"OMNIBUS LINE"
DIVISIONAL SIGNALLERS AT WORK. ■ The Divisional Signallers at FeatherEton, tinder Staff-Sergeant-Major Baker,, were engaged last week in laying and working an "omnibus line." This is a system of field communication which consists of one main line with receiving ■branches running out at frequent intorvals, and leading to various points of military importance in the war scheme. Only one message can be sent at a time, and the stations must wait their turn to get messages through. For use during action, the "omnibus" as too elow,. but .for administrative Work it acts well. _The signallers are always busy, and play the game by sending messages such as would be sent in wax t:me. For instance, a man. at his station lnav hear an out-station calling: ''Send 1000 gas helmets. Gas attack coming." From this form of imaginative message the sender may lapse into such a one as the following:— "Huge quantities of live mutton passing: Shall we commandeer?" In tbeir wireless work, the signallers are making steady progress, and, with their apparatus, made on the spot, they received a message from Wellington last week.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 6
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185"OMNIBUS LINE" Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3084, 15 May 1917, Page 6
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