London, Sept, 7.
The Indian Navy Discipline' Bill, which has now passed through both houses of the Indian Parliament, gives the full status of a navy to the Royal Indian Marine and provides that the discipline of the force shall be regulated, as in Dominion navies, by the British Naval Discipline Act, suitably amended to meet local conditions.
'The Royal Indian Marine is the oldest service in British India, going back to the formation of squadron in 1012 by the East India Company for protection against European rivals' and Indian pirates.
During the Great War, its ships jand personnel were absorbed into the Royal Navy. In 1926 it was decided to reorganize the service as a combatant force. It consists at present of five armed sloops, of which one ie under construction, two patrol vessels, a surveying ship and a depot ship.
The administrative task of reconstruction Is already finished and the London, Sept. 6.
The British Broadcasting Corporation's new dual programme on the transmitting station at Droitwich was [brought into commission to-day. Its long wave transmitter, which will replace the Daventry station, is designed for a power of 150 kilowatts fio it aerial which is at least three times that of any station previously built by the B. B.C.
The aerial is supported on masts 700 feet in height, the highest pre~ viously used by the B. B.C. being 500 feet. It is hoped that Droitwien station, which has cost £250,000, will give satisfactory service under aver-Jage atmospheric conditions to nearly the whole of the British Isles, but it will not be possible to determine the exact performance of the station until it hag been in regular service for at least a year, and all types of atmospheric conditions have been During the next four weeks, the Jnew Droitwich and old Daventry stations will take turns in radiating programme of 1,500 metres wave length to accustom listeners to. the [new station to a much stronger signal, "Wireless through Reuter,
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