The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-02
RADIO-TELEGRAPHY IS OFFICIAL NAME Italy and Great Britain Are h.
 dependent BOUND UP BY CONTRAC IS All Other Powers Agree to Unrestricted Exchange of Messages From Ship
 to Shore and Ship
 to Ship.
BOUND UP BY CONTRAC TS

Berlin, November 1.-The delegates to the wireless telegraph conference finished their work today and expect to to sign convention Saturday. The agreement will be framed on the principle of free inter- communication between all systems, but Great Britain and Italy will sign with reservations. designed to protect the lex- isting arrangements with the Marconi company.
 Montenegro was represented by Cuth- bert Hall of the Marconi company.
 Possibly the delgates of one or two minor governments will associate them selves with Great Britan's and Italy's reservations. Otherwise the agreement will be signed by the delegates of all the states represented, subject to the usual ratfications.
 Radio-Telegraphy Chosen.
 The delegates of the United States at the beginning of the conference announced their purpose to be for international agreement providing for the unrestricted exchange of messages between ship and ship, and ship and shore, regardless of the system of radio-telegraphy used. The term "radio-telegraphy was chosen as the one to be used officially in defining the new function of electricity.
 Germany supported the United States regarding nter-communication between ship and shore, but during the first ses- sons of the conference practically all the delegates opposed the idea of a free exchange of messages between ship and ship as one which if persisted in might bring the conference to nothing. Great Britain resolutely led the opposition to both contentious, but stood ultimately alon, except for Italy. all other mari time powers taking the United States views and voting with the United States in the final important roll call on We'd nesday. The Italian delegates from the first said they were unable to join in the internationalization of wireless telegraphy being precluded from so doing by con tracts with the Marconi company The British delegates desired the conference to accept the general principle of free nter-communication provided the com panies agreed. Great Britain afterwards yielded to the ship and shore proposition.
 Bound By Contracts.
 The conclusions of the conference appear to be that all the maritime powers, ex- cept Great Britain and Italy, are united the principles of free communication. Great Britain and Italy, 1t was shown, would join except for their contracts which may, it was intimated, be bought off by negotiation with the Marconi com pany. In the meantime until the expira- ton of the contracts Great Britain, will allow other countries to put up coast stations. The naval and military sta tions of all the powers are naturally ex- cluded from the terms of the convention, and also any government may exclude a station open to public business. Except Great Britain and Italy, probably all the governments will declare that they will not avail themselves of the privileges.
 Radio-telegraphy will have an inter- national bureau of information and a clearing house similar to the international postal and tlegraph bureaus at Berone, On Ambassador Tower, as the ranking United States delegate, fell the duty of upholding the position of the United States. The final action of the conference Is regarded by his colleagues as largely due to the way in which MT. Tower met objections, day after day, in open debate.