BROADCAST STORY

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 98, 20 January 1926, Page 9

BROADCAST STORY

OF RED REVOLUTION

WOMEN SUFFERING FROM SHOCK

QUESTION OF COMPANYS

LIABILITY

By Telegraph.—Press Association Copyright.

London, January 18

Many women are suffering from shock as the result of Father Knox’s broadcast storv of an imaginary Red revolution in'London. The question arises of the company’s liability for damages. The non-arrival of the Sunday newspapers owing to snow-blocked railwavs intensified the alarm in isolated districts, where it is still believed that the news was censored. The "Daily Express” says that the company’s "discreditable piece of folly” might have had serious results if it had been perpetrated in holiday time, when the newspaper offices were closed, because wireless showed itself incapable, of overtaking the rumour.— Sydney "Sun” Cable.

PROMISE TO PREVENT RECURRENCE

London, January 18.

The Broadcasting Company complacently regards the outburst against its burlesque news. It has received hundreds of appreciative letters. It says that it is mainly Lowlanders, and not Scottish, who failed to eniby the joke, and asks: “Was it conceivable immediately to follow disastrous news with a jazz band ? But the fact that a single individual was deceived is a matter for regret. We promise to prevent a recurrence.” —Sydney "Sun” Cable.