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VALUE OF BEAM WIRELESS SERVICE HOPELESS CONGESTION PREVENTED (Rec. November 27, 7.45 p.m.) London, November 26. In the House of Commons, in Committee on the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, Viscount Wolmer (G.) pointed out that owing to the recent earthquake in the bed of the Atlantic causing a breakage of cables, if it bad not been for the beam wireless service the whole system of communication between Britain and America, Australia and New Zealand would have been hopelessly congested for many weeks. Professor H. B. Lee Smith (Post-master-General), replying to Mr. A. M. Samuel (C.), said that controls finally transferring the cable companies and the Beam to the Imperial Communications Company were signed the day before- the Baldwin Government left office, leaving the present Government no power to prevent a complete transfer. The Rugby wireless station was progressing. The Department proposed shortly to introduce another long, and another short-wave transmitter, giving five channels of communication.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 55, 28 November 1929, Page 11
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