SPEEDIER CABLE MESSAGES.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 21 January 1927, Page 9

SPEEDIER CABLE MESSAGES.

Wonders of Regenerator

System

EASTERN COMPANY'S REPLV TO

WIRELESS,

By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. (Received January 20, 7.20 p.m.) LONDON, January 19.

A striking demonstration of ti.v latest improvement in submarine telegraphy, known as the regenerator ■system, was given at the Eastern Cable Company’s head office, in London, which is destined virtually to bring Australia- to the doorstep of England.

Stripped of all technicalities, the regenerator, which is the invention ol the Eastern’s own staff, cuts out the human element in relays, and transmissions are done automatically, the machinery passing on the messages in increased strength, and even correcting errors en route. By mea-s of the regenerator, direct comm n ication was maintained to-day netwee.i a large group of journalists leprr senting the British Overseas Tress in London, and four Capetown journalists. The system will operate from London to Adelaide within throe months. The South African PostmasterGeneral (Mr Coydell), replying to an inaugural message, sent by Sir John Denison Pender (chairman of the Eastern Company) stated that: “Where cablegrams traverse South African land lines, you may rely upon our continued efforts to pass them on with the utmost expedition.” The regenerator system promises the valuable speeding-up of all classes of cables between Britain and South Africa, and later Australia. Mr Denison Pender junr., speaking at a luncheon, following the demonstration, declared: “We do not fear tho future. "We cannot yield a point in the argument to our wireless friends, for their transmission cannot be speedier or more accurate, is the Eastern Company’s reply to wireless.”

TRY-OUT OF SYSTEM

MESSAGES TRANSMITTED INSTANTANEOUSLY.

By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. CAPETOWN, January 19.

A demonstration of the new regen erator system, adopted by the Eastern Fxtension Telegraph Company, where by delays at intermediate, stations are eliminated, took place, and was remarkably successful. Congratulatory messages were exchanged between London and Capetown .

Lord Burnham expressed the opinion that tli e system was an enormous development in cablo communication. Alessages were transmitted practically instantaneously.