Services Congested Most of the Day Shanghai, Aug. 19.
Telephone calls both in the Inter national Settlement and the French Concession and to the City Govern ment areas reached an unprecedented peak yesterday. A Atty per cent. Increase in local calls and a hundred per cent. increase to calls to Greater Shanghai was the minimum estimate given by. an official of the Shanghai Telephone Company in an interview with the "North-China Daily News yesterday afternoon, As a result, many thought their telephones were out of order, as no dialling tone resulted when receivers were iitted off their hooks. The oficial explained that the machines the various exchanges are built to handle a.normal rush-hour peak loud. Normally, there are always enough lines available to handle the. tame, An, average of 400,000 inter-Settlement calls and 10,000 calls. to extra-Seltlement "areas are handled each day, he said,
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