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Show LEGAL FIGHT IMPENDS FOR CABLE CONTROL BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 23. The first step in what is expected to be a long legal battle between British and American Amer-ican cable companies for South .American .Ameri-can business, was taken today by the Western Telegraph company. The company com-pany petitioned congress to over-rule the presidential decree under which Colon had just laid a cable under the river Plata, connecting Buenos Aires and Montevideo. The Western claims that the congressional congres-sional concession under which it ''gave Argentina direct cable access to (he rest of the world," provided that no competing cables be permitted within twenty-five years. |