Company's Scheme to Employ Experts to Recondition the Plant: A System Second to None in the Orient It the present plans of the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Ca,, which call for a complete overhauling of the outside plant, are carried to Took for a considerable lessening of complaints against the service and Shanghai will have a. telephone system that is second to none in the Orient.
The plans are most ambitious and ce part of the general scheme of improvement and modernization that started with the introduction of the dial system.
The terms of the contract have already been approved and wone will start shortly with the arrival of several expert foreign supervisors from the United States who will handle and direct a large force of several hundred Chinese who are well versed in the work. The contract is with the International Tele phone & Telegraph Ca, and will he handled through their local agent The work includes a complete overhauling of the present aerial wire system and a simplification of open wites into main or trunk cables that will either be yun underground or on poles as the circumstances dictate,
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