How They Telegraph In Chinese

riio managen of the China Submarina :i]i i ompany have solved a soiue rhat iliiKcult probletn of howto trai olegraph messagesin Chinese. .'. : ight tho diffioulty of' telegraphing in a anguage whiot destitüte of ad alphaot, and is made ap of about iü'ty I and cl;-i '::!■( ol 'uost nsurmountable, but thoob me, and A-fat, al Eong Kong, enounters no more diffioulty in oommuniating by belegraph wifli A-chum, at Ihanghai, than does Brown with 3 inder sunilai oiroumstanoos. 'J'hc plan dopted i.s as folio wb: Some fewthousund f the more i mum Chia are cut on wooden 1lnr];s afterthei ier of type, and on the reverse ead of ach is i number out in the same. way. uv, A-fat, having handed in hii age, wiiiteu in Chinese, tii ■ native i in order the corresponding I rom I ad prints off aun ii the reverse. This hc hands to his Snglish ooileague, ■ inmben to the d stination deeired. ; be reverse procesa is gane through, and be aumbers haying been taken froi the ohai :■ stanjpod on iiipei-. mul kkus A-chum is pu( ion of the oberkhed wislu-s of A-fat hrougfa tl. e medium o-f iiis native lan■ -♦maa- Tho Executire Cominii ,,- Vssociation Ir.i . decided to lold the ii in Philadelphia, Kotcem.ber Ü2d,ad %