WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 8 February 1907, Page 4

WIRELESS TELEPHONE.

VOICES HEARD AT A Di.sTANf'E OF 25 MILES. Berlin, December Hi. Professor Salbv has solved the queslinn of talking by wireless telephone. experiments have been completely successful between Berlin and Nnlien, a distance id twenty-live niiVs ill a direct line, but the professor says the possibilities of extending the distance are almost limitless. "It ought to be possible in the near future," ho slates, "to telephone from Berlin to London or from Berlin to Constantinople. In course of time we ought to have communication between Europe and America by means of a wireless telephone system. "Such communications may, in fact, be extended all over the world. It is, as I said, impossible to define the limits of this invention." Experiment.; were lirst carried out between two buildings in Berlin, separated from one another by a distance of three miles. The words telephoned through the air without the aid of wires were distinctly beard and taken down at the other end. Experiments were then carried out over the longer distance of twenty live miles between Berlin and Nation.

The transmitting! apparatus,, which is similar lo thai used for sending wireless telegraphic messages was erected on tec root of a building *cv entv feet from the ground. The rceiving -laliou at Niiiien was mi, a hkh tower used for wireless telegraph purposes. Several conversations were curried on between Berlin and Nnnen with perfect --ucce.-s. The words spoken into Ihe iraesmeU tcr in Berlin were repeated loudly and distinctly by the receiver at Xanen. A distinguished company of invited guests, including the I'uder-Secrelarv of Posts and Telegraphs, llerr %-dow, several technical advisors to the Ministry of Posts, and a number of electrical engineers, witnessed these astonishing experiments.

ON THE WARPATH. aiuuders by vaiju i.\dj.\.\s\ Los Angelos, Deceinlct' it). Colonel 11. V. .Uaxson, vice-president of the JCulional Irrigation Congress, who liiis been spending the hi>l few weeks in the State of Souora, Mexico, arrived at Los Ange.os to day with a graphic story of the massacre of the Mexicans and Americans, which occurred at the little, ottt.ioii of Lamho. According to the statement of Max.sun hie train stopped at Laneho. W'nile there rumors were received that the iaquis were upon the warpath, and the white people in the nc.gui.orhoo.l of the sta.in :i'id ra'.roail w.re in danger. Inc. .itationiuastor, a man mined Xhou.p-oii, belitcled the' matter, an. 1 said lie and iiis. wife would remain at their post. The train bearing Coloncl .\laxson and parly had not hit the station more than had' an hour when tin; Y.upiis descended iijiuii the .utle party of Mexicans and Amer,caiis and butchered four. Station Agent Thompsoi and his wife had defended themselves hack of the barricaded doors of the station. As the work train appeared tin- Indians withdrew. The train bearing Colonel .Maxson and party continued to a station nlimit 1.1 miles further along the line, and then, as the signs of the desperado uprising became more alarming, the party decided i<> return. ■ The train started back towards Laneho. and when it arrived the station house had been burned and demolished, and four human bodies lay along trie tracks. Not very many miles along the road, the scene was duplicated. Four more bodies of Mexicans and Americans were discovered along the tracks. The little band at this station had been able to repulse the attack o'f the Ya<jiiis with tin' loss of but four of their number. The remaining members of the company refused to leave nil tne train, lmt said that tiiey could stand of)' the Indians until next day. ivlien the Kuralcs coeld reach tile spot, and summary jnstie.- e ,n\( he meted out to Jm murderer-, if captured.

If w, moved ,„ir leg, proportionately as fa-t as an mil. it is calculated that we cotihl tiavel nearly SOU nii'es (in hour. Australasia is (he lan..es|. producer of wool in the world, wi.h ItiWia second, th.'Argentine Republic third.and the l.'niled Stat,., „f America fourth.