Following a busy fortnight of activity as one of Shanghai's remaining communications with the outside world, all foreign cables were interrupted yesterday and, though there is every hope of being able to repair them very shortly, there was be means last night of knowing how soon this would be.
Officials of the Eastern Extension, Australasia & China Telegraph Ca., Lid., stated that they believed the break to be between Woosung and Paoshan along the Yangtze, River. Cables run underground from Shanghai to Woosung and again from. Woosung to Paoshan before taking to the water and out of China. The area in which the break is believed to be ig in the fighting zone, and permission will be required from the
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