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Show WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES (From Consul General H IT. Morgan, Barcelona, Spain.) ( Nile Companla Naclonal de Tcle-grafit Tcle-grafit sin Hilos (Tntlona1 Wlreloss Telegraph Co ) or Madrid, has the concession for establishing wireless telegraph services In Spain and adjacent ad-jacent Islands. four stations have already been constructed con-structed one each In Barcelona. Cadiz, Ca-diz, Santa Ciuzde Teneriffe, and La& Palmas (Canary Islands) and will open to the public in the ne'ar future. The station at Vigo is nearly terminated, termin-ated, work Is rapidly progressing on the station at Soller (Island of Mal-lorca). Mal-lorca). and the central station at Aran-Jues Aran-Jues (Madrid) has been begun. Another An-other station at Alicante, or Caho dc Gata, will be constructed later The company will complete the system, if found expedient, by the addition of still other stations, In order to Insure a good radiotelegraph service through-the through-the Peninsula.- Tho system used is the Marconi. Five masLs are generally used to support sup-port the "antenna", one 270 feet high is placed in the center of the rectangle rec-tangle formed by the other four, each ISO feet hich The distance between the exterior masts at the ends of the rectangle Is 149 feet and that between the center mast and the line of union of each pair of end masts Is 483 feet. Tho antenna Is of the double "L" type with six wires on each branch. " The radii of operation of tho different dif-ferent stations is as follows: The Barcelona station can communicate with Coltano (Itnly), Madrid. Alicante, Ali-cante, the Baleric Islands, and with vessels, the station at Cadiz with Madrid. Vrgo. and the Canary Islands; and the stationHjit Teneriffe and Las Palmas (Canary" Islands) with Cadiz and with vessels. Tho station at Soller (Balearic Islands)" Is-lands)" will be .able to communicate with Barcelona,,. Alicante, and with vessels, and the 'Alicante or Caho de Gata station with Madrid, Barcelona, and the Balearic Islands Communication Communi-cation with tho United States will be possible through the Vigo station, being be-ing ttansmltted through Poltlhu, England. Eng-land. Vigo will also be in communication communi-cation with the stations at Madrid and Cadiz The central station at Madrid will communicate with Alicante, Barcelona, Bar-celona, ATigo and v)Cadlz The charge along the Spanish coast will be 0 15 peseta (S cents) per-word. per-word. The charges for messages exchanged ex-changed with Spanish vessels will be collected in silver pesetas (1 silver peEeta equals IS cents), while that with foreign vessels will be collected In francs (1 franc equals 19.9 cents). The rate will be doubled for messages to foreign countries more than 600 kilometers (375 miles') dlstanL (From Vice Consul General Henry D. Baker, on special service In New Zealand.) Zea-land.) Tho prime minister of New Zealand Zea-land states that It is Intended that the new high-power wireless telegraph station to be erected in Wellington shall be among the most powerful In the world. It Is arranged communication commu-nication should be established over a radius of 1.000 miles. There Is already al-ready a temporary jtation at the Wellington Wel-lington postofflce which communicates communi-cates with vessels within 300 miles radius Stations also are to be erected at Auckland in the north and Inver-cargill Inver-cargill in the south. |