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DURING the time of the late Bengal famine we were familiarised with seeing in the morning papers telegrams that had been despatched from Calcutta on the previous evening. Ten years ago telegraphic communication with India was but just completed viâ Constantinople, the Persian Gulf, and Karāchi: but it was some years after that before rapid through communication was arranged. The delays occurred mostly between Persia and England, and much organisation of European lines was needed before it was possible to converse with Teheran as the Shah did on his arrival at Buckingham Palace.
Telegraph and Travel.
By Colonel Sir F. J. Goldsmid, &c. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874.)
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Telegraph and Travel . Nature 11, 347 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/011347a0
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