Mr. Marconi and the Post Office

Abstract

THE fact that the message from the King to President Roosevelt, in reply to the latter's wireless telegram of greeting, had to be sent to America by cable occasioned at the time much comment and correspondence in the daily papers on the attitude of the Post Office towards Mr. Marconi; the subject cropped up again last week on the return of Mr. Marconi to this country after his successful expedition to America. There is some little difficulty in ascertaining the real state of the case, as two or three different explanations have been put forward in the papers, but the truth of the matter seems to be precisely what we stated in our notes columns, four weeks ago. In an interview with a representative of the Daily Express, Mr, Marconi made the following statements:—