DELAYED TELEGRAMS.
| BUSINESS AT A STANDSTILL I By -Telegraph —Press Association.Copyright.. I Calcutta, April 9. Many of the telegrams delayed in India, as a result of the action of the telegraphists, who are dissatisfied with the new regulations, are being forwarded by post. The delay in the transmission of telegrams is causing serious losses to London firms. Business in jute, linseed, and shellac is at a standj still. I The telegraph operators in India are disI satisfied with the regulations introduced by j Mr. Newlands, an expert lent by the British j Post Office authorities, and have been wilj fully delaying telegraph message*. On the j sth inst. it was reported that 5000 telegrams I were lying heaped up at Rangoon, and i cablegrams from Europe,, via Teheran, were f seriously delayed at Kerachi and onwards. ! Two days later it was announced that 40,000 | telegrams were delayed in India owing to the J 'disaffection amongst the telegraphists. Home ; of these messages were a week o.'l. Several j message?, also, were reported to have been ! stolen, including one of the Viceroy's.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13722, 11 April 1908, Page 7
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