WIRELESS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 780, 1 April 1910, Page 5

WIRELESS.

TELEPHONY FOR FRENCH NAVY. By Telegraph—Preßs Association—Oopyrlnht, Paris, March 30. ; The French Navy is adopting wireless telephony. PACIFIC SERVICES. While Great Britain and Australia talk of establishing wireless communication between the shores of Australia, the mercantile marina in Australian waters and tho Pacific Islands, other nations are taking decisive action (says the "Age"). The Postal Department has received information that the Germans have established wireless communication between Palm Island and Yap Island, one of the Carolines, 70 miles north of New Guinea. This departure has been made in the interests of tho phosphate trade with Palm Island. An America! company—tho Mutual Telephone Co. (wireless department), Honolulu—has now linked up the Hawaiian Islands with wireless, and the system has been put to commercial use. It is a composite system largely composed of the Massie wireless system. The normal day rango of tho Kahuku station —according to a report received by the Postal Department from tho companyis 400 miles, and the night rango with ships 1250 miles. "We would say," thoy state in the report, "that this station is in night communication frequently with Sitka, Alaska. This distance ranges from 2500 to 2050 miles." Tho inter-island stations are connected by telephone with practically all of the large plantation stores and towns in tho islands. The longest range is 185 miles. Ordinary messages may be' dispatched at a minimum cost of 1 dol. 50 cents per word (address and signature counted); press messages at a minimum cost of Idol., and messages from ship to sho.'e or shore to ship to any destination in tho Hawaiian Islands at a minimum cost of 1 dol, per word with tho ship's charges added.