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Show WIRELESS DID GOOD WORK. I Materially Aided Admiral Togo to 1 Crush Rojestvensky. Wireless telegraphy played a most Important part In the great naval engagement en-gagement between tho Russian and Japancso ships In the. lato war. A Japanese writer says that at the time JH j of tho battle of tho Eea of Japan the weather was foggy and hazy to such an extent that It was Impossible to see for a distance greater than five miles. A Japanese scout cruiser, while' searching for tho Russian fleet, sud- 1 denly found herself, when tho fog had lifted, unexpectedly for a mqment; I practically in tho mldt of the numer-, ous vessels of tho enc..y. A wireless message was at once transmitted giving giv-ing notice of tho discovery, and this message was simultaneously received -by all tho vessels of tho 'Japanese i squadron, notwithstanding that these' M were somo 150 miles distant. Admiral Togo immediately dispatched dis-patched a squadron of scouts, which I kept in touch with tho enemy, and Informed In-formed him at five-- . Uo Intervals of the course, speed, position and location loca-tion of the Russians, with such accuracy accu-racy that Admiral Togo was able to forecast with absolute precision tlfe j actions of tho enemy. It was through wireless communication communi-cation alone that it was posslblo for tho Japanese commander to maneuver and to place his fleet to enablo him I to strike the enemy most advantageously. advan-tageously. All of tho Russian ships, wero equipped with tho latest and most efficient wireless outfits, but they failed to lnlerfero with the messages. |