What I said last week about the admission by speakers
at annual meeting of the Union of Post Office Workers that prl telephone conversations are listened in to by the operators, br me an interesting communication from a correspondent who the habit of talking to her daughter in French. One evening conversation was interrupted by a voice requiring that it be tinued in English. Subsequent enquiry revealed that there was regulation justifying such a request, and an. apology was tend It would be a good thing to know what the facts actually are. as a security measure, conversations should be listened to foreign languages prohibited, is intelligible. But if that rule prevail subscribers should be told of it. If there is no such action of this kind by individual operators is very much to reprobated.
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