CODE OF SIGNALS
NEW INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM ?' EFFECTIVE NEXT JANUARY (Received August 29, 5.5 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Aug. 28 The Board of Trade announces that the new international code of signals, notified last year, will come into international use on January 1, 1934. British, French, German and Norwegian 'editions of the code have already been published, while remaining editions by Japan, Spain and the United States are expected before the end of the year. '" The British edition consists of two
volumes, the first dealing with visual r and sound signalling, and the second with radio signalling. The latter provides for the first time for an official international wireless telegraphy code, issued specially for the use of merchant shipping and the air service. A medical section embodies a list of standard quarantine messages.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21583, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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132CODE OF SIGNALS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21583, 30 August 1933, Page 9
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