New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-02
MdrcOni Believes He Receiued
Wireless Message From. Mars
London Manager Tells Club Here Of Mysterious
Signals Heard on Yacht in Mediterranean
Waves 100000 Meters in Length Picked I'm

j. G. II Macbeth, London manager of
the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com
pand, Ltd, told several hundred men
at luncheon of the Rotary Club of
sew York yesterday that Signor Mar
conf believed he had intercepted mes
sages from Mars during recent atmos-
pheric experiments with wireless on
board his yacht Electra in the
Mediterranean.
Mr. Macbeth said that Signor Mar
conf had been unable to conceive any
other explanation of the fact that dur
ing his experiments he picked up mag
netic wave lengths of 100, 900 meters
whereas the maximum length of wave
produced in the world to-day is $4,000
meters.
The regularity of the signals, Mr..
Macbeth declared, disposed of any as
sumption that the waves might hava
been caused by electrical disturbances s.
me signals were unintelligible, con-
slstlng apparently of a code, the
speaker said, and the only signal rec
oognlzed was one resembling the letter
used In the Marconi code. An inter
probation might possibly be arrived at
later.
The London wireless manager said
II was foolish to discredit anything in
connection with the possibilities of
wireless, The experiments carried on
were, he said, constantly demonstrate
ing how little had so far become known
OF its power and range.
The fact is, said Mr.. Macbeth. Eve
don't know how far wireless rays will
travel 1t is not at all impossible or
for that matter improbable that some
planet, on which the same method we
are using has been perfected, may be
trying to get into communication with
u.s. We continually hear these high
power taps, delivered with such regu.
larity that it completely dispels any
suggestion of their being caused by
ordinary electrical activities of the
atmosphere. These we have learned to
understand and gauge. The signals ]
am referring to are Of quite another
| sort
There is, of course, the Language
barrier that interposes in our efforts
to interpret messages from other
planets. Still, the Germans were able
in three weeks to decipher English
code messages used IN war time and W,
we're equally successful in decipherin.
their code.
Every Station Listed
at has been suggested that thss
signals might have come from som
German or Russian wireless station
but | repeat that there is no station
on the face of the globe that is capabl
of producing them. Also by interna
tional agreement every station and tn
length of the waves it is capable o
producing are known.
$50 far as the progress Of the wire
less telephone is concerned, am will
ling to make prediction with regard t
it's future I believe that within a yea
1t will be possible to pick up the tele
phone receiver and call London o
Paris with the same ease that one ma
call Boston, Washington or Chicag
from New York to-day.
Il have talked across the Atlanti
jaany times on our telephones. and tn
voice at the other end of the wire wa
so distinct as to seem but few block
away. Recent experiments have demon
strated that New York and London viii
very soon be exchanging newspaper pic