A BROADCASTING OUTRAGE.
News of an attempt to prevent the broadcasting of the famous Crowland Abbey bells, near Peterborough, on a recent Sunday evening was officially made known, after being kept a secret. Shortly before eight o'clock on the Sunday evening in question, a telephone subscriber on the Crowland to Peterborough circuit could not get through, and was informed that this was due to an engineering defect. At that time telephone officials themselves wore unaware of what had. really happened. The next morning, however, when men were sent out to discover the cause, they found that the circuit, consisting of three wires, one a spare, had apparently been deliberately cut with pliers on *a lonely part of the road, two miles from the village of Thorney. The wires had been twisted apart, completely severing telephonic communication. Fortunately for broadcasting, wires in a different direction had been used to connect with the main land wire to London, and the attempt to wreck the transmission was foiled.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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165A BROADCASTING OUTRAGE. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19215, 2 January 1926, Page 2 (Supplement)
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