1939-12-15 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

December 15, 1939.

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Folk Songs of Cathay

From the Studio

Radio Programme Broadenst by Z. B. W. on a Frequency of 845 ke's. and on Short Wave from 1-2.10 p.m. and -11.15 p.r. on 9.52 m.c's. per second.

Hi, K. T.

12.15 p.m. Short Service of inter- cession.

12,30 Billy Collon and Ils and. -Everybody Kiss Your Partner, You Started Me Dreaming, The Glory of My Way To Love, Got To Dance Heaven, I Nearly Let Love Go Slip- ping Through My Fingers.

12.10 Plano Ducts by Rawicz and Singer," Landauer,~"The Street Valse Des Fleurs (from 'Casse Noi- sette Suite'), Steeping Beauty Waltz. 1.00 Local Time Signal and Wea- ther Report.

1.03 Louis Levy and His Gaumont- British Symphony"Firefly" Selec- tion, The Eyes of the World Are On You, My, What A Diff'rent Night, Everybody Dance, Turning The Town Stroll Upside Down, Taking A Around The Park, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" Selection. 1,30 Reuter and Rugby Press, Weather Forecast and Announce tnents.

1.45 Beethoven-Symphony No. 1 In Major, Op. 21. B.B.C. Sym- phony Orchestra.

2.15 Close Down.

6.00 pm. Tartini, Sonata for Vio- in and Plano ("Devil's Trill"). Yehudi Menuhin.

6.16 Bach-Sulte No. 4 In D Major. Adolf Busch Chamber Players.

0.40 Closing Local Stock Quota tions.

0.42 Congo by Beniamino Gigli (Tenor). Forbidden Music, The Stars Were Shining, Womon Is Fickle.

0.51 Albert Sandler and is Or- chestra with Jessica Dragonette (Vocal).The Lost Chord, Sanctuary of the Heart, Will You Love Me, Love's Joy, Buck Eyes, Souvenir D'Ukraine, Grinzing, Remembrance, Alice Blue Gown, Through The Door way of Dreams, You Are My Heart's Delight, Patiently Smiling.

7.30 London Relay The News. 9.00 Local Time Signal, Weather Report and Announcements.

8.03

The The

Light OrchestraLin Sudan, Babylonian Nights, Waltz Dream" Selection, A Frangesal, Parade Of The Imps.

8.23 Benno Moiseiwitsch at the Plano Mouvements P'erpetuels (Poulene); Elude (Stravinsky) Flr- tations In A Chinese Garden (Cha- sins).

8.39 Studio Dr. T, Z. Kos of The World's Student Christian Federa- tion, Geneva, In "Folk Songs of Cathay." Ilhistrated by Flute,

8.50 Orchestral Interlude, Suite Orientale (Popy), Marek Weber and His Orchestra, La Follett (Mar- chest), Melodious Intermezzo (Kots- cher), Erich Olschewski and is Orchestra.

9.05 Studio-Comments on Recent Events,

9.10 London Relay-News Sum-

mary.

9.30 London Relay-"World Af- fairs."

The "Telegraph"

50 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1889, INTI-On December th, "Idlo-; will." the wife of W. R. Loxiny, of daughter.

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Among the songs which have had, a great lußuence and widespread popu

arity, the hymn "There is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away." The author, like so many other writers of Comườ songs, bevor received a penny for his work and seant erodit. He is still y Ing at the age of 80 and his name is Andrew Young.

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According to n

Jusk computation issued by an eminent statistician, tha coml in human life of the wars of the last thirty-four years has been 2,253,000 souls. The Crimean war cost 750,000 men; the Italian war (1860) 45,000; the Danish war (1904) 3,000; the Ameri cnn civil war-the Northern sintes 280,000, the Bouthern states 620,000; the Austro-Prussian war 45,000: the Franco- German war-France 155,000, Germany €0,000; the South African wars 30,000; the Afghan war 25,000; the Mexican and Cachin-Chinese expeditions 5,009; and the Bulgaro-Servian insurrection 26,090,

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The largest gathering of Freemasons that this colony or the Far East-has yet known, assembled at Freemasons Hall on Thursday night to do honour to the annual Installatius meeting of Lodge St. John, No. 618 S.C. There were about one hundred and thirty brethren present, and on the dals were Sole Distributors! twenty-three Past Masters. Tho cera- mony was conducted by R. W. Bro. tha lion. C. I. Chator. District Grand Master of Hongkong and South China, who was annisted by a powerful coatin Kent of the Grand Lodge Ocers.

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After the official business, the Lodge, entertained the members and visitors ta a sumptuous banquet. enjoyable evening was spent, the clock polating to three o'clock before "Auld Lang Syne" Indicated that even the best of friends must part.

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A mosting of the Leglaintive Coutell to-day. The first was held at noon business was a motion by Mr. MacEwan, that the Report of the Committee ap- pointed to consider the dustbin of of

ciul salaries be laid on the table.

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SUGGESTIONS FOR XMAS GIFTS MUSICAL NOVELTIES TO PLEASE ALL

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Mouth Organs. Gramophones, Tambourines. Musical Boxes & Ukeleles, Nursery Rhymes, Winnie the Pooh. Mickey Mouse and Pop Eye Records. Song Albums of Xmas Carols. Shirley Temple favourites and others. FOR THE REST OF THE FAMILY

Every kind of Musical instrument. Badios of all sizes and makes, from the smallest in dainty colours.

To the large Radle Gramophone in handsame Cabinets.

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a very great hardship had existed Intely Musical Cigaretio Boxes, Beer muga and Juge, playing the old tunes. among European officinis in the Colony Books op Music and Composers. owing to the greni depreciation in the Holiday Edition of "Gone with the wind". ($5.00). value of the dollar, and the high enat Albums of all the favourite Composers, both Classical and Light. of living caused thereby. It was con- Oratorio, Opera, Ballads, Musleat Comedies and Hills of the Moment. ditional In the Service that certain Records by all the leading artistes, including, Gigli, McCormack, Jeanette antarles were attached to certain posts acDonald, Nelson Eddy, Heifetz, Crooks, Tauber, Kreisler, clo.

that was to any if a Governor came Orchestras conducted by Toscanial, Stokowsky Bruno Walter among others. here he expected to govern a first-class e cheeries dance records by Victor Sylvester, Harry Roy, Nat Concila, Colony, at a salary of £5,000, and so on down to a policeman, who expected The humour of Ronald Frankau, Sandy Powell, Gracle Fields, etc. receive a salary of £100, or its equival ent,

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tion to the Imperial authorities for in- Anything in the shape of an applien crease of salaries won ilke a red rac to n kull, but here salaries were not stated in sterling, but in dollars, and MARINA HOUSE, the home authorities enleuintes the equivalent of the dollar ni 4. 20. Bo that when an officer went to the Colo- nist Ofee to obtain or accept an up- pointment in thin Colony he was told that the pay was no niany thousand dollars per annum, always calculating| the rate of exchango at 48, 2d.

25 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1914.

A message from Nome states that the Foreign Minister, speaking In the Chamber, said that italy had insisted on exemplary reparation for the Hodeidah 0.45 Walton-Facade Sulte. Lon-hati replied that communication between Incident, but the Ottoman Government, don Philharmonic Orchestra.

Constantinople and Hodeidah was in-

10.00 Studio Tho Beauty of terrupted. (Loud murmurs), fehad. England"—3:-The-Third-of-a-Sorica-telegraphed-again-demanding-immediate

of Talks by The Very Rev. The Dean of Hongkong.

10.30 London Relay "The Lying Jade," A topical programme dealing

with the act of spreading rumours in wartime, Arranged by Stephan Polter.

11.00 Close Down,

STOCK MARKET

REPORT

Hongkong Stock Exchange Oficial Summary issued yesterday, says:

The market was fairly active and prices show signs of hardening.

H.K. Bank $1,340

Bank of East Asia $73 Union Ins; $305 Douglases $711⁄4 Docks $19.40

Providents $4.45

H. & S. Hotels $4.05 Lands $33

Humphreys $7.80

Renities 54.40

Chinese Estates $102..

Tramways $17

Star Ferries $60

Yaumall Perries $23

China Lights (Old) $8.20 Electrics $52.00

Sandakan Lights $11.40 Telephones (New) $0.80 Cements $10.40 Ropes $55

Dairy Farms (Old) $20 Dairy Farms (New) $10 Watsons $0.70 Entertainments $0

Sellers

H.K. Banic $1,340/50

Docks $10.00, Tramways $17 Telephones (Old) $25% Watsons So

Sales H.K, Bank $1,340/58 |_ Docks' $19.30/,40 Providents $415

H. & S. Hotels. $4.00 Chinese Estates $103 Tramways $10.70/.80/17,-- China "Lights (Old)' $0% Cements $107.407.50 Ropes 38 NO Watsons $3,05

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The Japanese Minister of Marine hasi telegraphed to Mr. Winston Churchill heartfelt congratulations on the splen. did British victory near the Falkland Talands. Mr. Churchill replied that the success was targely owing to the power- ful and untiring assistance of the Jopa-i nese Fleet. The expulsion of the fier mana from the East W.IH complete, Their return would be extremely dif cult and hazardon. Commerce was now free from Mozambique to South Americn.

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The renders of "Les Annales" took a vote on a new name for Eau de Cologne and decided on Eau te Louvain.

10 YEARS AGO

Dec. 14, 1920.

All serious danger to Carton has been removed by the crushing defeat of the Ironsides. Latest information shows the rebel forces to be in full retreat] with the Cantonese troops following them up.

5 YEARS AGO

Den. 14, 1934. It is one of the most regrettable ten- dencies of the times that there should be a constant harping on the theme of A possible war in the near future. Both in the West and in the East is this trand to ba diacerned in print and in speech. lappily, there are also indivi duals and organisations working atrenn- ously in the cause of penco, but their efforts are from time to time over- shadowed by war propagandlets, some of whom are to be found in high places, whose utterances naturally attract much attention.

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MOURNING

The King having commanded Court mourning for two weeks for Princess Louise, the Governor was unable to be present at the performance of "No Not Nanette" "by the Phil.. harmonic Society last night.

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