HOW NEWS TRAVELS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 46, 18 November 1926, Page 17

HOW NEWS TRAVELS

y MARVELS OF AIODERN COMMUNICATION. The swiftness with winch the news of the death of Valentino, the recent events in China, the Greek revolution, and many sudden occurrences in Australia, Russia, Iraq, ami other distant places has reached London calls to mind the great advance made in world communication. Urgent Press telegrams are transmitted every day between London and Buenos Ayres in less than ten minues. The winner of the Derby is known in New York thirty seconds after tiie horse has passed tile winning post at Epsom. The telegraph am) the telephone make possible the printing of the fullest stories of the world’s happenings within a few hours of the occurrence, and sometimes in a few minutes. The long distance of trunk telephones circulates news by ’vord of mouth alt over Europe, and nofw wireless has crowned the marvels of electrical communication with broadcasting.. When the treaty which terminated the American revolution was signed at Versailles on January 20. 1783. eighty-six days—nearly three months—elapsed before the American people knew that peace bad been proclaimed. At the close of the world war. the signing of the peace treaty was known in almost every part of the world witbin a few minutes. The signing took place at Versailles on Juno 28. 1919, began with the signatures of the German delegates at 3.12 p.m., Paris time, followed by those of the British plenipotentiaries and the American representatives and the development of the ceremonv was told in 1 n series of cablegrams transmitted to I Washington via T.ondon and New York as fast as the pen was lifted from the paper.