What is "cablegrams"

Usage examples of "cablegrams".

Each of the remaining thirteen in Zurich had received identical cablegrams from Elizabeth Scarlatti.

He produced and spread out a couple of cablegrams on which he laid a hand while he talked.

James Allerdyke was the sort of man to leave his cablegrams lying around for somebody else to see.

The only correspondence there was--if you could call it correspondence--was the exchange of cablegrams between Mr.

You could almost see them loping along the midnight streets with bags of seditious leaflets, strike orders, red banners of protest and cablegrams from Moscow, Peking or Havana.

For all of the following twenty-four hours captain Bullen had brooded over the recent happenings, then had sent off a couple of cablegrams, one to the head office in London, the other to the Ministry of Transport, telling them what he, captain Bullen, thought of them.

Allerdyke took the three cablegrams from his visitor and carefully read them through, comparing them with the dates already known to him, and with Fullaway's messages in reply.

During his visit he had contrived to learn the names of the correspondents of the important newspaper and news agencies in that region, and at the appointed time it would be his duty to send off similarly worded cablegrams, signed with the names of these correspondents, which would report to London that the Midorient Company's engineers had struck oil againhad, in fact, tapped a gigantic gusher of petroleum that would make the first phenomenal output of the Mid-orient Oil Fields look like the dribbling of a baby on its bib.