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NEW WORLD STANDARD SET LORD STANLEY’S MESSAGE TO DOMINIONS. REPLIES WITHIN FOUR MINUTES. (British Official . Wireless.) (Recd This Day, 10.35 a.m.) RUGBY, August 26. The most ambitious cable transmission ever undertaken was initiated by Lord Stanley (Secretary of State for the Dominions) at the Canadian National Exhibition. His message round the. world was returned to him, with five replies, within four minutes of its despatch. The message travelled 51,165 miles, of which 44,277 were by cable and 6,888 by land-line.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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82CABLE TRANSMISSION Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1938, Page 5
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