The Archive · 1928

Officials Converse

London, May 31, One of the longest calls in the history of telephony was made yes terday afternoon when the Colonial Secretary, the Right Hon. L. S. Amery, spoke from his room in the House of Commons with the Under-

Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Right Hon. W. G. Ormsby-Gore, who is at present in Java on a tour of investigation concerning the rubber industry.

Mr, telephone call was wirelessed from Java to Holland, where it was picked up and carried by the ordinary tele-Phone line to London.

Lady Ormsby-Gore, who was Mr. Amery, also spoke to he-husband. She said that his voices was og clear as it would have bee in a local call in London,

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