NEW RADIO PERIL

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 136, 5 December 1935, Page 32

NEW RADIO PERIL

LISTENING TO MOSCOW

Seven prison sentences brought home c to Germans the danger that lurks in g the loud-speaker when it is tuned in c on Moscow, says a Berlin report dated j October 31. t Two men in Wilhelmshaven were g sentenced to four years in prison and , five years' loss of citizenship for hay- \ ing discussed politics while listening , to a Moscow radio broadcast, and five j friends who had listened with, them received lesser terms. ] All seven were charged with "plotting high treason." Some, the auth- , orities said, were Communists. ] The Nazis, in their two and one-half , years in power, have waged a constant battle against the Moscow radio. : They have taken measures all the way . from removing Moscow designations from radio sets to local decrees forbidding listeners to tune in to the Soviet capital. The police of Frankfurt-on-Main led off with such measures early in the Nazi regime by warning those who listened in to Moscow that they might taste life in the concentration camps, especially when groups of persons gathered round the loud-speaker. The Nazis, who have been sentencing from 50 to 100 Communists monthly, assert that groups of Bolsheviks have been gathering about radios to get forbidden inspiration. The authorities have sought to popularise small, cheap radios for working men —sets incapable of getting Moscow.