The first official telegram to pass between two continents was a letter of congratulation from Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom to the President of the United States James Buchanan on August 16.

On 8 August 1942, the WJC ’ s Geneva representative Gerhart Riegner sent a telegram to the US vice-consul in Geneva in which he informed the Allies for the first time about the Nazis planned Final Solution to exterminate all Jews in the German-occupied territories.

While speaking at a conference in Washington, D. C. on 31 August 1950, he received a telegram from the Lord Chancellor offering him appointment to the Court of Appeal ; he immediately wired back his acceptance.

In a telegram despatched on 16 August 1917 to the commander of the Ottoman Fourth Army, the intentions of the Allied forces had been clearly detailed by the intelligence analysts.

Dated August 31, 1914, the Western Union telegram read, in part:

" He says that between January 1952 and August this year he was kept in solitary confinement by Chinese communists and subjected to a softening-up process including the use of drugs, result of which was, as he put it, to make his brain like a sponge, capable of receiving any kind of information put into it ," Sir Esler told the Foreign Office in a " top secret " category telegram.

On August 31, the prosecutor of the Court of Novocherkassk received a telegram from Kerensky, saying that Kaledin had been officially relieved of his post and should be arrested immediately and tried for incitement.

Britain had held back from declaring war until 4 August, after Belgium was invaded, yet in a telegram sent to him from Berlin on 1 August: "... England was already mentioned as an opponent ..."

In August 1920, Lev Kamenev, a Bolshevik diplomat visiting London on official business, sent a telegram addressed to Lenin in Moscow, which was intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence.

* August 1: The Tsar responds to the king's telegram, stating, " I would gladly have accepted your proposals had not the German ambassador this afternoon presented a note to my Government declaring war.

But the Vladivostok cruisers were not ready for action, since as late as 5 August 1904, a telegram had been received from Admiral Wilgelm Vitgeft stating that he had decided to perish with Port Arthur.

On 30 August 1939 Middle East Command received instructions stating that if they received a formal telegram informing them that a state of war existed between the United Kingdom and Italy, that all defensive measures taken against the Italians should be as non-provocative as possible.

Hicks, aware of the worthlessness of his force for the purpose contemplated, stated his opinion that it would be best to " wait for Kordofan to settle itself " ( telegram of 5 August ).

It was ratified on August 18, 1920, upon its ratification by Tennessee, the thirty-sixth state to do so by the single vote of a legislator who had opposed the amendment but changed the position after his mother sent him a telegram saying " Dear Son, Hurrah!

Nevertheless, Chaplin's own response was swift ; a telegram from Chaplin published in the August 11, 1918 issue of Moving Picture World reads, " THIS IS NOT A NEW CHAPLIN BUT FROM THE ADVERTISING

What finally settled the battle was a telegram from the president of the republic, Wenceslau Brás, on December 8, 1915.

The Russian Emperor Nicholas II, assessing the performance of the Ingush and Chechen regiments during the Brusilov breakthrough on the Russian-German front in 1915 wrote in his telegram to the Governor-General of the Tersky region Fleisher:

On 9 May 1915, the first day of the Battle of Artois at Carency near Arras he received a telegram saying his wife had given birth to a daughter.

A telegram written by Morgenthau to the State Department in 1915 described the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as a " campaign of race extermination.

from the home of his friend, Henrik Kauffmann, in Washington, D.C., Paul Bang-Jensen sent a telegram dated December 9, 1957, to Ernest Gross.

I remember one day when Mr. Hearst ( and I never knew why he liked me, either ) sent the Hetman a telegram: `` Please find some more reporters like that young man from Denver ''.

`` Mr. Hearst '', Lane replied as he left, `` if you ever get a telegram from me asking you to do anything, you can put the telegram down as a forgery ''.

During the second week of operations, Fogg received a telegram from the Post Office Department, asking him to `` put on two airplanes and make two flights daily, plus one Sunday trip ''.

At that moment, Cora receives a telegram from the governor warning that if the quota of forty-nine cookies is not filled, she will be impeached.

In February 1958, when he was head of the cosmic ray group of the University of Maryland's physics department, he was congratulated in a telegram to the president of the university from President Eisenhower for his work in satellite research.

However, during a particularly grave crisis at Spala in Poland in 1912, Rasputin sent a telegram from his home in Siberia, which is believed to have eased the suffering.

As a result of his standout play, Aaron received two offers from MLB teams via telegram ; one offer was from the New York Giants, the other from the then Boston Braves.

Buggy sent a telegram to his newspaper from the Test after a day's play.

Perhaps even more damaging to Macdonald was when the Liberals discovered a telegram, through a former employee of Sir Hugh Allan, which had been stolen from the safe of Allan's lawyer, Sir John Abbott.

They were, at the very least, able to send a telegram from Anadyr.

The telegram sent by Samuel Morse | Samuel F. B. Morse from the Capitol in Washington to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in 1844: " What hath God wrought "

He was returning from a climb to the summit on September 13 when a park ranger brought him a telegram informing him that McKinley's condition had deteriorated, and he was near death.

Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover sent a telegram from Dunsmuir, California, to his friend Dr. Ray L. Wilbur, asking Wilbur to meet and to personally evaluate the President.

On September 24, 1900, James Baker received a telegram from the valet, Charles Jones, stating:

Despite the contents of this telegram, a second communique, from Rice's bankers warned that the multi millionaire had died under peculiar circumstances, and that his body was to be cremated.

* May 24 – The first electrical telegram is sent over the telegraph by Samuel F. B. Morse from the U. S. Capitol in Washington, D. C. to the B & O Railroad " outer depot " in Baltimore, Maryland, saying " What hath God wrought ".

The final episode, saw Alf lose his job and receive a telegram from Else asking for a divorce.

The first radio telegraph transmission from America to England was sent from this station on January 18, 1903, a ceremonial telegram from President Theodore Roosevelt to King Edward VII.

Kelly was performing in Colorado ’ s Elitch Gardens when she received a telegram from Hollywood producer Stanley Kramer, offering her a co-starring role opposite Gary Cooper in High Noon.

Edward receives a telegram from Nancy that reads, “ Safe Brindisi.

A telegram addressed to his family by Bronisław Knaster, Edward Marczewski, Hugo Steinhaus, and Wladyslaw Slebodzinski expresses this recognition:

On 14 January 1892 a telegram arrived on Victoria advising of the death of prince Edward and as officer of the watch, Evan-Thomas was responsible for ordering flags to half mast.