TELEPHONES IN CUBA.
—-: 0 In the presence of the Mayor and City Council of Havana and of many repre- ■ seutative citizens, the President of Cuba recently opened the new telephone system installed in Havana by the Cuban Telephone Co., a concern mainly financed by English capital. The system, which was recently inspected by experts sent out to America by.ihc British Government, is believed to be the most up-to-date in the world) being worked by automatic devices that dispense with the usual girl opera- . tors.' It is, proposed to extend it to nearly a hundred of the leading cities and towns in the island, thus bringii-g practically the whole of Cuba under a single service and enabling subscribers ; live hundred miles apart to talk to one another as readily if they lived in' the same street. No such development would have been possible under' Spanish rule, which made it an offence, punishable by imprisonment, to connect any two ot more cities by telephone.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 12
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162TELEPHONES IN CUBA. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 869, 16 July 1910, Page 12
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