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BROADCASTS IN FRENCH DELIBERATE INTERFERENCE (By Telegraph. —press Association) WELLINGTON, Sunday Since France capitulated and the British Government recognised General de Gaulle’s organisation, special broadcasts in French have been included in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s European and oversea; services. A striking tribute to the value of these broadcasts and the apprehension caused to the German and the French Governments was evident this afternoon when, at 4.45 p.m. New Zealand time, the transmission of one of these news sessions began from four senders then in use by Daventry. Less than a minute elapsed before deliberate interference with all frequencies appeared. Loud buzzings masked the speaker’s voice, making hearing difficult. One station was completely blotted out, two were barely intelligible, but the fourth could still be understood. That the interference was deliberate was proved by the fact that within a minute of the news session’s conclusion and the opening of the band music programme the buzzing stopped on all four frequencies.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 9
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161TALKS JAMMED Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21207, 2 September 1940, Page 9
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