DAMAGED CABLES.
REPAIR SHIPS AT SCENE. ALTERNATIVE LINES IN USE. (Received November 22. G. 5 p.m.) British Wireless. RUGBY, Nov. 21. Measures aro being taken to repair the transatlantic cables which were broken or damaged by the submarine upheaval on Monday afternoon. There are about 20 cables between Britain and North America and about half of them were affected. Communication has been maintained without serious delay by the alternative cable routes and by wireless. Some repair ships arrived yesterday in the area of the damage. This is about 300 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia. It is said that .this is the first time in the history of tho Atlantic cables that they have suffered through a seismic disturbance.
A message from the liner Olympic yesterday reported that the shock was felt on board when she was 312 miles off Cape Puice. The ship shuddered, but no damage was done. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20420, 23 November 1929, Page 13
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