U.S. FLEET

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 July 1925, Page 5

U.S. FLEET

WIRELESS ACHIEVEMENT. ENGLISH AMATEUR LISTENS IN. SHIPS PART COMPANY. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received July 22, 10.25 a.m. (By radio from .special representative of the Australian Press Association aboard the Seattle.) Yesterday afternoon an amateur wireless operator at Oaterham, England, listened for twenty minutes while •Xa.enteiiia.nit Selin ell gave him an account of the fleet journey from Htyiolulu to Australia, and details of the programme of the entertainment which the Australians have prepared. The amateur’s name is T. Marcus, and his call 2NM. He was sending on fortyfive metres, while Lieut. Schnell used thirty-nine. Lieut. Schnell said that signals from Mr. Marcus were so clear that they could be heard it.hree feet from the ear pieces. A radio from the battleship Mississippi says: Swinging into erasing formation, the battleship divisions four and five, forming the detachment which visits Sydney has separated from the other ships of the fleet and are now proceeding northward at a speed of twelve knots, so that the detachment may arrive at Sydney at the same time as the other detachment reaches rMelbourne.- The California, the flagship of the battle fleet-, will probably lead the ships into harbour. Admiral S. S. Robinson commands hfre Sydney detachment. Drills en route have brought the fleet’s gunnery to a high point of efficiency. Officers and men will receive their pay in Australian money on the day of arrival in Sydney.

NEARING AUSTRALIAN COAST. SYDNEY, July 21. The American Meet is now off the Australian coast. One section will arrive at Melbourne and the other section at Sydney to-morrow morning. The Italian aviator Pinedo has decided to postpone his flight until Friday to enable him to meet the American fleet iat Melbourne. At 8.30 a.m. to-day Flight Lieutenants McIntyre and Heinpel circled over the American Fleet 120 miles off the coast of New South Wales. Admiral Coonfz, in a message to the Australian people from on board the Seattle, -says: “The whole fleet keenly anticipates the visit and already before landing we have received innumerable messages- of welcome. An Australian seaplane this morning circled above the fleet in the rain and mist. I am sorry we were unable to send up a plane to meet him, but we did not expect him owing to the state of the weather. ’ ’

LONG RANGE WIRELESS. NOTEWORTHY ACHIEVEMENTS. (Received July 22, 10.35 a.m.) WASHINGTON, July 21. Some noteworthy performances in radio communication were achieved in connection with dispatches from the American fleet, en route to Australia. Captain McLean, Director of Naval Communications, stated that two way communication was established between Washington and the cruiser Seattle in the vicinity of Samoa. The destroyer Pope and Shanghai had held reciprocal communications with the fleet; Peary, the flagship of the Macmillan Arctic Expedition, nearly in Labrador, heard the fleet on the 7th; and an- amateur at Johannesburg, South Africa, received short wave signals from the fleet from the vicinity of Hawaii.—A. and N.Z. Aesn.