WHOLE WORLD TO HEAR

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 861, 3 January 1930, Page 9

WHOLE WORLD TO HEAR

KING WILL OPEN NAVAL CONFERENCE BROADCAST ARRANGED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Wednesday. The King's speech at (he opening of the Five Powers Naval Conference in the Royal gallery of the House of Lords on January 21 is to be broadcast by wireless from all stations to British listeners. It will also be heard in many other parts of the world. An experimental short-wave transmitter at Station SSW will be used, primarily for reception throughout the Empire through the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva. The British Broadcasting Corporation has offered facilities for relaying the proceedings by a telephone line from Savoy Hill, or by a wireless link from Daventry, SXX, to broadcasting organisations throughout Europe. In spite of the inconvenient hour for American longitudes, the National Broadcasting Company of the United States is arranging to relay His Majesty’s speech through its train of stations. INFORMAL TALKS JAPANESE DELEGATE’S EFFORTS British Official "Wireless Reed. 12.20 p.m. RUGBY, Thursday. The chief of the Japanese delegation to the Naval Conference, Mr. Rejiro Wakatsuki, will in all probability have informal conversations in a few days with the Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Arthur Henderson. Mr. Wakatsuki states that as a result of such talks in Washington he now thoroughly appreciates the American point of view and has, he believes, enabled the American delegates to understand the Japanese standpoint. On neither side had there been any attempt to forestall the conference by actual negotiation.