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Show FEAR CABLE CONNECTION WITH JAPAN !MAY BE LOST WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Inquiries have been addressed to the Government by representatives of tho Commercial Cable company as to whether permission could bo secured to land on the Island of Guam an ocean cablo connecting with Japan. Tho request Is based on apprehension appre-hension that the existing Japaneso cables, both of which run to Shanghai, crossing the mouth of tho Yellow sea. may, from tho exposed positions, bo cut by the Russians, Rus-sians, and Japan bo left completely Isolated Iso-lated from tho world. At Guam tho projeoted cable, of course, would bo connected with tho existing American cablo cast and west. Careful examination has been mado Into 1 the question as to whether or not assent on tho part of tho United States to this request would involvo a breach of neutrality. neu-trality. Tho doolaion reached was In tho negative, on tho ground that a cable Is a commercial instrument, llko a mall ship |