German station at Sayville, Long Island, allowed back on the air.

A hundred years ago today, August 21, 1914, President Wilson resolved the issue of use of wireless stations in U.S. territory by the warring nations. After protests from Germany, whose cable had been cut and had only wireless contact with Germany, it was decided that the warring nations would be permitted to send coded messages from their stations in the U.S.

Largely because of the practical impossibility, there would be no censorship of cable traffic on the remaining transatlantic cables.

As noted here earlier, it was Hiram Percy Maxim who brought to the government’s attention the German’s transmission of coded messages.

Among the newspapers carrying the report was the 22 August 1914 edition of the New York Tribune.

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