KING TO BROADCAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1011, 30 June 1930, Page 9

KING TO BROADCAST

WILL SPEAK ON INDIA ON TUESDAY WEEK MAY HELP BRITISH CAUSE Reed. 12.20 p.m. RUGBY’, Sunday. King George V. will on July 8 open at the India House the new offices of the High Commissioner for India It has been decided that the speech which he will deliver, in addition to being proadcast in this country, will be relayed from the experimental transmission station at Chelmsford in the hope that it will be" successfullv picked up in India. Arrangements are not yet complete, and it cannot yet .be predicted with confidence that the experiment will be a success.

The speech broadcast by Sir John Simon a fortnight ago from the British Broadcasting Company’s station was eminently successful, and was heard for instance with perfect distinctness in Simla. But he was broadcasting at half-past-eight in tl>evening, which corresponds to about two in the morning in India, and conditions at that time are entirely different from the atmospherics of mid-day in London in their relation to India. CLEARING THE AIR

The King’s speech at India House will be timed at mid-day. All that cun be stated at present is that either through Chelmsford short-wave or through s line other as yet untried means, an attempt will be made on Tuesday week to transmit the King’svoice, so that it may be heard directly bv millions of people in India. If successful the occasion will not only he of considerable historic interest, but may reasonably be expected to help in a practical way toward clearer perception in India of the true motives of British policy.