TELL THE WORLD!

Shannon News, 30 July 1929, Page 3

TELL THE WORLD!

OUR WIRELESS MARVELS.

("Sun" Special). LONDON, Thursday. "Englishmen are so afraid of publicity that there is a danger of the ; world forgetting that we are a great I industrial and inventive people," said Mr P. G. Kellaway, managing director of Marconi's Wireless Telegrapn Co., Ltd., speaking at a London dinner. " British enterprise and invention accomplished one of the most sensational achievements in the history of communications when the Kingji thanksgiving service was heard throughout Australia, Canada, and America. 1 have not seen a word of acknowledgment of that unique event. "Similarly, Australians, on Monday last,"conversed with Bridgewater (Somerset), the conversation being relayed via America. That event also passed unnoticed, yet it means that Imperial telephony can be established when the authorities permit. "Americans would have told the world about it. It is possible to carry national modesty too far, and it is time that we took a leaf from the books of our competitors," he added.

Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., Sydney, stated that the talk with Bridgewater was "quite accidental." The conversation travelled via Canada, and was heard in Sydney about 9 p.m. Volume and tone were good.