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The prevalence of .false "5.0.5." signals is a serious matter (states the Evening Standard). They affect business directly and indirectly. They upset conditions on the, great highways of oceans. We need not wonder that strenuous efforts are being made to investigate them and prevent their recurrence. But the gravest risk to Be run from this falsification, whether by error or design, concerns the simplest interests of humanity. At present ships are bound by tradition to obey the call. If an idea gets abroad that the messages may be wrong, the tradition will be in danger. There could hardly be a greater maritime disaster than interference with humane habits.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 151, 27 June 1914, Page 15
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