Washington, Dec. 2.
Urging simplification, Mr. Johnson, apparently referring to Germany, said: "In a certain foreign country, designes strip all non-essentials from their important items of war.
He stated that in a single-seater fighter aeroplane, in that country, the self-starter was omitted and the radio equipment was made so that it could be readily removed, in order to make way for extra ammunition. The cockpit was also reduced in size, to accommodate only small men—
Details were made available to Reuters today of an offer made to the Government this week by Mr. Edward Wilshaw, chairman of Messrs. Cable & Wireless Ltd., to create a chain of wireless stations throughout the colonial empire.
The scheme provides for the installation of;32 wireless stations with receiving and transmitting equipment, and for the eventual employment of about 1,000 men, including a large number of highly-trained wireless The company will bear the cost of installing the wireless equipment at each of its existing cable stations, where no commercial wireless service is already in operation.
The first station is likely to be established at Jamaica, which is considered to represent an important junction of the old and new worlds, and a potential flying base.
This station is expected to be ready in eighteen months.
Other places likely tobe included in the scheme are Antigua, the Bar-bades, Bathurst, Gibraltar, Lagos, Mombasa, Mauritius, Seychelles, Saint Helena, Saint Vincent and Zanzibar.—Reuter.
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