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SILENCE RADIO?
THIS STARTLING EXPOSE OF SECRET GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY PLANS FOR RADIO IN WAR-TIME IS OF VAST SIGNIFICANCE TO EVERY AMERICAN !
F-thiopian front. You hate the horror and futility of war. yet you are eager for news, you must know how the tide is turning. You go to your radio and snap it on.
Bickerings of spiteful machine guns, bellowings of heavy artillery leap at you from your loudspeaker. Through the mad hurly-burly of battle noises whips the strained voice of a front line radio announcer.
*'.... Italians swinging into a general advance all along this sector. The main body of Ethiopian troops have been routed here and only scattered handfuls of hurrying snipers are remaining in position of vantage. . . . Wait! Over on the hill about a half mile to my left, the black troops are reforming for a counter maneuver. ... Just a moment. . . . Hear that? Well-directed machine gun fire has broken up the reorganization even as it began and the Ethiopians are retreating hastily. . . ."
If broadcasts are to be made from the Italian front lines, that's the sort of thing you might expect to hear. Naturally. Italian commanders would not permit news of their own defeats or setbacks to be sent out. And no suggestion of
the horror of war would be allowed to creep in.
Thus in the safety of your own country, in the comfort of your own home, you may be able to hear
fascinating reports of the thrilling side of war — after the disagreeable part has been removed.
But what about the radio war correspondent over there? He faces probably more dangers than the average infantryman. Why?
Let's get into the front line with one of these announcers and share these thrills and dangers with him.
A thin first line of Italian soldiers, lying in shallow, hastily-dug trenches, is a scant hundred feet in front of us Like many of them, we are taking shelter, inadequate at best, behind the jagged boulders of the hilly sandy terrain After the first hundred or so bullets have ricocheted from the other side of the rock and gone whining away, we see the uselessness of ducking, but we're still uncomfortably aware of our peril.
Crouching beside us is the announcer, the engineer observer, and an Italian army officer. The last named is with us to see that we don't broadcast any information which would aid the enemy in planning surprise attacks. We hope it is true that the Ethiopians are ill-equipped with radio direction finders and artillery. It wouldn't take long for a direction finder to locate our broadcasting position and less time than that for the enemy to train guns on us. Since the information being broadcast is necessarily favorable to the Italian cause, the enemy will gleefully welcome any opportunity to wipe us out.
BY JEAN PELLETIER
Crouched in the first line trench are the announcer, carrying pack transmitter and wearing a gas-mask microphone, and the engineer-observer, field glasses in hand, with receiving apparatus.
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