WIRELESS CONGRESS.
4 TREATY ADOPTED.
PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT R- csived 4.45 p.m.. N >v, 4. London, Nov. 3 At the Wireless Cong o-a tue B/itish | delega’e?, while agreeing io the general principle of an interchange of ethergram*, seoured the right of every country to exempt oertaio stations from the obligation of compulsory communication. Britain restricted herself to reasonable provision for exchange of messages betwoen ships and laud. A resolution submitted by the Amerioan delegates, making imer-oommunioation between ships and ships compulsory, wbb oarried despite Britain’s opposition on the ground that it was impracticable, also an improper rostriotion of individual rights, but Britain oarried a resolution making the American motion a separate article of agreement, to which signatory Powers were not neeesßarily oompelled to adhere. The treaty will operate from July, 1908.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1923, 5 November 1906, Page 2
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