MARVEL OF RADIO
DISTRESS CALL HEARD IN
TANGANYIKA
(Received August 16. 9.30 a.m.)
LONDON, August 15.
A native chief of Tanganyika, proud of a new "voicey box" he had bought, invited Mr. Ernest Hawkins, the local Magistrate, to listen-in. Mr. Hawkins, turning the knobs to tune in to London, was amazed to hear an SOS for his brother, who was motoring in England, to go to a hospital where his mother was dangerously ill. Mr. Hawkins hurried to the nearest airport, reached England in eight days, and happily found that his mother was recovering.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 9
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94MARVEL OF RADIO Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 40, 16 August 1937, Page 9
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