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June 7, 1939.

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World Riges Beard

TO SPITSBERGEN

Instructive

Address To Rotary Club By Prof. Brown

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

Though far to the north of Iceland and only a few hundred miles from the North Pole, Spitsbergen contains much animal now becoming an and plant life, said Prof. Brown. It is important acronautical station' besides being rich in wealth.

mineral

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

The Midnight Sun

★

78°

But next day how different! Tum- bling seas,

A wind like

and

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Skies; Oh Lassie Come (Old German Folk Song)....Grete Natzler (Vocal)

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London Relays

Gland Discovery Restores Youth In 24 Hours

with Chorus and Orchestra; I'd Bring Bufferers from low of vigour, hor But even storm-clouds have their A REQUEST PROGRAMME The Heavens To You; Hear My Songousness, weak body, impure blood, Violetta-Tango....Emil Hoosz and falling memory, and who are old and nierits, and now the midnight sun,

Radio Programme Broadcast by His Orchestra; ich Loss Mr Meinen worn-out before their Ume, will be sagging low in the northern sky, had

Schwarz Bepinseln Fox delighted to learn of a now giahu dia-

covery by an Amerlenn Doctor. filly Fritsch (Vocal) with This new discovery makes it possible to quickly and easily reatoro vigour to

the

,miles into the loose array of drifting) a lurid splendour which it locked in 2BW on a Frequency of 845 k.c's. Korpu willy, no Liebe Walk your glanda and body, to build rich. But enough of personal reminis- and 8-11 p.m.. on 0.52 m.c's. peri Orchestra Harvey (Vocal) with Or-1 pure blood, to strengthen your mind

or

your per- second.

Leben

Ohne

Lillan chestra; Sweethearts (from the film) ....Primo Seala's Accordion Band.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Wea- ther and Announcements.

and memory and feel like a new man In only 8 days. In fact, this discovery which in a home medicine in pleasant, Dory-to-taka tablot form, does away with gland operations and begin to build new viccur and energy in 20 hours, yet is absolutely harmless and Datural in action.

The success of this omnaing discov

were enjoying might suddenly change. | Cey fact of vital Importance to the Got Rhythm; Memories of You; Rain; cond. by The Composer: La Capri been no krent in America that It In now

on

on the

on,

A

2 Thus Hammerfest

sum-

pleasure 000 miles

mumas.

the stil more remote land of Spits-talinte, and adopted perforee a policy wed by a Soviet ice-breaker. of the Pole. No other region of the Roosz and His Orchestra; The Hob- What goes on here in my Heart: (e):

bergen.

of non-intervention.

It

y called Dr. Nizon's Vi-Tabe has being distributed by all chemiata here under a guarantee of completa satis faction or money back. In other words, Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabs inust make you feel full of vigour and energy and from 10 to 20 years younger, or you merely return the empty paekaga and set your money back. A special, double-strength bottle of 48 Dr. Nixon's Vi-Tabs coats

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serenity of the preceding nights. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 p.m. Trot. pancakes, and many of us would have greatly enjoyed the experience. But Capt. Miles, with the welfare of 400 cences! And now, with

of a more II.K.T. Bouls to account for, would take no mission, n few remarks

12.0-12.20 p.m. Relay of Service of chances, and we had to be content rene

the history of Spitzbergen. and

Intercession from St. John's Cathe a cruise along the fringe of the general character, on the geography with icc-field.

The whole archipelago of Spitzber- drut.

12.30 Harry Roy, His Tiger Raga-1

1.40 Compositions of Elgar, It seemed an excess of caution, but gen has a total area of 25,000 sq.

Prelude "The Kingdom," Op. 51.. the justification for it was the re miles, or, if comparisons are helpful muffins and His Orchestra

DS Scotland, 05 ideal weather we about the same

It Don't Mean A Thing; Happy Bection that the

Tasmania.

Feet: Everybody Loves My Baby; I..The B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra One of the ship's officers told me that two cruise-

life

Blues...Ilarry Roy and His ciense, Op. 17. Bronislaw Huber of Western Europe is that be-

man (Violin) with Siegfried Schultze In a previous summer

Scandinavia muffins; Goody-Goody-

the Plano; "Crown Of India" ships, one Brilish and one German, tween Greenland and

Diddle-Dum-De-Quick-nt Fox-Trot

.London Symphony reached the lee-Deld at the same time there is what the geographers call

The prevailing step....Harry Roy and His. Orches" Orchestra cond, by The Compuser.

Suite, Op. 40.. winds and оссал currents carry

tra; Sonny Boy (De Sylva-Hender-

2.15 Close down. Major R. D. Walker, who presided, the skua gulls, and, very especially, and place, under clear skies and over "Gulf of warmth."

conditions fur into the Polar san) Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider 6.0 Relay of the Dance Orchestrattle, and the guarantee protects you Introduced Rotarian V. E. Ferrier, of the arctic terus, Presumably there the smoothest of seas,

The British ship bulted

in the

the (Leonard).. Citon.

1)....Harry Roy's Tiger- and Messrs. J. R. Higgs, were nests somewhere on the sodden

we trudged, fringe. The German ship went which

lo Muller & Phipps (China), Ltd., We're Gonna Have from the Root Garden of the long If your chemist, can't supply you, write Percy Chen and H. P. Rox, of Hong-ground over

though none were visible for the penetrating the drift-ice for several north of Norway, 300 miles north of muffins,

(a) Deep Purple; (b) Row, Row, 20, Queen's Road, Hongkong. kong

Rotarian Brown said: In the sun-terns flew round our heads, scream- miles. Then it stopped, the land the Arctic Circle, is an open port all Smooth Sailing-FOX-Trot; He Woord Kong Hotel.

though in the Her-Comedy Wallz....Harry Roy your Boat; (c) Thanks for everything; mer of 1936, when I was home on in defiance, using the most indecent played "Deutschland uber Alles," and the year round. Contrast with, say, Her, And Woord Her, And Wooed

6.14 Record: Kunz Revivals No. 2:| cong and dance. But while the latitude of the Riviera, is kept open and His Orchestra; Fate (Byron (d) Christopher Columbus. Teave. I treated myself to a holiday bird-blasphemy you ever heard, and the rest of the arctic night was spent Vladivostock which

the winter months only by Gay)....Harry weather during the the

Roy's Tiger-Raga- Jun viciously attacking any whose heads in cruise that included Iceland,

merriment went

Intro: I never realised; Birth of the Mayen,

North Cape,

the persistent use of ice-breakers. Spitzbergen

were not well-protected,

Blues; Pink Elephants; Rose in the At least a dozen passengers came changed. and the Norwegian Fiords. On June

3.0 Time and Weather. Spitzbergen should naturally-it we A breeze sprang up; the ice-floes th bleeding scalps with

1.03 Grete Natzler, Willy Frisch Bud: Speak to me of Love: Someday find you......Charlie Kunz 20, 1927, i.c. almost exactly two years back to the ship ago. I infileted upon this Club a talk or faces. As most of us had no wen-jemmed against one another and be-go by latitude only-be smothered in

cameras or field-came one continuous sheet; fog come eternal leg. But during most

(Piano). and Others.

0.21 (a) Hello, My Darling; (b) on "Iceland," which some of you may pons other than

Viennese Hearts Woltz....Emil possibly recull. To-day my theme is ginsses we could not effectively re-down; and the cruise-ship was a pri- mers its southern and western coasts and Emil Hoose and Ills Orchestra

soner behind five miles of solid ice. are entirely lec-free, and there a fortnight, in fact cruises can reach to within

Polka.....Walter Porsch-Sulling at Midnight; (d) Madhouse. until ou

goblins rescued

6.35 Records: Little Village Green What I saw with niy own eyes It is claimed for these aretie terns there might well provide material that they migrate annually all the By that time food supplies were run-world in such a high latitude is sn

short, and the beer had long thening

ong accessible us Spitzbergen. Bul amann (Accordion) with Orchestra; Arctic to from the talk of the usual twenty way for a

place may be accessible without at Marching Along (Grey-May); I Lost (Hackforth, Strecker): Lucia (Lis- being the

only been finished!

(Tenor): Rap Top On Wood (Porter) minutes, or even much longer, but of Anarelle-this

Our turning-point was given as Lattracting visitors. And it should be My Heart In Heidelberg (Pepper- bona. Bixio)....The Vagabond Lover (From "Born To Dance")....Frances 10 13', distance of interest to indicate how and why course the significent facis about any way in which they enn satisfy both country are not to be gathered in their love of cold (within limits) and 80 14 N., Long.

they from North Pole 580 miles. From this remote archipelago came within as "West Indian" Islands, and Ameri- Langford with Jimmy Dorsey and therefore hatred

How darkness. of

His Orch. of mariners and traders. the ken lightning raid. I shall

Other Routes To Far East

0.44 (a) Song of the Islands; (b) To understand this fully we mustcan Indian people. mention my own expericuces merely manage to make the journey passes that remote spot, nearly off the map,

digression, and go The new trade with the East, via On the Beach at Walki; (c) Hawal- by way of introduction, and this wall-my imagination, but that they do had the satisfaction of sending a

It duly appeared in the Bulletin dated back in thought a

In classical

7.0 Closing local Stock Quotations. monopoly of the Portuguese, virtual followed, which was from Edinburgh realm of ascertained fact.

we sailed stil September 18, 1936. From King's Bay

soms and it was to break this monopoly 7.02 Marek Weber and His Or- to Iceland and on to Spitsbergen.

On our return voyage we again times there was undoubtedly further north, in the exquisite beauty

the rugged western trade between the Far East and th: that, in the end of the 16th century, chestra.

Delight-March-Inter- No Trees

Spring's of the northern twilight, many a cruisex along

and on the Far West. Chinese slks, and works and the beginning of the 17th,

mezzo {Allbout); Menuett No. 1 entered of art, reached the painces of the Dutchmen and Englishmen determines There are no trees in Spitsbergen, gleaming glacier and glittering ice-coust of Spitzbergen,

aderewskl); Coeur Brise (Gillet); }

Op. 30 (Lange, arr. ee: -unicas you use terms very freely cliff, until we had left Spitsbergen ufternoon of August 4 we and apply the word tree to the creep- altogether, and no more land Iny be the vast inlet called Ice Flord, and Caesars. But in their vast journey to find still other routes to the Far

Hence came those vain searches for Blothten); Luna Waltz (Lincke); Of Sumatra (Jessel): ing uretic willow, which never rises tween us and the North-Pole. Had turned into the small arm of it known they passed through many hands, and

Hardly a trace of snow his own link in the long economie a "North West Passage" over the top The Coolles six inches above the ground. But the polar seas been open water we as Green Harbour. This place really no single trader know much besides

of America, and for a "North East The Caravan (Characteristice Sketch hill-tops, and the fore-chain.

Leopold); Faithful Not till the 13th Century of our era Passage" over the top of Asia. In Bayer, arr. we found flowers in surprising abund- might have reached the North Pole was green.

cam-self in 35 or 40 hours of easy steam- on the ance: buttercups, saxifrages,

But there's the rub. The Arctic ground consisted of course meadows

Dutch flotilla, under Ing.

the Jumping Jack (Heykens); Standchen THE MOST WIDELY on which horses and cattle were did travel between the extremities of 1598 a ptons, aretle poppies, and odd spe- cialised forms of brilliant huks for Ocean is not

open. It is in frozen one grazing. These animals belonged to the Eurasian Continent become fea illustrious explorer Barents, came (Heykens).

merchant upon

Spitzber- the western coasts of

7.30 London Relay-At The Black halt on the edge of the Harbour is one of Spitsbergen's prin- This resulted strangely

Mountains."

Mr. Wilkes at home in his own bar- means side are a Issue, and very strangely, from which

"Spiky In some of the inland valleys, be mighty barrier.

In 1607, the equally famous English parlour, yond the compass of our dying trip,

No towering ice-bergs here, for cipal coal-ports. The nines

dil

8.0 not

Time, Weather and Announce- worked by Russians. We

under Jenghis Khun, Kublai Khan...

man, Henry Hudson, whose name is and the there are real meadows, with grasses such have their birth only on land, quite close to the shore, and are the spread of the Mongolian Empire,

their Immediate successors preserved in Hudson Bay

ments. and sedges and Howers in abundance, but just an endless array of flat floeslund here, but we were close enough unde

Spitzbergen discovered of the sea-water. Most

from Hudson River, to the pier to see that the flag it Great trunk roads

8.01 London Relay-The Royal were built The botanical survey of Spitsbergen of frozen has been rather fully done, and over pieces we gazed on under the ample 130 species of flowering plants have light of the mid-night sun were only and bore the hammer and sickle, end to end of the brutal but efficient, fresh when trying to reach China

Ilkeness

bandits mistakable

of Stalin.

in explorers found ment patrols kept the been recorded, besides severa: nun- a few square yards in area and loolt-ad a poster nearby bore the un-empire, and on them swift Govern- via the North Pole How often have

The weather remained serene and check, and gave protection to all whe friendly, and the scenery, like the You will be less surprised to hear

occasions. that bird life is abundant. Few of A stoutly-build vessel, such as our Alps at Sea-level, was most fascinat went to and fro on

still, us who landed at King's Bay that day good ship "Atlantis," could withouting. So long as the air was are likely to forget the sandpipers. difficulty or danger penetrate many and the sun shone from a clear sky,

mag may serve to indicale the route make it is stated to be within the greeting to the members of this Club. Indulge in a big thousand or even South Africa, remained for long alan Memories; (d) Don't say Aloha.

two

thousand years.

Enst.

the

which I, being no botanist, had notat-salt-water;-and-about.11.p.m...welthe-mining-company,- for-Green-|-sible for the ordinat merely 25 gen, and gave the new land its name. "Dog."

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Spitzbergen numbers and interchange of commodities archipelago supported vast gular

increased. considerable of reindeer, arctic foxes, and polac greatly Rumber of traders-doubtless fat bears; the rounding sens were alive Come Down to Hilo; Blow the M

cod-fish, seals, walrus, and Down; Rio Grande....cond. by C. T. more than the few recorded in our with historics-made the long pilgrimage whales. In the next century and a 45 The B.B.C. Wireless Milliary Morning Post Building to Far Cathay, and of those who did half, the unchecked enthusiasm and Band.

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8.45

Vanity Fair Overture (Fletcher): (Friedemann- Polo. His travel-tales spread all animal life on sea and land alike. Slavonic Rhapsody over Europe, and Arst brought to the Yet it was not till 1920 that this no- arr. Winterbottom)....cond. by B.

under Nor- Welten O'Donnell. West what has been called "the man's-land was placed

2.0 London Relay Empire Ex- glamour of the East."

wegian Sovereignty, mainly for the

Points of view by traveller's from But with the decay of the Mongo purpose of ensuring control over change.'

power, and then the spread of those who, for private profit, would the Turks into Asin Minor, the old reduce the region to complete steri- the Dominions and Colonies. trade routes both overland and lity.

!lan

9.15 London Relay The News. 9.30 Mark Hambourg at the Plano, On Wings Of Song (Mendelssohn);

overseas were clused again, and by it was Hudson and his immediate 1450 the lucrative Eastern trade of successors who introduced into Spitz- Venice and Genoa Was threatened bergen many of the familiar place-Rakorzy March (Liszt); Au Bord I have D'Une Source (Liszt); Rhapsody No. with extinction. The great voyages names. King's Bay, which

of discovery

0.50 A Request Programme (Clas

that began towards the mentioned, was named after James 13 In C Major (Dohnanyi), end of the 15th Century, and went on VI; and Prince Charles Foreland, 9.45 London Itelay-Sports News till the beginning of the 17th, were (which still retains that name though and Market Notes. 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 aim of who, ar King Charles 1, was to lose recovering the lost, trade with India, his head on the scaffold. Malaya, and China.

sca

sical).

-Liszt)· Jun!

Rig!) Verdi)

Africa In 1486, King unded Bouthits geology, its natural, history and Mischa Levitzki (Piano)¦ ̈

of

One rather

Great Expectations of Commercial consisting ofing expedition, chestra; Sonats

..La

The Barber Of Seville-Overture (Rossini)..Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra Of New York cond, by Solentino Interest

Aus "Otello" The great mass of Africa, hitherto

..Tiana Lem- During he 18th & 10th centuries, Arturo Toscanini: Ave Maria (Gebel)

(Verdi)

with Orchestra; known is Europe only by its northern Interest in the Polar Regions gradual-Aula

Etude (Rubinstein); La edges, was regarded merely as a ly changed from economie to scienti- nitz (Soprano great and apparently interminable ns. Many expeditions were sent to

(Paganini- peninsula that cut off intercourse by

north to survey the region, to study Campanella

Tosca with Asia. When at length Bartolomeo Diaz

Donna E Mobile of Portugal also to and, if possible, a route to the Armoni

Jussi Bjorling (Tenor) with Or-

For

Violin and Piano dubbed the turning-point the Cape North Pole itself.

Cape 1.e, the of Good Hope

British naval (Devil's Trill) (Tartini-Kreisler).. vessels, was despatched in 1773.

Yebudl Menuhin (Violin) with Pinno Developments.

And when, eleven years later. Among the midshipmen was Horatio

and it was...mn! one of the comp, by Arthur Balsam: Polonial80) Nelson

MIU | No. G In A A Flat Major, Op. 14 Vasco da Gama led the first trading smaller islands of the Splizbergon (Chupin) „Arthur' Rubinstein

Lo India, via the Cape archipelago that the futu

future Admiral, 10): Within

ral. (Piano): expedition

Sacred Walls These and made 700 per cent, profit on his then a fool-hardy youngster of 14 The Magic Flute-Mozart). Ivari invested capital, he was halled on

old years, had an adventure with a polar Andresan (Bass) with Orchestra; Columbus, heading West in 1492 to bear that nearly brought his great Serenade "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,

K.525 (Mozart). Vienna Philhar- reach

the back door of Asia, bumped career to a very premature end.

So you see, all in all, Spitzbergen monic

onic Orchestra

cond. by Bruno into a new Continent, but never know

his dying day that he had done has had rather a long and fairly Walter: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring Following the (Bach, arr. Sir Hugh Allen),*** so. When he found dark-skinned eventful people in the now lands he firmly lengthy chain of cause and effect Choir Of The Temple Church, Lon- believed he was on the Eastern sea- might say, without merely being face- don, cond. by G. Thalben-Ball with board of India, and hence arose, and tious that one reason why I went to Oboe obbligato by Leon Coassens.

PLEASE Turn To Pago 7.

11.0 Close down. were perpetuated, sich absurdities

his return as

hero. Poor

history.

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