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Show uu WIRELESS CALL FROM FAR NORTH First S. O. S. Signal Ever Received Re-ceived From Arctic Circle Reaches European Stations. London, Eng. Dec 24 The firbt wireless call for help ever received from the Arctic circle is told nbout in the Yorkshire Observer today. "Bergen is working S O S. Wait and listen," the paper states was the i message which went the rounds oi Europe's wireless stations at 1 o'clock Tuesday morning. All did as requested and the far. was then established that the Not wegian steamship Sagnvald Jail had gone ashore on the Lefoden isiands 000 miles north of Bergen, Norway. This is double the working distance of the ship and to enable Berg'.n to communicate all stations were asked to close down so that the talut sig nals might be read. No more defln ite news of the accident Is yet to hand |