May 24 1924
The recent advance in the science of wireless telegraphy, including more particularly the invention of the thermionic valve, have brought within the bounds of possibility the linking up of the American and European telephonic systems by wireless, which is impracticable with existing types of submarine cable.
The General Post Office makes this prophecy, in a statement last night dealing with the research work on the subject on both sides of the Atlantic.
Transmissions of wireless telephony, it is stated, have taken place weekly from the Long Island Station. A special receiving antenna was built by the Post Office, and during the winter months, when conditions were favourable, speech was occasionally distributed during the daytime over the land lines to a number of telephone subscribers at their homes in London and other parts of the country.
With technological advancements, the prospect of phoning people from across the world in people’s homes became more plausible.
Boundary Out Of Bounds
Addressing a public meeting of South Tyrone Women’s Unionist Association, over which he presided at Aughnacloy, Mr William Coote, member for Tyrone and Fermanagh in the six county parliament, said he had all along maintained there was no such thing as a boundary question. It was in reality merely a bogey used by party politicians, and he could assure them now that the members of the northern government and the stern men and women of the north were going to have nothing to do with it.
The matter was injected into the Free State Treaty Agreement by Mr [David] Lloyd George and his associates in a manner cruel and insulting to the feelings of the Ulster people, and they had yet to learn how any party would agree to a boundary agreement made behind her back. By the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 they had been given the territory of the six counties. They had occupied it, defended it from attack and rebellion, and they would now respectfully say to the British Government, if they wished to avoid trouble in Great Britain and throughout the self-governing dominions, they should play fair and square with the people of Ulster in this matter.