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Show GOVERNMENT I OWN SYSTEM I All Telephones in British Isles Pass Into Hands of State London. Jan. 13. The British gov-ernmenl gov-ernmenl Is to pay the National Tele- I phone company ol the United King- j tlom the sum or 162,576,230 or Its property, according to a decision reached by the railway and canal commission, sitting as a court ot a. - v bitratlon. 1 The whole oi Uie telephone system H in the British isles passed into the R hands oi the state on -January 1. I'nj f The National Telephone company or- 1 iginally asked ?in",.ii.Mi,i)iiii foi its in- ! terests. but during the 73-day trial Just ended this claim was reduced by millions. |