Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1901 — Wireless Telegraphy. [ARTICLE]

Wireless Telegraphy.

A report comes through Consul General Gunther of Frankfort to the effect that the captain of a channel null ateamer, whlcn Is provided with a wirelees telegraphy apparatus, states tnat on his last trip he received a message from the officer of the French lightship, anchored about twenty-flve miles from Dunkirk, stating that he would be unable to light up the next night unless help arrived from the shore. Tie captain at once sent a wireless message to La Panne, on the Belgian coast, from which point it was forwarded to Dunkirk by the regular telegraph line, whence a boat was sent to the lightship and the necessary repairs were made.