Singapore, July 23.
'A scheme for providing two radio programmes, one European and the other Asiatic, each of from 8% to hours a day, has been submitted to the Straits Settlements Government by the British Malaya Broadcasting Corporation, which at present operates one medium-wave and one short-wave transmitter at Singapore, broadcasting principally European programmes.
The Corporation is erecting another medium-wave transmitter, and it is Ukely the Government will erect a short-wave transmitter." Singapore, with a population of more than half 2 million, has only 6,000 radio licence-holders—Reuter.
Hongkong, July 20.
The Compulsory Service Bill, calling for compulsory service for British and Chinese males between the age of 18 and 55, was introduced in the Legislative Council this afternoon.
The measure is by no means similar to conscription as understood in England and elsewhere, and will only apply to Britons for the time It is explained that the object of the Compulsory Service Bill is to create a reserve force, which will hardly affect the normal routine of Motion Pictures Banned From Concession Peiping, July 20.
'As part of the programme for strengthening the blockade of the Concessions in Tientsir, the Tien-{sin Bureau of Police is' reported Ihave issued orders to policemen {forbidding the entry of motion pictures and actors or actresses into the Concession—Reuter.
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