Company yesterday resumed its cable service to all parts of the world after splicing with a line in the Yangtze River had been completed. Connection was established at 6.30 pin., when the cable was made available for service, The foreign cables were severed on August 28 as a result, it is believed, of bombardment striking into the ground. The line completed by the Great Northern Company yesterday runs in the water from a point in the Yangtze delta via Woosung and the Whangpoo River to Shanghai. The splicing was effected at sea. It is hoped that the connection, which is liable to be broken by ships' anchors in the Whangpoo, will hold until the underground line is repaired.
Permission to establish a connection was obtained from the two parties engaged in hostilities, before the work was proceeded with. Owing to the heavy fighting in the Woosung-Paoshan area for several days immediately following the break, the repairs had to be delayed indefinitely. The return of comparatively quiet conditions in the area finally enabled the Company to send out crews to run the line into Shanghai. The line itself is Yelatively thin, but is able to carry a normal volume of messages to the, rest of the world, and to receive normally, if not interfered with.
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