CABLE DUPLICATION
WORK Hi HE PACIFIC 200 MILES A DAY. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, August 10. The steamers Dominia and haraday, now Jving in the Thames, will shortly go to‘the Pacific, taking 7,000 miles, of cubic for the duplication ot the Pacific Cable Hoard’s line. The Dominia will lav the lino between Vancouver and Fannins: Island, and the Faraday will mike Uie connection between Fanning Island and Fiii. Each ship will carry 200 trained men. Observations will be made throughout of the ocean’s depth. Both vessels will lay the cable at the rate of 200 miles a day. The ‘Daily Express,’ in explaining tliat it was this duplication which recentlv caused the controversy between the 'Canadian Government and tho Pacific Cable Board, declares that an agreement lias now been readied.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 8
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134CABLE DUPLICATION Evening Star, Issue 19326, 12 August 1926, Page 8
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