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Show - ' i BRITAIN UNITES THE EMPIRE. LONDON, Aua 1 tBy .A. P.) During tha war Great Britain seized a German submarine cable runnlnc from Emdsn to tha United States, and at tha conclusion of hostilities ona and of tha Una waa drawn up to England and tha other diverted to Halifax. Today at Halifax tha wire joins tha telegraph system which mtsnds from Halifax acroea Canada to Vancouver and thence under tha sea to FIJI, Norfolk Island, Australia Aus-tralia and Nsw Zealand. Am a result, meaaacas can now bo sent from London to tha An -tipodes in thirty minutes. Thus are tha far flung parts of tha British empire held together. |