Tokyo, Oct. 8.
Drastic reductions in trans-Pacific radio rates for press messages were announced here today following the conclusion of an agreement between the Japanese Ministry of Communications and Press Wireless, Inc., an American firm exclusively handling news dispatches. The accord culminated ten months of negotiations.
Press dispatches will now be sent from Tokyo directly to New York, San Francisco, and Honolulu at the cost of 20 goid centimes a word. Former rates were 90 centimes between Japan and San Francisco and fr. 1 centimes 11 between Japan and New York. An exclusive wireless circuit will be devoted to the new service to hasten communications, it was announced.—Domei.
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