Telegraph Cable Taken for Treas sure Ship's Hawser Osaka, Dec. 19:
One of the cables of the Great Northern Telegraph Ca. from Nagasaki to Vladivostok was cut om December 15, Repairs were promptly effected but it has since been discovered that 170 fathoms cable outside the port of Nagao iki were cut off by Japanese divers working on behalf of a party seeks Jing to recover a great amount of gold and silver, which, according: to old record, was sunk there over 800 years ago.
According to newspaper reports the divers mistook the telegraplt cable as an old cable hawser.—
Reuter,
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