The service restored by the three foreign cable companies through an emergency line in the Whangpoo River on Sunday evening was being maintained successfully yesterday, the companies being able to despateh and receive messages on an almost normal basis.
Shanghai thus is again connected with the entire world by cable, as before the break which occurred underground near Woosung on August 38 as a result of the heavy fighting there. It is hoped that the underground cable itself can be repaired shortly, thus obviating the necessity for the emergency line in the Whangpoo.
The three Companies that jointly undertook the repairs of the last few days are the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company, the Commercial Pacific Cable Company and the Great Northern Telegraph Company: 'Through' an inadvertent omission in yesterday morning's report the names of the two first-mentioned Companies were not given along with that of the Great Northern Company.
Connection with the outside world was made through the splicing of one of the sea-going cables with a line run through the Whangpoo River to Shanghai.
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