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• n  a message transmitted by telegraph

• That General Ma's telegram was genuine neither the Chinese Government (which published it as damaging to Japan) nor the Japanese Government doubted last week.
• In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded.
• The telegram told meagerly that both Servitor Tschirpe and his wife (also old) had been murdered, at Leuthen, near Sagan in Silesia.

• wire

News & Articles

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• Extra, Extra: India Will Send The World's Final Telegram Next Month
  Because yes, the telegram still exists (for now), click today's end-of-day links: Nazi Dad proposes, a really tired Great Dane, Whalers-themed wedding, NPH will be Hedwig, and more! Don't forge to follow Gothamist on Twitter and like us on Facebook . You can also get the top stories mailed to you— sign up here . [ more › ]
  June 18, 2013 - Gothamist
• India to send world's last telegram. Stop. Company was losing $23M a year. Stop.
  APAn Indian staff member sits in his office at a central telegraph centre in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 14, 2013. 144 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in Washington, the world’s final telegram will be sent in India on July 14, 2013. Telegraph services ended in the...
  June 17, 2013 - New York Post
• World's last telegram to be sent next month
  We're not sure if it's more surprising to learn that the last telegram in the world will be sent next month ... or that people are still sending telegrams somewhere. They are, though: 5,000 telegrams still are sent every day in India.
  June 15, 2013 - Lansing State Journal

Quotes

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• David Miliband in Washington Post
  The day when we communicated mainly by telegram are over,Miliband told the Evening Standard newspaper. "Communication has to be for the masses now, not just elites."
• Lindy Ruff in Sports Network
  We weren't very good with the pucksaid Buffalo coach Lindy Ruff. "It's probably the reason we ended up losing the hockey game. We gave it away. We had a lot of passes that were telegram passes, kind of casual passes."
• Decca Aitkenhead in The Guardian
  If you are reading this article on a printed copy of the Guardian, what you have in your hand will, just 15 years from now, look as dated as a Western Union telegram does today,writes Decca Aitkenhead after interviewing internet guru Clay...