Telegraph code

The principle behind the transmission of Chinese characters by Morse Code telegraphy is simple. There already existed dictionaries which numbered the Chinese characters. It is simply a case of sending the numbers by Morse Code, and these numbers are then looked up in the dictionary at the receiving end.

 In practice this must be a slow process, unless there exists expert Chinese telegraphers who can remember the numbers of the all the 5,000 odd characters which are in common use.
       Frederick David Tombe
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