UNPRONOUNCEABLE WORDS

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13662, 28 March 1908, Page 5

UNPRONOUNCEABLE WORDS

• THEIR USE IN CABLE CODES.

CAUSE OF WASTE TIME.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. (Received March 28, 8 a.m.) . LONDON, March 27. The International Telegraphic Conference will be opened' at Lisbon on May 4. The London Chamber of Commerce unanimously protested against any modification by the conference of the telegraphic service regulation applicable to code words, urging rather the removal of all restrictions respecting irapronouncoability of code words so long tfts thei words, $id not . exceed;, ten letters. ■•.■*:< '■ '•" "a' Mr-'Charlton, Chairman of the Council, said he believed' tbe English Post Office contemplated no radical alteration — only the withdrawal of a small percentage of the code words, but the cable companies were pressing the Government to prevent the loss of time and revenue resulting from the use of unpronounceable words.