Long distance telephone _communication was established on Tuesday between telephones, under the control of the Chinese Telephone Administration, in the native of Shanghai, and Nanziang, Woo-rung, Soochow and Wusih. Through a working arrangement "made between the Shanghai Mutual_Telephone Ca,, Ld, and the Chinese Telephone " Administration, service between telephones in the foreign concessions and the four abovementioned interior cities will be instituted, commencing next Monday, This is the first attempt at long-distance service that has been made this part of China and marks the beginning of what doubtlessly in time. will constitute an elaborate network of lines which, when completed, will extend over most. of the Yangtze Valley and to Peking.
The new service is the culmination a scheme started years ago when Shanghai was comparatively in jufaney. At almost the outset righted. business men, both foreign and Chinese, saw that trade would be greatly facilitated if it were Possible to employ the telephone, However, no arrangement could be struck between the Telephone Company in the Settlement and the Chinese.
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