THE SHANGHAI TELEPHONE COMPANY: ITS STATIONS, EQUIPMENT, CODE NUMBERS, LABOR UNION, FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND OFFICIALS STILL IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500240018-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 11, 2013
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: October 21, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT The Shanghai Tclephone Company ,-: Its Stations, Equipment
Code Numbers, Labor Union, Financial Problems and
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1. The Shanghai Telephone Company owns and operates the telephone system in Shanghai,
withaevei machine switching offices and one manual office.
for example, it served approximately 95 thousand in greater Shanghai.
ginal y it was a UK firm, called the Shanghai Mutual Telephone Company. In
about 1930, it wan purchased by a US firm. The equipment was in poor condition
and conversion to autowatic switching was begun Thin was completed in NWrch 1932.
Three old stations - East, North, and West - were abandoned and six new. central
automatic stations were built, with new Pilisirms.nt
2. The new stations were: Wayside-Ward and Panting Roads; Borth-North Klangse Road;
Fokien-460 Fokiea Road; West-230 Medhurst Rc:.d; Pichon-67 Route Pichon; and
Montignythe rear of this station was on the Boulevard de Montigxy, behind the
Chinese YMCA. Montigny and West were the two stations with French equipment.
There was also the Central Office at 232 Kiangse Road. This station retained old
automatic equipmentj specially built as 24 V equipment.
Difficulties in intr-worxiing occurred, as all other equipment was 48 V. Finally,
there was one old, manual statidp6- thL Lucerne Station - which served tbu "Extra-
Settlement" area in vest Shanghai. it was on Lucerne Road, which Was
unpaved, off Edinburgh Road. Lucerne had a small satellite, manual etation
located on the coruvi. uf li_ag-jao and McLeod Roads. It served the Hung-jao Aerodrome
and the Hung-jac residenttal area. All incoming calls to Lucerne and ,:..mg-jao
were automatic, but not w-Ithin the Lucerne exchange.
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