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Show GERMANS CAPTURE i FANNING ISLAND1 i VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 14. Defi- I nite news has reached Vancouver that the Germans have captured the Fanning island cable station. "Whether the men j who landed on the island on Monday, September 7, were from the cruisers Nurnberg or Leipzig cannot be definitely ascertained. Communication was broken off so suddenly with the Bamfield (Vancouver (Van-couver island) end of the cable that the Fanning island operator was able only to send a message that armed men in uniform uni-form had landed and had entered the I superintendent's office. Here the message mes-sage stopped ahruptly and the cable has been silent ever since. Presumably tiie Germans Immediately cut the cable at the shore end and took off the coal and supplies that are maintained main-tained on the island for the use of the cable operators. Whether they took the operators as prisoners of war is also unknown. It is understood that the British admiralty are taking prompt steps to restore communication communi-cation with Australia and New Zealand. 1 Meanwhile business with Great Britain ! and elsewhere Is being dispatched by the eastern route through Persia, further India In-dia and by the transcontinental telegraph across Australia. |