To Link German Colonies.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 4, 1912:
Wireless Communication Between Empire's Islands In Pacific.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Aug. 3.— A company called the German South Sea Company for Wireless Telegraphy has been formed with a capital of $3,250,000 for the purpose of wirelessly linking up Germany's possessions in the Pacific.
    The company has obtained a concession for twenty years from the Imperial Post Office, which will he represented in the company by a commissary.
    The work will be intrusted to a German wireless society.
    Four large stations will be built at Rabaul in New Guinea, Apia in Samoa, Nauru in one of the Marshall Islands, and Tap, which is one of the Caroline Islands.
    On Yap is a cable station of the German-Dutch Telegraph Society.
    The inadequacy of communication between the German possessions in the Pacific, which have been obliged to use cable lines in foreign hands, has long been a subject of complaint in the German press, both on commercial and strategic grounds.