Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1919 — RECORD IS CLAIMED BY NAVY [ARTICLE]

RECORD IS CLAIMED BY NAVY

Established Wireless Telephone Communication With France. Washington. March 21.—The navy department claims the record foe long-distance wireless telephonic communication. It has sent messages from the Jersey coast to the coast of France, a little more, than 3,000 miles. This is farther than the distance cov* ered by the wireless telephone messages exchanged between Glace bay and Ireland which Is 2,160 miles. The navy department established communication between the wireless station at New Brunswick, N. J„ and the steamship George Washington in the harbor at Brest, France.