The 100 kilowatt broadcast set at Changchun, is not operated in the standard broadcast band (550 to 1,600 kilocycles). Its close proximity to Japan might prove embarrassing to some of the numerous 10 k. w. sets there. Changchun's programme, of course largely Japanese, is put on the air through a small set, operating at 560 k. c. The large transmitter is operated on long waves (166 k. c.)
Ordinary receiving sets sold in this district make no provision for receiving at this low frequency, so the Manchuria Telephone & Telegraph Ca. put on the market an attractive set for $45 for receiving both bands. An active sales campaign followed. A lottery with many prizes was advertised for each 100 sets sold. Sets were offered on the instalment plan, price $48.
The latest development is that men in uniform have been entering houses d confiscating sets which have been known or suspected of having been used to listen to a station in China. Sales slackened. The T. & T. were threatened with an overstock. Later listening-in was again permitted after the Japanese had installed a noi generator operating on Nanking's wave-length, and fondly believed propaganda is thus barred.
Russian "Propaganda-Mills"
Actually it is understood that the "Howler", inconveniences the operators of any set costing less than $50, Nanking is as usual clearly audible on the better sets, The M. T. T. longwoveband set brings in two Russian "propaganda-mills," the existence of which would have been unknown to the public, without the new sets. It is amusing to learn that "Radio teners in Manchoukuo heard also long Soviet lectures on anti-aircraft defence and light-control broadcast from Habarovsk, Vladivostok and other Siberian stations."
Mukden inhabitants were told to observe the regulations which were in force during last year's manceuvres New regulations were promptly pubished and the night markets ud others whose livelihood depended upon doing business under artificial light again had their business brought to a standstill.
The military authorities at Dairen observed that the result of their first day's practice was not entirely satis factory. The military in Mukden said that light-control enforcement in that town went too far. It s so dark on the streets that many traffic accidents occurred, consequently control should be more carefully carried out in the future, and both the instructors and the public should recognize the difference between precautionary light-control and emer gency control.
Precise measurements were furnished by the A. D. C. as to the hoods for electric lamps, yet one Chinese who had paid his 30 cents for the official article was fined $5 for a stray ray of light, according to repor: received yesterday.
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