This project is an activity of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, which ing secured the approval of the/. Ministry of Communications, made the necessary financial arrangements Chinese banks, The banks 91
Between Shanghai and Tientsia there. will be 12 intermediate stwtions which will tap the trunk line and be in communication with alf other points on the system.
Besides these telephone lines, wireless telephony is part of the scheme, and users will have the option' of communication either over the wire or by wireless. Radio stations will be establieted at each of the 12 points ready noted, and be seen that the scheme involves most comprehensive system of telephony for this part of China, While the terminals are at Tientsin and Shanghai, it is hoped that all the districts in the vicinity served by the telephone will be sooner or later linked up with the main system, that to attain to usefulness there must with the Shanghai Mutual the security of the Railway ace understood to have already advanced about $1,000,000 for the purchase of materials, and these are now on the point of'arriving. For the purpose of undertaking this work a edmpany was formed last year under the title of the Societe Francaise des Teleyhones Entre-Urban, this being a subsidiary of two of the most important French telephone and wireless companies, and the has been entrusted to it,
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