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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN
Tuesday, October 10, 1972
FACSIMILE SERVICE TO BE INTRODUCED FOR CHINESE NEWSPAPERS
A new facsimile service is to be introduced by the Government
Information Services to transmit news itens quickly and directly to Chinese
newspaper offices.
With the service it will take less than six minutes for a press
release written on foolscap-size paper to be transmitted to a receiver
at the newspaper press room.
At present Chinese newspapers, along with the many other subscribers,
have to rely on the G.I.S. teleprinter service which, of course, can
only send out items in English. Chinese versions of the items have
to be stencilled and then collected in person at the end of the day,
wasting time and manpower.
The only alternative for an editor to meet the dead line is to
allocate staff to translate the English teleprinter copies.
The facsimile service to be provided is not new. It was started
several year ago by G.I.S. on an experimental basis with one receiver
in the radio news section at Radio Hong Kong and another to several
Chinese newspapers in rotation, to demonstrate the usefulness of the machine.
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Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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