RADIO FREAK
EXPERTS MYSTIFIED. ' VAGRANT LEAKAGE. NORMAL RESULTS DIFFICULT. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Nov. 20 a 9.55 a.m. OTTAWA, Nov. 19. A strange radio freak is reported from Port Arthur, mystifying experts, who believe that a vagrant leakage of high voltage electricity from some power plant is responsible for the peculiar conditions. The strongest stations cannot communicate with grain ships at more than seventy-five miles, except by using four hundred metres, which wave length gives normal results. Any other wave length is subject to interference. Experts from Toronto and New York have spent weeks in trying to solve the mystery, without result. STATION FOR YAP ISLAND. .JAPANESE DECISION. Received Nov. 20, 10 a.m TOKIO, Nov. 19. The War Office hag decided to erect a radio station on Yap Island, in accordance with Article II of the Yap agreement between America and Japan.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 November 1924, Page 5
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