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Show OCEAN BOTTOM MUCH CHANGED Cable Ship Discovers Big Change in 20 Years 1XN1X2V, pt. W (By A. D-Mi. coverjr by a cable repair ahlp that the bed of tho ocean ta the trinity of St. Helena had rles two mile tfur-In tfur-In th last twenty years has ted to a belief anion - scientists that the I whole southern Atlantic- ocean bed Is 1 undervolng vast submarla ooavul-sion. ooavul-sion. j Some authorltte hv even made the statement that such chsne an Join on continually, and that these tsturheaces msy occur in any locality. local-ity. They belisve that thi Is the reason for th frequent sudden appear ap-pear nees of Islands and shoals in the southern oceans. It Is also claimed that whea the ocean bed is raisd in one place there is a corrsspondln drop in aoie other section of the World. The discovery of thla et ran ire phenomena phe-nomena was made recently when It waa reported by the Kaatern Cable company that their cable between Bt. Helena and Capetown waa broke at a spot some kni sntles north of the cape. The cable had been laid In lf and hsd been In constant use. . On its arrival at the desinated spot the cable repair shin reported to ln-dnn ln-dnn that, instead of the depth of the water beln 2 Toe fathoms, or just over three statute miles, as stated on the t han, it wa only a little more than three-quarters of a mils deep. |