Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-19
BY the Associated Press.

| NEW YORK. April ia message of
greeting, riding on the wings of Mercury,
| and starting from New York, twice
| circled the globe in 2 hours and S
/ minutes, making momentary call en-
/ route at each of the l6 most important
| foreign bureaus of the Associated Press
| and four bureaus of its ally. Reuters,
| the British News Agency.
| Announcement of the result of the
| test which was made on March 81 was
withheld by the Associated Press until
| the eve of its annual meeting, which
conVenes Monday in New York.
Each Of the bureaus received the mes
sage in turn. and likewise in turn
| speedily relayed it on it's way.
1T was the first time in the history
of electrical transmission of words
said Kent Cooper, general manager of
the Associated Press, that a message
was so often relayed upon such an ex-
tensive and devious journey. Its speed
! over the circuitouS but continuous
! route, which was necessarily involved.
because of the widely separated bureaus
constitutes a record of the marvellous
means of transmission available for the
Associated Press staff to keep in step in
its work of collecting news throughout
the world"
The message started from New York
at noon. 1t read; Associated London
greetings rush relay Kenper."
Meaning of Brief Words.
Associated" is the cable address of
the Associated Press. "Kenper'' is the
cable address of the general manager.
Rush relay" meant that the receiving
Office should speed the message on to
the next bureau, which previously had
been designated.
The time of receipt and retransmis-
sion at each bureau follows. standard
time in New York City being given in
each instance:
Left New York at noon Eastern
standard time received London IL :00:15
pm, forwarded to Madrid IL :00:51
pm, received Madrid 12:02:30 pm,
forwarded Paris 12:03:30 pm, received
Paris 1912 pm, forwarded Geneva
1913 pm, received Geneva 1890 pm,
forwarded Rome 1921 pm, received
Rome 1887 pm, forwarded Constanti-
nople l2:40 pm, received Constantl-
nople 12:41 pm. forwarded Vienna
PAP pm, received Vienna 1874 pm,
Berlin 1913 pm, forwarded Moscow
l2:49 pm, received Moscow 1887 pm,
forwarded Peiping 1888 pm. received
Peiping l:03 pm, forwarded Shanghai
1:O4 pm. received Shanghai 1907 pm,
forwarded Toxic 1908 pm, received
Toxic lit pm, forwarded Mania
1928 pm, received 1:29 pm, Tor
warded Honolulu 1880 pm, re-
ceived Honolulu 1871 pm, forwarded
San Francisco 1872 pm, san Fran
cisco 1888 pm, forwarded Mex
leo CITY 1874 pm, received Mexico
City 1:37 pm. forwarded Havana :38
pm. received Havana LAO pm, for
warded Buenos Aires l:41 pm, received
Buenos Aires AS pm, forwarded Rio
de Janeiro /: IA pm, received Rio de
Janeiro 1:45 pm, forwarded to cape
Town South Africa via London, :4O
pm, received Capt Town so pm, for
warded Cairo ISL pm, received CAIRO
1854 pm, forwarded Bombay l:55 pm:
received Bombay ST pm, forwarded
Melbourne 1853 pm, received Mel
bourne 2 pm, forwarded New YORK
POI pm. received New York via VAN
couver-M Montreal 2:O5 pm.
The originals OF each of the messages
received by each bureau IN turn mas
been mailed to the general offices OF the
Associated Press, where they VIII De
preserved.
Efficiency Further Shown.
A further demonstration of the ettl-
cheney of the means OF communication
used nv the Associated Press was th@
fact that by 248 pm, when the mes
sage had reached New York, after twice
circling the globe, cabled or wireless
reports had been received IN New YORK
from each of the Offices giving the re-
port of the transit OF the message
through each bureau.
Twentv-five separate communication
systems were utilized. The message
started from an automatic telegraph
typewriter at the general Offices OF inc
Associated Press at 1888 Madison avenue,
New York Through several miles o!
underground wires in the streets OF
New York. it reached the main cable
Office of the Western Union at 40 Broao
street. where it was copied ana resent
OH the direct New York-London caple'
which crosses the Atlantic from rev.
foundland to PEnzance, England, ano
thence overland to the Western Union
London Office. 1t was relayed from
there into the Associated Press LONDON
office by automatic telegraph type
writer, copied and resent by telegraph
to the British Marconi, and was radloeo
to the Associated Press in Maorlo,
which in turn copied it and filed 1t with
the Spanish government lines 10 Parls
All of the telegraphs IN Europe are
owned and operated by the various
governments, which nave 1nIeIHatioiAa1
traffic arrangements.
1t reached the Associated Press once
in Paris over an automatic telegraph
sender from the main government ele-
graph office in Paris.
Handled Automatically.
It was copied and relied in the Asso-
ciated Press Paris office by automatic
telegraphs, back to the government tele-
graph Office and was sent on its way 10
Geneva, the shortest section OF the trip
and vet the longest to complete, namely,
II minutes. 1t crossed the Alps via the
Swiss-Italian lines to Rome, where 1t
was again relayed. and made the excep-
tional time of three minutes in reaching
Constantinople 1stambuD. This time
It crossed and recrosSed the frontiers OF
italy. Austria, Serbia. Bulgaria, Greece
and Turkey On its way to Vienna 1t
partly retraced that route and went
through Hungary. From Vienna it
crossed Czechoslovakia to Berlin. From
Berlin it sped across Poland into Mos
COW.
The efficiency of the transmission on
its longest overland jump was remark
able Due to the cooperation OF the
Soviet government telegraph officials.
the Soviet foreign office, TaSs, the Rus
sian News Agency, and the officials Of
the Great Northern Telegraph Co.,
which operates the wires across Russia
and Siberia, remarkable transmission
time of four minutes between Moscow
and Peiping, with delivery to the Asso-
ciated Press Office at Peiping, was made
tI,ie cpnnd tho Soviet OOV-