The high pressure period for the Company began on August 12 when the S.V-C, mobilized and the lawson section: of the Signal Company, in collaboration with the 'Telephone 'Company. immediately arranged for installations at all the vital' points occupied by volunteer units. "Rush Jobs were performed everywhere os the various naval and milliary forees concerned in the defence of the Settlement and the Concession were linked in the communication system.
The load of telephone calls handled during the opening days of the trouble was enormous. In the first week calls exceeded the normal volume of 320,000 daily by 150 per cent. So intense was the pressure of work on the staff that all efforts had to be devoted to the vital purpose of
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