Show BEST WIRElESS IS BUILT BY FRANCE Powerful System Flashes Greetings to America From Allies By Henry Wood United Staff Correspondent WITH WITH THE TIlE FRENCH ARMIES UES By Mall The Mall The French navy has Just en en- en h honor t the of h international building tl rilo and J contest possessing ee i for o the the most powerful wireless station in the world In support of Its claims that Its newly newly new new- ly constructed station exceeds all others oth oth- ers era now in operation the French Trench navy las has Just demonstrated its ability to send lend messages as far as Australia The Thc stations there ther which registered the messages from rom the new French naval na- na I val cal station were wele not powerful enough to acknowledge edge by wireless their re reCeipt rei re- re i but had the courtesy to reply by ordinary cable that trie French wireless wire wire- less ess communications had been received The new French naval wireless station sta sta- tion Is in reality an acknowledgment of gratitude gratitude tI of the French navy to the U sO United States t for Its entrance t nc into the war The moment America made its f for far r- r mal declaration ration of war var against the en enemies en- en enemies of ot France the French navy de decided de- de decided to erect immediately a powerful wireless In I constant J fa faal station al touch ht that with 1 would America put pit France It was planned also as very effective safeguard safeguard safe safe- guard against the submarines for tor the stream of troopships and convoys convoys convoys con con- voys which it was realized would soon be headed for FranceA France A site was accordingly chosen on the French coast where it was most likely that would one 1 be of ot the American and aria n A n naval from val bases would 1 be and aria n A from established where it would be able to pick up with tho the greatest degree of certainty distress messages from any American boat that mi might ht encounter a submarine The metallic pylons of the French station are over GOO feet high Perfected Perfected Per Per- electrical eler equipment ma makes kes it possible to send out waves that will be received at any distance at which they can be he picked up in the form of ot musical sounds instead of the ordinary crack 1 crack of or the wireless As a result of I these musical intonations the receiver I is always s able to pick out the waves of the French wireless plant from all the other storm storn or 0 wireless waves with which the air may be filled Waver Vavel can be sent out with a length of or from to 13 yards and which as h has s already been demonstrated carry carry carry car car- ry as far far- faras as Australia The electrical apparatus furnishing the current for these waves is capable capable capable capa capa- ble of or producing horsepower What the 1 French rench navy is particularly proud of however Is that it finished the plant in six months In time to protect protect protect pro pro- from the very first the convoys of ot American troops and war material V |