The Archive · 1939

To Sinkiang

Radio Phone Service — Conversation Carried on With Chungking

Chungking, Jan. 31.

A radio telephone service has been inaugurated between Urumchi and Chungking. In a test made yesterday, General Li Yung, Governor of Sinkiang, talked twelve minutes with General Chang Yuan-fu, local repreentative of the Sinkiang Government.

During the conversation General Li s understood to have requested General Chang to convey his respects to General Chiang Kai-shek. He also expressed the concern of the Sinkiang populace over the present hostilities between China and Japafi.

General Chang gave a report on the political situation in Chungking.

The test was said to have been entirely satisfactory and, as a result, a direct Sinkiang-Szechuen radio telephone service is expected to be opened to the public shortly.—Reuter.

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