視点3 波濤万里ロジェストウェンスキーの通信戦略(日本海海戦: その情報通信からの視点, <特集>日本海海戦百周年記念)

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The author of this paper tries to indicate the flow of information during the voyage of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet bound for the Far East, over the waves 18,000 miles away. The voyage must be evaluated to be equal to the ones, i.e., Colombus's, Gama's and Magelan's, done during the Great Navigation Age. The differences were the existence of steam engine, worldpastal delieveyu seruices, submarine cables and wireless telegram system. Then what support the long voyage? Steam engine needs coal, in auother wads imformation for its supply. Communication system is convenient, hawever, it is, also convenient for the enemy. Sometimes it brings even rumor. The commander of the fleet often dispatched boat to telegraph station to send telegram # Few years after the War, telegrams could send and receive on the air between wireless station on ship and coast station. It became not necessary to bring telegram by a boat.