VALUABLE ANTICIPATION.
Mr. Godfrey C. Isaacs, the managing director of the Marconi Company, speaking, at the annual meeting, made the interesting announcement that on 4th August last year at 5 o'clock in the afternoon, seven hours before England declared war, the German Ijovernment sent out a wireless message to this effect: — "War- declared upon England ; make as quickly as you can for a neutral port." This message was sent to all its wire less stations, and then out to sea, each station covering a radius of 2000 miles or more. By that message, which oc- i cupied but a few minutes, Germany con- ' trived to save the greater part of its mercantile marine. If it had but saved one of its big ships, the Vaterland, it would have paid for the whole cost — about £2,000,000— 0f its wireless stations. Everybody knew that the mes- I .sage did a great deal more than that,, J
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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154VALUABLE ANTICIPATION. Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 86, 9 October 1915, Page 11
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