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Show . ' 1 1 . . m ' . i i I , - i j . Today's Ntws; Toiaye V; n ,V j - l To many Jt iia.sonrc of. .wonder, not to:ayJnv ciWulity, how The Telegram is able to publish war news and events of tremendous moment from the far-off Orient on the day. of, the happenings them-eelves. them-eelves. This may be explained in short by saying that there is a differehce of twenty-four hours d tha time of the two countries. In other-words, when it , is Saturday, March? ! in Salt Lake it is Sunday, March 26, in Manchuria or Japan.' The date line- llxeft by "International of general ' - . agreement, ir it were"traighV j the meridian 180 deg.'from Greenwich; but, on the - contrary, it deflects,: with a sharp anglej. bctureeii. Xbrth latitudes 80. deg. and 40-jdeg., so that all Asia lis to the west and all North America, fnclu'ding the Aleutian islands; to the east ot-this line. Otherwise, Other-wise, the line would run directly through the Aleu i tian islands and-the eastern-point of Korthem Siberia, Si-beria, instead o? lying in the Bering sWait. t A vessel crossing Bering strait, which is only thirty-six miles wide, from Alaska- to. the mainland opposite, would set the date forward i by; onejiajO from Saturday to Sunday, and on returning"woula set the date backward by one day, so that if the .pro-; IHjged bridge or tunnel, should ever be constructed, uniting Asia and America, a resident of either shore might enjoy two Saturday nights every week, thereby there-by cutting' out Sunday altogether, by simply crossing cross-ing the 'line, irt : the morning and returning in the evening,; an arrangement'vCbaghiy ' satisfactory to tome," incase the Sunday laws were too rigidly en-. en-. forced. . '. In south latitudes JS'deg. and 56 deg. there is a deflection' of the date line which throws Chatham i island and all of the Fiji islands west of it, but ' leaves Samoa on the American side. This is extremely ex-tremely satisfactory to the United States, especially us this Government has a naval station there. . , ,So the. difference in time accounts for the hypothetical hypo-thetical date line. ' But The Telegram's news supply comes from" every world center and point. "Whether , it be in Salt Lake or Vladivostok, in The-Telegram j :" you get in full truth -'TODAY'S NEWS TODAY.". |