BEAM AND CABLE.

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BEAM AND CABLE.

future control. MR BALDWIN'S ATTITUDE. , V -.jtg-PSISS ASSOCIATION—COFTatGHT.) AND ir.Z AND BUS CABLE J LONDON, March 22. i tbe House of Commons. Mr Baldreplving to ii series of questions to the future control of the dfc Office's ,)cam systems, •j that neither the Government nor ft? InipcriaJ Wireless Cable Coni'ertB \ .i ia( i anv previous knowledge ol responsibility for the Kastern-'tfk-coni merger. could not make a general .statement ahead of the conference report, mile the Government was ready -o ' "iscuss future arrangements, it was - ."nowise committed even to the prinand reserved freedom of action fading any proposals to transfer iSrel of the Imperial wireless serat present administered 0., "112 not say if the confere'ice Jdence would he published lill j's -commendations were considered by jy, British and Dominion GovernBaker (Lnb.h Are you sutisiii that Marconi's license is sufficiently definite to prevent transference to . foreign Power. Have you seen the nieeestion that the license was on the f o f transference to America when '(he merger was reached with the Eastern Companj ? JJj- Baldwin: J require notice of the question. A BUSINESS-LIKE PROPOSAL. (iUfITBALIAN" AKD K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received March 23rd, 9 p.m.) LONDON. March 23. "The Times," in a leading article on the cable and wireless companies' offer •to Jake over from the Government the ■Atlantic and Pacific cables, says: "It -fo a business-like proposal and has ap'«(rently attracted the Dominions' Governments, which , are not unwilling tci of unprofitable cables, but .the' British Post, Office ,is reported to be ©willing to part- with profitable beam jtations. American wireless and cable * competition tends to increase, and -British enterprise must l>e prepared to coinpeto efficiently therewith, although jf, is not necessary to regard it primarily as a matter of cut-throat hostility. If British control is absolute in the' British spliere there is nn disadvantage from friendly cooperation elsewhere. "The Imperial' Conference will be guided by public interest in deciding whether the British Post Office retains beam stations, but competition undoubtedly requires the most efficient form of unified administration."