INTENSIVE RADIO WAR

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1931, Page 6

INTENSIVE RADIO WAR

A war in the air for supremacy in radio broadcasting power lias begun among European nations. .j Millions of dollars have already been jptnt, and chaotic conditions in tue ■tiier are being created l.v the struggle Several Governments have urged an

nternational conference lor “limitation to broadeasting power ’ to on 1 the rad o. ace, and this subject probably will be the outstanding problem before the international radio-telegraphic convention at Madrid in 18312. the battle for dominance in broad-

casting has become of great political and diplomatic importance, beacuse supremacy in the ether will enable i giihouiing—and perhaps hostile—

fovefument and political organisation ‘ o speak ‘o millions of Europeans In their homes and over the heads of their ow n Governments.

Censorship of incoming news and coitt’ol of official ews agencies in various Kur.-’pean countries enable the Governments to exercise strict supervision of the reports which their citTJens read.

But no method has been discovered to prevent them from listening to broadcasts from statins more powerful than their national station.

The British Government recently protested to llussfia 1 fcigaTding 'broadcastng of Soviet propaganda in the English language, which was heard everywhere in England. France lias erected a powerful station Strasbourg to reach millions of German speaking French citizens in tlu* former German territory of AlsaceLorraine, and re'ieve them of, necessity of depending ‘on German rgdio/' Germany replied by building a powerful station at .Yluhlacker, near Stutt"art. to make German programmes dominant over French broadcasts in -omherii Germany. The Muhfacker station interferes with London regional broadcasts, and an effort is now under way for adjustment.