London, Apr, 25.
Speaking at a banquet' of the tional Chamber of Trade at Brighton Jast night, the Assistant Postmaster General, Sir Walter Womerstey, revealed important Post Office plans for the improvement of communica: tion services, including the erection a large new receiving station in Kent with an aerial two miles long connected to the receiving station by: sixteen miles of special cable for the trans-Atlantic telephone system.
Arrangements have also been made for the provision of ultra-short wave radio-telephone channels between the United Kingdom and France and between the mainland and the Shet~ land Islands, he revealed, Sir Walter Womerstey' said that during the past twelve months, great progress had teen made in the development of world communications, especially as they affected the Empire, 'To provide for the growth of traffic to Holland and the Scandinavian countries, a new type of cable was Inid between England and Hole land. 'The total number of telephone circuits between England and' the Continent was now more than 170.
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