CABLES BUSY
Numerous Messages Sent To Shanghai
AUCKLAND, Last Night SihCe tlie opening of bostilitieS .be* tween China and Japan the cables which link Australia with China liave been ehocked With messages from anxious i'elatives and friends, wko have people in tlie War zone, aecording to Mr E. G. Brook, manager of the Australasian division of OableS and Witeless, Ltd., Who was a through passonger on the Monterey for America. Mr Brook said the normal radio chahttels between Nqrth China and European eapilals kad been so intertupted in the last week or so that messages from China to Europe had been cabled by way of Singapqre, Sydney, Auckland and Vancouver, across Canada, and thence to their destinatiohs. Previously they went via Singapore, Madras, Bombay, and Aden or Singapore, Aden, Cocos Island and the Cape. "When Mr Brooks left Australia on Friday tlie cable officcs at Sydney had their lines congestOd With urgent inquiries fi'om vai'iotis pai'ts of tlie United SlatCs, tsiiiee America had very large interests 5u Chiha, aitd apparently thcrd Wero many Ameriean firms anxious to knoW IioW their staffs were Aaring anrl Whetker their business headquartei's and merchattdise at Shahghai had suffered any damage.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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196CABLES BUSY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 186, 24 August 1937, Page 7
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