The Archive · 1936

SHANGHAI-CANTON

Many Use Service After Inauguration Shortly after the inauguration of the. Shanghai-Canton radio-telephone service at 10 am, on Dec. 5, many commercial calls were exchanged between the two cities. The. now line also links the Shanghai-Hankow service.

'The new service was innujurated by Gen, Wu To-chen, the Mayor, and Gon, Huang Mowsung, Chairman of the 'Kuanglung 'Provincial Govern ment, and Me. Tseng Yang-fu, Mayor of Canton, when - greetings were exchanged.' Calling from his office in, the Shenghai City Govern ment, Civie Centre, Kiangwan, the Mayor also held conversations with MMe. TV. Soong, Admiral Chen Chak and Gen, Huang Chang.

The service charge is $5.50 for every "three-minute call" between Canton and. the Chinese territory in Shanghai, and $6 between Canton and the Settlement and the French Concession here. The business hours are from 7 am, to Il pam,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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