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Show FIRST WIRELESS SENHO ASIA Signal Corps Station at Nome Sends Message to Anadyr, Siberia. - Seatile. Wash. Oct. 28. The first commercial message handled by wireless wire-less between America and Asia was transmitted yesterday from tbe Uni ted States army signal corps station at Nome, Alaska, to the Russian government gov-ernment station at Anadyr, Siberia It was a Russian government mes sage from St Petersburg addressed to Commander Wilkltzky. discoverer of the large body of land In the An tic recently reported who is on the flag ship Taimyr off the Siberian coast Tho message was sent by cable from St Petersburg to New York, telegraphed tel-egraphed to Seattle nnd 9ent by cable, land Hues and wireless to the Nome station, which forwarder) it to its des tlnation 500 miles further west In all the message traveled 12,000 miles. oo |