has just been issued to members of Parli ment and is a very important document, marking, as it does, the commencement of a period of effort to neutralise England's superiority in telegraph communications.
mir separate cables ure recommended, to begin with. The first will connect France's West African possessions with Algeri is to be laid from Oran to Tangiers and thence to Teneriffe, where it will connect with the French line between that place and St, Louis (Senegal), The length of this line would be about 2,000 miles, and being already in communication with Marseilles, France would be connected with Senegal, though the li would touch foreign ter two places. The second miles in length, is to he laid rench Congo and the Gulf of miles) is to connect star, which is already to Mozambique. Be-_and Europe the French until a long trunk Tine can be laid across the ocean or utu a e can he carried across the Afr ment. The fourth cable is to he he subsequent!
rth of Hongkong, where it will Rusn-Danish cable
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