Deseret Evening News | 1904-03-01 | Page 9 | Cable on Guam

CAULK ON o GUAM GUA I Government Has Not Jt Yet Vet nen Asked to Let Iet it be Landed Washington Feb 29 Thus far the United government has hal not ro formally an nn Application tram from tho Commercial Cable company compau to land landa a Japanese rahle on the Island of ot The fhe government hall ban been rip In a n tentative way by representatives of 01 the tho company so as mI to 10 as ascertain certain how ho tho United would lUch an application If It Il were made No decision has hM been heen reached although In tho light of ot present Inor Information mation matlon there thero In III n a manifest disposition In 10 regard mich KliCh a n request reasonable and r It Is IH considered that tho Iho laying of ot the tho cable would b bu H u L L u transaction nna that the grunting of permission for or the landing of or the cable at would not violate In any cense tho position Ilo of ot neutrality which tho United has 1 In III to tho conflict AM heretofore Indicated If It the tho per permission mission should be bo granted It Is likely the tho uw lIlI of at tho Iho cable callie during the progress of ot tho Wilt war at least might lid ho hedged by hy certain conditions hut but oven on as nl to that point no de decision cl lolI Mil has boon reached It Is said at lit tho war department that this la III the tho only outlet possible for tor Japan under the present The 1110 Grent North eni Im company It Is Mid IB IR the only com COlli company pany which has cables miming Into Japan and that Is IH a Danish company which I under Russian control It bo boo Ing the land line along l the tho Siberian railway to the tho Asiatic coast linn hall mod mado no protest to tho against the granting of ot to land the cable 0 to It Is 1 by hy Washington that If It a II Protest It will l flied filed diplomatic channels What the United States would tako In that event be foretold 1 ns all It t would depend tI entirely on the tho cir clr circumstance of ot the caw