The San Francisco call., 1899-06-04
PRIVILEGES FOR
CABLE STATIONS
Can Be Secured From
Germany
INFORMAL UNDERSTANDING
-
so UNCLE SAM IS NOT WORRIED
AS TO CAROLINES.
UNDERSTANDING
INFORMAL
Naval Officers Think, However, That
America Should Have Taken All
of Spain's Islands in the
Pacific.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, June 3.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Herald tele
graphs: BY Germanys acquisition of
the Caroline Islands the United States
can get without cost the cable station
privileges for which Spain demanded a
big price when the matter was under
consideration by the Peace Commission
in Paris There is good reason for be-
lieving that there is already an infor-
NAL understanding between the two
countries whereby Germany stands
ready to grant the United States prlvi-
leges regaIding the landing OF an
American cable at some desirable point
in the CaroHnes similar to those we re-
Gently granted for the German cable
in the United States. 1t cannot or
course be officially stated that Germany
formally offered at the time she asked
to be allowed to land the German cable
| in the vicinity of New York TO return
the cor phment by giving us a cable in
the Caioiines when she get them. L
have reliable information that the ad-
ministra Iion authorities have not only
known tor a long time that Germany
was going to purchase Spain's remain
ing Pacific islands, but that the United
States could have cable privileges in the
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this country desired them.
! 1t has not yet developed that the
! United States will avail itself of ca
| BILE concession. In the surveys of di-
! rect cable route to Manila thus TAR
made The Carolines have rot been in
cluded, the policy being to avoid If pos
| sibe making landings in any foreign
! territory.
/ talked to-day with a high official
of the administration. who said: No
concern is felt by this Government at
| the acquisition by Germany OF the re-
mainder Of Spain's island possessions in
the Pacific. Although the monetary
consideration is not large, other conces-
sions are given, and that under Whlch
| Germany guarantees to protect Spain
coaling station in the islands in the
event of war might be construed in the
nature Of an alliance with the Madrid
| Government OF course nation at war
with Spain would at once endeaVor to
obtain her outlying possessions, and
Germany's objection in the case Of Pa
cific stations would probably embroll
| the Berlin Government"
! In naval circles considerable dIsap-
! pointment has been expressed at the
failure of the United States to demand
all of Spains islands in the Pacific and
| it is recognized that their purchase has
given a formidable power splendid
naval base from which to operate in
case of war with this country. They
point out that all of those islands are
in proximity to the Philippines.
Rear Admiral Bradford, chief of the
Bureau of Equipment, who was the
naval attache to the Peace Commission
strongly urged upon that body that al
of the Spanish islands be taken. He
gave it as his opinion that if the United
States did not take possession of the
Carolines Spain would sell them to Ger
many, and the latter, he declared. was
the most troublesome neighbor We
| could have.