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IN CABLE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION CONTINUED MAGNETIC STORMS. AS RESULT OF ABNORMAL SUNSPOTS. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) LONDON, September 20. Magnetic storms of unprecedented violence, the result of sunspots which are of such, size that they are visible without the telescope, continue seriously to disrupt wireless and cable communications throughout the world. Britain's link with Australia and New Zealand has suffered seriously because of this, which has been one of the worst periods in the history of Imperial communications. News from Europe is scarce and it is taking hours to send news from Britain, to America. The aurora borealis was again vissiblc in many parts of England on Friday night. No American or other foreign news reached London on Thursday night, and all outgoing messages were held up.
The big Continental radios, including Berlin, Rome and Moscow, were almost inaudible, and the smaller stations were drowned out by atmospherics. The aurora borealis spectacularly illuminated the skies of New York and in many localities throughout the United States. It slightly affected telegraph land lines, and seriously interrupted shortwave radio communications.
Thousands of people telephoned the police and newspapers, some fearing that the end of the world had come.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1941, Page 7
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