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Best Africa and Great Britain about 750,000
words a year.
Test Africa and India
East Africa and youth Africa
About 250,000 vords on ecoh line.
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fest Africa and Great Britain omewhat more than hotween West Africa and
Great Britain,
India and Ceylon with Straits Settlements,
About 2,000,000 words a year,
Straits Settlements with China including
Hong Kong, Congwhat core then
2,000,000 words a year,
10.
As regards (b).
Apparatus to transmit continuous
waves is rapidly being fitted in tho important liners.
It presents two advantages, viz., greater range from a
given serial, and less congestion of traffic.
There is a great opportunity here for develo ment,
since there are very few stations open for C,,traffic,
While there are hundreds working on the commercial spark
wave.
The Haval station Rock (Gibraltar) is already
handling a rapidly increasing traffic on 0.Wt.
Opportunities present themselves at
Jamaica
Bermuda
peculiarly favourable in view of the
Canal trade route.
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Matera
Seletar
Stonecutters.
11.
As regards (c).
The statious mentioned shove
mi_ht also be utilised to handle commercial traffic on
the commercial serk wave, closing the existing low power
stations as necessary.
power
Any odium/station may handle commercial ship
traffic on the spark and continuous waves, together with
commercial point to point traffic and non-paying Service
traffic, in one of two ways:-
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