Offers to Buy or Finance Put Forward by Three Separate Interests: Outside Experts on Mr, Anson's Report Offers from three concerns to buy' the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company, or the finance it, have been made, with the object of bring~ ing order out of the chaos that at present reigns in the local telephone system, So far no official statement as to these offers has been made by the telephone company, whose rectors are now studying the offers with regard to the report recently made to the Shanghai Municipal Council by Mr. B. 0, Anson, Londo Post Office expert; and made public in last Friday's Municipal Gazette.
These three concerns are Ericsson Telephones, Ltd., of Stcekholm and. London, who supplied the equipment for Shanghai's original manual equipment and for the present Eastern automatic exchange: The Cable, Telephone and General Trust, Ltd,, who represent the Strowger. system as used by the British Post Office; and the International Telephone & Telegraph Ca. This latter is a holding company which operates several subsidiaries, one of which, the International Standard Electric Corporation, a manufacturing group, has for one of its subsidiaries the China Electric Ca., who supplied the Rotary System automatic equipment used in the Central District and ave building equipment for two further Rotary automatic exchanges here, ordered some months ago.
All three concerns were inter~ viewed by a ive of the "North-China Daily News," and while the China Electric Ca. would say practically nothing, the Strowger representatives said a. Kittle and the Eviesson representative a good deal, Both the Strowger and Ericsson concerns disagreed with many points in the Anson report.
Shanghai at the moment has three different systems of telephones working together. Central automat is of the Rotary type, Ea automatic is of the Ericsson type. Manual machines ave of the Eries-fon magneto type, in which one has. to turn a handle in order to ring up exchange, Both the Rotary and the Erlesson are machine driven, while the Strowger, ordered for the Chi-of Shanghai, is entirely
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