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FEB.

11-Tides: High 937 am, xad 846 p.m. Low $.15 am. und 2.20 p.m.

Sunrise: 6:58 a.,; Sunset: 6.18 pm. HK. Rotary Club Tim Meeting. 1

p.m.

Diocesan Boys' School New Term Starts.

GENERAL

Radio Programmes

HONGKONG

HE. Acting Governor to dine with Col. H. W. M. Stewart, O.B.E., M.C., and Officers of 1st En. The Middlesex Regt. 8.15 p.m.

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Crown Land Sale. 0.0. South. 11.30. 8.m.

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On Wavelengths of 355 metres (845 ko') 31.49 - metres (3,53 mognayoisa).

Assembly

HK. University Union Room, Lecture by Mr. John W. Y. Yuen on "My Principles of Scientific Management of Industrial Enter- prises." 8.30 p.m.

Humphreys Estate and Finance Co.. Ltd.. Annus Meeting. 11.30 am.

Kowloon Chess Club. Peninsula Ho- tel. 5.30 p.m.

Mrs. Lechmere Cift's Bible Class 9, Hillwood Rd; 10.30 8.3.

St. Andrew's Church: Wartime In tercession Service, & p.m.

Cheero Club Whist Drive. 830 p.m. Urban Council Meeting. 4.15 p.m. 12-Tides: High 10.08 am, and 934

P.rtl.

Low 3.52 am, and 107 $0. Sunrise: 6.57 a.m.; Sunset: 6.19 p.m. Ladies' "Working Party (B.W.O.F.) Govt. House, 9am-12.30 p.m.

Tittle Flower Club Concert, 6 pm. Lawn Bowls: HE, the Acting Gov: ernor to entertain Bowlsters at Govt. House. 3 pm.

Cheero Club Danice. 8.30 p.m. HKF.A. Council, Meeting, 5.30 - 13-Tides; High 10.42 a.m.

and 10.19 pin. Low 4.27 am and 3.31 pm. Sunrise: 637 a.m.; Sünet: 819 pm. HK. Y's Men's Club, Tifin Meeting. 1 pm.

Little Flower Club Concert, 9 p.m. Mobile Black-Out Demonstration,

p.11.

HAYDN SYMPHONY NO. 102 IN B FLAT Portuguese Programnie. 12.15 p.m. Short Service of Inter.

cession.

9.00

Libary Supreme

London Relay The News and News - Commentary.

9.30 London Belay Talk: 'Scots Abroad.*

D.45 Scottish Country Dance Or-. chestra.

Willow Strip the

(arr, Diack); Petronella (arr. Dlack), Skve 'Eight- some Reel Medley. Strathspeys Medley (arr. Dlack).

10.00 Musical Comedy Selections, "White Horse Tin"-Selection-New

"New Moon" Mayfair Orchestra. Vocal Gems (Hammerstein 2nd and Ramberg) Light Opera Company

12.28 Dvorak-Concerto In A Minor, with Orchestra. "Bow Bells"---Selec- Op. 53.

1st Mov: Allegro ma non troppo;

tion (Sullivan)-New Mayfair Orches- tra. "Hit the Deck" Vocal Gems

with Orchestra.

2nd Mov: Adagio ma non troppo: 3rd (Youmans) Light Opera Company Mov: Finale-Allegro giocoso, ma non.

(Violin) troppo Yehudi Menuhin and Orchestre de la Societe des Con- certs du Conservatoire.

1.00. Local Time Signal and Wea. ther Report.

1.03 Rawicz and Landauer on Two Pianos

1030 Latest Dance Music.

Fox-Trot-Get Your Boots Laced, Woody Herman and His Orchestra. Slow Fox-Trot-Confetti on the Pave ment; Waltz-When Shall We Two Meet Again Mantovani and His Or chestra. Fox-Trots-Washington and Lee Swing. The Jazz Me Blues Bob Schubert Time (arr. Rawicz and Crosby's Bob Cats Fox-Trots-When Landauer); Waltz

from Buddha Smiles; Rock Island Flag Vienna (arr. Rawicz and Landauer). Stop The Casa Loma Orchestra. Faust Waltz Variations (Comed-Waltz-Memories Live Longer Than arr. Rawies and Landauer), Carmen Dreams-Jack Payne and His Band, -Selection (Bizet arr. Rawicz and

11.00 Close down. Landauer).

Memories

1.15 Regimental Band at H Grenadier Guards.

SHORT WAVE

La Czarine Mazurka (Gannel; La Mattchiche March on a Spanish Air 7-art. Bilton). Tarantelle De Concert Calls

(Greenwood, arr. Godfrey); The Voice G.S.G. of the Bells (Luigini, arr. Miller). G.8.B. Villanelle (Dell'Acqua-Winterbottom).

G.S.FL.

DAVENTRY

Wavelength 17.79b.c (16.86m.) 3.51m. (31.35m.) 21.47m.c (3197m.) 15.18m.c. (19.79%0. NEWS IN ENGLISH Transmission 1--News Sun-

14-Tides: High 11.16 am. and 11.07 p.m. Low 3.03 am. and 4.37 p.m.

1.30 Beuter & Rngby Press, Wen-G.S.O. Sunrise: 6.66 a.m.; Sunset: 6.20 pm.ther Forecast and Announcements. St. Valentine's Day..

Ladies' Working Party 5.W.O.P.3. Govt. House, 9 am-12.30 p.m.

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Police and Police Reserve Dinner Dance, Peninsula Hotel. 8 p.m.

15-Tides: High 11.53 af, and 11.37 pm. Low 5.37 am and 527 p.m. Sunrise: 6.56 m.; Sunset: 620 p.m. HK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting First Day, 11.30 am.

HE, the Acting Governor leaves fo Fanling Lodge.

143 Dance Music by Billy Cotton and His Band.

Fox-Trots The Little Boy That Santa Claus. Forgot; Moonlight on the Waterfall. Fox-Trots I'm A Little Prairie Flower; The Best of Friends. Novelty Waltz - Maybelle, Maybelle: Fox-Trot-Horsey. Horsey." Fox-Trot

Squibs (from the film); Quickstep- Bring out the Little Brown Jus.

Closing Local Stock Quola-.

2.15

Close down.

16-Tides: High 13.37 pm. 6.14 am and 6.22 p.m.

5.45

Low

Indain Progra fame.

6.30

Sunrise: 6.55 a.m.; Sunset: 8.21 p.m. Lawn Bowls: KCC.. v. Lane Craw- fords.

tions.

Junior Golf Championship Final

Semi-

6.32 Haydn-Symphony No. 102 in B Flat Major.

1st Moy: Largo-Allegro vivace; 2nd

YM.C.A.: Discussion Group, 9 Mov: Adagio: ard Mov: Menuetto

Softball League.

4.

17-Tides: High 12.54 a.m. and 1.2 p.m. Low 6.47 m. and 7.27 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.54 am.; Sunset: 621 p.m HK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeting. Second Day, 11.30 a..

|(Allegro); 4th Mov: Finale. (Presto)--- Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

6.55 A Song.

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Fun Bulletin Transmission V-News Sum-

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Pull Bulletin

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8.46 p.m. 7.00

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SECRET FOR 7 BITTER YEARS

For

Scven bitter, torturing years a pretty 25-year-old girl! kept to herself the tragic secret! of the birth of her baby, the The Heavens are Telling "("The Crestion--Haydn)-Royal Choral So-discovery of whose body in a baffling pond had provided a mystery for the police at Burgess Hill, Sussex, where she resided. Then, as the years sped by, inn- Fnatured tongues began to wag,

and gossip Hinked the name of; the girl's mother with the riddle

chestra with Organ.

Ladies' Working Party (B.W.OFciety and London Philharmonic Govt House, 9 am-13.30 p.m.

18-Tides:

7.00 High 2 m. and 4.16 p.m. Low 1724 am, and 8.57 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.54 a.m.; Sunset: 621 p.m. HK. Jockey Club's Annual Meeti Third Day, 11.30 am.

R.K. Rotary Club. Tin Meeting. 1 p.r.

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19-Fides: High 3.25 a.m, and 3.22 p. Low 8.03 a.m. and 10.47 p.m.

Sunrise: 6.53 a.m.; Sunset: 6.22 p.m. 20-Tides: High 5.07 am, and 437 p.m. Low 8.55 a.m.

London Relay -The News, 7.15 London Belay - 'Questions of the Hour."

7.30 Portuguese Programme 2 8.00 facal Tune Signal. Weather Report and Announcements.

8.83 Verdis "Rigoletto" Ack 1. Singers in order" of appearance: Jux Borgio;" Guido Uxa; Ida Maz- narin: Riccardo Stracciari; Aristide Baronti; Eugenio Baracchi; Buillo Bälargine: Ernesto Dominici; and Mercedes Casper with Full Chorus of La Scala, Milan, and the Milan Sym-

Sunrise: 6.52 2.m; Sunset: 6.22 p.. 21-Tides: High $.54 am, and 547 p.m. Low.12.18 am, and 16.21 pm,

Sunrise: 6.51a.m.; Sunset: 6.23 p.m.phony Orchestra.

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of the baby.

This false and malicious, ac- cusation so preyed on the girl's mind that she decided-cost what it might to reveal the truth to the police.

This poignant story was told at East Sussex Quarter Sessions at Lewes. where the girl, Frances Mary Bird, a laundress, of St. Andrew's-road, Burgess El plead- ed guilty to concealing the birth of her male child in July, 1933.

The story began, related Mr. Gumbel in August, 1933, when a railway porter found the body of a child in a pond at Burgess Hil

The police were informed, but

LAST 4 TIMES TO-DAY after investigation they could not

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obtain any evidence to connect. anyone with the matter.

STATEMENT MADE

Seven years later, in July or last year, Frances Mary Bird call- ed at a police-station and made the following statement:

"I want to tell you about thei dead baby found seven years ago.

"They say my mother did it and threw the body into the pond This is not true. I want to make it clear that my mother knows, nothing about it.

"All this scandal was my fault I was working at the time. I felt 1. and it happened near a chicken farm

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Wild Geese Find New

Feeding Grounds

The wide dispersal of bine and lesser snow geese in Mani- toba during the 1940 spring udgration has aroused new interest in the migrating habits of these waterfowl, according to the prairie migratory bird officer of the Department of Mines and Resourers

Millions of these birds, which, localities south of the Assiniboine ordinarily broke their northward River, although vast numbers new fight to feed and rest in low, wet over the old "feeding grounds to pratie stubble fields northwest of more favourable areas farther Winnipeg, sought new feeding north.

Speculation is high as to what will happen when next spring's migration gets under way. BREEDING GROUNDS

"I did not hear the baby cry, grounds thought it was dead. I tied a cloth The steadily declining water round its neck and put it in the table caused the geese to scatter pond."

as never before in the memory of

Each year millions of blue and "O that statement made by Manitoba naturalists, and tens of lesser snow geese visit Manitoba, the girl, and not as the result, of thousands of them appeared in en route to their breeding grounds any police action," concluded Mr. districts where large Blocks have in the Arctic regions. The birds' Gumbel, "this girl is now in the not previously been seen.

arriving from Louisiana dock."

Most of the great flocks chose about April 10, and usually spend month from three weeks to one

Mr. Geoffrey Lawrence, for the

begin

girl, declared that there had been baby. She has never told anyone feeding and resting in the south- a lot of local gossip. She had else. Only the girl knows who the fern part of the province. In early pleaded guilty to concealing the father was." birth of her child to save her mather's honour.

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May they resume their migra- Sentencing Bird to one day's tion.

Many of the lesser snow. geese imprisonment, which meant her This poor girl has carried this immediate release, Lord Cautley, presumably go to the western secret tragedy for seven years in K.C., chairman, remarked that the Arctic Coast, but large numbers, the face of malicious gossip," con- tittle-tattle of relatives sought to accompanied by all the blue gecae, tinued Mr. Lawrence.

involve her mother in this of ay directly to James Bay and "She was only 18 when this fence, and the girl had taken the thence northward to the nesting happened. She never told the laudable course of making a full grounds on Baffin and Southam father she was going to have a confession.

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