UNIVERSAL CABLE CODE

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 11

UNIVERSAL CABLE CODE

Mr. Th. de Schryver, of Auckland, has just completed the second edition of "The World's Universal Telegraph Code.'^ The copy under notice is of hand size, viz., 10|in by 9iin and thick. It is bound in limp leather, and,' notwithstanding the vast field which it covers, is in a quite handy form for the office table or the handbag, as may be required. Tho code, by reason of the simple and explicit instructions as to, its use, must effect an enormous saving to users of cables and telegraphs. It is shown how quite long messages can be sent with only a few words to pay for. Here is an example, furnished by the compiler himself:— Jones Zaxufaosl Ift wencyl Oppegooga Mniopjego Oslercanp Ijupellit Eifiwifyn Yocaefron. This message of nine words, on being decoded, reads : — Jones willing settle on following ternas ■. Cash £1750, six months later £1260 on deferred amount, 4 per. cent, interest. Costs half each. Urge acceptance proposal." Not only are such messages made quite economically, but they aro provided with checks as to their accuracy in transmission, and their secrecy is, of course, secured against all but owners of a similar code. Mr. de Schryver states that he has been engaged upon the compilation of tho code for fully a year. There are special tables for the use of merchants and manufacturers of paper, timber, and bar iron, and prices can be given from £d up to any amount to £25, and an example is given of £17 16s ll^d being expressed by four letters. Taken altogether, the World's Universal Code should be a most valuable addition to the code-book library of any business house, even where its use is not wholly relied upon for the clear transmission and receipt of telegrams and cablegrams.