ALL-RED CABLE.
THE NEW ATLANTIC PROJECT. —. BpTolegranh—Press -Association-Copyright, • (Kec November 30, 9.50 p.m.) London, November 30. Writing of the new All-Ked cablo project, the engineering correspondent of "The Times" says tho ocean depths between Scotland, Iceland, and Labrador do not abnormal conditions for cable-layoig. Tho Polar ice-drifts in the Western Atlantic extend to Chesapeake Bay, but would bo without detriment to cableship operations. Tho peril, if any, is in the shallows on the banks, where icebergs arc occasionally met with aground, but the modern rock-type of cablo ought to suffice to prevent breakage by grinding in. these- cases, when the precaution is taken to lay tho cablo in duplicate along different routes. ' : ' Assuming the same type of core is used as in the present Atlantic cables, signalling a distance of 700 miles on the short stretches of tho new route should be carried on eight or nine times more rapidly than over the 2000 miles stretch straight.across the Atlantic.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 988, 1 December 1910, Page 5
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