Use of Wireless Telegraphy.

Manawatu Herald, 17 October 1899, Page 3

Use of Wireless Telegraphy.

-» One of the most striking things in the late naval manoeuvres is the free use of wireless telegraphy. Sir Compton Domvile relied upon it for much useful information of a miscellaneous kind which could not otherwise have been procured. The Juno (continues the Times) was usually ten or twenty miles. ahead of the fleet, to which she trans, mitted information of fog banks, trawlers' lights at night, the state of the anchorage at Bere Island when the land concealed both that and the Juno, and useful details of that kind, which add indefinitely to the value of scouting. But the most important service rendered by wireless telegraph}' was in giving extraordinary early information as to the safety of the convoy, and so enabling the fleet as a whole to make whatever dispositions other circumstances might have called for. When the message was received the flagship was estimated to be thirty miles from the Juno, fifty-five from the Europa, and eighty-six from the convoy. It would seem, therefore, that the welcome news of the convoy's safety was transmitted in two stages, one of 25 and the other of 30 miles. Nothing like this would have been possible by the older methods of signalling ; and it must be remembered that wireless telegraphy is not interfered with either by fog or darkness.