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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14625, 1 February 1918, Page 2

j Ibe world's jrreatesfc wireless station j has--been built in ltnlv, powerful ononorh to communicate with iNorth and South America when similar stations are erected on that side of the Atlantic. _ After a valiant strnjygle against f\-a , increasing cost of production- tbo proj prietor* of the Tendon "Daily 01:>w"----liole" vppontlv raised the price of that nowspanpr from a halfpenny to a nennv. IJn 'r-oki'ip- flip •;innoi7Tipeni(:"lt it w^^ ; explainer! that the nolicy had been to 1 '"edur-o. tbe .of tbp joir-nal in t>'-o----j ference to increasins tl-e charge. Tl;e ! "Chi-onir-le" had indeed b-cnr>^ me 'of tlie iiifi.«+, pvin?ri^iro dail^-s in the ■world, consisting of four small pages— ■f. wonderful example of oondpfipotion. for the news-valuA of the pnper was well maintained. 'However, tlie greai ■.increases h\ the cost of urodnction dur ; i^o: tbe lflst few months, including a rise of 500 per cent; in t,T;e -nrice oi paper, forced a revision of policy and so the penny el-arse came into operI ation last November.