Soon to Be Within the Reach' of General Public The establishment of telephone connections to other parts of the world from China, which Ix to take place inthe near future, was men-Moned by Mr, L. G. Freeth, at the Joint. meeting of the Institution of Eleetrleal Engineers (China Centre), and the Engineering Society Chins, held at the Lester School, East Seward Road, on Monday evening Mr, C. R. Webb was in the chair.
Mr. Freeth, who holds the position of Far Eastern Director of Enginenrug to the International Standara Electric Corporation, and who {sin China as an expert on long-distance telephone transmission. assisting the Ministry of Communications in.the Installation of the nine-province telephone system, said the go-ahead Plley adopted "by the Ministry would make it possible soon for people in Shanghai to talk with a umber of other big cities in. this country over lines far superior fany previously Installed in China. Ho outlined the progress telephony had made during the past 25. years pointing out the dimeuities tra tmlsslon engineers had in bringing telephony over long distances. up to ils present high standard of effclenev, "Mr. Freeth concluded by saying tat he believed future work carried out by telephone engineers would be in the direction of reducing the cost of the plant in general. without Teducing efficiency, so that the use of the telephone over long distances Would be possible for the. general public Instead of only for the Wealthy and the business man, as It now on account of the cost, which, although not really high for the ser-lee given, is at present out of reach of the pockets of a very large percentage of the world's population.
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