WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
H.M.S. CHALLENGER AND H.M.S. POWERFUL AT WELLINGTON AND SYDNEY. (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 3. The cruiser Challenger accomplished a unique telegraphic feat in maintaining communication with the flagship, Powerful, lying in Sydney Harbor, throughout the passage to Wellington. Every day European cablegrams were flickered through by the operators on the Powerful to the Challenger, and the news was posted up on the latter vessel for the ship’s company to peruse. On Friday evening, at a distance of over 1100 miles from Sydney, messages were received without a break, and the latest developments in Turkey wt 1 e read with much interest by all. E v en in Wellington, the Challenger was able to get in touch with the Powerful, 1239 miles away.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2492, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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125WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2492, 4 May 1909, Page 5
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