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Show 1 I ANXIOUS TO HEAR FROM THE CRUISER ' r Washington. March 1 Naval offl-1 offl-1 I eials are awaiting with interest a ca blegram from the scout cruiser Salem now somewhere in the north Atlantic ocean, which will tell whether the vessel has continued to receive messages mes-sages from the new radio station at Arlington, Va. When she last responded re-sponded to the call of the Arlington station the Salem was out two thousand thou-sand miles, since which time no word has come from hr. This may mean ' that the vessel Is unable to send a message to Arlington, although able to receive meages from that station The tests are being made to deter mine the capacity of the Arlington station before Its acceptance by the government The contract provides that the station must have a radius of I three thousand miles. |