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"No, I have been in Mexico and South America and had someone send the cablegram for me from Japan," Haupt lied.

The foreign ministry in Lisbon began sending cablegrams to Bordeaux, ordering him to desist, amid reports from colleagues that he had "lost his senses".

On the twenty-sixth, just before we went on the ship, my father sent my grandmother a cablegram: sail- ING TODAY.

When Martin betrays Max’s actress sister, Max decides to exact revenge via airmail and cablegram.

Moves are communicated over long distances — in less technologically savvy times often by handwritten mail or cablegram — and each player has days to make a move.