1938-04-09 — Page 24

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H.K. CABLE

RATES CUT BY NEARLY THREE QUARTERS

PATNA RAILWAY DISASTER FINDINGS

Allahabad, To-day.

The Chief Justice of Allahabad published a report yesterday re- angarding the Indian railway disaster

(Continued from Page 1)·· "The basis.of the scheme is all-Empire flat rate which will be

applied to plain language, code, in July last near Patna, in which deferred and letter-telegrams.

over 100 were killed.

"Broadly, the effect is an all- Empire rate of 5d. a word for let-ment was due to track distortion The report declares that derail- ter-telegrams, 7=1/2d. a word for because of the excessive speed of deferred telegrams, 10d. 2 word the engine.

for code and 1/3d. a word for full- The report adds that the Govern- rate plain-language telegrams. ment holds the Railway Company "This flat rate Easis will apply negligent and liable to damages.— not only to Empire traffic to and Reuter. From the United Kingdom but also to traffic between each Dominion and Colony and all other countries in the Empire.

NO INCREASES

word are 4/7d from Hong Kong to Great Britain, 3/5d. from India to "The scheme is framed also Australia and 3/- from the West without any increase of existing African Colonies to Great Britain. rates, so that until the present fizi

"All these rates will come down rate basis can be further reduced to the new level of 1/3d, and there there will remain certain cases

will be corresponding reductions in where rates are below the uniform the cheaper classes of traffic. level.

"The new rates should prove of "For example, the plain language great value in encouraging tele-. rate from the United Kingdom to graphic traffic and closer relations Eastern Canada will remain as at between all parts of the Empire. present at 9d a word.

and have been made possible by HONG KONG BENEFTT an all-round settlement of out- "To give examples of the large standing questions in which sub- reductions which will be made in stantial concessions have been certain of the Empire rates now i made by all parties concerned.”— force; the present full rates per Reuter.

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