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the messages passing through a Government Telegraph Line a quarter 

 of a mile away can be distinctly read. 



In a paper on his method of Magnetic Space Telegraphy, Sir 

 Oliver Lodge mentions an occasion on which he was able to interfere, 

 from a distance, with the working of the ordinary telephones in the 

 city of Liverpool. 



Many instances can be enumerated sliowing that Electric Light 

 and Tramway Power Stations have interfered with cables and 

 land-lines. 



Nevertheless, there are penalties attached to the tapping of a 

 telegraph wire, and it ought to be as well known that, since the 

 passing of the Wireless Telegraphy Act, there are penalties involved 

 if any wireless stations are erected or worked without the consent of 

 the Postmaster-General. 



In conclusion I may say that I am very confident that it is only 

 a question of time, and that not a very long time, before wireless 

 telegraphy over great distances, possibly round the world, will l)ecome 

 an indispensable aid to commerce and civilisation. 



[G. M.] 



