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From the Studio Rudia Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a frequency of 845 .c's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.15 pm. and B-11.15 pan. on 9.52 m.c's. per second

H. K. T. 12.15 p.. cession,

12.30 Helections from Light Opera Ly Of Killarney": "Les Cloches "Monsieur Beau- De Corneville"; caire" and "The Land of Smiles."

Short Service of inter-

1.00 Local Time Signat und Weu- ther Report.

1.03 "Carroll Gibbons (Ikano) and His Boy Friends.

1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast

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and Announce-

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145 Beethoven-Quartet In Major, Op. 18, No. 51. Lener String Quartet,

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6.00 An hour of Danco Munie. 7.00 Closing Local Stock Quali- ttons.

7.02 Variety with Valaida, Major and Minor, Elizabeth Welch, Turner Layton and Others,

8.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03 B. B. C. Recording "Over- The Garden Wall" A Sketch.

Gaston 8.18 Studio-Recital by D'Aquino (Tenor) with Piano accom- paniment by E, O'Nell Shaw.

1. (a) Donn Non Vidi Mai ("Ma- Nel (b) non Lescout"-Puccini); Verde Maggio ("Loreley-Catalani); | Recorded Interlude; 2. (a) Perduta- mente; (b) La Mia Canzone; (c) La Serenata (Tosti); 3. (a) La Partida; (b) Granadina (Alvarez); (e) Ay, ¡Ay Ay (Freiro).

8.45 Orchestral Music.

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9.15 London Kelay-The News. 9.30 London Relay "The Kitchen Comedy" A Play by James Brydic.

9,50 Beethoven Concerto No. 5 In E Flat Major, Op. 13 ("Emperor"). Benno Moiseiwitsch (Plano) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra con- ducted by Georg Szell.

10.30 Songs by Elisabeth Schumann Alleluja (Mozart); (Soprans). Vedrui, Carino, Se Sel Buonino ("Don Giovann!"-Mozart); Das Helmwch: Bin Und Wieder Filegen Plelle Auf (Schubert); Liebe Schwarmt Allen Wegen (Schubert),

10.40 Compositions of Warner. Song of The Rhine Daughters ("Gotterdammerung")....Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Hall Orchestra; Verachtet Mir Die Melzler Nicht (Finale of Opera "Die Meistersinger"); Was Deutsch Und Echt (Finale of Opera "Die Melster- singer").......... Friedrich. Schorr (Buri- tone) and the Berlin State Opera

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Evidence is constantly coming to hand showing the vigilance which must be exercised by the German Polleo-Gestapo-to nip in Secret

every spontaneous ten- the bud dency which might be dangerous to the Nazi regime.

Here are two examples of this re- pressive action against any freedoin of thought among the youth of the

country.

Throughout Germany an order haz the Ministry of been issued by

the instructions of Educatiori, on Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo Chief, to suppress any knowledge which the young people might acquire on the

the subject of

French Foreign Legion. Himmler considers that the Foreign Legion's romantle appeal night encourage independent thought and so run counter to the conception! the of military superiority which Nazia seek to instil.

Himmler's instruction which, as it was circulated in South German schoole during August, reads:

"DESTROY SCHOOL BOOKS"

Secret

State Police drawn my attention to the fact that rchool books still contain references Legion. to the French Foreign

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has

These are to be discarded, even if the dark side of the Foreign Legion 15 shown, since according to experi ence any such publications could in- dicate the existence of the Legion to youthful and unsettled perschs, and excita in them the idea of Jon- Ing up in it.

"I therefore request headmasters to remove from their libraries all books about the Foreign Legion. An Inventory of such books must be sent

and University to the Provincial Library, and the books must be for- warded to it, or destroyed, at its request.

This decree will not be published in the official gazette."

a school- Himmler began life as naster. He should therefore know what is likely to oppeul to the re- : mantie spirit of German youth and,) apparently, has, little confidence in the unchallengeable appeal of Nuzi militarism

TEACHERS DISMISSED Under orders from the same nu- Minister for thority the German Education has dismissed from their posts in schools two toman Catholle priests.

One had called Into question the infallibility of Hiller; the other had minde

it "derogatory remark" about German soldiers. Here are the facts, the instructions of as stated on Himmler:

Chaplain Otto Graf, a teacher al Freiburg-im-Breisgau, has been de- prived of his post because he ad- dressed his class in the following sense. He said that

In Fundamental characteristics all) men are alike, and there is a pointi of view which makes it possible to; love and esteem all men. He main- tained the truth of this assertion with respect also to the Jews and de- clared that Hiller favoured u just relationship to the Jews.

But the Fuehrer could not relax bis villance for the preservation of the German nation, as is proved by the fact that the newspapers were writing articles about the tendency of the German people to become de- cadent.

In this latter association Chaplain Graf referred to the Greeks and Romans, saying that even a nation of high culture could bring about its own, downfall through abuse of its natural gifts.

"DESIGNED TO RAISE DOUBTS"!

Commenting on these observations, the Minister for Church Affairs de- clares

Olto that Chaplain

Graf misuses religious instruction to ex- press political opinions. Moreover, his remarks were designed to rolse doubts in the minds of his pupils as to the fundamental truth of the National-Soclultat world Ideology in its racial theory, Fuehrer principle and doctrine of absolute obedience to the Site.

The final observation from the up- disposes propriate Relch Ministry once and for all of Hiler's long- sustained contention that Nazi ideo- logy was "not for export." It is a "world Ideology.

of Staufen,

Vicar Kniekenberg, near Loerrach, who shouted to his class, "Stop looking at those miser- able soldiers" when a pintoon march- cd past the school, was also deprived of the right to teach "tor lack of respect for the military," though, the order, as in the previous case, was marked "not for publication In the (German) Press,"

From a reliable eye-witness has been received an illuminating ac- count of the recently reported insur- rections in the German "Pro-! tectorate-former territories of Cze- choslovakia,

CZECHS "ENCOURAGED* Trouble was started by German agents provocateurs who circulated stories that the Poles were forcing back the German armies, while Bri- lain and France had sent a thousand 'planes to support their Polish allies. These stories coincided with two strikes for shorter working hours in Czesko-Moravska and Skoda, where workers were dispersed by armed forces of the SS. Sympathy meet- Ints were held in Prague,

The stories of German reverses in: Poland encouraged certain former Czech aflcers, whose pay stopped on Sept. 15, to revolt in one or two districts. Their action scents have been carried out against the arders of those who hope one day to promote restoration of Czecho- alovak independence.

to

Evidence of Nazi Gestapo anxiety,

fact that 9,000 arrests were made,

neno the less. Is provided by the

though many men were sub-

sequently released.

One, gains the

impression, however, that the Nazis bomb, still unexploded and undis-

are far from happy, feeling that a

HIS GAS-MASK

Admiral of the Flect the Earl of Cork and Ottery carries this respirator when

British 'Plane In "Mad Chase"

DRAMATIC story is told t the "Westfallsche Landes- Zeltung" by a German pilot of a thrilling chase across country, In which he claims to have shot down a British reconnaissance machine which took part in the fight over Western Germany.

"It was u mad chase," he says, "such as one could hardly imagine. The British pilot Was supremely clever.

even

"Almost on the ground, he used every small bill, every house and every slope to obtain cover from me. I went racing after him.

"The Englishman actually flew be- tween trees and I could see branches. and leaves fly as he went through. 1 was sure that his 'plane was going to tear off the roofs of some of the houses as he roared over buildings ot nearly 200 miles an hour.

"It was such a crazy adventure that sometimes both of us were only two yards above the ground, and anyone looking on at a dis fance would have thought that the British, machine was actually run- ring along the ground.

A Pancake Landing "Every time the pflat rose Just a few feet to clear some obstacle I fred at the British machine. At last the fight was over. I saw the 'plane in A potato field-it was on fire.

"I saw three Englishmen get clear of the blazing machine as I circled overhend. One of them waved to me and shook his hands over his head as if to indicate that it had been n fair fight. I waved back and flew home,"

The German pilot, who remains. anonymous under the title of "Lieut. R.." states that the British machine made a pancake landing, the pilot not having had time to lower his wheels. He was sitting in his fighter plane walling for orders when the British maching, an observation model, came over his aerodrome about 9,000 ft. He went up to cut off its re high. treat and it turned round and made for the coast.

The British pilot flew into a cloud bank to throw off the pursuit but when he emerged the Ġerman was still behind. Thereupon, the Brilish pilot dived until he was almost an the ground.

The German aviator states that the crew of the British machine gaye such a brilliant performance that they cared the respect of every Ger- man pilot.

Nazi Disfranchise Von Starhemberg

von

Ernst Rudiger BERLIN.-Prince

exiled Starhemberg,

former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and former leader of the disbanded Aus- irion: Fascist Army, the Heimwehr, has been deprived of German cllizen- ship by the Nazt Government. His property has been confiscated.

His disfranchisement was publish- ed in the Official Gazelle together with the names of 153. others, most of whom were Jews.

[The Prince, who is now in France, recently asked permission of the now-Surete. Nationale to organise an Avá- trian brigade to fight Germany. The offer was taken under advisement,]:

covered, lles beneath their feet, In consequence they have established a permanent garrison, on the spot, of. 00,000 'meri,

MARLENE SAVE HER

HIS AIM-

20,000 PLANES FOR R. A. F.

SIX years ago, when Britain had! disarmed until she was almost de- fenceless, Viscount ftathermore cen- tral figure in the rensaionul "Prin- cess Brench Case" in London, started his campaign: Wanted Immediately -5,000 RA.F. 'Planes."

han the man who To-day this knack of so consistently arriving at the right conclusion has quadrupled Itis demands.

The story of Lord tothermere's solitary pica for rearmament, after Lie new Germany had changed Europe's outlook, is the undercurrent of latest book, "My Compaign for

FAILS TO PARENTS

DIETRICH

Hungary (Eyre and Spolliswonde, ARK ROYAL

55.).

ilia main story, of course, is the history of Hungary from the Treaty of Trainon to the ilberation of nearly 12.000.000 Magyar núnorities after

Munich in 1938.

for

Constant Fight

LATEST

Since this about the hundredth 1027s well known. Less well the he has asked without apparently known are the stories of the awe, getting an answer, we must tell him amounting almost to worship, with the truth, writes the Dally Mirror. which the Magyars hold "the Little

The Ark Royal is on Strentham Father of Hungary," as they still call Coinmon.

him.

MARLENE DIETRICH has gone home alone to Hollywood, sick at heart, after vainly trying for two months to rescue her parents from Germany.

She tried too long. With her in Paris while she made her efforts was her husband, Rudolph Sieber, who is a German citizen. France has interned him, with 15,000 other Germans.

Dietrich came to Europe in June, It was clear that she was in a hurry. When she sailed from New York, rather than catch a later boat, she

incorne with the deposited

tax authorities Jewels worth £10,000 to cover a disputed debt.

she

When she reached Paris avolded reporters, said mysteriously that her purpose in Europe was not to make tms.

Then she set to work, using every Influence of money and friends, to get her old mother and father out of Germany,

Prussian Officer Dietrich's real name is Magdalen Her father was a Prus- von Lasch. stan olleer in the last war. He has The Hamburger who broadcasts been retired

from the Army for for Dr. Goebbels, has repeated again; many years now, and lives in a little in his best Morris Oxford accent, the hous at Pulsdam, cobbled, quiet old 'question, "Where 13 the Ark suburb of Berlin which is really the Lord Rothermere's constant Right Boyal?"

headquarters of the German Army. Hungary-it started with an

For ten years he has lived there article in The Daily Mall in June

wife. supported by their with his famous daughter,

Dietrich tried to get them out, to take them back to Hollywood with her. This stood in her way:-

In May 1930 Nazi Jew-baiter It has been palated bright yellow Julius Streicher branded her All the great characters of modern Hungary appear in the narrative with green stripes, and has been traitress to the Relch "for consort- some making special trips to Britain turned into a factory for making ing with Jews in Hollywood, and for

The main deck has been acquiring American citizenship." In the hope of persunding him to bulls-oyes.

A month later, Dietrich, hit back. accept their throne, others deter dug up and planted with artichokes mined never to alucken until Trainon and celery. The funnel is full of ice- When there was a rumour that Nazi cream and the bridge has been con- Germany was to award her an honour, and Its Injustices were righted.

*Not even she commented tactly: The Magyars are a warm, apprecia-verted into a pin-table saloon.

The crew tire dressed in football Hitler himself would dare. He knows tive face, and Lord Rothermere soon became their uncrowned king In Jerseys, pink tights, and wear spurs, what my answer would be." viled to visit the country, he rightly and are engaged in knitting malttens declined, and asked his son. the Han. out of cobwebs for dwarfs, Esmond Harmsworth, to deputise for This is official and final, in spite fully in Stockholm, where she goes him. Mr. Harmsworth duly made the of anything that Mr. Churchill may to visit them, at her will, once a year journey in 1928 and was singgered at way. the enthusiasm of his welcome.

Lord Rothermere, Hungary's wrong ever uppermost In his mind, dis- cused the minorities problem with Signor Mussolini, and his brief but penetrating picture of Il Duce is one of the happiest noments in his book. Hungary rewarded Lord Rother- mere with a gratitude which would have been embarrassing bad it not been so obviously genuine! streets were named after him his name became a household word in the

U.S.

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Postscript: Gurbo has no troubles Jike this. Her relatives live peace-

between pictures.

Destroyer Saves Ship From U-Boat

RECEIVING an urgent S O S for food and water,

downtrodden country he fought for the United States destroyer Jacob Jones raced at full

Finally, he tells how he launched

his campaign for an-RA.F. which speed to the British sailing vessel Constant, a message

would dominate the world.

Between Mundels and the war, Lord received at Lisbon states. Rothermere visited Hungary where they lionised the man Who gave

As she neared the vessel a German submarine, which

them their first Inspiration to ghi had just come to the surface and was preparing to attack,

against the peace treaty. him a saviour's welcome.

They gave

At the end of the journey you are

submerged and disappeared.

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left pondering two problems: (1) The destroyer supplied the Constant with water, and

Suppose Europe had fistened to Lord

Rothermere in 1927 about minorities the sailing ship continued her voyage.

And (2) Suppose we had accepted

-would there now have been a war? Rear-Admiral Bourtray, on board the United States the suggestion for 5,000 aeroplanca light cruiser Trenton at Lisbon, said:

in 1933 would there then have been

Munich?

"As soon as we received the S O S from the Constant

Questions like this make the book splendidly important: but apart from I sent the Jacob Jones to assist her." the size of the questions it raises, It remains what Lord Rothermere in- tended it to be-an absorbing record of a wrong alowly righted.

What The U.S.

Is Thinking

H.MS. Kittiwake, a 530-tons patrol vessel of the 1st Anti-Submarine Flailla, struck a mine in the English; Channel.

crew are

Five members of her missing, believed killed, the Admir- alty announced. Two others are in- jured.

The ship returned to harbour for) repairs.

"Best-Seller" Is Sold Out

Big Demand For Blue Book

According to the August Navy List, the Kittiwake is commanded by Com mander E. R. Conder, and her other STOCKS of the first "bestseller" of the war, the Government Blue- omcers are Lt. 3. T. Kimpton, Roat

wain F. H. Hollands, and Comd.- book dealing with diplomatie talks between Britain and Germany be- Engr. H. W. Davey,

WHAT America is thinking to-day may be learned from what the radio commentators are saying. Here are extracts from some of their talks.

The majority of Americans are

All the crew of the Newcastle ship fore the war have run out again. convinced that Britain and France Akenside are safe, the owners have They sold at the rate of 1,000 copies are right, but are determined that been told. The ship, which had 26 an hour.

Nearly 100,000 copies had been America shall stay out of the war.

officers and men, was sunk while

Offico Stationery "That determination is the strong carrying a cargo of coal to Bergen, printed and the est idea in American life to-day and, in Norway.

was selling them as fast as they came off the machines. since that is true, I think it needs to be faced.

have

of the

been

At the Kingsway office Stationery Office there re-daily queues.

New Wespons "Such danger ns there is to the

An official French broadcast United States from this war is long-

Oficials of the department cal-. term danger and it can be seen only ferred to new weapons being em- by those with long-term minds.

culate that in the 12 working hours ployed against U-boats.

One of these la o bomb which can since the book was published nearly "While the great majorly of the people are determined that Americn be dropped from aircraft and then 20,000 coples have been sold over the should stay out, I do not believe that explodes at a pre-arranged depth, in counter at Kingsway. the whole of five majority, or any- the same manner as a depth charge. thing like, believe it is going to be possible.

Opposition to revision of the neutrality laws hind censed to be on

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Hugo Orders Huge postal orders have been dealt. PENINSULA CONCERT with, and reports from the

sales centres in Manchester, Cardiff,

other

party lines and it was believed two-Light Programme Arranged and Edinburgh show that the pro- thirds of the Senate would be in For Sunday Night

favour. But there would be oppost-

vinces are keeping pace with London

making record soles.

in

"It has been like this ever since the

Atlantic Flier Dead

tion.-Raymond Gram Swing, bread-

A symphony concert with Geo. book was put on sale," an official casting to Britain.

Plo-Uisid and A. Carneiro as con- sald." have never known any-

As fast as we get. "British sea losses have not been ductors, will be held in the Lounge thing like it. as bad as they were in the com- parable period of the last war. This of the Peninsula Hotel on Sunday at fresh books we are sold out again. time all German submarines were at p.m.

The programme will include "The their posts awaiting the outbreak of war. Now some of them are running Merry Wives of Windsor," Overture short of supplies and are returning to (Nicotal), "Song of India" (Umsky- bases. Whether they will be able to Korsakow), Nell Gwyn dances (Ger

man), "Invitation to the Waltz" EONARD Gillesplé Reld, aged 29, emerge again is a question.

"London Again" Suite of Manor House, Hockiste. Beds, "The record of the first ten days (Webet),

made the first Atlantle, alr is not likely to be repented. A thing (Erle Coates), "Holero" (Moszkow- who in note is the Increasing economic real); "Salut d'Amour" (Elgar), and crossing from Canada to Heston with steletions the Germans are being "The Merry Widow" Selcollan: A Mr. J. R. Ayling in August 1934, has compelled to enduro, H. V, Kalten- violin solo "Ebbsfreud" (Kreisler) died in Northampton Hospital from born,

injuries received in a rond accident..

will be played by P. Esdakoff,

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