“MA’S” MESSAGE.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10727, 26 October 1928, Page 3

“MA’S” MESSAGE.

HUSBAND VERY STARTLED. ; “AFFAIR HAS UPSET HER.” ’ MARTIANS ALSO ANNOYED. Called Trees Assn, by El. Tel. Copyrijrm (Australian Pres* Association.' LONDON/ Oct. 24. Mr. Robinson got a lot of publicity even if he did not'get a reply from Mars. This chiefly is provided by his ailgry “Ha’s” message to London newspapers, “i do not know what my husband is doing,” she says. “A message cannot be sent to Mars, it is nonsense.” Mrs Robinson is obviously annoyed. She paused for breath, and added : “1 do not know whether the message was sent; I do not care. I do not know where my husband is: I do not cai*te. 1 do not know whether he got a reply; I do not care. There will bo no more nonsense in this house,” whereupon the door was slammed. Robinson was more startled with this message than with anything he could have received from the other Mars. “I daren’t go home,” he said. “My wife, I believe, disapproves of my experiments. This affair has upset her. Perhaps she will telephone me. it is all very upsetting.” He said the Martians-were also _ very annoyed because the signals did not coine. They were sitting up for hours to receive them. They were laughing at our scientists because they had got rid of atmospherics when we had not. The G.P.O. adds: “We sent Mr Robinson’s message, and also sent an official report of what happened. We cannot divulge it, because it is official. Professor Low nervously expressed the hope that it would be perfectly clear that “all I did_ was to observe the experiment. Nevertheless, I disagree with it. The experiment was foolish, but it would have been foolish to miss the opportunity of observing it.”