Repairing Far Eastern Cable Communications
(Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. Cable and Wireless Ltd. has announced that steps already are being taken to resume control ol the 18.000-mile chain of British cables to the Far East, which has been in Japanese hands since 1942. Trained operators are wailing at Colombo and Rangoon to advance as the armies clear the enemy from various islands. Fifty young men, specially trained in New Zealand and Australia, and wearing the “Telecom” uniform, already have arrived at Colombo to join the communications corps. Cable ships also are being prepared to follow the navies and to repair submarine cables which the Japanese damaged.
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Northern Advocate, 6 September 1945, Page 4
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108Repairing Far Eastern Cable Communications Northern Advocate, 6 September 1945, Page 4
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