Evening star., 1932-03-06
WHETHER the battle RACES
4 or the peace talk flows,
" radio Is there to furnish
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w radio is there to furnish
almost instantaneous
contacts with the outside world.
Not only are the cables from the
Shanghai war zone and the
Geneva Disarmament Conference
being taxed to capacity, but at
Shanghai the Chinese govern
ment's powerful radio station is
carrying a large share of the
world traffic to America and at
Geneva the League of Nations
newly completed "Radio-Nations'
has just been impressed into serv-
ice for direct communication with
this country.
Additionally, from Geneva come
periodical reports to the American
broadcaSting networks by Amerl-
cas- two speaking reporters" Will
liam Hard and Frederic William
Vile. At Shanghai, American cor
respondents have found the radio
a ready medium for filing their
dispatches up to now without
censorship. Due to the time diff
ference between this country and
Shanghai, an event occurring
there is actually reported here the
day before it happens"
Early plans of combined news
paper and radio interests, as a
matter of fact, also embraced
having a speaking reporter" at
the Far Eastern war zone, who
would talk across the Pacific to
American listeners from time to
time. But apparently the plans
went awry Floyd Gibbons, the
war correspondent and radio
speaker, went first to Manchuria
with the dual object of reporting
it for the HeErSt newspapers and
also for the radio. Only one of
his radio talks actually came
through-&hat was when he spoke
from Harbl0 and introduced a
japanese general to the American
radio audience. -
Although radiotelegraph con-
facts are readily available, there is
no radio-telephone medium at
Shanghai, whittier Gibbons went
from Manohuria as soon as major
hoStilities changed fronts. If there
were a radio-telephone station at
Shanghai, it is more than prob
able that firSt-hand vocal reports
would also be coming from there
as from Geneva.
The Shanghai radio station Is at
Chen-ju, miles west of the city
proper. According to George F.
Shecklen, American adviser to the
Chinese minister of communica-
tlonS, it has been spared from
bombing attacks by the Japanese
despite the fact that hostile planes
have frequently flown close to it.
Shellfire and some bombs havo
come so close, however, as to rem
DER exceedingly dangerous the re-
pair work that the stations en-
glneerS have had to do OCCASION
ally. The station operates on
short waves contracting San Fran
cisco directly. 1t was built by
Americans, who trained and still
supervise the Chinese personnel.
so much verbiage has been
moving from Geneva that it be-
came necessary to establish a
temporary radio circuit between
New York and "Radio-Nations," a
Snort-WaVe beam station situated
lew minutes walk from the vii
lage OF Pangins, near Nyon, pic
tureSque resort on Lake Geneva.
The receiving station is at Colorex,
another nearby village. Messages
are nled at a central Office in
GeneVa, which is connected with
the sending and receiving stations
by remote control.
Radlo-NationS" was built for
the secretariat of the League of
Natlons last year to make avail
aple a means Of quick communica-
tion with nations of the world
either directly or by relays from
otner powerful European static;
TWO Short-Wave transmitters are
used, one built by the French and
tne other rushed through for COM
pletlon by the British recently in
tlme Tor the Disarmament Con-
Terence. Each transmitter has
HU.uoo watts power, the first oper-
atlng on Is, 19, 35 and 60 meters,
ana The second on IS, 18 and 35
meters: The station, which began
operating on February 3, has
opened direct circuits with Shang-
nal, Nagoya, Japan, BuenoS Aires
and Rio de Janeiro.
|
nHAST1C price reductions and
- gain in the sale of tubes were
factorS which marked the progress
OF the radio industry in 1881, ac-
cordlng to current Radio Retail
ing. The industry's income for
the year was 5000 ,270,000 and 1t