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The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph
·
Henry M. Field
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To
the
demand
for
news
in
the
above
despatch,
a
reply
was
at
once
returned:
"Sent
to
London
for
news."
And
later
the
same
day
came
the
following:
"North
American
with
Canadian,
and
the
Asia
with
direct
Boston
mails,
leave
Liverpool,
and
Fulton,
Southampton,
Saturday
next.
To-day's
morning
papers
have
long,
interesting
reports
by
Bright.
Indian
news.
Virago
arrived
at
Liverpool
to-day;
Bombay
dates
nineteenth
July.
Mutiny
being
rapidly
quelled."
A
despatch
of
the
same
date,
August
twenty-fifth,
also
announces
peace
with
China.
The
whole
was
received
at
Trinity
Bay
about
nine
o'clock
P.M.,
and
would
have
been
sent
on
at
once
to
New
York,
but
that
the
land
lines
in
Nova
Scotia
were
closed
at
that
hour.
It
was
sent
the
next
morning,
and
appeared
in
the
evening
papers
of
the
twenty-sixth.
By
referring
again
to
the
London
Times,
the
reader
will
see
that
the
news
from
China
was
published
in
London
on
the
twenty-third
of
August.
It
was
there
given
as
unexpected
news,
so
that
it
could
not
have
been
a
shrewd
guess
on
the
part
of
anybody
either
in
England
or
America.
It
took
the
public
by
surprise,
both
for
the
news
itself
and
for
the
way
in
which
it
came--which
was
not
by
India
and
the
Red
Sea,
but
by
St.
Petersburg,
where
it
arrived
on
the
twenty-first,
having
been
brought
overland
by
a
courier
to
Prince
Gortchakoff.
From
there
it
was
telegraphed
to
the
Government
at
Paris,
and
thence
to
London.
The
Times
comments
on
this
roundabout
way
in
which
intelligence
so
important
reached
England.
Yet
this
news,
so
unlooked
for,
announced
in
London
only
on
the
morning
of
the
twenty-third
of
August,
was
published
in
New
York
on
the
twenty-sixth.
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