WIRELESS DEADLOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18533, 18 October 1923, Page 9

WIRELESS DEADLOCK.

BRITAIN'S HUMILIATION

POST OFFICE OBDITRACY.

APPEAL TO PREMIERS. !By Telegraph—Pres3 Association—Copyright. (Received 7.40 p.m.) .'•,. A. and N.Z. LONDON. Oct: 16. The Empire Press Union resolved to send a deputation to the Imperial Con-, ference in reference to wireless. Mr. Robert Donald presiding stated; that the deadlock between the Post Office and the Marconi Company had resulted in the United States, Franco and Holland practically controlling international wireless services. Britain was now clean cut out.Even Russia and Czechoslovakia.; were in advance of Britain.

Lord Burnham said that Britain's position in reference to wireless was deplorable. : The United States monopolised the China services, and Continental nations monopolised other countries, notably in the Far East. The British Post Office would neither allow private . enterprise to proceed nor do the work itself. Tho only remaining hope was to enlist the co-opera-tion of the Dominion Prime Ministers to force tho hands of the British Government. Ho understood that the cause of the deadlock was that the Post Office insisted on sole control, denying the Mar coni Company any participation, although tho company would bo financially liable. It was quite legitimate for the Government -to reserve the right, to control resumption, but that was not incompatible with private enterprise.

Mr. J. 0. Fairfax, of the Sydney Morning Herald, said that Australia had solved the problem by an amicable arrangement, between tho Commonwealth and the Amalgamated Wireless Company. If it was practicable in Australia, surely it was practicable in Britain. During his travels he had been ashamed at the humiliating position of. Britishers receiving the world's news through foreign wireless services.