Consul-General Gusther, of Frankfort, says that the captain of a channel mail steamer, which is equipped with an apparatus for wireless telegraphy, reports thafi on 'his last trip a---message was received: from ib.3 French,light-ship, which is anchored about twenty-five sea miles from : Dunkirk, i-tating.;" that th«, latter would be unable to Ugh? up the next night unless help arrived from shore. The captain at once sent a second wireless message to La. Panne, on the Belgian coast L from which point it was forwarded to Dunkirk by the regular telegraph line. From this place a boat was despatched to the light-ship, and the necessary repairs were made.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 12 August 1901, Page 1
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