ATLANTIC CABLES
REPAIRING THE DAMAGE. CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE. v United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. ) HALIFAX, Dec. IS. Eight cable ships have nearly completed the repairs to the trans-At-lantic cablet, broken by the earthquake last month. The ’quake area was at least three hundred miles north and south and one hundred oa.it and west. One ship grappled across old Commercial Company lines without finding a single trace of any line in all that area. Valued at £206 sterling per mile the,loss to the Cable Coys, is expected to reach an enormous sum. Deposits of hard clay on the grappling iron in place of the usual oze of the ocean bottom, led to the belief that a tremendous upheaval had buried many miles of cables, where it cannot be reached. One interesting feature was the stimulant of business over the Pacific cable Arising from the trans-Atlantic break! Thousands of messages from London to Canada and United States were sent via the Eastern route, to Sydney, Vancouver, getting a very rapid satisfactory service from Loudon all round the world.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 December 1929, Page 5
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