New Britain herald., 1923-04-17
FRANCE HAS MADE
 STRIDES IN RADIO
Has Been Working to Develop
 Commercial Wireless Business

l Paris, April 17.-While the United States has been carrying on an in- tensive campaign in wireless broad casting and the use of radio by anna teurs, France has been hard at work developing it's commercial wireless business through private enterprise. 1 Today France has the largest, most efficient and most powerful wireless equipment in Europe. Unlike Eng land, France took the opportunity I during the war of developing this new means of communication.
 Four Powered Stations. Today the French government have | four high powered stations. Most Americans are familiar with the great Eiffel Tower which rcars its steel framework into the Paris skyline like giant finger and snatches radio messages from around the world. It is in continuous contact with Airing ton, near Washington, and all the other great American stations. Next in importance comes the station at Nantes, which is allocated to the French navy; the station at Lyons, which was erected during the war and is used by the post office for communications to America, Africa, Europe and the French colonies; and the great Lafayette station, near Bor- deaux which was built by the Amer ican navy and later acquired by the French government. The Lafayette tower sends daily communications to Madagascar. Martinique and Saigon. The government service consists of news, propaganda and official com munications.
 Installation at Ste. Assise.
 The chief wireless installation in France is now that of Ste. Assise and consists of two stations, one for European traffic and one for world communication. It was necessary to build this powerful station because of the inadequacy of the submarine cables and telegraph lines, and the lack of capacity of the other wireless stations for continuous long distance communication. The Ste. Assise sta tion undertakes rapid and intensive service to North and South America and with the Far East and Indo- China.
 To show the progress radio is mak- ing in this country it may be men, toned that the total number of words transmitted from France to the Unit ed States increased from 353,734 in November, 1922, to 4S6,a79 in Janu- ary, 1923. The number of daily mes sages sent by radio in January was more than the combined number sent out from France by, the two chief submarine cable companies.
 Radio Companies.
 Commercial radio is operated by the Company Radio France. a sub sidiary of the French Wireless com pany. The parent company, the "Compagnie Generale de Telegraphe Sans Fil," has a concession for 30 years from the French government, granted in October. 1920, but dating from Jan. l, 1924. The public in- terests and state requirements in time of war are safeguarded. The parent company is in alliance with the Mar- conf company, the American Radio Corporation, the tGerman Telefunkcn company. and the Missni Bussan Kaisha of Japan. It is associated with companies in Belgium. Italy, Po- land, Roumania, Switzerland, Syria, South America and other countries.
 France has long distance two-way stations at Buenos Aires, Beirut and Saigon, and a long, g-distance transmit ting station is being built in Mada-