"WIRELESS" IN THE NAVY

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 537, 18 June 1909, Page 7

"WIRELESS" IN THE NAVY

COASTAL STATIONS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.-Oopyrlßht.) London, Juno 16. The Admiralty is organising Marconi wireless telegraph stations, on the cast and north coasts. -

THE INVISIBLE GUIDING POWER. Wireless telegraphy in tlio Navy has already brought tno Admiralty iiito Communication with iho Floats at sou, and Air. W. T. Stead has lieon ondeavouring to omphasiM tho great nuportaiioe of a development "wln'oh enables my. lords to communicate directly with all ships within 1600 miles ot land. The full significance of this latest application of science lias as yet been imperfectly appreciated at Homo. It is othcrwiso abroad. The wires were hardly up nt Whitehall before tho German Admiralty ordered an Installation for thoi* offices at 'Berlin. Thoso.who understand best tho scoret of War, tho concentration of suporlor forces upon tho point of. attack, will most Vividly realise tho extent of tho revolution whioh these dangling wires hava brought about. - ■ •

livery battle-fleet within 1600- mites of our shores-nay, every unit of every battlo-fleet--Ims now been brought .within immediate sound, as it wero, of tho First Sea Lard's voido. K m j! T ., Wisher, ns he sits in his chair at Whitehall, in the Conning Tower of tho Empire, can survey tho Whole area of possible conflict and direot tho movements of all the Hoots with, as much easo as it they wero manoeuvring beneath his office windows, a'o fleet Is now ill danger of beihg "lost,' even for a single hour, Mr. Stsad adds that another element oj safety which has been entirely overlooked bv alarmists Is that, thanks to the .übiquity 0 | our nietchant marine, and tho certainty (hat before long every tramp steamer ■ and even every steam trawler wlll.be fitted with wireless installatien, lio enemy will b c able t« stir on any of tlio sens between• tlio Straits ol Belle Isle and tho Sue); Cnnnl without his movements being instantly reported at White, hall.