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SOVIET RADIO CHAIN. each State should be entitled to a number of votes "in proportion to its economic importance.”...

WORLD DISSEMINATION OF PROPAGANDA.

ASTONISHING PROGRESS.

Russian Misuse of Principle, "Freedom of the Air, if not misused, is an essential in radio development until air, laws are codified. However, there have been instances where the Russians are In this article, Lieutenant-

alleged to have misused this free Colonel W. Jefferson Davis, special dom. The interference with, and correspondent in Rusafa of "The intentional obstruction of radio Sydney Sun" and the North Amer- Broadcasting Station during the ican Newspaper Alliance records transmission from the Daventry the astonishing scope of Soviet eral'strike in England last year, satisitics in connection with the and the overt acts of the Russian development of "wireless."

Government in attempting to start

·Moscow, July 22. Soviet Russia, the mest backward evolution in Roumania through the broadcasting of its appeals, are, of countries politically, is far from perhaps, the two best known in a back number scientifically. Instances of Russia's misuse of the aviation the Russians produced the principle of "liberty of the ether." largest bombing 'plane that emerg- ed during the world, war, namely, the Sikorsky.

Financial Aid, -- There are many instances which could be cited. Speeches violently In wireless communications Rus- against the Constitutions of for sia's progress is astonishing to obsign countries have already been servers. Not one, but a score of broadcast from the Russian stations foreigners, who have recently visit-in the language of countries against ed the country, have found this which they were directed. true.

Fortunately, so far, they have Necessity is the mother of in-been heard by relatively few, owing vention. Russia has great need for to the geographical position of the both aeroplanes and wireless com-country and the Jamming at great Her distances are distances by the heavy commercial great. There are villages which traffic conducted in Morse in lie beyond the reach of ralia and Europe on wave lengths above 1,000 telegraph wires. Until the advent metres. of the aeroplano and wireless they were reached only on foot, by horse, or water. To bridge the great dis-air power and wireless communica- tances the Russians have used the tione is very evident. At the aeroplane. Moscow is no longer a moment she is utilising German week's journey by train from the science and industry, but is seeking capitals of Europe.

financial connections in the United States and elsewhere.

munications.

Russia's need for Anancial assist- ance to develop her resources, her

In the autumn of 1924. broad- casting was unknown in Soviet Russia. Since then its develop ment has been very rapid. Start- ing in 1924 with ons-radio trans- miiting atation Komintown-a 5. Kw. station at Moscow, there are more than fifty stations (in various parts of the union) transmitting programmes. The old Komintown Station has been replaced by a of 35 Kw, type, modern station manufactured in Nijhny Novgorod.

Two 20 Kw. stations, assembled entirely in the workshops of the Electrical Trust, are installed is Kharkoff, and Tills (Caucasus),

The other stations and there is a 10 Kw. station in Leningrad.

range from 5 to 7 Kw. power, and are distributed throughout the principal cities of the various do- partments and republics. The power station will be of the Moscow increased shortly to 70, Kw. and transmitters of the 20 Kw, type ara to be installed at Irkutak, Yakutsk, Sverdlovak (Ural), Tashkent, Novosibirsk (Western Siberia).

Ramifications of Service. Commercial radio, telegraphy has correspondingly aince developed

* inaugurated. broadcasting There are 48 transmitting stations, and about 300 receiving stations for the internal service. Moscow is the great radio centro. (one big frequency alternator of 50 Kw, and two-valve transmitters). There is 4 valve and arc-transmitter in Leningrad, and a valve-transmitter in Kharkoff.

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All transmitters operating from the Bureau of Moscow are engaged in international service. There is a service between Moscow and Tash- A short night flight from Berlin, leaving the Tempelhof aerodrome Her participation in the Inter-kent (in Central Asia), also bo- at 3 o'clock in the morning, a stop national Economic Conference in-tween Moscow and Khabaroff, or]! for breakfast at Konigsberg; a few dicated that she was willing to Vladivostock, operating with short moments at Kovne, and the travel-sacrifice her Marxian political 'ler by air la able to dine at Moscow theories for actual results, even if that same evening. Mail now goes it meant fraternising with hated to the uttermost reaches of the Capitalism. Volga, the Caucasus, and Siberia regularly.

Moscow Pleasants. The peasants of the interior hear Moscow nightly by wireless, when they can afford to buy the receiving The Government carries on all its communication through its Afty odd stations, as many as are in the rest of Europe combined.

set.

transmitters. All of these

Wave transmitters, with the exception of the Khabaroff station, are manu- factured in Russia.

The radio programmes are spon- sored by the Radio-peresatsha, Ltd., broadcasting company primarily, but owner of a few stations as

Europe's great problem in radio is undoubtedly the attitude of Russia, which is very much alive to the value of broadcasting in a country otherwise weak in com-well. There is a society-"Friends of the Radlo"-with stations in a big munications. Russia has radio programme, and is going various parts of the union, for the ahead with the construction of very guidance and instruction of radio

amateurs. powerful broadcasting stations..

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The number of registered listen- While Daventry, Radio-Paris, What the Russians have done is Metalo, Tour Eiffel, Koningawusterers in the Department of Moscow to bridge a generation. Instead of hausen, Berlin, and Hilversum are exceeds 900,000, but the number of following the tedious path of evolu- commonly supposed to be the lead-non-registered listeners is estimat- ed at about 500,000. All listeners tion, they have started where the ing broadcasting stations other countries now are that is, Europe, and find that Russia, must pay a tax of from 1.5 to 8.00 roubles per annum. Non-register- they dispensed with preliminary credited with stations of from 1 to ed listeners, when discovered by the experiments. Whatever else the 6 Kwta in power, is really con radio Inspector, have to pay 20 Russians may be backward instructing, and already operating, roubles, and to register immediate- they are not backward in seizing stations of from 25 to 40 Kwts.

ly their receiving apparatus. This the fruits of the labours of other

law is not very strictly enforced, countries.

as yet, in the Department of Mos- cow or in the other departments.

Unquestionably Russia could con- tribute much to European musical | programmes, but with her curious political complex, it cannot be ex pected that she will devote her at- tention to this phase, of broadcant- ing, and cease the distribution of propaganda in foreign countries.

At the Geneva Radio Congress the one admixture of what may be construed as politics was the in- sistent demand on the part of the Russian delegates for absolute freedom of the air-berty of the ather"—as expressed by the French, and on the principle of equality, as applied to States, under which

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