IMPERIAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 179, 2 September 1909, Page 2

IMPERIAL CABLES.

CANADA'S ATTITUDE. A FATAL BLOW TO THE MOVEMINT, ' By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyrigi* Received 1, 10.55 p.m. . 'London, Septcnibar \. The Times' Toron'to corne.spondent, writing on the 2.lrd, states- that an Ottawa journal, one of the most sober and responsible of Canadian newspapers, alleges that through pressuw, corporate, influence and speculation In dealing in cable, stocks by persons close to the Administration, Ministers Imve determined to ispnoro the jjrojeeted conference in London, aad ,to refuse their support to the movement for a system of public cables around the Empire. The correspondent remarks that this, if 'true, -must prow a fa to I Wow to the whole of the great .project and that there is reason to tlii-nV the Government has no natural- s.vmpathy to niil the movement to establish public e*in'n» In competition with private systems. ~<t is overruled .by (Mullock's policy of parchose.

The corm>nnnile7it adds: "Sir Wilfrid Laurier at the lie. l * is a pawive Imperi •]■ :st. a.nd believes the onlv safe bond o' Empire is sentiment. He distrusts «!1 FVheines of organic usiitv, «nd probably he'.'iew. th'nt with naval dtfenee on the anvil, the Imperial /cable* can wail"