CRISIS TELEGRAM TRAFFIC
ALL RECORDS BROKEN BRITISH POST OFFICE (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. IG. The effect of the crisis preceding the outbreak of war on the telegraph services is shown by figures now available of the inland traffic for the week ending, September 2. From the normal weekly .traffic of about i,200,000 transactions, the figures rose to about 2,000,000. New record figures for a single day of 451,273—an increase of 125 per cent Over a normal day’s traffic was reached on August 25, and the record set up last in the September crisis of 403,000 was also passed on August 2G, and September 1 and 2. The total for the week of- 1,9G6,425 transactions is the highest ever reached. The telegraph traffic is stated to be still heavy, but the delay is now not jUiuch more than normal.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20045, 18 September 1939, Page 3
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