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Ulm and Stuttgart is also an important one. Besides these, there 

 is communication with Frankfort-on-Main and Southern Germany, 

 including Baden. The Bavarian lines also cross the Austrian 

 frontier at Salzburg and Lindau, but in these cases talking is 

 restricted to towns not far removed from the border. 



5. Telephoning of telegrams. This is restricted to the 

 German and French languages. No charge is made for the 

 service, the State taking the sensible view that the telephone 

 constitutes a natural feeder of the telegraph, and as such should 

 be encouraged as much as possible. The facilities given are very 

 good, as reply-paid messages may be forwarded, and paid replies 

 to telegrams received by messenger may be telephoned to the 

 telegraph office. No deposits in advance are required, a signed 

 promise to pay monthly the accounts rendered being considered 

 sufficient. 



6. Telephoning of messages for local delivery. This service 

 is confined to subscribers, and not extended, as in some countries, 

 to the users of public stations. The sender of a telephonogram 

 may undertake, when dictating his message, to pay for a reply, in 

 which case the messenger who delivers it to the addressee will, if 

 possible, bring back the answer to the central office, whence it is 

 immediately telephoned to the sender. This service is an impor- 

 tant one, for it makes a subscribers telephone a channel which 

 leads not only to every other subscriber, but to every non-sub- 

 scriber as well. Dictation of difficult words is helped by a code 

 of numbered letters published in the subscribers' lists, but this code 

 is not so comprehensive as the Austrian, as it provides for only 

 twenty-eight letters. 



7. Telephoning of mail matter. Subscribers may dictate 

 messages to the central office to be mailed as letters or post-cards. 

 In the former case they are written in pencil on telegram forms, 

 enclosed in an envelope, addressed, stamped, and posted im- 

 mediately. A post which would be missed in the ordinary way 

 may thus frequently be saved. A slight drawback is that such 

 letters cannot be registered ; but then it is certain that they do 

 not often contain bank-notes or other valuables. 



8. Public telephone stations. These are almost invariably 

 located at post or telegraph offices, and are (airly numerous, there 



