Tsingtao, Jan, 20.
Various preparations forthe eventual transfer of the control of the Japanese Telegraph Adminstration' to the Chinese authorities in accordance with the newly signed Cable Agreement now being carried on upon instructions from Tokyo, According to the new ment, only three of the Japanese officials are to advisers in the local Cable Adminis-handed. to the Chines Nanking, Jan, 31. announced to-day that the Sino-Japanese acreement regarding the shanghai-Nagasaki cable will be signed next week, For cable" messages between Nagasaki' and Shanghai the rates will ba 20 centimes per word and for messages between Nagasaki and the interior of China 50 centimes per
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