THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 11

THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE

BRITISH AND CANADIAN PREMIERS CONVERSE

Rugby, October 3.

The telephone service between Great Britain and Canada was inaugurated this afternoon by a conversation between Mr. Stanley Baldwin and Mr. MacKenz.ie King, the British and Canadian Prime Ministers. Some difficulty was experienced at the outset, but, after a few minutes, the Prime Ministers were able to converse with comparative ease." The conversation included the following statement by Mr. Baldwin: “I am greatly interested in having the opportunity of opening this new telephone service between Great Britain and Canada by a conversation with you, and I am specially glad that it comes so soon after my visit to Canada and our talks together there. This development will add another to the many happv recollections of a memorable year. I am sure that the service of which this is the beginning will prove of far-reaching utility, and I am confident that it will receive a warm welcome in both our countries and bring us, if possible, nearer.- together.”—British Official Wireless. London, October 3. The transatlantic telephone service does not utilise the Canadian beam. Experiments on the beam have not progressed far enough to have a bearing on the possibilities of beam telephony to Australia.