ATLANTIC CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 148, 19 December 1929, Page 9

ATLANTIC CABLES

LOSS IN EARTHQUAKE

NO TRACE IN SHAKEN AREA

TREMENDOUS UPHEAVAL

United Tress Association—By Electric Tele-

graph—Copyright. (Keeeived 19th December, 1 p.m.) HALIFAX, 18th December.

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, valued at £200 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 tho 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 Eastern route to Sydney and to the Vancouver, getting a very rapid and satisfactory servico the long way round the world.