Wireless and Jumbo

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 82, 11 August 1923, Page 6

Wireless and Jumbo

tDDLOCICAL GARDEN INCIDENT ELEPHANT UNCONCERNED. (Received 10 20 a.m.) London, August 12. During an elaborate amusing experiment, Indarini, an elephant at ■die Zoological Hardens, refused to tdfee orders by wireless from his native keener, who shouted the familiar commands —Lie Down, Stand tfe,, Salute. Pick tip from a broadcasting station. , The sounds came distinctly from a, loud speaker outside the bars of Ihdarini’s enclosure Indarini was enticed within two feet of the bars by a feast of locusts, nuts and small • potatoes. Only once he raised 1 hns .cans, but otherwise entirely ignored tie commands, and continued to demolish the potatoes unconoeroecliy. ’ , , , . . The suggested explanation is that it is, not words alone, but the personality of the attendant which is necessary ;to control an elephant.