ATLANTIC CABLES.
THE RECENT AM ALGA STATIONS. BRITISH INTERESTS WIPED OUT. Addressing a meeting of the London Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Charles Bright advocated the appointment of a commission, wi. representation of the oversea dominions, to investigate the question of the Empire’s cable services.
Referring to the recent Atlantic amalgamations he declared that British interests had been completely wiped out, and that in time of war communications with Canada and Australia, despito the codes, would be read at Washington. Mr. Bright' supnorted the claim of the Imperial Conference for a Stateowned cable across the Atlantic.
The meeting decided to make strong representations to the Government to co-operate with the oversea dominions for the construction of a British cable across the Atlantic to connect with the Pacific cable. In the course of some comments on the meeting the “Financial News” remarks that~“tho Government would _be much hotter employed in lecapturing the cables from the American trusts than in snatching threepenny-pieces from kitchenmaids through the National Insurance Bill.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3394, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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166ATLANTIC CABLES. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3394, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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