Ticklish Points in Radio Control

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 172, 11 October 1927, Page 9

Ticklish Points in Radio Control

NATIONS SEEK UNITY DEFINING “INTERNATIONAL” By Cable.—Frees Association.—Copyright Reed. 1.15 a-.tn. WASHINGTON. Mon. The sub-committee of the International Radio Conference reached a tentative agreement on the first four articles proposed for the new radio convention which the present conference is attempting to draft. The articles define the scope of the convention, stations subject to international regulation, establish special provisions for the obligatory exchange of radio telegrams, and provide for limited services. Proposals on the four articles wer6 offered by France, Italy, Great Britain, the United. States, Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia that would modify the present convention. The United States is particularly concerned -with article two, proposed to define international service as "radio communication between two or more stations not within the jurisdiction of a single high contracting party.” It is understood that the United States wishes its radio services to Pacific possessions considered national instead of international and by the proposed definition aims to avoid the definition of "international service” as the equivalent of "transoceanic service.”—A. and N.Z.