Foreign Contracts to End: To Use Only Wireless Nanking, Jan. 4.
In a special article published in this morning's issue of the "Central Daily News," the official organ of the National Government, Mr. Chuan Chi-huan, Director-General of Telegraphs and Telephones of the Ministry of Communications, stated that the National Government, in December, 1929, officially informed the Great Northern, the Eastern Telegraph and the Coiimercial Pacific Cable companies the decision of the Chinese Government not to renew its contracts with the above companies upon their expiration.
The new powerful radio stations to be erected by the National Government will take care of communications between China and foreign countries after December 31, 1930. The stations at Shanghai are to oe completed within six months and those at Hankow, Tientsin, and Canton at the end of this year. Th Ministry of Communications stated to be floating $10,000,000 Communications Bonds, The sum of $4,000,000 will be used for the payment of China's debts to the Great Northern and Eastern Telegraph companies, $3,000,000 for the completion of the new radio stations, and another $3,000,000 for the re-organization of the country's telegraph systems.
The "egal" Stations The Ministry has had some diffi culty in the sale of the Communic: tions Bonds. Mr, Chum, "howe lurged the public to support the Ministry in its work to improve the communications of the country. The Director-General of Telographs and Telephones in his article also vigorously criticised. the existence of many "Iilegal wireless stations in Shanghai, "Tientsin and other places" and expressed the hope that the Government would take adequate measures for the elimination these stations in the near future, Arrangements have been made with the Telefunken interests of Germany for the transmission of radio pictures between China and Germany. If the experiments prove -successful, the Ministry of Communications will sign a contract with tie above firm for the introduction of radio pictures into this country. As the National Government has been depending almost entirely on for-n countries for its wirele materials, Mr. Chuan has started a work-shop for the manufacture of wireless materials. The experiments, it is stated, have been quite satisfactory.
Military campaigns have seriously interfered with his programme of re-organizing the country's telegraph system. Mr, Chuan hopes, however, to put up powerful radio stations within this year in remote parts of China, like Kanau, Sinkiang, Szechuan, Yunnan and other places, so that," communications between those places and other parts of China will be possible. This improvement, it is pointed out in the article, will algo have an important bearing on the national defence programme of the National Government.—Reuter.
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