Eureka Reporter | 1903-10-02 | Page 4 | Codes Used by Rulers

CODES USED BY RULERS european mon monarchs spend much money on messages no european ruler uses lases the tle graph so much ag as the emperor ot of russia he uses a secret code both for his private and his official mes sages and ho he spends 20 a year in this kind of correspondence em geror william spends 15 a year in the same way and he uses a code which he has invented himself and which he finds very useful whenever he desires to communicate with the cabinet ministers or other prominent officials the telegraph is not used to any extent either by the king of italy the emperor of austria or the king ot of greece but on the other hand king edward and queen alexandra of england use it constantly king edward signs his private dispatches des patches albert edward or bertie bertle and the queen who always signs hers alex andra writes quite as many in ger man as in english during 1902 the amount expended by the royal couple in this manner was between 11 and nem ne york times