Excerpt from The Wireless Age, Vol. 5: January, 1918 Promptly at o'clock, New York time, the director of the Division of the Foreign. Press Service of the Committee of Public Information, signaled the cable companies and the naval radio station at Brooklyn to begin sending the President's message. Until the message was fully transmitted seven men in the room were kept under lock and key. Advance word on the message would have been of tremendous importance in Wall Street. The message from Washington came over the Government's private wire. After it was received it was read back to Washington by telephone to make sure that every word was correct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.