RADIO CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19762, 8 October 1927, Page 11

RADIO CONFERENCE.

QUESTION OF CODE WORDS. BRITISH PROPOSAL EXPECTED. (Received October 7, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Cct. G. At the International Radio Conference at the first committee meeting the Board of Officers appointed Mr. Brown as vicechairman of the Committee on Tariffs of the World Court. Count Giuseppe Gneme, an Italian delegate, was appointed chairman. Other British delegates were given committee appointments. Mr. A. J. John ston, of Canada, was appointed vicechairman of the Convention Committee and Mr. T. Purves, of Britain, chairman of the General Regulations Committee. Judging by conversations among the delegates, there seems to be a possibility of a coalition between the British, French and German delegates to try to wrest the control of the conference from the now largely dominant United States delegation. The British delegates are understood to prefer the postponement until the Brussels conference in 1930 of the consideration of the so-called " Cortina report," in which the International Committee has advocated a reduction in the standardisation of all code words to five letters. Britain thinks- the present 10word limit should remain, but the president of the Conference, Mr. H. C. Hoover, has moved that a special section of the delegates should determine whether the conference should act on the Cortina report. Britain is believed to be preparing a counter-proposal by which support would be given to certain French and German proposals, in return for their help in dealing with the Cortina report