Shanghai's spring may have come to an official end on May 6, and Midsummer Day may be only eleven days away, but few would have dared. fo say so in the face of the cold, howling winds and frequent rains of fon June 12 and the day before. The Winds of March and the typhoons of August generally "make themselves felt by blowing trees about, boardings down and old slate roofs all over the place, but one doesn't expect a gale in the early part of June to blow down a broadcast Station's antenna. Yet that is what happened.
The station affected is XMHD, the Shanghai Christian Broadcast Station, of 128 Museum Road, and an emerg-fancy coll was received at the Central Fire "Station to the effect that the transmitting antenna and subsidiary wiring had collapsed. Two fre "engines and an ambulance hurriedly clanged their way to the scene, and found that the windstorm had Blown the wiring down, Fortunately, there was no short~ circuit as the station, which has a power output of 1,000 watts, was not Transmitting at the time, and no one was injured when the wires suddenly came tumbling down,
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