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j APRIL 22, 1920 relayed impulses will continue on into the ether until the ' arrive at Mars, or any other planet which may happen, to be within reach. With specially devised instruments Professor Todd will " listen in " for any passing impulses, and these will be recorded on a super-sensitive plate, which will be developed on terra firma, and the sound intensified till it can be heard. IT is assumed by the Professor that if, as Marconi and othersbelieve, the Martians are trying to communicate with us, - they are sufficiently advanced in knowledge to make a seriouseffort when the two planets are nearest together. All the •facilities of the War Department's chief balloon school havebeen placed at Professor Todd's disposal, and experts of the ; Rockefeller Institute and John Hopkins University are co-operating with the loan of specially invented scientific in- struments. Several flights probably will be made beforethe results of the experiments are made public. BRONZE medals are to be presented this week to the buglerswho sounded the " All Clear" signals after air-raids in Wandsworth from 1915 to 1918. The ceremony takes placeat the Council House on Friday at 6 o'clock. " PUSSYFOOT " is to rule at Waddon, London's air-port.Last week,. owing to some informality in the application, the Croydon Bench could not see their way to confirm thefull licence asked for by the proprietors who have taken over the " hotel" and refreshment arrangements at theaerodrome. So for a year at least probably travellers by air and others having business at the air-port, must see theytake their own dope with them, at least those who still have under the new Budget enough money left to settle; fora thirty under. " AERONAUT," in the Observer of Sunday last, in criticisinga statement that at 5,000 ft. the vision extends to 100 miles 1 i," Sir Ross Smith^leaving Richmond, N.S.W., on his Vickers-Vimy-Rolls. , ' • Photo, by courtesy of the Palmer Tyre Co.) 453
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