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French figured that
this would therefore be his most expeditious route; after the message had
been
encoded, he personally carried it over to his bank of six Western
Union teletypes and, at 12:01 p.m. December 7, sent it on its way.
Western Union forwarded it at 12:17, and 46 minutes later it was
received by R.C.A. in Honolulu. Local time was 7:33 a.m. The first wave
of Japanese planes was then only 37 miles away—so close that the Army
radar operators at Opana Point, who had tracked the flight for several
hours and had been told to "Forget it" when they first reported it, were
about to lose it in the dead zone of the nearby hills. But though the
teletype connection for Fort Shatter had been completed the day before,
it was not in operation pending tests on Monday. R.C.A. put Marshall's
message in an envelope marked "Commanding General" for hand
delivery.
In Tokyo, Togo had been received by the Emperor. He read the text of
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