Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — Some Wireless Yarns. [ARTICLE]

Some Wireless Yarns.

They tell some funny yarns about the operation of wireless telegraphy in the present war. YY’lien Admiral Togo was at his island shelter, some miles from Port Arthur, he was the victim of what might be called a “Russian” joke. The Russians knew that Togo’s ships were equipped with wireless apparatus, so the Russian wireless station at Port Arthur sent the following message: “Russia’s fleet coming out,” and signed the name of Rear Admiral Dewa. Togo came rushing up, with his whole fleet, forced draft, four boilers, four belLs, Uppity split, anxious to get there in time to intercept the Russians. In the meantime the Russian joker was leaning against a fortification, laughing in his beard, and uttering strange sounds of mirth. Admiral Togo did not consider it much of a joke at nil, according to Uhefoo rumors, and the same afternoon blew the top off of a prominent hill near the signal station.