WAR BROADCASTS
AUSTRALIAN UNIT GOING WITH TROOPS PROMISE OF BATTLEFIELD REPORTS. NAJiIS JAMMING BROADCASTS IN GERMAN. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) . MELBOURNE. This Day. The Australian Broadcasting Commission plans to send a mobile unit with the Second A.I.F. to broadcast war news from the battlefield. The unit probably will consist of five officers including a leader commentator, a descriptive broadcaster, a commentator with journalistic experience and two technicians. Broadcasts in German from the Australian short-wave station are being jammed by Berlin. The technical experts of the Postmaster-General’s Department revealed that when the broadcasts in German begin, the speaker’s voice is immediately obliterated by a sound of jingling bells, which continues until, the address ends.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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