["Wireless Telegraphy", The Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, NSW), Monday 01 February 1909, page 1]

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.

ITS COMPULSORY INSTALLATION.

ON OCEAN-GOING VESSELS.

PROPOSED AMERICAN LEGISLATION.

[Reuter's Message.]

Loudon, Saturday.

Owing to tho service of wireless telegraphy saving the passengers on the Republic and Florida when they collided off Nantucket Island (U.S.A.). a hill has been introduced into Congress, for the compulsory installation of ethergraphs on all ocean-goipg vessels.

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