TELEVISION IN WAR

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22988, 16 March 1938, Page 10

TELEVISION IN WAR

NEW AID FOR GENERALS WIRELESS EXPERT'S BELIEF ("from OUIt OWN COr;RESPOXDEN"T] SYDNEY, March 12 Jn future wars aeroplanes equipped with television apparatus will soar over the battle fronts and commanding officers at general headquarters many miles ayvay will be ablo to see instantly on a screen set out before them like a map every move of their own troops and of the enemy. Sir Ernest Fisk made this prediction to members of the united Service Institution at a luncheon at the Hotel Wentworth. Although this could jiot be done Jet, said Sir lamest, it would be possible soon. The knowledge was there, but the menus had still to be developed. Radio communication, in peace and in war, meant more to ustialia than to any other country. Sir Ernest T? isle added that in war att6rnpts could be made to stifle wireless- messages, but these interferences could never bo completely successful. During the Great War Britain and France cut and appropriated two cables which had linked Germany with the United States, but the Germans developed their radio system until the handicap was overcome. If Australia built up adequate services and trained the necessary men in time of peace no enemy could block her radio communication system, either inside Australia or l with. , other parts of the A British Fitnpire.