Wireless Telegraphy

Hastings Standard, Volume X, Issue 5345, 5 November 1906, Page 4

Wireless Telegraphy

Received November -1, 1 l~> pm London, November :-) At the Wireless Telegraphy Congress, the British delegates, while agreeing to the general principal of the interchange of ethergrijms, secured the right of every country to exempt certain stations from the obligation of compulsory communications. Great Britain restricted herself to reasonable provision for the exchange of messages between ships and hind. A resolution submitted by the United States delegates making inter-com-munieation between ships and ships compulsory was earrii-il, despite Great Mritain's opposition on the ground that Jt was impracticable and also an improper re-triction of individual rights ; but Groat Britain carried a resolution making tli,. American motion a separate article of the agreement to which the signatory Powers would not necessarily be compelled to adhere. The treaty will operate from July, 1908.