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OWOO! THEY GOT ME!!

VISIT TO SPITSBERGEN

Instructive Address To

To Rotary

Club By

Prof.

A treeless but green and fertile land in the summer months where good health abounds and the hospitals once built for the sick by early settlers have become derelict for want of patients, was the impression of Spitsbergen gathered from an instructive address given to Hongkong Rotarians yesterday by Rotarian W. Brown, of the Hongkong University, at the weekly meeting of the Itotary Club.

Though far to the north of Iceland and only a few hundred miles from the North Pole, Spitsbergen contains much animai

now becoming and plant life, said Prof. Brown. It is Important aeronautical statlon besides being rich in mineral wealth.

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we did not feel at all cold. It was rather pleasant to be playing deck- tennis, bare-headed, in Lat. 76* North!

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that drove fleets of The Royal Navy and Other Raymond): There's A Smile In Tho tiny ice-bergs our path, and made us cut sharply to the west in search of open water. Dut even storm-clouds have merits, and now the midnight sun, sagging low in the northern sky, had! miles into the loose array of driftinga Jurld splendour which it lacked in pancakes, and many of us would have the serenity of the preceding nights, greatly enjoyed the experience. But! But enough of personal reminis Capt. Miles, with the welfare of 600

cencest And now, with your per souls to account for, would take no mission, a few remarks of a more chances, and we had to be content general character, on the geography with a cruise along the fringe of the and the history of Spitzbergen. ice-field.

their A REQUEST PROGRAMME The Heavens To You; Hear My Song

the

Skies; Oh Lassic Come (Old German Folk Song)....Grete Natzler (Vocal) with Chorus and Orchestra; I'd Bring

Triango. ・・・

Emil Roosz and Rodio Programme Broadcast by His

Ich Lass Mir Meinen Schwarz Bepinaclr-Fox- ZBW on a Frequency of 045 k.c's. Korper

Willy Fritsch (Vocal) with and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Trot.. ond 0-11 p.m. on 9.52 m.c's, per Orchestra; Leben Ohne Liebe-Wallz Lillan Harvey (Vocal) with Or- second.

chestra; Sweethearts (from the flim)

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12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of Intercession from St. John's Cathe...Primo Seala's Accordion Band. The whole archipelago of Spitzber-dral. gen has a total area of 25,000 sq. 12.30 Harry Roy, Ils Tiger Ragn-| miles, or, if comparisons are helpful muffins and His Orchestra about the same

Scotland,

as

Ceylon, or Tasmania.

and

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6.14 Record: Kunz Revivals No. 2; Intro: I never realised; Birth of the Blues; Pink Elephants; Rose in the Bud; Speak to me of Love; Someday find you......Charlie Kunz (Plano),

0.21 (a) Hello, My Darling; (b) p

Sailing at Midnight; (d) Madhouse.

6.35 Records: Little Village Green What goes on here in my Heart; (c) (Hinckforth, Strecker); Lucin (Lis- Rap Tap On Wood (Porter) bona, Bixio)....The Vagabond Lover.

Corom To Dance")....F

..Frances

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10 to 20 years younger, or you merely

It Pays

to Advertise

in the "Post" and the

It seemed an excess of caution, but

1.40 Compositions of Elgar, Justification for it was the re

Prelude "The Kingdom," Op. 31.. flection that the ideal weather we

It Don't Mean A Thing; Happy

1 ..The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra were enjoying might suddenly change.

Feet; Everybody Loves My Baby; One of the ship's officers told me that A fact of vital importance to the Got Rhythm; Memories of You; Rain; cond. by The Composer: La Capri- in a previous summer two cruise-

Life of Western Europe is that be- Goodbye Blues...Harry Roy and His clense, Op. 17.... Bronislaw Eluber-

and Scandinavia

Dr. Nixon'n Vi-Tabs must make you ships, one British and one German, tween Greenland

"Crown Of India" feet full of vigour and energy and from Fox-Trot:

Diddle-Dum-Do-Quick at the Piano; reached the ice-field at the same time there is what the geographers call a Tiger-Ragamuffins: Goody-Goodyman (Violin) with Siegfried Schultze

The prevailing step.

return the empty package and get your step....Harry Roy and His Orches- Suite, Op. 66. London Symphony Major R. D. aliter, who presided the skun gulls, and, very especially, and place, under clear skies and over "Gulf of warmth."

winds

money back. A speclaí, double-strength carry currents ocean

2.15 Clone down.

bottle of 48 Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabs coste Introduced Roturian V. E. Ferrier, of the aretle teens. Presumably there the smoothest of seas.

The British1 ship halted on the equable conditions far into the Folar tra; Sonny Boy (De Sylva-Hender- Orchestra cond. by The Compuser.

Ida, Sweet As Apple the son); Ida,

Tiger-

0.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestra lttle, and the guarantee protects you Canton, and Messrs. J. R. Higgs, were neats somewhere on the sodden

The German

man ship went on, rezlons. Thus Hammerfest in fringe. Percy Chen and H. P. Rox, of Hong-ground over which we trudged,

Have from the Roof Garden of the long your chewist cau't supply you, write to Muller & Phipps (China), - Ltd., though none were visible,

miles. Then it Rotarian Brown sald: In the sum terns few round our head for the penetraling the delft-lee for several north of Norway, 300 miles north of Leopard)....Harry Roy's

Smooth Salling-Fox-Trot; He Wooed Kong Hotel. it stopped, the band the Arctic Circle, is an open portali Ragamuffins; We're Gonna

(a) Deep Purple; (b) Row, Row, 20, Queen's Road, Hongkong. mer of 1036, when I was home on ing deflunce, using the most indecent played "Deutschland uber Alles," and the year round. Contrast with, say, fer, And Wooed Her, And Wooed leave. I trented myself to a holiday bird-biasphemy you ever heard, and the rest of the arctic night was spent Vindivostock which though in the Her-Comedy Waltz... Harry Roy your Boat; (c) Thunks for everything;

Fata. (Byron (d) Christopher Columbus. Jan viciously attacking any whose heads in song and dance. But while the latitude of the Riviera, is kept open and His Orchestra; cruise that included Iceland,

on merriment went

the Cape, were not well-protected.

weather during the winter months only, by

Gay)....Harry, Roy's Tiger-Ragn- Mayen, Spitzbergen, North

the persistent use of ice-breakers. dozen passengers came changed. At least n

we muffins. and the Norwegian Fiords. On June

A breeze sprang up; the ice-floes!

Spitzbergen should naturally-it

10 Time and Weather. 20, 1927, i.c. almost exils Llub, a talk or races. As most of us and no wen- jammed against one another and be go by latitude only-be smothe

exactly two years back to the ship with bleeding scalps

smothered

1.03 Grete Natzler, Willy Frisch ago, I inflicted upon on "Iceland," which sonic of you may pons other than cameras or field-came one continuous sheet; fog came eternal ice. But during most sum-

and Others. possibly recall. To-day my theme la glasses we could not effectively re-down; and the cruise-ship was a primers its southers and western coasts and Emil Roosz and His Orchestra

lec-free, and pleasura are entirely

Viennese Hearts Waltz....Emil the still more remote land of Spitstallate, and adopted perforce a policy soner behind five miles of solid ice. are

of non-intervention.

I stayed there a fortnight, in faci cruises con rench to within 600 miles

-Polka.....Walter Porsch. I saw with my own eyes It is claimed for these aretic terns until rescued by a Soviet ice-breaker, of the Pole. No other region of the Roosz and His Orchestra: The Hob-

World in such s high latitude is so gobling there might well provide material that they migrate annually all the By that time food supplies were run-

as Spitzbergen. But a mann (Accordion) with Orchestra: of the usual twenty way

Arelle 10 for a talk

the ning short, and the beer had long accessible the from

being the minutes, or even much longer, but of Anarctic-this

place may be accessible without at Marching Along (Grey-Muy): I Lost only been finished! Our

turning-point was given as Lattracting visitors. And it should be My Heart In Heidelberg (Pepper- course the significent facts about any way in which they can satisfy both country are not to be gathered in a their love of cold (within limits) and 80*14'N. Long. 10*13', distance of interest to indicate how and why

n "West Indian" Islands, and. Ameri-Lungford with Jimmy Dorsey and therefore hatred

they from North Pole 500 miles. From this remote archipelago came within of darkness. How lightning raid. I shall

His Orch. can Indian people. mention my own experiences merely manage to make the journey passes that remote spot, nearly off the map, the ken of mariners, and traders:

To understand this fully we must

Other Routes To Far East but that they do I had the satisfaction of sending a

6.44 (a) Song of the Islands; (b) by way of introduction, and this wall-

my Imagination,

The new trade with the East, via On the Beach at Waikiki; (c) Hawal- map may serve to indicate the route make it is stated to be within the greeting to the members of this Club Indulge in a big digression, and go

It duly appeared in the Bulletin dated back in thought a thousand or even South Africa, remained for long alan Memories; (d) Don't say Aloha. followed, which was from Edinburgh realm of ascertained fact.

two we sailed still September 18, 1030.

thousand years. In classical

7.0 Closing local Stock Quotations. virtual monopoly of the Portuguese, From King's Bay to Iceland and on to Spitsbergen.

7.02 On our return voyage

Marek Weber and IIls Or- and it was to break this monopoly we again times there was undoubtedly further north, in the exquisite beauty

western trade between the Far East and the that, in the end of the 18th century, chestra." of the

northern twilight, past many a cruised along the rugged

Delight-March-Inter- Spring's and on the Fur West. Chinese silks, and works There are no trees in Spitsbergen, gleaming glacier and glittering ice-coast of Spitzbergen,

Menuett No. 1 (About); Dutchmen and Englishunen determined mezzo entered of art, reached the palaces of the and the beginning of the 17th -unless you use terms very freely cliff, until we had left Spitsbergen afternoon of called Ice Fiord, and Caesars. But in their vast journey |

Blumenlied, Op. 30 (Lange, arr. and apply the word tree to the creep- { altogether, and no more land lay turned into the small arm of it known they passed through many hands, an to And still other routes to the Far (Paderewski); Coeur Brise (Gillet);

Hence came those vain searches for

Blothgen);

Waitz (Lincke); ing arctic willow, which never rises tween us and the North-Pole. Had six inches above the ground. But the polar seas been open water we as Green Harbour. This place really no single trader knew much besides

Of Sumatra (Jessel): we found flowers in surprising abund- might have reached the North Pole was green, Hardly a trace of snow his own link in the long economica "North West Passage" over the top The Colles

and the fore- chain.

of America, and for a "North East The Caravan (Characteristic Sketch Itself in 35 or 40 hours of easy steam on the hill-tops. ance: buttercups, saxifrages, cam- Itse

Not till the 13th Century of our et Passage over the top of Asia. In Bayer, arr. Leopold); Faithful un which horses and cattle were did travel between the extremities

1506 n plons, nrctic popples, and odd spe- ing. But there's the rub. The Arctleground consisted of coarse meadows

Dutch flotilla, under the Jumping Jack (Heykens); Standchen Pilled forms of brilliant hugs for Ocean is not open. It is a frozen po grazing. These animals belonged to the Eurasian Continent become fes illustrious

explorer

Barents, came (Heykens); of salt water, and about 11 p.m., we which I, being no botanist. had no

the mining company, for Green sible for the ordinary merchant upon the western coasts of Spitzber came to a halt on the edge of the Harbour is one of Spitsbergen's prin- This resulted strangely and merely as gen, and gave the new land his name, Dog. names.

ન In some of the inland valleys, be- mighty barrier.

Mountains." which means "Spiky n issue, and very strangely, from Sen, and yond the compass of our flying No towering lee-bergs here, for cipal coal-ports, The

trip.

to the shore, and are the spread of the Mongolian Empire,

In 1607, the equally famous English- worked by Russians. We did not there are real meadows, with grasses such have their birth only on land, quite close

man, Henry Hudson, whose name is! endless array of flat floes Wo just an but and sedges and flowers in abundance.

crid their immediate Fuccessor preserved in Hudson Bay und of frozen

sea-water. Most of the and here, but we were close enough under Jenghis Khan, Kublai Khan. The botanical survey Spitsbergen

Grent trunk roads were built

Hudson River, discovered Spitzbergen sported bore the hammer and sickle, has been rather fully done, and over pieces we gazed on under the ample to the pler to see that the fing 130 species of dowering plants have light of the mid-night sun were only and a poster nearby bore the an end to end of the brutal but efficient afresh when trying to reach Chino empire, and on them swift Govern- via the North Pole How often have besides several hun- a few square yards in area and look-mistakable likeness of Stalin." been recorded, dred

ed Innocent enough. of species

looking not The weather remained serene and ment patroly kept the bandils moss and lichen.

for! Among the Ice-Flees You will be less surprised to hear

friendly, and the scenery, like the check, and gave protection to all who explorers found what they

Hudson came back without trac- A stoutly-build vessel, such as our Aips at Sen-level, was most fascinat-went to and feo on

the Far that bird fe is abundant. Few of

occasions.

Ing a new trade-route to still, us who landed at King's Bay that day good slip "Atlantis," could withouting. So long as the air was

East, but he reported that the Fur are likely to forget the sandpipers, difficulty or danger penetrate many and the sun shone from a clear sky.

During a wonderful century from North was of great economic value (Lloyd); Songs Of The Sea (arr about 1150 to 1250 A.D. overland in an unexpected way.

Terry); Intro: Whlsky Johnny: Sally communications became easy and re- The Rular, and interchange of commodities archipelago supported vast numbers Brown: Let the Bulgine Run: Blow

considerable greatly increased. A

of reindeer, arctic foxes, and polat My Bully Boys; Billy Boy; Johnny Aumber

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Down; Rio Grande....cond, by C. T. more than the few recorded in out with cod-fish, seals, walrus, histories-made the long pilgrimage whales. In the next century and a Lee, R.N.

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9.0 London Relay-Empire Ex- glamour of the Enst."

wegian Sovereignty, mainly for the

over change. But with the decay of the Mongo- purpose of ensuring control

Points of view by travellers from. Han power, and then the spread of those who, for private proft, would the Turks into Asia Minor, the old reduce the region to complete steri- the Dominions and Colonies.

9.15 Lendon Relay-The News, trade

routes

both overland and Illy.

0.30 Mark Hambourg at the Plano, "It was Hudson and his immediate oversens were closed again, and by

On Wings Of Song (Mendelssohn); (Liszt); Au Bord Rakoczy March D'Une Source (Liszt); hopsody No:

In C Major (Dolinanyi),

1450 the lucrative. Eastern trade of successors who introduced Into Spitz- Venice and Genoa was threatened bergen many of the familiar place- I have with extinction. The great voyages nomes King's Bay, which of discovery that began towards the mentioned, was named after James end of the 15th Century, and went on & VI; and Prince Charles Foreland, till the beginning of the 17th, were (which still retains that name though inspired, not alone by thirst for new later proved to be an island) was so knowledge, but by the more prosaic styled in honour of the Infant Prince or, if you will, more practical alm of who, as King Charles I, was to lose recovering the lost trade with India, his head on the seafold.

Selentiilo Interest Malaya, and China.

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9.50 ̃A Request Programme (Clas

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with

Orchestru:

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South its geology, its matural history and Mischa Levitzki (picall

La

"The Barber Of Seville"-Overture (Rossini)...Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York cond. by Arturo Toscanini; Ave Maria (Gebet) The great mass of Africa, hitherto During the 18th & 19th centuries, known is Europe only by its northern interest in the Polar Regions gradual-Aus "Otello" (Verdi)....Tlona Lem-

nitz (Soprano) edges, was regarded merely as ly changed from economic to scienti Staccato. Elude

(Rubins great and apparentlyccount by fc. Many expeditions were en Camp

off peninsula that sca with Asia. When at length north to survey the region, to study Campanella Bartolomeo Dinz Founded

Donna Ε Africa in 1480, King John of Portugal also to find, if possible, a route to the Armenia (Tosen

Mobile ("Algoletto-Verdi) dubbed the turning-point the Caps North Pole. Itself.

Bjorling (Tenor) with Ore Violin and Plano of Good Hope, ie the Cape of

of two British naval

Tril') ('Devil's (Tartini-Kreislerno Great Expectations of Commercial consisting of

vessels, was despatched in 1773, Yehudi Menuhin (Violin) with Plano Developments,

the mklahipmen was Horatio And when, eleven years later

Nelsor

and R vaa on one of the necomp. by Arthur Balgam; Polonaise

No, 6 In

In A Flat Vasco da Gama led the Art Cape, smaller felands of the Spitzbergen (Chopin) Arthur expedition to India, via the archipelago that the

Iral (Piano); Within

JUEN! One rather Interesting expedition,chestra; Sonata For

Major,

Sacred

52

and made 700 per cent. profit on his then a fool-hardy of 14 2 Flute-MOARE

horo. Poor old

invested capital, he was halled on years, had an adventure with a polar Andresan

(Bass) with his return as West in 1492 to per

that nearly brought his great Serenade Eino Columbus, heading reach the back door of Asia, bumped career to a very premature end. Into a new Continent, but never know

426 (Mozart)...

So you see, all in all, Spitzbergen monic Orchestra cond, by Bruno

to his dying day that he had done has bad rather a long and fairly Waller; Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

history. Following the so. When be found dark-skinned eventful people la the new lands He firmly lengthy chain of cause and set (Bach, arr. St. Hugh Allen) *** Choir Of The Temples Church, Lon belloved he was on the Eastern den might say, without merely being face don, cond. by G. Thalben-Ball with Board of India; and hence arose, and fous tnt one reason why I went to Oboe obbligato by Leon Goossens.

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