AURORA IN FAR SOUTH.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 20 May 1929, Page 9

AURORA IN FAR SOUTH.

♦ POSSIBLE EFFECT ON RADIO COMMUNICATION. [Bv RtrssaLL Owbh—Coprrightsd IMb by New York Time* Company tad St. Louis "Post-Dispateh."] (VmtZO PRESS ASSOCIATION—BT ILSCTBIO TELIOSAPH—COPYBIOHT.) BAY OF WHALES, May 16. The aurora or something has played up with radio communication during the last two days. It may have been the aurora, although wireless experts refuse to commit themselves, but it at least is a coincidence that during the past two days there havw been etrong and beautiful auroras.

The day before yesterday, in the afternoon,* the finest aurora yet seen lighted up the heavens. The entire sky seemed alight with flame. It began with arches that shivered across the sky, and became curtains that waved and pulsated with green, blue, and dark red glows, and sometimes it whirled as though blown by a great wind, and the colours scattered and fled through the whole mass in waves of beautiful tight. It was a magnificent display. Yesterday long arches hung one above another in the north, and from them, stretched across the renith to the south, was a slowly waving «ur» tain of greenish white, which curved and ended in a twisted lash like that of a whip. It lasted for as long as one could stand outside in the cold and watch, and with their coming the wireless waves just curie"" up and died. There are other causes which could interrupt radio, but studies are being made to nee if there is any connexion between the two t and a few more coincidences like this make it seem very probable. The temperature last night was 48 degrees below aero.—Australian Press Association. [All Rights (or publication reserved throughout the World—Wireless to "New York Time*."!