"WIRELESS."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 621, 25 September 1909, Page 5

"WIRELESS."

■ l : '-'-::' V.•■":-.':•■■,■".■.■ .'.'V ,', ' ''". -.'.;■■:•. A./PLAN TO LINK ■UP THE .WESTERN .'.',.-.. ■:,,.'' ;-,PACIFIC...:;.'. •!■ .;;: Australia, new : Zealand, , and an ;:;,■:;; ;- : : :'^-.island chain; ';;'..:;. ~(By;ToloBtaph.-Prcsa.;A«soclttUon.—Ooprrlßht.r '•■■\ ]■■}■~<[ --'A-i ;.IVlslbourno,;Soptembor'24. : . ; •; Commissioner.for .tho Western Pacific (Sir-Everard lin. Thurn) does not fa-| ; vour ..t\io subsidising of private enterprise for providing, wireless, installations; in tho Pacific. 'Ho is inclined to recommend tho.Britr iish. Government.to;.take up tho; proposal, as •a.i State/concern.;, : -.-; .■'•■' .'•';.. ;!! : ■) ■.'•■-■

v- s Tho Commonwealth Government is under- ' stood to /share..this. view. A plan-has:been drafted ..for providing stations without'-tho •assistance, of .installations on foreign-:soil.' ;:'.' Under* this', proposal there, would be a station, at .Southport: (oh tho Queensland coast, near' Brisbane),.; arid othersrat Port Moresby (Now Guinea), . the ,Solomon , Islands.'' (part' owned; by Britain,: east of'/Now ' Guinea)/, : Ocean.Island (north-west of ;tho'.;Solomo«s,. ; bbing'/an,, outlying •; island; of!, ':the.-., British-, •owned Gilbertgroup)',{Tonga Islands" : (Brit-' ish,protectorate, a long .way • south-west; of.' Ocean, Island); 'Rarotonga ' (in the Cook Islands,, administered:;by .New Zealand), and Bay (Pacific ' ; eabk Station;..' Now,' Zealand)'.;',:/:/ :'■'>:' [';''■ r. : ' : ' V'!-;' '[)

■'■; Thei'scheine biitlihecV- in 'the calileftram 1 is fnr : ian • Austrabnn-New.acnlnn<l'Western '-Paeific'Service./:RonirWy,',the. distances would bo ,&outliport,to Port Jlore'sby'-lWO'miles,/to'Sblo-.nions 7£o-milos.v.to Occanr'-Island'9so:miles,.to ! 'Tonga, aslonds- 1000:>miles,' 'toSEarbtorigh. '850. ;milos;'.to Doubtless.Bay,looo:milcs.:;;:■;/ ' 1 l".Mt; '.Marconi, recently 'sinincintcd-an ,empire>'Kirdling schema ■■ "My, ambition," he 'said, Vis ,w; link np ,tlio Empire' by wireless; telegraphy. .Complications ,witlv existing 1 :'. comriiiinications' nre, ft difllciiuy.: This has vet- tobe ovcrcbmo, ; b'i»t. we > shall siicoeed.": Mr.' Siarcoiii;': spoke ■ ' ;c;mfidently..' .-."An .'.lmperial..wireless /service, 1 with stations at- eertnin, distances'froiri each ; other, around the,world.'is'entirely,: foasiblo." ,110 then, illustrated hiszniothod of • spanning spneo; without', wire's,: A .dist'ancb of,'approximately,,'l3,ooo miles Would .'V'cWred by , tho , wireless; cpmriinnic.ations.'between 'Englandaild :New Zcalnriil: : Eleven,stations .lvould bo used. '• These oeotionsaro set out below;— :.:■•,. ..England-Malta ICOO miles,' Malta-Cairo 1050J . Calro-Adon 1301). Aden-Bombay- ICSO, BombayColombo 000,'.: Colombo-Singapore: 1530,' Singa-pore-Perth, 2100. Perth-Adelaide .1200, Adolaide-..Sydney'TOO.'Sydney-'W'ollirigton , -.: I*oo ;"■:■■•. total /12.050 miles. ■•.• ■:■'■■: ','■■',■';. •-■' ;?'.:. '■■■' '-■'-'.-' - /"Branching froni this chain, at' Singapore," - exclaimed 1 Mr.'Marconi; "would be.'thb link.to -1000-milo service between Singapore ' and Hong-kong." To- Africa,, Mr.: Marconi has : . tentatively mopped out two routes—ono cast, ■- ; 6ne.'we's'!;;.■''''.•.;'•■■ ':,-".•'.:■;.■•':•..'•• '■',• '.0- V■•'■-'':,-.'l 'V''An:,alternatiy6.':ro j utO' to India'and'Austrii-' lia .cdnncctin'.thcse/eoltntfios with-West/Af-. i rice, could be effected by erecting -notation. at . Mauritius—22oo miles, froni' Cape ;Town—arid - one at-Nelson Island. USO miles/from Maurir- '.: :iUs..and:,looO inilcs from /Colombo," observed' ; MK;.Marconi.- ,;..:;. .:'■.-:•'.'•'■'■;■