No one had dreamed of a lino type in a liner before the "Daily Mail" Atlantic edition tried the' experiment, and complete and; rather amusing tests were made on land to see what would happen. A working linotype machine vas! placed on rollers with the operator lashed to his chair, and four men gave a erous imitation of a} ship pitching. Then it was slowed' round and a, rolling test applied. As the operator still kept control! of his keyboard and levers, and as the melton metal stayed in its steel pot without splashing, the test was held to be successful. Afloat it proved to he equally efficient.
Twice a day, by arrangement with the Radio Communication Company—in the early evening and again at midnight—special reports of all events of outstanding importance are handed in to the Fleet Street Post Office, and from there are despatched to the Leafield out a check the news is automatic" Wireless Station at Oxford. With-
ally. thrown into the other and received by the ships within a few! minutes.
A similar service of wirelessed news comes from the other side of the Atlantic, despatched from
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