Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-19
EARTH TWICE COVERED BYA.P.
IN TWO-HOUR TEST OF WIRES
Score of Important Foreign Bureaus Visited
by Greeting Handled in Extraordinary
Electrical Connections.

! Mexican capital in the speediest possible
! time the Western Union used one OF It's
| San Francisco-NeW York circuits which
| terminates in the Western Union cable
office in New York City. alongside OF
| its direct New York Mexico City wire
| Thus the message had completed its
| first circling of the globe. having visited
| Is Offices of the Associated Press in the
| Northern Hemisphere. But it was not
sent by the Western Union to the gen.
eral Offices of the Associated Press, the
starting point. as the Southern Hemis-
| phere had not been visited. 1t had
made its first trip with Is stops around
| the world in l hour 37la minutes. The
route 1t then took to complete its sec
| ond circling of the world was farther
| by thousands of miles than its first. Yet
| it was completed three times as fast
There we're only eight more office calls
to make.
| With no delivery to an Associated
| Press Office in New York necessary at
that time the Western Union had re-
| layed it 10 Mexico City in less than a
| half minute, and with a delivery al
Mexico City reached Havana in two
minutes after 1t had been received from
San Francisco. Havana rushed 1t &c
Buenos Aires, where it was delivered In
two minutes. Rio de Janiero received
it one minute after it got to Buenos
Aires.
Most Circuitous Route.
From Rio de Janeiro to Capetown,
South Africa, the message took its most
circuitous route of the trip. 1t went
direct TO London via the Western Gable
Co., a British concern. AS no delivery
to the Associated Press in London was
involved, the Western Gable Co. put 1t
through an instantaneous relay via the
Eastern Gable Co., another British con-
Germ, for CapetoWn at the southern tip
of the African continent. The electric
current for the cable for the long jump
was furnished from numerous lonely
islands in the North and South Atlantic
one of which was the Island of St.
Helena, where Napoleon died.
The Office of Reuters in Capetown
resent it to Reuters Office at Cairo, and
the latter aoain on the Eastern Gable,
through the Red Sea and under the
Arabian Sea delivered it to Reuters
Office at Bombay, which, in turn, de-
livered it to Reuters Office at Melbourne,
the cable being routed through the
various islands in the Indian Ocean, and
thus into Australia.
From Melbourne the message took its
final and longest submarine trip via the
6,000-mlle cable from Australia to
Vancouver. This cable lies across the
route of the Mackay radio from
Honolulu to San Francisco. The impulse
in the core of the British cable at that
point thus passed an exact point of
latitude and longitude, through which
an impulse had gone less than a half
hour before in the transmission of the
same message from Honolulu to San
Francisco in its first trip around the
world. In that intervening half hour
the message had circled the world;
visited every sea and every continent
on the face of the globe, the Northern,
Southern, Eastern and Western Henri
spheres.
At Vancouver the message was turned
over to the Canadian Pacific Telegraphs,
which carried it across Canada to Mon
treal and delivered it by the Postal
Telegraph Co. to the Associated Press
general office in New York.