The Archive · 1940

Phone Network

Many New Points To Be Linked In Near Future

Tokyo, Jan. 21.

Increases in radio-telephone circuits "from Japan to various points of the globe were being sought by the Ministry of Communications, Domei learned here today, Negotiations are underway to establish services with Turkey, Finland, Morocco, Tran, Egypt, and Peru, while a direct circuit to Brazil will be available im the spring, officials revealed.

As a precaution against possible interference with existing circuits by the European war, the Ministry will inaugurate on February 1, a service with Amsterdam by way of Bandoeng, in the Netherlands East Indies. Wireless telephone service to Palau in the Japanese Mandated South Seas Islands will also become available soon.

Ship-to-shore service, hitherto available with only two Japanese vesšels, will be extended to include Ttalian ships operating between Genoa and Shangħai if negotiations between the Japanese and Italian Authorities are successful. These facilities may later be extended to foreign trans-Pacific ships equipped with radiophone apparatus—Domei.

Poland, most of whom lived in Warsaw, but communications were, 50 badly disrupted that it was impossible to obtain information then. Investigations made after the conclusion of hostilities revealed that mole than 80 Chinese were missing most likely killed, the recent arrival was quoted as saying. Before the war, there were 5,000 Chinese living in Poland.

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