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MORE RADIO ATROCITY STORIES FROM REICH

LONDON, May 1---In Palestine for the last few days the West Yorkshire Regiment has been conducting a careful search in Bolt Rima, village for arms and ammunition belonging to terrorists,

The total arms found amounted to 37 rifles, one shot-gun and 1.100 rounds of rifle ammunition,

Although the search took place quielly and without any incident, the German radio broadcasts In Axable have Invented stories of appalling atrocities by troope, thus following up last week'd Invention of incidenta in Jerusalem which local listeners knew well had:

never taken place --British Wireless.

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YESTERDAY'S FRONT PAGE NEWS

of

ITH the help broadcasting, propa- ganda has become the fourth great weapon of Navy, Army, Air Force and Radio.

war:

Radio propaganda is used for preparing the ground. The people to be conquered are first plied with pro- grammes and news broad- casts, making them discon- tented with their own sur- roundings. Small groups of listeners are formed, mostly, with the help of a central organisation outside the country. These listening groups disseminate among

Hongkong Telegraph their friends the news and

Wyndham St., Hongkong

'Phone 26615 May 3, 1939

Car Thefts

INCE the beginning of the year, the Police have dealt with some

The value of this property, on a conservative estimate, probably ex- ceeds $50,000,

the ideas they have heard.

RADIO

PROPAGANDA-

THE NEW WEAPON OF WAR

it will have 15 or 16 exclusive wavelengths..

T Montreux it has been AT

suggested that Britain sitould give up two wavelengths. Italy, it is suggested, should ob tain two new waves, to bring the total to six "exclusives."

sleep listening to Moscow in a West German town. Ho left the window open. He was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for preparation of high treason.

Peoplo in Czecho-Slovakia were not allowed to invite friends to listen to the German stations. Some people once believed that radio would be the great link of friendship between nations. The It is to be hoped that the Bri- motto of the B.B.C. used to be tish delegates will make a firm "And nation shall speak peace

an instrument of

her. They were the first to stand in view of the vast politi- unto nation." But broadcasting In this manner broadcasting, brave the dangers of "enemy" cal importance of international has become as used by Germany, has become country. They entered Karls broadcasting. For if Britain war. the maid-servant of that new bad long before the protective only has three waves we cannot method of "peaceful" penetra- troops had arrived. They even make ourselves heard beyond tion which leads to unresisted met some Czech soldiers. But our frontiers. armed invasion.

Radio propaganda is like the

nobody molested them.

WHAT of broadcasting They became courageous, at the B.B.C. must first consider allow people to listen to foreign Sir Stephen Tallents says that

in wartime? Will we

tions they do hear.

have been stolen by unauthorised attempts to hypnotise its vic- cards to their friends. When listeners. This may be, because stations be destroyed long before thirty tases in which motor cars fascinating eye of a serpent that down and quickly scribbled post- the local requirements of British or we stations? Wil our persons for "joy-riding purposes. tim until it allows itself to be the troops arrived and later the we do not wish to acquire neigh- the end?

Fuchrer, their microphones and bouring countries. But we must swallowed without resistance.

loudspeakers were all prepared. be able to hear our voice, other already solved the problem: One country in Europe has Without the help of broad- But the Czechs had cut the casting and its systematic work cables. So they recorded the wise they will believe the sta- Wireless sets will be made use- of preparation, aided by well- victorious taking of Karlsbad on

less for ether reception. They organised, enthusiastic listeners, records and sent them by air to This may sound technical and will be linked to the telephone it would not be so easy to march a neighbouring German town yet it is highly important that system. Those that have into a neighbour's country. from where they were passed on we should enable people living in telephone will gather in rooms phones great masses of people Without loudspeakers and micro- to cables and broadcast.

those countries where Press and and halls, and on street-corners radio are controlled to hear the where loudspeakers have al- could not be told to keep quiet.

truth about Britain and the Bri ready been installed. tish people. We must fight

Only in a few instances have the eulprits been apprehended and, de- spite Trame Department pleas for heavy punishment, these have been released by the Magistrate upon payments of absurdly small fines. In the majority of cases, people who take these cars without the permission are unlicensed drivers who hardly know how to start a vehicle, let alone drive one. They not only commit a larceny: they also endanger the lives of pedestrians and passengers of other vehicles by wildly careening down the streets. There was a recent case in which a young an who smashed a "hor-

the

WITH the fall of Czech against the impression dis- Slovakia, Germany seminated by certain stations

CERMANY has recently becomes the most powerful that we are blood-thirsty Arab- developed an entirely broadcasting country in Europe. killers; that we are all Jews and

Edgar Weir

rowed" car was fined a ridiculous new system of expansion. After Until then Germany had 34 Freemasons, Bolsheviks and "de- A Look Through

sum even after it had been shown in court that he had driven the vehicle in a hopelessly inebriated condition,

Democracies, say the German

The Telegraph'

50-YEARS AGO

May 3, 1889,

no

shall only attend on adults of their own been settled in Russia in the afirma

a period of "build-up" to win the broadcasting stations. It has mocrats." confidence of foreign listeners, now added the Czech stations. they are gradually treated to Two of these are super-power radio stations, are weak; they The usual charge against a car-

more and more propaganda de- stations: Prague and Melnik. are struggling against the on- thief is "driving without the owner's scribing the beauties of Ger- Germany, with 41 stations now, slaughts of inner unrest and dis- permission." It should be larceny, many and how smoothly every will be able to swamp the Euro-content. Roosevelt is on the und should-carry a penalty that does not provide for the alternative of a thing work there. Then they pean ether with its programmes. edge of ruin, Great Britain's Em- fine. A man who possesses a motor- are told of the terrible conditions car has as much right to respect for in other countries, including Government conference of Euro- typical remarks that may be Even now, at Montreux, a pire is falling to bits. These are his property as a man who owns & their own. They are taught to pean countries has gathered to heard in the ether these days. fountain pen. Yet the penalties for taking the latter without the owner's be discontented with their own permission ure tenfold more severe Governments. They are

prepare a new wave plan. A Italian stations are pro- than those for taking a car. The mised mountains of gold and wave plan is the arrangement aggressive. Hungary has mis- Spain, Italy, Sweden and Norway, the

no less according to which broadcasting used its broadcasting system to Uruguay, Japan and Hawall have ze are sooner or later abandoned and good things. recovered by the owners; that the

stations agree not to interfere gull the Slovaks. Russia, which septed invitations to participate in the Insurance companies pay for any Finally, the broadcasts

take with each other. To be able to has very powerful stations, is tion of plans for securing greater damage. Those excuses should not on an aggressive tone. They broadcast you must have a clear well received in Germany. Yet safety at sea. be considered. In many of the cases become less truthful. What the wavelength of your own. These its news is not concise enough,

excuse may be made that stolen.cars

the cars arc

abandoned for the

The question of female physictons has

tive, with the stipulation that ladian

sex and on children of both sexes.

Great Britain, France, Germany," Netherlands, Denmark, Brazil, Chile,

International conferences for the adop

·

simple reason that there is no means Germans call "Hetzpropaganda," waves are called exclusive.

An enterprising American_ reporter of taking them out of the Colony, and "Atrocity Propaganda," and

nor quick. Germans are forbid-whe bed stationed himself on Broadway, That excuse will disappear when of which they accuse the foreign

Britain has five "exclusive" den to listen to Russian stations, New York, noted that among a hundred Kwanglung returns to normal and

which means and their names do not appear carded the bustle, 24 wore it in modern waves just now,

well-draand women, 15 had totally dis- sise, 28 is greatly reduced proportions. on five channels. Germany has many.

the new highway allows vehicular Press and radio, is used with that it can reach out to Europe on the dials of sets sold in Ger-

traffle, Colony-bound throughout our great effect by their own sta- history, to proceed Into the interior. tions. The second excuse means that the loss has simply been transferred from the owner of the car to the, shareholders in an insurance com- pany. Naturally, the latter passes on its losses to car-owners in the form of increased premiums.

Traffic Noise

THE ANNUAL REPORT of the

QU

UITE recently German Broadcasting played

an important part in the "libera- tion of Slovakia." Without radio the country-wide appeals Hongkong General Chamber of from Vienna would have been Commerce has an interesting section impossible, 18 the frontiers on the subject of Traffle Noises.

It reveals that the Commissioner would have been closed.. Slovakia

of Police last your suggested that was without the technical means the Chamber obtain the views of the of making Vienna inaudible. Hongkong Automobile Association on

the question of a 24-hour silent zone

On January 1, the German

In the city area bounded by Jackson Minister of Propagando, Dr. Road, Queen's Road Central. Paltin- ger Street and Connaught Road Joseph Goebbels, granted the Central. The suggestion was velocd German Broadcasting Company by the Automobile Association on the the right to use ns title and for grounds that the imposition of a "silent zone" would be fraught with announcements: "Tho Great

too much danger unless legislation German Broadcasting." This was introduced whereby pedestrians title was given as a sign of re- were afforded the means of crossing cognition for the preparatory the roads in safety at regular in- terval

work done by the German sta- tions in the periods prior to the

With this we ogree. But the cause

of most of Hongkong's traffic nolso annexation of Austria and.

has nothing to do with pedestrians. Czecho-Slovakin,

It is crused by an unfortunate trait

in certain classes of Chiriese-and,

And truly, the German radio

for that matter, in Europeans women did great things Inst Octo-. who regari noise ta a pleasurable sensation. The remedy is either to

prohibit the use of electrie horns, or of a certain number of decibols were as is done in most parts of the condemned; and if, at the same time, world-to enforce examination by unnecessary sounding of horn wha the Police of noise-producing de penalised to the extent that the vices. The Hongkong traffic reguli licence of the driver or. In peralatent tions already provide that car, horna shall be subject to the approval of cance of the vehlele elf, could be the Commissioner of Police, but it revoked, the problem would quickly. appears to be a dead-leiter regua and

tion. It car horns were subject to As it is, Hongkong is probably one regular examination and tests, and of the nollest modern cities li the those which created noises in excess world.

12 and, with the Czech stations, There was a man who went to

GRIN AND BEAR IT

DIVORCE

OURTH

By Lichty

"This is the last law work you do for me not only do get nicked for alimony but the judge awards me custody,

of my mother-in-lawi”.

and 10 sported the glant aixe. Hat the observer was thrown out of his bear, Ings when he found that in the case of five-and-twenty damsels he was unable to decide whether it was bustle or girl.

25 YEARS AGO

May 3, 1914. Vill, the one-time bandit will be the next President of Mexico. That is bis ambillon, and, despite all reports on the contrary, it will remain his ambition until he withers, is dead or President.— iffa died.-Ed.).

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The now skirts are out wider at the hips, at topar at the ankles, then faring out below except in the case of the short gowns. And we wro to so many of the short skirts this summer, In contrast to the ground-sweeping models of the present.

One new skirt model, which 'several of the landing dress-makers have been attempting to force to the front, has AN. effect which, at a distance, resembles a fah's tail. Below the knees the skirt narrows rapidly to the ankles, when suddenly flares out in small ruffles and plalts.

10 YEARS AGO

May 8, 1020. Incited by Communist agitators who have been activa' for days, a buge mob indulged in serious rioting in Berlin this evening, as the result of which aix persons were killed, Including thres polico amicors, and Over BO wore wounded..

The "Kausing ** stands condamned, with ametal sanction, as the whitest of white elephants, incapable of carrying out the duties for which she was bulit at a cost to the Calony of a quarter of a million dollars. (The Kausing was wrecked in the 1937 typhoon, Govern- mont is now constructing new light- house tender-Ed.).

5 YEARS AGO

**

∙Kay` 2, 1934, Violent disturbances, broke out in the working class distit of Paris at mid... night, when May Day Compostestors, after a day of comparative inactivity, attacked taxi-cab drivors taking out. I their ears for theṛnight service.