Italy Celebrates New Cable This picturesque oM itail witnessed ceremony for new telephone cable; Mussolini is at ieft Of the Papal representative, Monsignor Merrisi. i ;* With the compiction .of an under ground telephone cab!e}founecting Mi lan, Turin and Genoa;-tftaly has taken -the first important step- in the provision of a comprehensive, ,-interarban tele phone network which wifi link many of her chief cities in a system having high transmission standards. The complete plan. of "'which this is the initial project, will provide an ulti mate uninterrupted telapltyHe cable line reaching from Turin to'Ehlo&na, Flor ence. Rome and Naples, with branches reaching Milan. Genoa, Venice and Leg horn. The effect of sogh ft communi cation system is certain Ho be far . reaching. ' This comprehensive project was au ) thofired by law in March , tQ!3, hut. fargely because of the yy%,, construction could not he undertaken until December. !92a, when the Milan."Turin, Genoa pable was started. The,course of this cable has the form of a large "Y" with 'the junction point of the three branches i at San Giuhano. Provision is made at j Castcggio for t!tc connection of a fu ture eab!e for Uoiogua. Ilorcnce am! ; Xaplcs. Ttierc will a!so be links be- . tween Dotogna and Venice afid between I Itorence and Leghorn. The cabie which has -just been com p!eted was supphed by the Socirta ita!- ! iaua Reti Telefoniciie Interurbane, an Itatian company associated with the . Internationa! Western Electric Com pany. The cab!e conforms in a!! re spects to the requirements of modern te!cphone practice. A state celebration in a picturesque o!d hat! in Caste!! ) Sforzesco marked the inauguration of service over tlte cab!e. Prcnier Mussolini talked to the mayors of Turin and Genoa, the dis tinguished guests listening over auxil iary receivers connected to the cable. Among the witnesses of the ceremony was Mortsignor Merrizi, representing j the Vatican. Buie News Batch Heavy Rains Have Maitg jSsme Rond* Impassable—Passenger Trains Us. ing New Track—Personal By W. H. M. Brown, Buies, January 3.—Ow!n? to the recent heavy rains, soma of the roads through this community have become impassible, detours having to be made. Much road work has been done through this section the past few months, and where the roads have been recientty plowed up'is where th< moat of the trouble is. * „ The recent death of ex