SUNSPOTS AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22513, 22 September 1938, Page 1 (Supplement)

SUNSPOTS AND RADIO COMMUNICATIONS

Intense sunspot activity is expected to interfere seriously with: world radio communications iri .1940. According to Major-General G. G. Tryon .(Postmaster r General of Britain) : the American telephone authorities - and the British Post Office: haye decided to construct a special radio receiving station near = Rochester to combat the interference. ' V‘ As the British' Post. Office, with the exception •of - one long' wave-length channel -to America, operates the. whole-long-distanoe international telephony service ..on a - short wave-length, the - coining'.period of-' sunspot activity/ has - • caused authorities . - grave concern. -

The new technique to beusedat’Rochester station will probably-be in use iri 1939;

Former German Soldiers' More than 800 former' servicemen from Germany = will arrive in .London-to-day. The Duke; of Saxe-CoburgGotha, president of - the union of German former servicemen's' organisations, will be with the party, and: will march with them and members of the British Legion to the London Cenotaph oh ■ Saturday, where the Germans will .place «' wreath. / World Peace-Conference

M. Leon Jouhaux, president of the French Trades Unions' Federation, and leader of 5,000,000 French workers, waited on Hr Roosevelt in Washington this .week pleaded with him' to convene a wbrld peach conference. M. Jouhaux expressedthe opinion that Mr was the only • wot with sufficient international 'prestige to make a conference- possible. For Blind Flying .

The United States Ngvy is testing a simple automatic blind-flying landing device'which is claimed to be foolproof. Two converging cables giving off radio signals are buried in an and pointers .on the aeroplane’s instrument board show the machine’s exact position on the landing path. The aeroplane’s equipment costs . 175 dol* lars and that for the aerodrome 5000 dollars. Jews' from Italy

Signor Mussolini recently claimed .that he would be lenient towards Jews. It is now reported that Jews leaving Italy will be allowed to take £0 per cent, of their property. The remaining 20 per cent, will be retained provisionally, to cover taxes due.- - ■ The Jewish community will be authorised to establish schools under Government control.

Poland' and the League . It is reported from -Warsaw that Poland' has resigned her seat from the League of Nations Council. Partition ot Palestine

The League adopted the report of the Mandates Commission after hearing the statement of Mr R. A. Butler (British Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs). ... The statement reaffirmed tkat "partition presented tbe most hopeful; solution o£ Palestine’s problem.