Electric communication can classed under the long distance tele-hone, local telephone, telegraph ant radio.
"The long distance telephone can be divided into provincial and rural lines. Provincial lines were con structed in 1934 and placed along the roads, being used at first for military purposes, te material being BW.G. No. 12 single tron wire and the total Tengih of the line about 2,000 kilometres. The poles used are amall and when the line passes through certain sections, trees along the roads are used instead of poles. No. 3 porcelain Insulators are employed. From Nanning to Liuvehow, and Nanning to Wwel-hsien telephone communteation coan be effected. 2s the wires are iron fand the circuit single, transmission is naturally not very good. Nanning to Kwel-ling and Nanning to Wuchow, there are no good direct telephone communications.
The Rural Lines Regarding the rural lines, each town put up their own poles and the Pro-Vinelal Government provides galganized iron wires and insulators. These lines are even smaller than the provincial lines and often three different kinds can be seen along the roads, one being the provincial line, one the rural and the third the tel graphic line, which last is bigger and Targer than the other two, the poles thicker and taller with No. 8 BW.G. ron wires and No. 4 porcelain insulators used. The total length telegraph line in the whole province 4s about 5,500 kilo-metres. From Wuchow to Kwel-pin, Nanning, Lungchow to Chen-Nan-Kuan is the east to west telegraph trunk line, two single wire circuits being provided.
Starting this year the provincial government has combined raph and telephone'ofices under one Electric Communication Administra~ tion as this is more economical. The Director of this Administration jointly appointed by the Provincial Government and the Ministry of Communication of the Central Government.
There are four local telephone otices in the province belonging to the Provincial Government. These are Nanning, Liu Chow, Kwei Ling and Kwel Hsien. Communication is effected through these offices to rural towns. There are four second class Toeal flees: Chang-an, Pinvlo, Leepoo and Kwei-Pin, and seventeen Dublic long distance telephone stations, mostly installed in bus stations. The telephone office in Wu-chow is commercial concern which allows for '700 subscribers with two partial mul tiple magneto exchange boards but at present they have only 500 subscribe ers. The exterior lines, are iron, hed wires. Near the office there sometimes even eighteen cross arms supporting uncovered wires on one pole. This arrangement should be improved.
The local exchange in Nanning has been covered into stronger automa~ tle system, equipped with 600 lines. But the subscriber lines are of star-quad electric-cables, interference between the pairs of the same quad being rather high, The cables should th Kwel-hsien.
hanged. in other places ko Liu-chow, Kwel-ling, there are only about 200 subscribers each, all of the simple magneto Swilsh-board type. The exterior lines are No, 16 single iron wires. Born the apparatus and the lines can be further improved.
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