MESSAGE TO MARS

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19447, 22 October 1928, Page 9

MESSAGE TO MARS

ATTEMPT BY RADIO, PREPARATIONS IN ENGLAND. (UKITED PH£SB ASSOCIATION—BY tLECTBIO TBLEOBAPH—COPTBIOHT.) (Received October 21st, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, October 20. The "Daily Mail" says that at the request of Mr Mansfield Robinson, a psychic investigator, who was formerly the Town Clerk of Shoreditch, an attempt to communicate by wireless with Mars, which will be then nearest to the earth, will be made on October 24th with a message from Rugby on an 18,500 metre wave length. Post Office engineers will be listeningin for a reply on a special receiving set at St. Albans, which will be tuned to a 30 ; 000 metre wave length, which Mr Robinson believes Mars uses. He will hand in a _ five-word message to the central radio office at London, which will cost eighteenpence per word. Mr Robinson alleges that he is in telepathic communication with a woman inhabitant of Mars who has laid down the conditions of the experiment. He assumes that Martians understand the wireless process, though not the words, and will repeat dots and dashes to earth.—Australian Press Association.