Eureka Reporter | 1906-01-26 | Page 6 | Yap Great Cable Junction

yap great cable junction the gem of the pacific ocean so far as telephone lines are concerned Is the islet of yap just as railroad maps make great towns of their am junctions so ocean cables to day give world prominence to any remote island of the sea which lends itself to their uses for a meeting place three large cable companies have put wires into little lap which liea east of the caroline islands and about 9 degrees north of the equator and here they will exchange and trans ship their messages the ship that touches at yap can secure direct corn muni cation with every port of the world the harbor will be developed into a considerable port of call since information is an important commod ity in the modern world and yap can promise itself tame for the future yap belongs fo the fatherland and its de means significant things in world politics the germans thus flank the united states connections with the dependencies ot thi east par alleging all eling the latter s route to the phil ippi nesy way of honolulu and guam tor over a thousand miles by a cable linking a chain of islands under the kaiser s colors