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There has just been organized in New York a
concern called the "ew York Patente xploitation Company", established to supersede the various German Telefunken wireless enterprises in the United States
and more particularly the Atlantic Communication Company, which owned and operated the Sayville station.
They are for the moment organized in the offices of Paul C. Sohnitzler, 165 Broadway, New York. Schnitzler is the legal adviser in the United States for the German Telefunken interests, and he was until recently the Vice President of the Atlantic Communica-
tion Company.
The President of the new firm is Harold
W. Hastings, an associate of Schnitzler's, who occupies the same office, and who is known to be aoting merely as a dunny for Schnitzler and Berlin.
The most prominent person interested is the ohiof
His sym- engineer, Fritz Van der Woude, a Hollander.
pathies are rapidly pro-German, he has a German wife and he has for several years been an employee of the
He first came to the United German Telefunken 200. States from Berlin in August, 1911, to stall the apparatus at Sayville, and he is understood to have brought instructions to keep the real purpose of the station as secret as possible.
Van der Woude returned from Germany via Holland last March. Ile is now endeavouring to get into communication with all the German Telefunken Company'a agente in Central and South .merica and possibly the Par Last in reference
It is evident that his to present and future business.
correspondence should be most carefully followed.
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