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Show loss frnrn an airship was established on I this trip. We talked with the air mln-I mln-I 1st ry in London, Friday midniyht, from a distance of 1 K0 mile;?. SAYS THAT VOYAGE PROVES GREAT VALUE OF WIRELESS SYSTEM By LIEUTENANT REX F. DU RANT. Wireless Officer of R-34. Written Expressly for Universal Service. Pi; Lit AM, Kuf-'land. July ' 13. The epochal voasc of U-34 demonstrates fully the inestimable value of directional and ordinarv wireless. Never during Hie whole journey were we out of touch with either side of the Atlantic this with ft .comparatively small ivimifs spr makes the possibilities of larger sets on larger craft apparent. The wireh ss functioned all the way across, easily reading the messages from the powerful stations -at Bar Jiarbor and Boston. Bos-ton. Tn the first ten hours of the trip we did 5.i knots an hour, a wonderfully favorable fa-vorable :'.ri-knot tail wiufj aiding ns. AVe were usina only two engines. re talked with battleships in New York harbor ;i -i we cirr-led over brill in nth- lighted Proud wav and Times Square. The only mishap of the trip came Saturday, when the pistons (lew through the cylinders of one of the engines. This slight ly lessened less-ened our sper-j. Otherwise it had no effect. ef-fect. The breakdown was so bad that it was not possible to make repairs. In (he center of the ocean we flew at an altitude of TiOna feet. It was extreme-Iv extreme-Iv cold up there. The sea was extremely routih. but the airship sailed along smoolhlv between cloudhanks, with occasional occa-sional glimpses of the waves. T saw two ships on the way over, the San Kliu-Ina, bound for Mexico, and the Cumberland, bound for Kngland. The wireless operator on the Cumberland picked up our call and asked, "Who are you?" We answered : "We're a Bril lsh airship." air-ship." The operalor apparently was so dumbfounded dumb-founded and surprised that he was unable un-able to reply for several minutes. One ship offered to lire her guns to show us her position, but it was not necessary. nec-essary. The first sienf of the coast of Ireland,, the Clifden wireless station, .gladdened ! our hearls. j 'o wci' very lucky to sot back safe- I ly. The terrific pales blowing over .Long, ls'n nd were hie lily del ri mental to the start from America, and we just man-l a ged to hK! t a n intense cyclonic storm ! because the United States weather bu- rea u -told us to start immediately. It was Wednesday or never. We carried a I mesaee from I 'res: dent Wilson To King , C,.-'ojl;c. one from the governor of New-1 foundland to the king and another from j the mayor of New York to the lord mayor of London. A world's record for long-distance wire- I |