DUPLICATING A CABLE
EASTERN EXTENSION LINE FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS PROBABLE. (Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.) LONDON, January 17. The Colonia, the largest cabin ship in the world, has sailed from Greenwich to lay the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company’s duplicate cable over 1800 nautical miles, between Cocos Island and Fremantle. The cable is of a new loaded type, and is the first British -Owned and manufactured loaded cable to be put down. The cable is designed to have a speed of 2100 letters per minute, compared with 146 on the present lines. The question of further developing the lines between Fremantle and Adelaide is now being considered. The Colonia is expected to arrive at Cocos Island in the middle of February, and she wdl complete the laying of the cable to Fremantle early in March. — Reuter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19691, 19 January 1926, Page 9
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