THE PACIFIC CABLE
BUSINESS TREBLED DUftIHG WAR. (CNITC» MESS ASSOOMTIOK.-^CbPtWOII.) MEL-BOURNE, 9th December. Official statements show that the traffic on tha Pacific c'a*ble has almost trebled during the wai'. The cable carried business representing four and a half times its estimated capacity at the time of He completion, and, at times could not co*pe with the business oflering, and it is hoped, as the result of',, the experience, to duplicate the cable. The Patific cable ends at-Montreal, and the completion of an Empire system is advocated to bring the entire connection between Australia and the United Kingdom under one control. r
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1918, Page 6
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101THE PACIFIC CABLE Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 140, 10 December 1918, Page 6
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