An Empire : Ocean-wide 



graphic message could not be flashed across a 

 few miles of veldt. 



This great advance has come about, not by 

 improvements in the world's shipping, though 

 such improvements have not been small, but by 

 means of the Electric Cable. 



Not over the Ocean, but under the Ocean, 

 messages are despatched with lightning speed, 

 from man to man, in all parts of the civilised 

 Earth. 



Nor is this all. Quite lately another and still 

 more marvellous means of communication has 

 been discovered ; a means which, if successfully 

 followed out, as seems now probable, will tend 

 still further to revolutionise the life of ships at sea. 



By means of Wireless Telegraphy man can 

 exchange thoughts with man, when the two are 

 separated by many miles of distance. Watchers 

 on a lonely lightship, far from land, can appeal 

 in trouble to their friends on shore. The 

 Admiral of a great war fleet can send his voice- 

 less commands through space, unhampered by 

 wire or cable, unhindered by fog or storm. 



Not under the water, but through or above the 

 water these messages journey ; and in the course 

 of time, this last new method of signalling may 

 even largely supersede the use of submarine 



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