TELEPHONE TO VIENNA

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 191, 2 November 1927, Page 1

TELEPHONE TO VIENNA

LINKING UP WITH LONDON SATISFACTORY EXPERIMENTS British Wireless—Press Assn. —Copyright RUGBY, Monday. A telephone service between London and Vienna will be opened in the next few weeks. Satisfactory experimental conversations have already taken place between officials in the General Post Office, London, and the Austrian authorities at Vienna via Frankfort. Telephone services to Czechoslovakia are contemplated later. The Postmaster-General, Sir William Mit-cheil-Thomson, has given directions for a campaign to be undertaken at once to popularise the Continental telephone services. A special booklet giving details of the overseas services has been prepared, and canvassers will to-morrow begin to canvass business firms who are users, or potential users, of the telephone between England and various Continental countries. The telephone services to the Continent, says the booklet, will be greatly assisted by underground cables, which have now been laid between Cape Grisnez and Paris. The former overhead wires between tjie French capital and the coast were liable to be damaged in stormy weather.—A. and N.Z.