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Show The Chinese hoard of coasts and communication communica-tion haa arranged m comprehensive program of telegraph and telephone extensions, which it hopes to carry out by the close of 1916. The intention is to ramify the whole empirs, so that ths goTernment can know ths condition of affairs ererywhere every moment, and so that business men can communicate communi-cate without the slow way now in use. To modernise mod-ernise China, in other words. That is a reminder that when a few years ago the first telephone was installed there by an American company, the big chief of a province waa asked if he would not like to talk through it He said he would. So the manager at one end called up a Chinaman at the other who understood the telephone and told him that the big chief wanted to talk to hira. Both understood English and talked through the phone in English. And when it waa all over, the big chief expressed h is sorrow that Chinese could not Ibe talked through the same instrument. |