Woosung and Canton, completed for working last summer, have now started regular service. Similar stations at Foochow and Hankow will be completed within a few months. The Woosung and Canton stations will be open for general public correspondence with ships at sea on and after January 1, 1915. A typhoon-warning service, eventually also a press service, will be organized and inaugurated as soon as the necessary arrangements can completed.
The Coast stations are all of the same construction, and the oscillating power in the antenna radiating the waves, by means of which messages are exchanged, is 5 kilowatt (about and a-half H.P.) with a current of 32-38 Amperes. As the stations are fitted out each with two masts of a height of 200 feet this antenna power gives the star ions a range of 700 nautical miles by day and at least 1,200 nautical miles by night, and they are thus able to exchange message with one another and with all ships in Chinese waters.
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