Chinese Suggestion to Meet Increase in Rates If the Settlement Telephone Ca. {insists on enforcing the adoption of message rate syst rom March 1 next, the Chinese will discontinue the use of telephones and, instead, will "use bleyeles to convey urgent messages. This, according to Satur day's Chinese press, is the suggestion to counteract that telephone com-Pany's new system, contained in a Joint letter received by the Telephone Problem Study Committee from_ th Citizens Native Products Association, the Chung Hwa Home Product Factory Owners Federation, the Nantungchow Residents Guild, and Paoshan Residents Guild, the Tse Chi Residents Gulla, the Sha dents Guild, the Kiongying Residents Guild, the Various Street Unions etc.
When telephones had not been Introduced in to Shanghai in the old days, the Joint letter states, commer lal "houses did their business just as in the present day.
"Now busi ness is bad and there are so many' unemployed, how can we afford an increased ancial burden?" the let-for asks, So the best way is to discontinue the use of telephones and engage cyclists to convey urgent messages, the loiter suggests, Shanghai is losing two of its sportsmen on Tuesda; Feb. 11. They are HE. Orr and Bidwell, who are ailing in the s. Pres. Garfield. Orr, who Is with the Union Insurance Sojlety of Canton, Lid, is bound for the /Singapore office of his firm. Bidwell joining the Hongkong omer. of Messrs. Gibb, Livingstone & Ca, Lid.
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