MESSAGE FOR MARS.
INVESTIGATOR TO MAKE ATTEMPT. WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NEXT WEDNESDAY. tlinod Pi ess Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) —United Service). LONDON, Oct: 20. The “Daily Mail” says that by request Mr. Robinson, a psychic investigator, and the ex-town clerk of Shoreditch, will attempt to communicate by wireless with the planet Mars on October 24, when it will be then nearest to the earth. He will send a. message from Rugby by an 18,500-metre wave length. Post 'Office engineers will be listening-in for a reply on a special receiving set at Saint Albans tuned to 30.000-metre wave length, which Mr. Robinson believes Mars uses. He will hand in a five-word message to the central radio office. London, which will cost 18d per word. Air. Robinson alleges he is in telepathic communication with a woman inhabitant of Mars who has laid down the conditions of the experiment. He assumes that the Martians understand the wireless process, though not words, and will repeat dots and dashes to earth.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 22 October 1928, Page 5
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