ATLANTIC CABLES
BROKEN IN EARTHQUAKE
REPAIRS NEARLY COMPLETED
Halifax, December 18.
Eight cable ships have nearly completed repairs to the trans-Atlantic cables broken in the earthquake last month. The earthquake area was at least 300 miles long north and south, and 100 east and west. One ship grappled across the old Commercial Company lines without finding a single trace of any line in all that area. As the cables were valued at £2OO per mile, the loss to the cable companies is expected to reach an enormous sum. Deposits of hard clay on the grappling irons in place of the usual ooze of the ocean bottom led to the belief that a tremendous upheaval had buried many miles of cable where it cannot be reached.
One interesting feature has been the stimulation of business over the Pacific Cable, which arose from the trans-At-lantic break. Thousands of messages from London to Canada and the United States were sent via the Eastern route to Sydney and to Vancouver, getting a very rapid and satisfactory service the long way round the world.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 74, 20 December 1929, Page 7
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