London, Feb. 21.
The "Daily Herald" learns that if the negotiations between ths Pest Office and American interests minate in a satisfactory agreement, the charges for overseas telephone will be reduced by 50 per cent. within a year.
The next big development, it says, will be to start a regular telephone service to Australia, which eventually, it is hoped, will be exten led India and New ally Herald" declares that bac the Post Office is leading Europe, if not the world, in. telephony. British business men, it goes on, will be able to talk ore long with Jcustomers in Shanghai, but the Post Office'is at present concentration on the development of Dominion. teli-
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