British Contract For Wireless Links.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 25, 1912:
Deal with Marconi Company Announced as Improved Rival System Is Promised.
SENDS 200 WORDS A MINUTE
Inventor Also Says He Can Transmit Pictures — System Taken Up By a Telegraph Company.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, July 24.— The text was issued to-night of the agreement between the Postmaster General and the Marconi Company for the construction of the long-distance wireless stations which will be required in the next few years in connection with the Imperial wireless scheme previously described in The New York Times dispatches.
    The agreement provides for the immediate erection of the wireless stations in England and Egypt, and at Aden, Bangalore, Pretoria, and Singapore. They will be high-power stations, working day and night, each having a radius of 2,000 miles.
    The terms of the agreement provide that the stations shall be operated by the company on account of the Government for the first six months, and thereafter by the Government. The company will receive $300,000 for each station, exclusive of the sites, foundations, and buildings, and it will receive 10 per cent of the gross receipts of all stations so erected for a term of 28 years from the date of the opening of the first three stations.
    The Government will have power to end the agreement at the expiration of eighteen years, but in that event it would cease to have the right to use any of the company's patented processes.