ships in the world, 24 of which were owned by British companies. In 1892 British companies owned and operated two-thirds of the world's cables, and by 1923 their share was still 42.7 percent. During World War I, Britain's telegraph communications were almost completely uninterrupted, while it was able to quickly cut Germany's cables worldwide.

Cable to India, Singapore, East Asia and Australia

Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, British cable expanded eastward into the Mediterranean Sea and the

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