 and 181 will Government expense. They will 32. Dearvi be chosen by examination. Buc- later be given training in the cessful candidates will follow the OTC before lon ng their reg modern army custom of being ment
:
The King was accompanied by Mr. Ernest Bevin, Minister of
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"WE POLES DO
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Diplomats Return To Unoccupied France
LONDON, July 31 (Reuter) The Polish, Foreign Minister, M Zalexki, announed that orders have been given to the Polish Embassies and Consulates to return to the territory of unoccupied France.
He revealed this in a statement or the foreign policy in the For- eign Affairs Committee of the Polish National Council In Lon- don
He said: "We Foles for long ager have been friends of the French nation and do not belong to those who forge their friend in da
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