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Show SHIPS GUIDED TO HARBOR W BY NEW RADIO CABLE mbk WASHINGTON, Aug Jo. a suc- ccssful preliminary test of the radio cable laid in the Ambrose channel ap-preach ap-preach to New York harbor as a means RH of piloting vessels to the harbor In rlB foggy weather was announced Sunday v by the iii.ii department The test 'V.jM was made with the navy tug Algorniu which navigated the sixteen rallc stretch of the table frc m the Ambrose iLj channel lightship to the Narrows, en- S!j tlrely on the bearing received from the electrical waves emanntlng from the cable. An armored cable was used In tfc the experiment, thereby overcoming Mn the chief difficulty heretofore experl- i of the cable being injured irum time to time by anchors of small vs-tUR vs-tUR sels dragging over It |