Mr. Avery described the laying of a cable from Peterhead, on the Aberdeenshire coast, to Alexandrovsk, a small town on the shore of an inlet of the White Sea, a wartime operation accomplished with great secrecy. The resumption of trade with Russia, he said, would now bring the cable into full commercial use. The linking up of the "All Red" route was also the result of the war. One of the German Atlantic cables from Emden to New York was cut in the English Channel and taken into Penzance. The distant end was picked up on the other side of the Atlantic, about 300 knots added to it, and taken into Halifax (Nova Scotia): The All Red" cable had had very not only the kingdom of heaven, good fortune in the matter of in-
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