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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 35, 8 March 1935, Page 4

QNE night, a few months ago, listen- DY) ers to the ‘Warsaw station started « ringing up the authorities to ask it ¢ their sets were in order, or what had . happened to Warsaw. It was the station which was out of order, but the engineers didn’t know why; they feared it might be another attempt to tap the lines and put on an unauthorised talk; but they found it was not a talk but a stalk-a stork, that is, that was on its way out of Poland for the winter season, and’ had got tangled in the lines fror: the transmitter to the power-house. It was a big stork, and the 35,000 volts left it dead, but the short-circuit damaged the transformers of the sub-station, burnt out the cir- } cuits supplying current to the transmitter, and deprived for the { the residents of suburbs in Warsaw! and of the district around Raszyn of electric power.