File No. 841.731/579
The Secretary of State to the Western Union Telegraph Company 1
Gentlemen: The Department has been informed that your office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has refused to accept messages for Rotterdam routed via the Tuckerton radio station. Although the Tuckerton station has, on one or two occasions, experienced some trouble in transmitting wireless messages on account of poor static conditions, thus causing more or less delay, the Department now understands that such messages are being handled with reasonable dispatch.
The Department will be gratified, therefore, in view of the present difficulties in communicating with points in Europe by cable, if you will kindly instruct all of your offices as soon as possible to accept messages routed via the Tuckerton radio station.
I am [etc.]
- The same to the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company.↩