12,000-MILE WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 May 1919, Page 10

12,000-MILE WIRELESS TELEPHONY.

NEW ZEALAND TO LISTEN TO LONDON CONCERTS.

Dr. Lee De Forrest, the noted wireless telephone expert and inventor, has predicted that in the summer of 1919 it will be possible for the human voice spoken into the transmitter of the radio-tele-phone to be heard 12.000 miles away, or nearly half-way round the world. The feat would extend the present wireless telephone distance 0000 miles in one leap. "This advance in the progress of radio engineering (he says) is assured through the experiments of Dr. Alexanderson. of the General Electric Company, who has been the world pioneer in the construction of high frequency alternators and in generating alternating currents which can be applied to antenae and radiated from wireless signalling. His latest product is a current of approximately 15,000 metres wave length." It was further explained by Dr. De Forrest that all this energy can be controlled so as to be modulated in perfect conformity with speech waves, and be transmitted half-way round the world. He said also that the use of the audion makes possible the amplification of sound received to any desired degree, so as to be heard throughout a large auditorium. Music-lovers in New Zealand, for instance, will be able to hear concerts by artists in New York, Paris, and London as plainly and distinctly as persons attending the actual renditions. "THE GAME IS UP." BOLSHEVTKISM AND FAMINE. Premier Lenin and War Minister Trotsky and their higher officials of the Soviet Government "know the game is up, but do not know how to get out of it or what to do," says H. V. Keeling, an English trade unionist, in an interview in the Westminster Gazette. Mr Keeling recently arrived in .England from Russia, where he spent five years. He admits that at first he was attracted' by Bolshevik ideas, but says that Bolshevism in its present phase is nothing less than "a starvation conspiracy." He believes that when Lenin and Trotsky show the slightest sign of weakening they will be done for. As a result, he says, they simply go ahead "working their machines round and round, and grinding out anybody they think is dangerous. . "On one side," Mr Keeling continues, "are millions of people too absorbed with the thought of how to get food for themselves, their wives and children, to think of anything beyond the moment, and are too exhausted to resist, and on the other a favored few, relatively well fed, and prepared for any violence and cruelty to save themselves from losing their privileges and slipping into the vortex of famine. For whatever may have been the original idea of Bolshevikism, its secret now is simply that it confers upon some and denies to others the privilege of eating, and that all its other deeds of violence and cruelty are as nothing to the supreme cruelty of withholding food."

Asked why the Russians do not revolt and smash the whole thing, Mr Keeling said: "The Russians have been used to tyranny, and have a sort of submissiveness which makes them accept things, but I can assure you that they are sick to death of it, and that nine-tenths of the people who keep in with the Bolsheviks, and have to pretend to like them, would do anything Ito get rid of them if they knew how."