THE PROPOSED STATE CABLE
Press Association—Br Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 30. ' Ths Times's' engineering correspondent, referring to the proposed Stateowned Atlantic cable via Iceland, sayu that tho ocean depths between Scotland, Iceland, and Labrador do not represent abnormal conditions for cable-laying. The polar ice drifts in tho western Atlantic to Chesapeake Bay would be without detriment to a cable ship's operations. Tho peril, if any, is in shallow, water, where icebergs are occasionally met.. A modem rock typo ought to suffice when the procaution is taken to lay the cable in duplicate along the different routes. Assuming that the same type of core was used, signalling over a distance of seventy miles should bo carried on eight or nine times, more vapidly than over 2,000 miles. A FARCICAL PROPOSAL. LONDON, November 30. (Received December 1, at 9.30 a.m.) The Toronto correspondent of ' Tho , Times' advises that it is reported that tho I cable companies and Post Office authorities are discussing a proposal that five letters be regarded as one word in deferred Pacific cable messages. This, if true, would reduce the proposition to a farce.
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Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 6
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184THE PROPOSED STATE CABLE Evening Star, Issue 14527, 1 December 1910, Page 6
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