Public Fooled on April: ARa-dio Canard: Clerk of the Weather Has Joke Too From. Owr Own Correspondent.
Harbin, April 2. w-Mesterday was the first of April gpd ae naa "one of" the iussinn papers played a jok> at the expense of the: public, which however was not #0 successful as might have been owing to a bigger joke: played by the clerk of the weather, in the form of a Reavy snowstorm falling all day tong.
Some little time ago there arrived in Harbin' the Preach Hour-Admiral Masset. who is con-ooted with French radio compa Dies and who has made a trip to the' as Bastin order to link wp the radio-stations out here. those in France. 'The papers had already announced that the French, offer had _pourpaslers with the director. of! the' local Yadio-station with regard to the receiving of Breach news that is now being: broadcast. from Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons and other French stations. Hitherto" the local' radio hus' given but little French news, bata great deal of German propaganda from Nauen. Wollowing these conversations, Admiral Massot lett for Makden, the headquarters of the Adm tation of the Manchurian Mudio Stations. yesterday that" the The "Kopeika" in ite issue of
ientloman has just returned. and find installed for the conve of the public a specially. aqua Ped radio-telephone. inthe office the Wagon Lits" Ca. "The per suid that arrangements beet made for the public. to make uve of this radio-phone for Public from soon yesterday. at a sharge of Onirounott General Manager of the C. I Rivy., Mr. Buianot Manager of Mr. SI. Skidolsky, magnate, had—armounced their intention to converso with Mr. Poutiloft, the head of the Russo. Asiatic Bank in Paris. Tt was further stated that at one o'clock at the same place the public would have the opportunity of heaving "music rendered by the band "of the Yenosei Regiment Broadcast, "Had it been "cne weather no doubt large. crowds Would" have. collected Wagon Lits, and no doubt the stall" would have "been warsled more than a little by o great crowd of curious. people.
The hoax is nearly as good as that one penetrated on the public 4 few years back by the "Wovosti Ziizni,?" which announced that Japanese "torpedo boat which was at Habarovsk at the time would arrive in the Suogari carly in the morning of the Ist, and" on which date literally thousands of Russians made their way to the banks of the river to seo this sight and waited in vain, econ sNow rita.
Snow has fallen continually for the last. 30 hours in Haxbin' and along the ©. B, Riwy.. According to the local meteorological station has been created, turing this.
rd being on April 16, 1911, when 11 centimetres was registered. A strong wind accompanied the snowstorm and made things generally unpleasant: Snow drifts are reported at cer. tain points along the railway and here have, been, blocks in the railway. tr.¢ temperature Minghon fell to-19
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