OUT OF THE WORLD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18903, 19 January 1927, Page 5

OUT OF THE WORLD.

LIFE ON ELLICE ISLANDS. [ [THE PRESS Special Serrtce.] WELLINGTON, January IS. 1 It is almost inconceivable fiowadays that any civilised being could bo practically cut oft from the rest of the world for months at a stretch, but that js the fortune or otherwise of Mr D. J. Kennedy, the resident commissioner of the Kllice Islands, a group some 2000 miles to the north of New Zealand. Air Kennedy and his wife, who-are the only Britishers on the . islands, sometimes receive no mails for nine months. There is no cable communication, and at the present time his latest newspaper is three months old. This fact has been ascertained by a Wellington wireless enthusiast who has been in communication with Mr Kennedy. The latter has contrived a transmitting set, the battery—the old-fashioned wet type —being made from coconut shells. His signals, though naturally weak, were picked up clearly enough in Wellington, and pow his local amateur wireless friend has 1 agreed to supply Mr Kennedy with news at stated intervals. , One of Mr Kennedy's first queries was whether there was any truth r in a rumour that there was war with China. Evidently he had heard snatches f.'ou; the air." ■ .