System to Be Installed on the Hangchow Railway An important order for the sup ply of railway telephone train despatching apparatus and materials kas been placed by the Purchasing Commission of the Ministry of Railways of the Chinese Government, with the China Electric Co., Ltd, which is a part of the International Telephone & Telegraph System, This, equipment ig, to be installed on the way.
The system consists mainly. of telephones and. selective apparan tus at each of the way stations, and:
two wire copper line connecting the stations together, With this, tatus it is possible for the train ppatcher to selectively signal' and, ring one or any: number of wa, stations at the same time withen disturbing the others, using only, of wires.
telephone train despatehpensable as a quick and, reliable means of communication in way system. Formerly communica tion was effected by telegraph, but, telegraph service has given way to, the faster and move dependable tele phone service.
The system to be installed consists of Western Electric train desing apparatus which is in ale most universal use throughout the railway systems of the world, me cluding the Government Railways in China. abolished Shanghai-hsien by Tue position of Tipao has been
order of the Commissioner of Civil Affairs for Kiangsu Province.
Members of the Bureau of Public Safety of Greatez Shanghai visited the An Loh Hotel, in the French Concession, yesterday morning and found the ten-year-old son of a garden-keeper, who had been kidnapped in December last Chiaotung Road, Chapel. After the disappearance of the lad, several Letters were received by the father demanding that he. should appoint some agent to negotiate with them the matter of ransom, When the agents visited the places named in the letters, the kidnappers failed to appear.' When found yesterday, the boy was alone.
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