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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 28

RADIO

HOW WIRELESS WOULD HAVE

ALTERED HISTORY.

[BY LIEUT.COMDR. THE HON. J. M. KENTWORTHY, R.N.)

* Supposing Drako's ships has been years we can appraise the politics Atted with radio? What if Napos of Philip and his allies and collca leon's forces had been equippedgues with a better understanding. with wireless? These are fascinat- He stood for authority, for the ing speculations, made the mere 80super-State, for the ideal of a when dealt with in Commander Europe united in the Holy Catho Kentworthy's authentic and entirely he faith and the re-establishment of readable style

la system, that would take the place. Wiroless is affecting business, of the Roman Empiro, welded to social life, and politics profoundly, gether both on a spiritual and, It in no exaggeration to say that if material basis. this wonderful invention had esine

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earlier the history of the world

would have been différent.

Cortainly, the history of this country would have been altered; sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. In this and 'the'

Spain WAS

owing to the exploitation of the immensely wealthy New World. Philip had able generals and admirals, and his Spondiards Fa high reputation as fighters and navigators. The intention: waa”, tổ

FEATURES

Para Violence.

The Hour of Doom,"

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The Spaniards wore first sighted on July 19. In those, nine days the | Armada, despite ille fighting, rench-

This gigaatio plan of campaign failed through faulty of.com

means munication. If there had been a

ad the Straits of Dover, and anchor. wireless system in use, the Admiralod in Cainis. Roads. It seems na have been in communication with struck in command of the Arman would though. England's hour of doom had Parma, and they would have stuck when the conditions were suitable for the combined expedition.

Whereas, the absence of wireless forced Parma to push on so as to

WIRELESS IN THE WAR ZONE.

IMPORTANCE OF RADIO

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MODERN WARFARE.

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The English ships which had radio in the field. In fact, present- Recons happenings in China have done much to prove the value of harassed by Amada from Ply day warfare depends on this form mouth) had fred any most of their of communication to a tremendous ammunition and been forced to reinfantry wits being equipped

extant, tanks, aircraft and even turn to Dover

The importance of wireless in modern warfare can hardly be stimated 10 necessary has wire less become; in fact, that it is doubtful if a war could be waged at all now-b-days without the aid of wireless and certainly the side

enemy. which makes the most of its wire- leas has a great advantage over the

arrive at the, rendezvous at the Lord Howard of Effingham, the appointed time. Secondly, the Lord High Admiral of England; now Armada could have received warn"in command of all our naval forces, ings of the approaching storms, and played one last card by sending thus avoided the final disaster of fire ships amongst the crowded gates which was the real cause of panic, three of their vessed's running the loss of so many ships, in the Spaniards, who put to sea in a its defeat

ashore in the confusion,

"Thirdly, when the great. Fleet was scattered to the eastward, alter passing through the Channel wireless signata and returned to the

Then the gule, sprang up of which, again owing to the lack of wireless, the Spaniards had no previous warn-

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German war experts, and amongst TO-DAY'S WIRELESS these foreign legionaries there will certainly be some radio experts. If,. therefore, the Chinese continue to develop their armaments and in- erase tasir armies along lines in- dicated by the previous war exponi ). ence of the legionaries, then we may expect the foreign experts to teach the Chinese all there is to know about the use of wireless in

warfare.

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of the great? and decisive events in our troubled stand history, and how they would have developed and how. 'tho destiny of this country might lavo bien, and in some cases wer- tainly would have been altered "there had been the better and quicker means of communication that wireless telegraphy provides..

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The lighter English föress were. only able to harass the Armada in its. Tassago "up-Channel" Con- sidering the size of their force, the Spanish losses were comparatively triding. The great feat of moving this huge convoy of ships, with their artillery, soldiers and sailors to

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That the Japanese have develop- The Greatest of Applied Sciences. ed wireless to the fullest possible

Today the valve is a highly- extent was apply demonstrated in developed picse of apparatus, our own late war when the Japs thanks to the Allip which wireless were our allies. In fact, the syriter received in the Great War plus the abtained personal experience of this development of broadcasting. And munication it was impossible to troyers when operating in the the greatest of the applied sciences rally their scattered shipa,

Mediterranean. Their telegraphy is with far greater polities where. almost perfect and "as aven as an warfare is conscrned than ever be automatic machine, as anyone who fore,. 11 cares to listen to the incoming and f The most valuable side of wire outgoing Japanese liners can tell less from the point of view of war- ture is in the realm of abort and for themselves.

ultra-short wares. Short-wave tele-6.30 to 6:55 pm- phony has now become a fine art, and although there is always the risk of the enemy overhearing one's Snitely more remote then it was in conversation, this possibly is in

ception of wireless message was a

paign. (Special wireless receiving stations were dotted along the const lines of the belligerent countries whose sole purpose it was to pick up enemy signals"and decode them.)

But the point is that they were through the Channel and if they could have been reassembled the junction, with Parma would have been made. They were still far stronger than the English, who had

A System of Their Own; Although the Japanese have largely copied our western ideas in wireless, they have also developed In wireless system of their own, and in the case of wireless telophon

wireless did affect this country and igious doctrine. It was the pro make the junction with the Army suffered damage themselves, and the were just as early in the field as the Great War, where enemy inter- the history of the world daring the costs England and its revoltcomplished. "But then the scheme through. But there was no means of ao forward despite the interesting very important section of the cam

[ressive movement of its sither At the Netherlands was actually ne. whole plan could have been carried ourselves.

terrible years between 1914 and

1018, And I shall then disclose certain facts that are only known to a few people, but which I con- sider at right should now be re- vealed to the general public.

In Armada Days.

ing religion must be suppressed Philip's determination was stimu Inted by thres factors,

He was a religious fanatie, he wished to avenge the death of Mary Queen of Spots, and he meant to

breku down as I havo described.

But if lack of suitable communt cations upset Philip's plans, it near- Ted to the ruin of the English. Queen Elizabeth was short of money and her exchequer was embarrUS-

signalling from the Spanish flagship

The Chinese, of course, are not fact that they had a highly develop so the gale senttered ships, anded civilisation thousands of years their captains had to make the best early form of motor car when our ago, and used gunpowder and wi

ancestors were running about in of their way home.

tiger. skins. It is remarkable that they did not hit upon wireless, for they knew something about magne tism; perhaps they did for who

It was the greatest sea expedition ever attempted up to that period

tere loяHon to these upstart sed The maintenance of . largy of histori filed through Let me begin with one of the privateers, for, put into prosent fleet in those day was a great strain lack of an efficient means of signal can tell, what is buried in the,, re-

grent turning-points in our History, the attempted invasion of England by King Philip of Spain, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. All

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day language, His Mast Catholic Majesty looked upon the English as Bolsheviks and pirates. Only utter decat turned him from his purpose.

the then known world watched this. The plan was well thought out. great trial of strength between One of the best soldiers of his day, Catholic Spain and Protestant Eng. the Duke of Paima, was to assemble land:

had not the wealth of the Spanish on the resources of England, which

Imperialista..

On May 20, 1588, the Armada,

which es were greater and more which consisted of 130 ships, ol

powerful than, anything at the dis

ing over long distances. It is prob- cords of that vast, and mysterious

able that if wireless had been in- vonted England would have been conquered and history profoundly altered.

country to

What the Experts Will Do. However, it is reported that Canadians have crossed the Pacific large numbers of Americans and

to join their ranks,. together with

30,000 troops, Spanish veteransposal of Elizabeth, sailed from the HAVE YOU HEARD THESE?

It was not merely a war between (some of the best fighters in "two peoples. King Philip was a Europe, in the Netherlands; ang reaclute and able monarch,, one of the Armada with another 360,000-men: the greatest leaders that mediaval was to sail to the Straits of Dover Catholicism hnd produced. "And he to cover their passage. If these represented an ideal-Imperialism. two forces could units, their com- Looking back over the lapse of bined power wda irresistible.

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Tagus on their northward bassnge: They had no weather reports and were delayed by strong contrary winds which did much damage to the huge Fleet.

A. Call at Corunna,

It only reached Coruma, ia the north of Spain, after three weeks of hattling with the elements. The shipa were so damaged and the sea- men and soldiers so discouraged int the report reached England that the expedition had been aban doned.

Here are lists of long-wavO and short-wave stations which should be picked up by anyone in Hong Kong who has a modé-

·rately, good set muitable for-re- ediving such; signals. Succeas: in picking up these slations also depends very largely upon fav- Durable atmospheria conditions. Readers are invited to add to this list should they succeed in picking up any station not in-,, oluded in either of these: lista.

When the new came that the Armada had put into Corunna, the greaten part of the hurriedly assem bled English. fleet was dispersed; for it was believed that the attempt to invade England had been abans doned for that year: The hired merchant ships, for example, were expensive. As a precaution, the naval ships and some of the armed: merchant ships were kept at Ply mouth; and they were literally sur prised by the Armada, which, by 50, Superinuman efforts, had been ro

43.4 paired and sailed again this time:

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"LONG-WAVE STATIONS.

Wave

·length

(Metres) Station

200 Magila 977 Shanghai

300 Kaijo 370 Nagoy

Call Kilo Sign gyele K.Z.I.B. 1,183 K.S.M.6.. 1,083:

Some ultra-short waves have an absolute maximum range of a few miles, which can be adjusted to almost fixed limits, and these, to gether with the many more or less secret devices which can be incor porated in the wreless desanto and which make it impossible for any hut the persons concerned to understand what is being said very difficult proposition in present- make intervention by thoenómy a

day warfare,

Keeping in Touch With Tanks. Nowadays both tanks and aircraft, can keep in almost perfect touch with their headquarters by wire- less. In the case of tanks this is invaluable, for whereas, in the last war our tanka were greatly ham- pered by having to work "blind,'* now it is possible to give them in- structions na to direction, boggv ground, and so forth, from aircraft working in conjunction with them,

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Directional wireless is also of vert. importance in warfare, and it is possible to quide any wireless- equipped mechanism along a safe course and thus in many cases avoid inevitable destruction. This also applies to infantry and other units who may become detached from the main force and lose their way; as. NO_often happent S

For go small and compact is u wireless Bot to-day that it can casily form part of an infantry. man's equipment, and although the noor trench slogger, already over- burdened with what he regards as

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Every schoolboy knows the story of Drake playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, when the unexpected newe tame that the Armada was in sight. 28.5 If they had managed to slip through 27,8 in the night, which might easily

Manila have been the cans, they would 340

Bobenectady have placed themselves between 18.89

Bandowng Kootwijk (Holland). the fores of. Drake at Ply- 18:4-

Bandoong 17,4 mouth, and the remainder of the 160 Bangkok British naval forces in the Thames

183 Kootwijk (Holland)

Bandong and other ports to the eastward: 16.5 Nanoy

Pittsburg Indeed, with a little luck, Philip's 18.08 project might have succeded. Eng- land have been conquered, and the whole History of the world altered."

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And the Bino-Japanese, war lasted any appreciable length of time we might have seen wireless-controlled tanke, aircraft, aerial tomeddes and

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