The annual international radio tests were conducted last week with indifferent success. The sun, undergoing its periodic attack of solar acne, discharged from its sunspots enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S. The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera...
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