"I am safe. Stay where you are" and "All is well with the family and everyone is safe and well" are the general contexts of some hundreds of messages which are being freely broadcast over radio stations XQHB and XMHA, and these glad tidings. are not only being picked up by anxious friends and relatives in Shanghai, but also those in Tientsin, Dairen, Chefoo, Hongkong, Tsingtao, Manila," Peiping and Kobe, to mention but a few of the places to which messages have been directed.
The radio stations are also asking teners and ships at sea who hear these messages to pass them on to those concerned. XQHB was busy all day yesterday from noon onwards and XMHA from 8 o'clock last night. In addition, consular and police notices are broadcast, and these three items form the major portion of the broadcasts at the Present time.
For the benefit of those who may wish to avail themselves of this free service, the telephone numbers are as follows:—XQHB, Tel 74399: XMHA, 30055 (not 31234, the number listed in the telephone book; the new number connects with three telephones.)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.