No small amount of interest has been aroused by the advertisement of the Ruasian Telegraph Administration offering for sale the remaining part of their cable between Port Arthur and Chefov. The history of this cable is deserving of wame attention, It was laid by the Russian Government at the time! of the Boxer troubles, and was in use for a few years, being cut at the! outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War. Since that time it has never been in use, for efter the war the' Russians took up one half of it, leaving the remaining part, stated as 46.122 miles in length, in its original position. Now, as the Russian Government does not itself wish to undertake the work of recovering the cable, it is offering it at a nominal figure to any who care tu engage in the business of dealing with The amount which is, demanded is Roubles 10,000, and as' stated this is purely nominal, the length of cable, if recovered fairly easily, being of much greater value. It would probably be a most interesting speculation if undertaken, for it is not exactly known how much remains or in what condition it exists, for the Japanese when they cut the line may have carried off some of it.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.