RADIO CONFERENCE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19765, 12 October 1927, Page 13

RADIO CONFERENCE.

PROPOSED NEW CONVENTION., AMERICA AND PACIFIC, A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON, Oct. 10. The sub-committee of the International Radio Conference has reached a tentative agreement on the first four articles of the proposed new radio convention which the conference is attempting to draft. The articles define the scope of the convention, and the stations which are to be subject to international regulation. They establish special provisions for the obligatory exchange of radio telegrams, and provide for limited services. The proposals on the four articles which would modify the present conventions were offered by France, Italy, Britain, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and Czecho-Slovakia. The United States was particularlv concerned with Article iA-. which proposed to define international service as a radio comunkaUon e two or more stations not within the jurisdiction, of a. single High Contracting F lt is understood that the- United States wishes its radio services to Pacific possessions to be c° n^ er national instead of international, and by 4he proposed definition aims at avoiding the definition of an " internaiionaljervW « #qoivalent to tewswew*-