WIRELESS STATION FOR MECCA
LONDON, October 19. The signal “Mecca calling’" may be soon heard by the Australian wireless enthusiasts, lbn Saud, the King of the Hedjaz and Nejd, and keeper of the Holy Places, who already makes great use of aeroplanes, and who has provided motor buses to carry pilgrims to Mecca, is.arranging for a great wireless station at Mecca, the. building of which will Erobably be undertaken by a British rm. He also proposes wireless stations at Medina, and other cities inj Arabia. It is Expected that business will be brisk in the pilgrim season, when 250,000 Mohammedans from China, Siberia, Java. Borneo, the Celebes, Morocco and other corners of the Moslem world visit Mecca.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 7
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117WIRELESS STATION FOR MECCA Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17408, 5 November 1930, Page 7
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