ENGLISHMAN'S "CASTLE."

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18308, 16 February 1925, Page 9

ENGLISHMAN'S "CASTLE."

PURPORT OF WIRELESS BILL. (by cable—pbbsß association— coptkight.) . (beuteb's teleqbams.) LONDON, February 13. The text has been issued of a Bill to amend the law relating to wireless telegraphy. Tho measure provides that anyone establishing and maintaining a wireless station without license will be liable to twelve months' imprisonment or a fino not exceeding £IOO on conviction or indictment, or imprisonment not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding £SO, on summary conviction.

An Englishman's home, under the new Wireless Bill, will no longer bo his castle, because, if there is a suspicion that he is getting wireless on the cheap, a Justice of the Peace may order his house to be searched and the apparatus seized, iii addition to penalties. The reason for the new policy, is that, while 1,300,000 people pay a listeningifl fee there are two millions pirating. A popular dodge is to rig an invisible aerial beneath a roof or in an attic, or even a bedroom, enabling concerts to be heard white in bed;