Nanking, Jan. 7.
The Ministry of Communications has promulgated a number of regulations regarding the landing of cables in China. The more important of these regulations are as follow: lished this morning the oficial version of the Agreement recently concluded between the Chinese Tele graph Administration and the for-ign cable companies.
The seven Articles of the Agreement are as follow:
Cable companies desirous of Iand-ing cables in China must first send in their applications to the Ministry of Communications for approval, When such applications proved by the Ministry certificates will be issued to the Companies, (The tine unit of thee cer: ifica'es all be fixed by th: Ministry Cable landing places will te de-ignoted by the Mini.try of Con munications and without the Minis. try's approval no change of landing places will be permitted, The transmission of telephone or shall be sentatives appointed by the Ministry of Communications.
The amount ay shall be fixed by the Ministry of Communications. Any change in cable rates must receive the approval of the Ministry.
For oficial cable messages to and from China the charges are to be half the ordinary rates.
For national defence or for the purpose of preserving peace the Ministry of Communications may at any time appoint representatives to supervise the work of the Cable companies in Chinese territory.
Representatives of the Cable companies, it is reported, are expected in Nanking again this month to discuss the details of their agreement with the Government, Art. 1. The cable landing certificate shall be issued in accordance with the regulations promulgated by the Ministry of Communications, This certificate shall be good for a period of 14 years, Art, 2 The receipt and despatch of cable messages shall be under the care of representatives of the Ministy of Communications.
Art. 3, All land cables leased to the foreign cable companies at Shanghai are to commence with the central cable station designated by the Ministry of Communications, Art. 4, For cable messages between Shanghai and Ancrica the Chinese Telegraph Administration {sto receive 45 centimes a word and 75 centimes a word for messages to the interior of Chins. For messages between Shanghai and Europe the Chinese Telegraph Administration is to receive 85 centimes a word and 60 centimes a word for messages to the interior of China, For messages between Shanghai and Japan or the Straits Settlements the Chinese Telegraph Administration is to re-ive 20 confines a word and 25 cen= times. a word for mesa interior of China.
Art, 6. The branches of the for-ign cable companies in China shall but up sign be Telegraph Office Art, 6, "All telegram forms and stationery shall be the same as th The Agreement Jan. 10, The "Central Daily News" pub-venger boys shall be furnished by the Chinese Telegraph Administra not entirely clear to them to whom or by whom the loan would be made. In any case, itis said that publicly offered loan would obviously be out of the question: therefore an international governmental credit appears to be the only solution. Until the proposals becgme definitive no one can honestly say What success would be likel Bankers point out that whi Canada and the United States a pear to be getting together on the [question they should not forget that unless the plan receives the full port of Japan, France and Britain, there is small chance of its suc; So far as is known discussions on the question have hitherto been confined to the North American con-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.