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Show I S. SUB CHASER FIRES SHOT AT CABLE SHIP I O O A A - A A a A A WESTERN UNION I F0RCEOTOST0P I mm LINES I Work Abruptly Ends When Shell is Fired Over Bows of Steamer DISPUTE WITH WILSON CARRIED TO HARDING Uncle Sam Afraid England Will Have Control of Proposed Communications MIAMI. Kla . March 5 Work of connecting the Western Union Miami-i Miami-i Barbadoes csble begun again today, !was abruptly- halted this afternoon vvhen the United States submarine chaser 134 appeared and opened fire llH 'on the eahle ship Robert C Clowe-y and placed the entire crew under ar- Tho action took place on the high seas about four miles off the coast or Miami beach near the buoy that had been attached to the end of the OablC when It was laid from the three-mile limit of the United States to Barbadoes by the British cable ship Colonla Inst t summer- Al I I Kl Eg Ol BR BOWS, The Robert Clowery arrived off Ml-ami Ml-ami vesterday from Jacksonville to start work on connecting the cable a aneV-had picked up the loose end when (the submarine chaser arrived on the -.em- Signals hoisted by the naval HB vessel, it la said, were disregarded b BBJ the cable ship after which a shot was BBj fired by the submarine -haser acros BBJ ihe bow of tho Clowery which prompt-hove prompt-hove to. fH't.n. SnuMi r the Clowery nn.i ,. - . to ileslst from the coble work BBj and both vessesl entered Miami thi BBJ afternoon. When' the Clowery tied up I the crew wxs placed under arreet. BB 1 It Is raid th.it Lite tonight trie - rev was released from arrest bv Llentenan' Mm ray, aide for information for the Seventh naval district. MH'Mi i I. ASH. Today's clash between the navy and BBJ the Western Union Telegraph com-pany com-pany was the second In the efforts of B the government to prevent the landing of the Barbadoes cable In Miami. An attempt to run the cable across the BKBJ channel on the western side of the BKBJ causewav Inst summer was prevented BBB bv armed forces of the navy, and a BBB suu-cnaser nas own siauuucu u, since to prevent a repetition of cable Bl laying. President Wilson instructed the navy BKfJ department to prevent tho landing of th.- .-able- here, and at the time the British cable ship Colonla was sent Bl here to start work on laying the cable. Bfl four destroyers were sent to Miami to prevent the wire from being brought BBl ashore. Tho Colonla tied an end of the ca- BBJ ble to a buoy on Miami beach, out- side the three-mile limit, and proceed- ed with the cable laying operations between that point and Barbadoes. Two destroyers accompanied the Co- BKB lonla on this trip but did not prevent BB the laying on the high seas. IN.Jl NOTION sET silF. Last week In the New York federal court the injunction against tho West-era West-era Union Telegraph company pre-v. pre-v. nting the landing of the cable was BJ set aside, and the tHegraph company BH secured a court order restraining the government from Interfering. Local naval authorities have never BH had their previous orders to prevent BH tho landing of the cable revoked. R is understood, and it Is said today's ae- BJ tlon bv the sub-chaser was in accord" PH ancs with orders issued by Secretar Daniels last summer. Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union, In a visit here several days ago, intimated that a new effort b 1 1 1 tde to land ths cable umm as soon as the new administration started, and expressed his belief that the Harding government would taku a more liberal attitude than did tho former one, and not "prevent an American company from doing what its charter permitted It to do" NEVER .ih PERMIT Over a year ugo the Western Union applied to President WMSOU for a per-mil per-mil to land the cable at Miami, under N th. i deral law requiring a presidential 1 permit for the landing of foreign ca-jbles ca-jbles In the United States, and this was ! never Issued, although no reason for tho holding up of the permit was giver. by the government. The telegraph company prepared to bring the cable to Miami without the presidential pet-mission, pet-mission, und the effort was stopped by the government. It Is said that the government Is oppose d to the M laml-Barbudoes cable ..ii the ground that the cable would be - H Hrltish owned and that the company ffl has a monopoly In cable communlca-Hons communlca-Hons to Brazil. in mi d BY OMPANT. This contention of the government has been denied by the Western Union. which has given assurances that the la American owned nd has sub-, sub-, mittecl copies of Its contract to show lit was not monopolistic, Operations of the- Miaml-Burbadoes cable would make possible direct ca-ble ca-ble communication between tho United States und the eastern coast of South America, the cable connecting at Bar- H badoes with a cable between Barba-does Barba-does and Brazil. At present cable dim- H sages must bo sent to Europe and re-layed re-layed to South America by way of H Burbudoes. i IRLTOS 1 l u NBW YORK. March 3 Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Uton H (Continued on Page ridrteeu.) WESTERN UNION FORCED TO STOP LANDING LINES 1 1 oniinucd iriim Page 1 hie. 1 Telegraph 1 onipany, when informed tonight a Ignited States sub chaser hod opened fht on the Robert C. Clowery. the Western l inon cable ship, authorized au-thorized the following statement: "No effort lias been made to lay the cable to Miami beach. The Clowery has ben ordered to make a test on the cable thus far laid, to see if It Is In good condition, and to report on Its condition." |