WIRELESS IN ARABIA
LINKING UP IMPORTANT CENTRES
ENTERPRISE OF IBN SAUD
(British Official Wireless)
RUGBY, 7th January. The King of Hedjaz and Nejd has contracted with the Marconi Company for a system of telegraphic communication. Fifteen wireless stations will link up every important centre in the joint kingdom, and four Marconi sets fitted in lorries also are to be supplied us mobile telegraph stations, which will enable the King, Ibn Saud, to keep in constant touch with his. two capitals, Mecca and Riyadh, during his desert journeys. In Mecca and Riyadh, 400 miles distant, powerful telephone and telegraph transmitters and modern receivers will be installed, and the King will be able to talk between his two palaces by means of special microphones. A British engineer will supervise the installation outside Mecca, and to provide for maintenance afterward King lbn Saud lias sent four of his subjects for instruction in the Marconi school
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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152WIRELESS IN ARABIA Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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