Show I J CHARGES WOULD FOLLOW I I Movement ment in Favor of Govern Government Government Government ment Ownership of Submarine Submarine rine Cables Started London Dec Dee The movement mo In favor of government ownership of ot submarine cables received a substantial impetus at a meeting held at the mansion house th YON sided and among those present were ere rep representatives representative tot of the various arlous lines Inter Interested Interested ested Lord Inner Milner Lord Strathcona the Earl Karl of ot Jersey Jerse the Duke of ot Argyle Mr Lemieux the Canadian postmaster gen general general general eral Sir Edward Sassoon and a number of or colonial representatives The speakers were unanimous on the necessity of ot a uniform system of cabling throughout the empire ern lre that should be available for the masses and Mr II LemIeux and Mr r Collins the agent general genera of Aus Australia Australia pledged their respective govern goern governments ments meats to the support thereof Mr Lemieux declared that public opinion opinIon opinIon ion in Canada and America was in favor faor of lower cable rates between America and the United Kingdom A state owned cable across the Atlantic would immediately re reduce reduce reduce duce the cable charges between England and Canada by b 50 ro O per cent he declared and be the harbinger er of ot a system encircling the globe A resolution urged the government to convene a conference of the postal posta author authorities authorIties authorities of or the states and Sand dependencies of the British empire tp to arrange measures in tie the direction of ot o tate state ownership and control of ot cable lines A resolution pledging ac active tire tive support of the parliamentary commit committee tee dealing with this matter was carried carri d unanimously |