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Show OPEN WIRELESS TO JAPAr iv Service Recently Inaugurated Has T tal Mileage of 5,442 With One Relay. it; Wireless service between Japan nnc,j the United Suites by way of Honolulu was inaugurated on November l."i. The;, route besiiu: at the San Franciseo)( transmiJST station at Holiniis ridge,, just 2.0S7 miles from the Hawaiian wireless station at Knhukii. The rufle-age rufle-age from Honolulu to Fienalmshi, near Tokio, to :i.:l5:i miles, and the total mileage of the service is o,442 with hut the one relay. This is. understood to he the longest distance over which commercial wireless messages have over been sent. The Marconi company announces two classes of service between be-tween California and Japan. The full rate or expedited service at SO cents a word, a reduction of 41 cents n word from the existing rales, ami a deferred half-rate service at 40 cents a word. The lowest cable rate at present is $1.21 n word Philadelphia Commercial Commer-cial Museum Letter. |