IMMENSE STRIDES
WORLD COMMUNICATIONS
RADIO-TELEPHONIC LINKS,
■ (British OfSelil Wireless.) ' RUGBY, February 23. .There are 34,000,000 telephones in the world, and it is now possible to speak to 32,000,000 of them from Great Britain. The Postmaster-General, Sir Kingsley Wood, mentioned this interesting fact in, a speech at Lincoln today when he referred to the immense strides made, in the science of communications. '■;■'. J
Today by lifting a telephone receiver a British subscriber could speak to Canada, the United States, South America, India, Australia, New Zealand, and South; Africa, Sir Kingsley Wood said. Ho hoped that Japan would be added this year. . : '..- '
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 13
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100IMMENSE STRIDES Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 13
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