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ORDERS TO FRONT LINES HIGH-SPEED CHANNELS WASHINGTON, (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) June 18. Ultra high-speed radio channels keep the Army High Commands in Washington and London in instantaneous contact with the fronts throughout the wosd, according to the War Department. Orders can be relayed directly to ships, planes, mechanised brigades in battle, and infantry in the front lines, i
The War Department describes the communication system as unrivalled in the annals of warfare. Circuits go out from a Signal Corps centre in Washington, and a message can be sent round the world in four relays in three and a-half minutes. For months before the invasion the service handled 6,000,000 words a day. The traffic has increased enormously since, and has been coping with press and radio messages as well as military messages. ,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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