A LONG CABLE MESSAGE
28,977 WORDS IN SIX HOURS LONDON. July 30. One of the longest cable messages over scut across the Atlantic was Hashed from Baris to. Now York between midnight and dawn. It was the full text of the Reparations Committee’s- report, and contained 23,977 words, not counting full stops, commas, and semi-colons, and it was all done in six 'hours! Rear-Admiral C. PAR. Goode, head of the .European branch of the ’Western Union Cable Company, revealed to a Press representative .some of the fascinating details of this gigantic cablegram, The Admiral modestly described it as “this little job of ours.” He said there was not a single error in the whole 20,000 words cabled. The message was Hashed io New York simultaneously on two cables, and a third Ii»o was bronchi into use. Tins additional line linked up London with Paris via Boulogne, but it was only used 1 for part of Die time and carried 4,500 words of the heavy load. The cabled message went straight into the wire room of the ‘ New York Hums,’ and operators punched it ou( on stencils for retransmission to newspapers all over D>e IT-ifyU dtates.
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Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 4
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195A LONG CABLE MESSAGE Evening Star, Issue 20254, 15 August 1929, Page 4
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