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The Western Union Telegraph Co. announced the signing of a contract with the Italian Submarine Cables Co. for a direct line between Italy and the United States, by way of the Azores, if Portuguese permission is granted. It will be the longest and highest capacity single cable across the Atlantic...
Practical submarine telegraphy is the growth of less than 80 years, although numerous experiments over small distances had been made in Europe since 1795 and S. F. B. Morse himself had laid a wire from Castle Garden to Governor's Island. A cable across the English Channel was attempted...
There are now more than 300,000 miles of submarine cables, about four-fifths of which are owned by private companies, the rest by Governments. The Eastern Telegraph and Cable Co. is the largest single owner. The British and French colonial systems require extensive cable facilities. The longest cable is...
Secretary of War John Weeks kept the cables to Manila busy for several days trying to find what was causing a disturbance in the Philippines.
General Wood had exceeded his authority. General Wood "begged to state" that "each and every" one of Quezon's declarations was without the slightest foundation in fact, and he accepted the resignation of the Cabinet. Then both sent cables to the War Department.