Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-08-05
ACT IS DECLARED
STRICT VIOLATION.
|. Of AMERICAN LAWS
FIVE DEsTROyERs PATR0LIING
MIAMI IiARBOR WILL USE
FORCE ~ NECESSARY.
IS WESTERN UNION LINE
Company Making Attempt Go Connsct
System From America With
British Line Touching
West Indies.


WASHINGTON. Aug. a.--Five
trance 10 the MIamI.F1orids har.
bor. under orders from President
Wilson. 90 prevent by force. u
necessary. the landing Of . cable
the Western Union Telegraph Com.
pany II having laid from fsarba-
dies. british possession in tho !.
West indies.
A British cable ship. the Colonial.
has been chartered by the Western
Company % land the American end
of the cable, which would connect +
with 70 british cable line from BAR
badoes % South America. A. the
state department u was stated to-
day that the British embassy had
been asked 90 inform the master 0f =
the ship that such o landing would
be In violation NJ American law.
Offiriais explained there was no sig.
nlflcance In the fact that the vessel
was British; that she probably was
the only cable-craft available 90 the
American Company when she was
chartered. Work on the cable line
from Barbadoes was begun last
summer
Apply for Permit.
Some time ago the Western Union
Company applied to the state depart
ment Cor an executive permit 20 land
the wire at Miami. but officials said
action on II had been delayed. pending
the holding az the International com
munications congress. called 10 meet IN
Washington September 49,. A BRITISH
cable company. II was explained. nov
has monopoly IL cable rights In Bra
lillian waters An American concern
desires 10 construct direct cable line
from the United States 10 Brazil. and II
wns stated that the American govern.
ment desires 10 know before issuing the
permit a. the Western Union Company.
whether the arrangement entered into
by the company with the British con-
Germ. the Western Cable Company. con.
trolling the line from Barbados tn
Brazil. would add 10 this monopoly. In
this connection II was asserted that nj
the Forthcoming international communi.
cations congress the whole theory OF
international communications was IN
be examined "ln very different tenn.
permanent" from that existing In the
past,
Refused to Comply.
There were reports today that after
the Western Union Company filed III
application for n permit. the state de-
uaTtmcnt requested that copy Of the
contract with the British cable concern
also be filed. and that the company had
refused a. comply. No information ~
Ia this was obtainable at the depart
ment.
While there IL n direct cable line be
tween the United States and the Pa
cific Coast IL South America. cabis
communication between this country
and Brazil Is possible now only by way
~ London. unless the messages are
sent ~ the west coast and rclnycd ever
the land
Direct Line Preferred.
a direct cable line 10 Brazil. officials
said In much to he preferred. a. u
would afford means Of faster and
probably cheaper communications The
orders from the President which result
ID In the dcstroyers being assigned q
patrol the thrcc.mllc limit of Miami
were issued. II WIS said. after reports
had reached the government that ths
company planned to complete connec
tion ~ the line Secretary Daniels wal
advised ~ the orders upon his return
from ALASKA. II was announced toda,
that the five destroyers had instruc
tions from the President 10 use an,
means necessary Ia prevent the landini
II the cable. Rear Admiral Decker
commandant NJ Key West. n In com
mand ~ the destroyer force. but Sec
Rotary Daniels said he would he re
placed by hsi senior. Rear Admiral An
dorsnn. commandant at Charleston
South Carolina.