Word: wireless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jellicoe strung out to prevent Scheer's return, rather than pursue him and risk a night battle. Scheer took that risk and, due to balled-up British orders and wireless, got through the British destroyers with loss of only one battleship. Each side claimed victory. The loss score was: German-one battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers, five destroyers, a total of eleven. British-three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, eight destroyers, total of 14. The British decorated a lot of their Admirals.* The Germans, though their fleet never emerged again until it was time to surrender, later...
...Ministry of Information announced: "The German wireless has distorted the purpose of the British contraband policy as setting out to strangle neutral trade and bringing starvation and death to old people, women and children. . . . What Britain is endeavoring to do is to prevent the German Government from importing goods ... to prolong...
Instead of relaxing British censorship, at week's end the Government had clamped it down tighter than ever. News-pictures could not be sent by mail or wireless, cable transmission of wirephotos was restricted. No photographs of any kind could be imported into Britain. Most of the war pictures printed in U. S. papers were being taken by German Army cameramen, released by the Ministry for Propaganda in Berlin...
...Germany, too, has a wired wireless system under way, and adaptation of all People's Radios for wire transmission has already been made obligatory...
France plans no wired wireless, no commandeering of radio apparatus. France's highly "atomized" radio system, a freestyle, non-network jumble of 27 Government and private stations, by its nature is proof against such hurts as the bombing of a central transmitter. Some standby Government transmitters have been built in remote country locations, and equipped with Diesel power units for use in case of bombed local power lines. One function of these new transmitters may be to outshout Germany's mighty, new 500-kilowatt station, pulled out of the Nazi hat two months ago by Joseph Goebbels...