The Archive · 1935

Hello Shanghai. This is IRN, Rome

Hello Shanghai. Please let ts have report of reception." This in English, in a man's voice. Later a woman with a particularly clear and well modulated voice took over the announcing duties of the programme, when contact had been fully estab~ lished. The occasion was the inauguration of direct radiotelephonic communication between Italy and China, for which tests must have been beard ort-wave lateness in Shanghai Announcements were made by the woman already referred to, in Eng-Ush, end then again in Chinese also fu a woman's voice. A message in. Chinese was given in Chinese by Gen.

"NE. Herald" Photos

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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