The Wireless Age July 1919  Page 8

WHEN the Huns last fall somewhat feverishly indicated the desirability of cessation of hostilities it was the judicious use of wireless by Uncle Sam, in direct communication with the enemy on his own stamping-grounds which hastened the armistice preliminaries and brought the fighting to an end Nov. 11. It wasn't exactly according to Hoyle. In fact, communicating in such a forthwith and extemporaneous manner in that sort of situation "isn't done" in well-regulated diplomatic circles, or it hadn't been until your Uncle Samuel did it.
     The story of how it was done was told in the New York Evening Post.
     It was 12 o'clock noon--one day about ( Oct. 20, last – when every government wireless operator on duty in the allied countries was startled out of his wits by a signal call from the radio-station at New Brunswick, N. J. The operators of the wireless stations of the central powers could not have been more surprised.
     “POZ – POZ – POZ – de NFF," buzzed the wireless.  THE  allied radio operators saw immediately visions of brazen treachery or equally brazen German spy operations in the United States. They saw visions of an American war-scandal, such as the world had never known, court-martials and firing squads and possible revolution in America.
     For P O Z is the radio call for the German government wireless station of Nauen, a suburb of Berlin, and N F F is the radio address of the United States naval sending station at New Brunswick, and the two had not been on. speaking terms for a long time.
     There must have been a real Prussian at the Nauen switchboard, for within two or three minutes, he responded patronizingly: "Your signals are fine, old man."'
     Whereupon the "old man" in New Brunswick proceeded to dispatch through ether a message which was, not so fine as it was clear. No code was used. The Message sage was in plain English. It was the first of President Wilson's statements to the German people carrying they suggestion that the allies would conduct no negotiations, for an armistice and peace with the German government: as then constituted.
     Thereafter Washington was in constant communication with Berlin. Wireless was making history at a faster pace than all the engines of destruction oil the battle fronts had ever been able to set up. Wireless was saving thousands of lives, perhaps millions. The negotiations between Washington and Berlin continued till the day the armistice was signed.