WIRELESS LINKS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 238, 2 July 1920, Page 7

WIRELESS LINKS

AN IMPERIAL SCHEME BRITISH COMMITTEE'S RECOMMENDATIONS TEMPORARY LOSS OUTWEIGHED BY BENEFITS By Telemnh-Press Aisoii&tlott-Cdsyfl*M ' London, June 28. The report of the Imperial Wireless Telegraphy Committee has ' been published. It recommends ft Scheme for the connection of. the various parts of tho Empire by wireless links not exceeding two thousand miles in length. The committer teh&vCd tliAt by this procedure, Official, commercial, and press traffic woiild be carried irfcliably, expeditiously, afld economically, And all essential sirategid needs met. The committee estimates the initial capital cost' of the schoine at .£1,243,000, and the annual charges, including interest and sinking fund, at £125,000. It Anticipates that tho traffic would produoe a revenufe of ,£325,000, ledvvihg (in annual Jcsa of iICO.OOO. It recommends that the execution of the scheme should be entrusted to the engineering depnrtmoiit of the Post Office, but longdistance ifirtlesS ti' "c with foreign countries might be left to Commercial companies. The Committee declares that the Small temporal loss is negtigible' in coinpariBOn with the Imperial benefits whiiih would be conferred.-'

The committee recommends thftt the sfervite 61 aromuhioition between Ledr field and Cairo by the Poulson nro Syst?m, which will shortly be operated by the .Post Office, should be the first link in the chain. The communication wou?d be continued by a vaWe station ntar Nairobi, and by the iteration of the exGeriiiim Marion at Windhuk to a vaivS station, to Complete the connection with South Africa. J'ot oOffimunicatibn with India/ tho Far Bast, and Australia, rnlvfe stations should be erected' in England, he#* .Cairo, Arid, at fodim or any otiifef Indian station, Singapore,, Hongkong, aiid Port Darwin Or Perth,—Eeuter.