RADIO CALLS.
FROM WHALES' BACKS. EXPEDITION'S PLANS. OPERATORS IN ANTARCTIC. (By Air Mail.) BERLIN", November 2. Short-wave radio fans throughout the world will shortly pick lip radio calls sent from the backs of dead whales killed by a German whaling expedition now on the way south.
I The Nazi German whaling fleet is ■ headed by the 20,000-ton whaler |lnitas, which left Southampton rejcently on her voyage to the whaling jtrrounds in Antarctic waters. J The whalers intend, it is reported in Berlin, to inflate dead captured whales so thot they will remain on tlie surface. a nd then tit on their backs a small short-wave radio stati. n. I This will be automatic, and will come into action the moment the whales arc loft afloat until the whaling ships have time to take them on board.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1938, Page 11
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