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Show No Phone Service for Channel Isles It Is impossible to telephone from England to the Channel islands Jersey, Jer-sey, Guernsey, Alderney and Sark. They have always been in a state ot splendid telephonic isolation in spite of the fact that telephone conversations conversa-tions between that country and the United States and other distant countries coun-tries are going on every day. This "discovery" was made by a reporter re-porter who had an urgent message to convey to Jersey. "We have no telephonic tele-phonic communication at all with the Channel islands, and we never have had," explained a post office official. "It is possible that lines to Jersey and other places may be a development of the future, but we have none nt present." pres-ent." Jersey has a population of -0,-494 and Guernsey 40,120. |