"WIRELESS" ASTRAY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 15, 19 January 1910, Page 4

"WIRELESS" ASTRAY.

THE SWISS "TAP." ' Tha Swiss military authorities have proved by experiments that the Alps attract wireless currents to an extraordinary degree /states a writer in tho Chronicle), and that Switzerland could receive any wireless message sent in Europe. The experiments havo been made with mobile wireless stations which were established at Borne and Ebikon, near Lucerne, and though it was impossible for these two places to communicate with eachother, messages in English from Foldhu (Cornwall) and in German from Berlin poured into the two stations The Berne station was transferred to Aiglo some days ago, and the communications with Ebikon were- indistinct and unsatisfactory, whereas the permanent military wireless stations on the St. Gothard, the Righi, add at Fort St. Maurice were receiving -the messages clearly. These three poste are daily in communication, _ unsolicited^ and unasked, of course, with the chief European centres, for messages aro "dropping in" constantly, and the soldiers amuse themselves by translating wireless messages meant for other persons. At the St. Gothard station a wireless message sent from. mid-Atlantic to London via Poldhu was received recently. In tl\e event of war, therefore, tho Swiss military authorities (aidod by tha Alcn) could intercept all xnassagei withiii > a 2000 miles radius.