BROADCASTS IN ARABIC

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 December 1937, Page 5

BROADCASTS IN ARABIC

BRITAIN’S NEWS SCHEME.

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(Recd. December 29, Noon.) LONDON, December 28,

Following Mr Eden’s and Lord Cranborne’s statements in Parliament, last week, the Broadcasting Commission has arranged the first Arabic broadcast for January 3.

Prince Hussion, son of King Yemen, will preface the news bulletin with a statement. Others giving messages will include the Egyptian Charge d'Affaires, Arabian and Iraqui Ministers, and Sir Bernard Reilly, Governor of Aden.

RUGBY, December 28

After the first Arabic broadcast by the 8.8. C. on January 3, from 6 p.m. until 6.15 p.m., there will be regular daily transmissions at the same hour. News bulletins will be preceded from ■5.20 p.m. by the normal short-wage programme, with Arabian announcemehts.

THE KING’S BROADCAST

LONDON, December 28.

“The Times,” in a leading article, says that the third sentence of the King’s Christmas Day broadcast must be interpreted to mean that the King will not broadcast every Christmas Day. “It is a wise decision —and for a reason perhaps better than any which filial respect has allowed to be given,” the article states. “The King, we all. pray, will reign for many years, and so intimate and spontaneous a contact between him and his pepole should not be allowed to come within danger of being taken as a matter of course. All will hope that when occasion arises the King will broadcast on Christmas Day. Meanwhile neither he nor his people ' will doubt that, broadcast or no, a true Christmas feeling will pass to and fro between them.”