The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-04
FOR A WIRELESS TREATY
PROTOCOL ADOPTED BY THE
 BERLIN CONFERENCE.
systems in ths Transmission of HIos- saEes to ships at sea-Preoedsnce Must be GIyen to Requests for Help from Vessels.

Washington, Sept. S.-The final proto- col of the International Wireless Tele- graph conference in Berlin last month was made public to-day at the state department. General Greedy was chair man of the American commission. This commission had no authority to make any agreements for the United States, but the protocol embodies in most of | pressed by the American commission CTS. Another conference will be held, and if all delegates have full powers the protocol no doubt will be embodied in a treaty for the government of inter- national wireless telegraph communica- ! tion. The following is the text of the protocol: Article I. , | The exchange of correspondence be- | tween vessels at sea and wireless coast stations open to the general telegraphic | service is subject to the following con- ditions:
 i. Any fixed station whose field of ac- tion exteEds to the sea is styled coast station. '
 2 Coast stations are bound to receive and transmit telegrams originating from or Intended vessels at sea without any distinction of wireless telegraph system used by the latter.
 | 5. The contracting parties shall pub fish any technical information likely to facilitate or expedite communication l between coast stations and ships at sea. However. each one of the contracting governments may authorize the stations established on it's territory, under such conditions as it may see fit, to make use of several installations of special ar engagements.
 | Paragraph four deals with the fixing of rates of traffic) l s... Article II. | Regulations which will be annexed to the convention that is to be perfected will establish the rules applicable to the exchange of communications between the posts and on board the vessels. The provisions of these regulations may be at any time modified by common under standing between the contracting states.
 Article III.
 l The provisions of the telegraphic con vention of St. Petersburg are applica- ble to the transmission of wireless tel legraphis messages i'll so far as they do Inot conflict with those of the future lconventions. @ & Articles ".
 | The wireless stations must, unless there should be absolute impossibility accept in preference requests for hell that may come from vessels.
 1 Article v. #@s.,
 The service of wireless telegraph stations muse be organized as far as practicable. so as not to interfere with the. service of other stations.
 Article VI.
 The contracting governments reserve 4 the right to make separate arrange. ments for the purpose of compelling the lcontractoIs working within their terri. tory wireless telegraph stations to obey lonly through other stations the modifi. Ieation of the future convention.
 Article VII. <
 The provisions of the future conven. ltion are not applicable to wireless tele. Igraph stations that are not open to the general telegraphic except in regard tc the clauses embodied in the articles IV land V. @ Article VIII.
 The countries that have not adhered to the future convention may be admit. ted on their making request to that effect i . .' v..e-,.y s.sS' ..