Nanking, Dec. 29.
To facilitate the development of Jaternational communications, ar-
Fangements will be, made for direct connection between the radio. stations in Shanghai and Mukden which are at present the only two. international radio stations in the country, according to a telegram dispatched by the Ministry of Communications to the North-eastern Communications Committee.
It is pointed out that as the cone tracts with the Great Northern, Eastern Extension and Conmereial Pacific Cable Companies are about to expire and that repeated negotintions with the Companies have failed to secure a satisfactory settle nent, the transmission of interna tional telegraphic messages will have depend entirely on the Shanghat and Mukden radio stations, 1 The Ministry, therefore, proposes to link up the two stations. Inas much as the cable connectinse Mukden, Tientsin and Peking must be improved 0 as to facilitate the direct linking of Shanghai and Mukden, special experts should be sent by the North-eastern Come munications Committee and the Peking-Liaoning Telegraph ministration to assist in making the necessary changes-—Kuo Min, 'A London Report London, Dee, 29, The "Daily Herald," Labour organ, this morning gives prow minence to a sensationd despatch from its Shanghai correspondent, alleging that there is a serious crisis in regard to a renewal of con tracts with the foreign cable com= panies and hinting at the possibility of Chinese attempt to seize the cable landings—Reuter, Inquiries made in' Shanghai yesterday in foreign cable circles failed to elicit any information re~ garding the cable situation. Negotiations are preceding at anking but the latest information through' the semi-official Kuo Min news agency was that little progress, had been made, this, and the planting of rosses, and other trees whose Teaves do not fade testify to the intention to keep his memory green.
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