To the Editor of the "Norru-Cuixa Dany News"
Sin; amazed to have brought my attention the fact that the [Shanghai Telephone Company is now billing its subscribers in areas north Jot Soochow Creek for complete service during August, September and October.
Needless to say, the telephones in those areas were inaccessible to Dusiness or resident subscribers Jduring the latter half of August, and for all of September and October—Jand still are inaccessible, unless the subscribers are Japanese:
Personal inquiry at the Telephones [Company office brought a reply that "if you insist" the bill would be refigured, and charged only, "until JAugust 26. The retort was made that force majeure had deprived lsubseribers of access to their phones jon and aller August 15, and reasons for choice of August 20 were asked, "Oh, we always demand notice of 10 days before discontinuing service" ]was the astounding reply. the Telephone Company tobe permitted to make this unjustined Jovercharge, which in the aggregate will be enormous, upon a community already sorely hit by destruction and depression? Or has the Municipal [Councit, under terms of the franchise, some way of protecting the people Jor this city?
[Shanghai, Nov, 29,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.