The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-01-21
HE EMPIRE UNDER THE sEA.
In Case of War on the Seas Control OF IN.
Gables Makes Every British Battle.
chip Worth Five ships of an En-.
envy Destitute Gables to Depend.
encies A Lesson for This Country.

hip Worth Five ships Of an En-.
envy Destitute Gables to Dopend.
sncies Lesson for This Country.
"The TransvnAl war" said a naval officer, In
an uptown hotel the other evening, is presenting
one startling object lesson which our country
would do well not 10 overlook, II is, perhaps.
rather a side light lesson, but il, Is none the les,
impressive. Put in broad general terms, IN,
proposition which the lesson demonstrates IL tina,
In case Of war between two naval powers the
one which controls n system Of sub marine
cables with which " inform It's neets Of the strength
and movements Of the enemy, will no mistres,
Of the seas There Is nothing especially new
in this
Writers on naval matters have time and agAu
pointed out that in the twentieth century q
nation, TO be a sea power. would have 70 control
cables as well as fleets But the TransvaAl var
Is making this truth as obvious 10 tho lay mind
as 10 the professional. II has opened the eyes
Of the people generally In all civilized nations
that England has got practically a monopoly
Of all the cables Of the world AsI said, this fact
appears In a sort Of side light reflected from the
very glazing fact that not one word Of teleg
news gets TO OF from South Africa which English
authorities do not choose 10 let through. Tha,
has set people 70 thinking a little and they have
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! Our own war with Spain and our efforts 10 Gu,
Cuba of from communicative with the world set
the French thinking and writing on the subject.
The startling Transyaal object lesson has revived
the discussion and given it a tone Of earnestne.s
which ought 10 produce results.
"Only a few days ago, NJ. Hepelley, an authority
on the subject, presented Frances helpless position
In this respect SO clearly and conyincingly that his
article, published in one of the leading French
periodicals., has produced a profound impression
II our congressman could spare a little time from
furnishing Aguinaldo with capital 10 make his
recruiting lies out of they might put In a little
time prohtably in considering the same subject
IF you will study a cable map Of the worlda
little, you will sec what a tremendous power
for control Of communication Is power and a
very high order OF power England has
quietly built in the ~foriy-two years since the first
cable message was sent by the President Of ths
United States to Queen Victoria From that
day until this, silently and ceaselessy, England
has built up a system OF submarine carries which
to-day covers the entire world and holds II fast
in a sort Of immense spiders web. OF which Lon
don Is the centre, You Will notice IN studying
the map that this marvellous system divides
Itself into three great branches, each Of which
has its subdivisions. For instance, a trunk NJ
no less than ten cables connects Great Britain
with this country and the British possessions on
the north. From this diyerge various wires, A.
TO Bermuda and the West Indies.
From London, by way Of Spain and Portugal.
three more lines stretch IN Brazil and spread out
through the West Indies and TO Central America
on the north and down the coast TO Montevideo
on the south. From Mon te yideo, across the South
American continent there is an English land
line to ' Valparaiso. From Valparaiso northward
there is a double line, touching at all the princi
pal points on the South American Pacific coast
up to Tehuantepec, from which place there Is a
land line 10 Vera cruz and Tampico. whence cables
40 across the Gulf Of Mexico 10 Galveston.
$50 in ,hs, vast mesh of the spid.r's web Al,
North and South American with their adi,cen,
islands are held
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