Show TAKING U I i OVER DEFENDED I BY BURLESON I Necessity of Uninterrupted Service ice Urgent Says General Washington Nov 0 1 10 Postmaster General Burleson on Issued a statement tod today w outlining what he ho characterized as the tho determining determining- factors which l led d to the tile taking over of ot Pt cable systems November lo 2 under tinder the Joint resolution I o of Congress Congre s authorizing A control and operation of oC telegraph telI telephone telephone tel tel- I ephone cable and rado radi systems In m this I country Land telegraph In Uns ln s already lad had been taken n over O b b the tue io government o and Mr 11 Burleson bald fahl the necessity sity I for Cor or continuity and anil common control beI bew be- be I f w 1 n 11 tn u on r A l I hn fh K nt l k h has bee been most l t shown l b by the time fact tact that lint horn hon tIme die Western est rn Union arid and Postal Telegraph laph companies have hae their cable systems and have ha contractual i relations T with other cable companies which make mako those lines more or Jose Joan a 1 i-an i ot of tile Hie country's telegraph system Th There ro never no wits was a time In tho the history history his his- tor tory of ot this thin war suil suli Mr BUrl sI s statement which l' l called lI for Cor such a a. close chose control of oC the time caole system as IS toda today and will durin during the p pe period pe- pe I of oC readjustment The absolute ne neI necessity necessity ne- ne of oC uninterrupted continuous I communication should b b. bo apparent to all nh The postmaster t n ral n ral Js li ro row now I operating all the tho telegraph and t telephone telephone tele tele- e. e phone lines lineR In one ono I The re recent recent recent re- re cent breakdown In connection one of oC the cable systems has demonstrated demon demon- the absolute ne necessity essi y of ot b being mF able to utilize at will the facilities of ot either cable s system with all nIl o of theland the tho tholand land line lino systems In order that tha traffic traC- traC Lie fic ma may be n adjusted In Ute the same samo hands as It la Is on tho the land lIn linos There are many other reasons for Cor taking over o the tho cables which have o been eon suggested b by tho the C s so I I I I lIar lar in government go control 01 os I lines line but I only think It to state tho the determining la factors Burleson Said to toBe toBe toBe Be All AU Wrong o 0 New ew w York Nov O 19 Clarence 19 Clarence H. H Mackay president of or tho Postal Telegraph Telegraph Tele Tele- graph Commercial Cable company I Issued a statement tonight In which I he declared Postmaster General Burleson Burleson Bur Bur- leson was wa nIl alt wrong In the reasoning reason reason- ins ing which led him to to take tako over oyer the submarine cable lines Dismissing Mr Burleson's sta statement t that government go control would provide pro eloper closer or co-or ordination co-ordination between the land telegraph lines hues and the cables with the time assertion that lint the government go had hall hallI controlled tho cables through the j I director of ot naval na communications as asI effectively as it could coul control them I Mr Jr l 1 Mackay said Mr Burleson say saya he has hns other I reasons I fear Coal that the chief chic one ono Is Incipient co nt contro control |