Hongkong, Sept. 1.
'The Hongkong-Canton trunk telephone service was formally augurated at noon to-day when the Governor of Hongkong, Sir William Peel, and Mr, Lin Yun-koi, chai man' of the Kuangtung provincial ox ernment, exchanged greetings. respectively photo process Japanese expert, Mr. Kobayashi, of the Nippon Electric Company. The photos came through very'
rly and were reproduced the afternoon papers.
The service was opened to the general public at 1 a.m, Telephone subscribers in Canton have to make deposit of $30 local currency to entitle them to the use of the trunk service. The lowest fee for a trunk Jeall of three minutes is $2.70. The lines run alongside the "Canton Kowloon railway and are partly owned by the Canton City government and partly by the British authorities in Hongkong.
In view of the big traffic between Canton and Hongkong a telephone Jconnecting the two places has long n desired and the new service is, likely to prove a great boon to traders.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.