Until quite recently it has been regulation of the Imperial Chinese Telegraphs that a dispatch sent by its wires must consist of at past seven words, including the name and address. Thus, if the sender of a dispatch wanted to ud three words, he had to pay for is regulation has now been rescind-"ed, and the send heartily congeatul on this progress is calculated that this wi Adminstration an immedi $60,000 @ your, which it is hoped will be compensated by an increase in the num-bor of messages sent.
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