SACRED WIRELESS ROOM.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 177, 26 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

SACRED WIRELESS ROOM.

A chaplain of the Grand Fleet writes that the wireless room is one 'of the most sacredly secret places in a batticxiiiup. '' li you come on board to pay a visit, when peace breaks out and we can once more have the pleasure of seeing what ordinary penile look like —no, I don't mean 'ordinary' people— Wo will show you th.' inside of the turrets anu take you down into the engine-room, and anywhere elso you please; but wo shall diplomatically forget to mention thi l existence of the wireless room ; and if by chance you iind yourself outside ts hallowed port::!, wo shall point out to ;.'ou a notice-board hanging thereon, which forbids even the oflievs of the ship io outer unless ivijuncd to do ro bv th'ir dutv.

" Without divulging any of its nrcnnn mysteries, I may ::o so far as to say tliat it is very different in iis •.'ivicr:'.! coneiny from the wireless room of a (!:;7.!-n yeaiv i;.'o. At tlint period the whole apparatus vrs contained ':i ,1 CO'ipV (if Si, Kill IIOXOS which st.-fd m the il.'i-k in an otherwise empty n'lice; t!o liit-N-aKi.-s wore automatically printed in Morse's cod-. 1 liy a tap* 1 liii"' w.o which always worked .'lowly, and fiv(jnoni'v failed to work at all, l>einj* powerless to respond to the more delicate vibration.''. At the present lime, however, the room is packed full with machinery and complicated instruments."