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Show I IME MONOPOLY I FEARED BY U. S. I British Ownership of Many ! Lines and Its Effects Trouble Trou-ble Uncle Sam WASHINGTON', Sept. 16. Anicrl-can Anicrl-can eommiKslnnrrs tr tho International donununicattona conference to te held 1 In Washington next mont held their 1 f!rM meeting yesterday at the state j department. They began a study of. the entire cable situation with a view to preventing a threatened monopoly j of cahles by other nations. J Becntise of the commercial and J diplomatic significance of the confer-j H once, the chairmanship of the com mis- i slon was recently transferred from I Postmaster Burleson to l"nder-Secre- ! tnrv of State Davis who presided. M W CABLE HAITED. Officials s i id today ih:it ihe monop- i H oly exercised by the British on the! west coast of South America made It Imperative that the American repre- m ntatlves devise measures not only to reach an equitable solution of that J H qtinRlon, but nlo of similar adverse, conditions confronting the I'nlted States elsewhere. 'It was to await the outcome of the conference that the state department' recentl held up action which would grant the "Western Union Telegraph J H company permission to land a cable at Miami Via , connecting with tho H British cable from South America to j th- Parbadoea. The state department officials desired to determine whether I th proposed lino would strengthen the British monopoly on the Wl -t J roast of Pouth America- Dlsi iki CENSORSHIP. In ihe preliminary study of the ca- I ble situation made by the I'nlted States. It Is estimated that Groat Brlt-H Brlt-H aln exercises control over more than lO.auo miles of tabbs in the world, or more than the combined total of all other nations The United States has control over only slightly more than .".o.OOO miles. Of greater slgnift-I slgnift-I cance. however, according to officials. J is that the United States obtains dl-rcjjf dl-rcjjf information, free from censorship Hl J or the control exercised by other na-tions na-tions over cablts passing through for-eign for-eign territory from only the west const of South America and to a llm-Ited llm-Ited extent from the Far East. The great proportion of cable drs-patches drs-patches reachinK the United States ll i estimated In the government sur-vey. sur-vey. must pass through the control of British. French or Japanese cable lines. Practically all cablegrams from Europe pass through Paris or London. It Is to remedy this situation and to arrive If possible at arrangement" IIH 1 u-hsrnhv ,-ihlc mfssn cos in rimes of I peace may be as free from content and censorship as mall matter under the conventions of the international postal union, officials said today, that American representatives to the conference con-ference are directing their efforts. |