PUBLISHED IN MID-OCEAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 65, 25 June 1910, Page 10

PUBLISHED IN MID-OCEAN

EDITORS AT WORK OX Till' ATLANTIC.

Xot tile least interesting development of wireless telegraphy is the manner in I which the invention has been utilised fori produeiiy newspapers oil boar.t ship. Xoj longer doe-; an ocean voyage mean that' die is cut oft", for the time being, from ! news of all happenings on land. NearK ' all the big Transatlantic liners issuej newspapers on board, and every morning passengers are served with the latest 1 news at the breakfast table, just as they I would bo on land. On the voyage of the Lusitania during the recent general elec-| tion full returns were primed in tliei Cunard Daily Bulletin every morning ol the results announced hi London on the previous night. The circulation of the' Bulletin is overy '2OOO a day, and hasj reached 25(10. It consists of thirty-two i pages, 10 by (Jin, is excellently printed on I tine glazed paper, and sells at 2y s d per copy, it goes to.press at 1 a.m. and is. read over the breakfast table like the] newspapers ashore. , .uost of the giant Cunarders are now I equipped with a miniature printing j plant, so that the passengers on board j are able to secure a daily paper containing the latest world's news, transmitted by wireless telegraphy. Practically everything of news value in any part of the world appears in the ocean daily as soon as it is printed in the newspapers 1 on land. Stock Exchange quotations, parliamentary items, notable events, and movements of famous people all are duly | recorded.- Moreover, the ocean daily] often gets news that the land dailies can-1 not get, for it must 'be borne in mind that the liners are in touch with one { another as well as in touch with the land, and are thus able to get exclusive "scoops" now and then. A very artistic production is the Journal de l'Atlantique, published on board j the s.s. La Provence, of the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique. It has larger pages that the Cunard Bulletin, and each number is well illustrated, the news 1 being published in both French and English.

The daily of the s.s. Kaiser Wilhelni 11. has twenty-four ipages, and it lias so many advertisements thai it can be given free to the passengers and still leave the Norddeutscher Lloyd a profit. Humorous illustrations are a feature, and a puzzle page gives much amusement on the voyage. The journal of the Ham-burg-American line is a sixteen-page sheet. It is printed partly in German, partly in English, and has a story by some popular writer. The Express Mail, published on Board the Canadian Pacific Atlantic liner Empress of Ireland, is a most elegant affair. It has twelve pages, and is enclosed in a handsome wrapper stamped in gold, with an emblematic design printed in the richest colors.