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FOREIGN CABLE COMPANIES.

STATEMENT ON POSITION REGARDING CHINA

AVALA reference to reports

and Chinese newapaporn to the effect that the "traffic officea" of the three cable companion at Shunghial, the Great Northern, Eastern Extension and Com- mercial Paclite Co., will soon

by officials of the

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1933.

Beveral underground cables-in former years overhead wires.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Destruction of Dogs

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

LOVE OR MONEY?

(Continued from Pago 3.) "Of course. But Steve would persunde her that I was the best bet. He'd make her think-"

were es- Tho sald connexions tablished by the Companies them- selves-naturally in agreement with the Chinese Telegraph Au-

Sir. I wish to draw the atten-; thorities and were paid for andtion of the Authorities to the ro They were interrupted by a have all along been mototalned

volting practice adopted by the ahout from without. Bright hend- published recently in the foreign by the Companica, Nevertheless, police in their work of shooting lights threw the hedges into arti

the Chinese Government has dogs found without a muzzle, toficial daylight as the car smashed

claimed and always

insisted

out of many into the darkened space before the that, whilst remaining at theive one Instance alaposal of the Companies for that have been brought to my entrance. Steve, barchended, jump notice. This is the case of a from the driver's seat and raced their own use, all the said con-small shaggy-haired terrier which to the door. nections should formally be the had just strayed out from the "All set?" he called. "You look property of the Government. and owner's house and was cruelly ravishing, Lottie. Make it snappy, be taken over and ro-organised

Chinese Gov- they were therefore ceded to the shot at and its paw shattered by will you? Where's Mona?"

the bullet. The little animal "You are the most beautiful ernment Radio Administration, latter against the payment of

home with its thing in the world,” Barry was gay- it is announced by the Cable purely nominal sum (60 Mexican managed to run

dollars Гог cach underground bleeding paw a monument of the ling softly when Steve appeared In. Companies that these statements cable).

cruel method adopted to enforce the door. refer to the carrying into effect

For many years past the Chi-this regulation.

Barry turned. "Well we don't of the stipulations regarding the Companies acceptance and de- nese Government Telegraph Ad- No-one will have any objection seem to be getting anywhere," he livery offices at Shanghai, con-ministration has thus been the to the animals being captured and said smiling. "Store, as soon as I Lalued in the new Agreements nominal owner of all the under- taken to Kennedy Town Kennels, get this girl halfway agreeable to Com ground cables and overhead wires and I know that the S. P.C.A. willa dinner date you and Lottie have munications and the Companies, a question, and what has actual- take them from the Police and to break in and ruin everything!" signed in Nanking on April 6.ly happened now, la only that some convey them to the Kowloon Home "You can date her up any time," of the old connections, including in order that the Authorities will Stove Bald. "I've got to be in town Tho following Atatement is

the overhead wires, which are no not require to maintain the by 10:30. Come on everybody issued by the Cable Companies:

The term "traffic offices" used longer required by the Companies animals. Therefore I say, have a ready

for the working of their cables, little mercy and give the animal "All right then," Barry was Bay- in the reports published in the have been handed over to the said a chance for its life. I grant alling in a low tone. "Have dinner presn

ja misleading as it may Chiness Government Telegraph that may be said with reference with me Monday? Tuesday then? xivo the impression that

Administration for the latter's own to the danger from the terrible | Confound it, Wednesday?"" change will be made as regards use, whilst a sufficient number risk of rabies should a dog gel "Call me Wednesday morning," the Companies' operating offices.

of connections. remain at the dis- loose and bite anyone. This warn-Mona agreed and the three of them or instrument rooms. This is Incorrect. According to the new posal of the Companies exactly asing should be sufficient to all dog were off,

Monday and Tuesday passed for hitherto. At the same time ar-owners to observe the regulations. Agreements there will bo chango whatever in

between the Ministry

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respect of rangements have been made be. But instructions should certainly Mona in a glow of happiness. She PACIFIC SERVICE the said offices, and the workingtween the sald Administration and be given to those responsible for was to see Barry Wednesday.

But Barry did not call on of the Companies submarine the Companies to the effect that, the capture of the animals

frequently. Five callà came cables, ie. the actual telegraph in case of interruptions of the observe the laws of humanity and Wednesday. The telephone rang for underground cables, the parties give the dog a chance.

A cage is provided for the con- her but none was from Barry. At shall assist each other by provid Ing emergency connections to veyance of the animal to the ken four o'clock Steve telephoned. take the place of the Interrupted nela where they may be examined. circuits. Altogether a perfectly Therefore there is no necessity for reasonable and businesslike arthe use of a gun. rangement.

tinue to be exclusively in the banda of the Companies selves exactly as hitherto.

them-

No Change In Service. What is going to take place in that the Companies' offices for handing in and delivery of tele. grams, ie, the Companies' coun- ter offices, at Shanghai will, in future, be managed in the name of the Bureau pf International Telegraphs of the Ministry of Communications. The said oflces, which have hitherto been under the exclusive control of the Com- panies themselves, will he for- mally handed over to the Bureau nt un oarly date but, at the same tline, it has been expressly stipulated and arranged that the working of the offices will be con. hitherto 50 that, tinued us

there the vis-n-vis

public, will actually be

change

as far as the acceptance and de- livery service is concerned. The Bureau will take over the total staffs at present attached to the acceptance and delivery offices of the three Companies, and at the head of each of the three offices there will be a Chlef appointed by the Ministry of Communica- tions and 11n Associate-Chief (Danish, British and American re- the spectively) nominated by Company concerned, and the Chief and the Assoclate-Chlef of each offee will jointly den with all matters relating to the acceptance Fur- and delivery of telegrams. thermore, assurances have been obtained from, and detailed ar rangements have been laade with, the Ministry of Communications ensuring that the acceptance und delivery of cablegrams will be continued exactly as hitherto, and that the present high standard of efficiency will be maintained.

Mislending Statements,

It has also been ropeatedly re ported in the press that the Agree ments between the Ministry of Communications and the Cable stipulations Companies contain regarding the "recovery" by the Ministry of land cables and over- head wires and that "the lines" of the Companies have already been taken over by the Ministry in conformity with the said stipu-| lations.

These statements are likewise entirely misleading. The sub- marine cables of the Companies are-na is probably well known- not actually landed at Shanghai but at Woosung or Paoshan, and the connexions between the anid landing places and the Com- | paules' operating offices at Shang- hai are established by means of

J. R.

Barry was ill, he said. Out at Twilands. Mrs. Faxon was afraid it was influenza.

(To be Continued.)

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