The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-02-25
Herbert Hoover Accepts
Harding S Cabinet Offer
Whole Cable Issue
Back Of the Scrap
Over Island Of Ydp
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
'Ccryr:Eht by Tho .nteII'genCrr)

| tCccyr:Eat by The .ntelligenccr( !
Nasmnstna. reb 24.--The a.;ed
>;A..s ugS.rEmag; G"n:ands freedom OF
..,..... cJu''pInsI",;'Hn across IL, tac!sS
60, ~, Ear last. ant insists that tne
.:npor;aa: way station ~. IN" INA! -,
;.:.I u' zap sIaN not hr gwen 20 J"S->''
,y re .eaEue o. nations. -,
r.r. AT"-.c>.a EvvcTntnent N Ks -
-; note tNc "N1c: trNt ut wnicG h'.S
..p- ~. h-.ru made puoiir, does not ash
;rA: Y.,p y. given 10 the tA!ted STATS
pui tia: ;an island he !0tArnatloh;Ni' w"
-, tAat 4 ,y,'l always ee under the JOINT
..r..-ni Of tho Sreat powers. Great
Gr,tain, che United States, France ana
The United States contends moreover
hat Jaran mover had any rlSh: under
.',"rrH,t"naI law 70 seize the trans
s..ritc cable at Sap and that the status
NH:ch existed before the war SnaH IL
restored
BACK Il he entire question o; cable
communication ~ StAnu OK tHp pnf-,ol q
~-cgtCr and eve, :" Involved contro-
y"rsy c,s" u. -: .,aS OF the German
at,.S in thv t-.a"..C. The American,
Comir,N:cs .v' -. hat both Enslahu
M Eruar. sized these Atlantic
1alr~ unts.1,~.l g., Hua ara today dcprtN-
.':rrt ,,,h. "i.muEicat!ou wh'rn - so
.u.vor,a.; .. commercial intercourse
With Germany and Central Europe
Sympathetic With japan
IN other words, England and France
lave 4 reason To b. sympathetic WIN
TO JRpareS" viewpoint rather thar the
American so far ag the legality o. tae
....-rr r,.~ IT cab."ss = coucerncl but Ers.
and ,2I France uu' TIE other band
..,.. "a I"cid" whether ikcf TOO VIII
rrt'ntsIN communication With t.'r
ma interests N n. Far t.ast only by
.hng- 49,
9. rough Japanese territory.
Tho situation IN the tlc:nr which
- p-,.r3 p:tdjcd - american notc 70
e council ~ the league of nations IS
o., described y clarence II. Mackay
;ras.G-nc OK the COE!W"rciai taH'H
Postal Telegraph company. which owns
.hn Pacific cables that ar" At the bot
:cm Of the contrrysrSy lie says:
MAcksy's Statement
"a company owned IN Germany bar
largely supported by Dutch caplt;ti amt
substituted hy the German aad hutcS
rom Guam ,owned hy ;He United
~t;,tes) 70 zap. there diN"-ginS. on:
line going south to the Dutch Indies an
Ia Other going north 70 ShanSnal
We operated the Guam end OK that
cable under \ contract with the German
Isatch company. All messages FOR thc
Dutch Indies were sent via Yap under
normal conditions. and during interTu?,
lions OF our cable between Guam ar"
Manila, which cut ott all communications
with the Philippines and China by our
route We diverted traffic via zap 10
Shanghai over this Gernan-Dutch s?s-
TEN. Hence these cables were very m
ro-tant IN maintaining uninterrupted
communication with China and the Phil
IppLnas and tho Seizure Of fap by ne
Ia-anes~ ard the diversion ct rae cable
.0to one OF III" JRpanese sands. de-
pr,ves us q this ALTERNATIVE" route.
There was only one other alternative
r3ate 10 China and thai Mas ia JaI2n
~ jan coAttnuSs - rotEiR tho fGs-
Shanghai Cahl.. !, will mean ,Eat a!
traffic destined e china s,nI ~" mn
.I,p:nsS during Interruptions or our
,3ll<r,- Manila Cahls viii haze 20 pass
'.rouch japan. and The vojum" 30 trae-
Cc 70 the Philippines would not IuStt"
ne lay:ng Of sub = cable which ~ou!c
be practically !d.c most o, tue tirc
."The -.u.r arguments a. 20 tho IN
reference with American cable coInrlu-
nL,at!or applies here as 70 the seizure
o. tE,, German Atlantic cables. No part
or thsss cahlas a the Pacific toucneG
JaransSn soil but one end touched Am
rrtcaa territory Guam and yet ~"
Tapanese have seized this GerUan-Iac-
nc Cztbic system 20 d"trImeCt OF Am
Nrican trade w:;h China and the Ph'!-
iprines and the advantage 10 their r"r.
7 strongly submit that the United Sta;"S
n consideration ot its Co-oHcraton n
The var should not be Affected by beng
deprived Of an important ai;erra''N"
means OF communication Tith t'H!na nh.
rs Ear Eastern possessions. the t'Hii-
,pplne islands. which Il enjoyed before
;he war"
The Island OF zap
The island OF Zap IS really worthless
except as = place Tor cable !andiT.S
because ths distances In the Pacific are
80 great that 20 .etch tho Far East the
cables "ra landed first at Honolulu. then
80 l&l;,ud o; midway, the Guam, and
Gnaltv zap whore tho SorthUa-d cable
goes 20 SHANGHAI and The S1H'h"arG
cable goes to -" DItrh faS; Indies BY
way Of the Philippines. Should Japan
::rt contro! Of -" sand oc Yap I would
>" SrNe ~ refuse permission FOR and
'nS OF any "1hls EXCEPT one owned BY
I7raneSr i9te-rS' and - could tHHH
r-7r:ica!ly co.np"i no sac os the North
pese.
whoever gets ooss~ss:y= cc .hH i$,17d
80. Yap Cos n" key - 'rtnSra":f'"
able cCmrT7:cat Ion. TGv 3't"4 states
- not anx;oGs 90 tEat control herself
.':; merely wants - have NNp intcTDa
e: .-a!:h"l So hat 20 u..':oa can have az
aad,n SGIa1iI.". indeed. ~" stock ~
go Comns-r.a, i5c.si' cab" Company
-.,n.cS pt-,.~ by Danish and British in
forests. although. according TO NJ. Mac
l4l'~ OWr Srat"lHeut. III" company
Stands - -rSp"C' {" - tinted Sta'"s
:o,e-umoa, and pubic aE rur"l% Amer
,.,n N t. operations - :: every d".!.r
- Is stock were provided by Amer :cau
'1o'tal."
Tho decision % ,A2 assembly OF -"
'"lEu" - nat. I" ,.2ir"t" ths IGn-
1a.e S;v:uc 'hH rSl:,!.t "f Y..r 20 japan
g. nf course. I:p' h.rG:!S I@on II"
,-nit.d Sjute~ - 'u:.aJ .'"S mus also %
av0! oG ~ -" ruIur3 ": he 'eAEu"
t','n-tLrtt.'" 'rr - - .nr.d"nt -"
-,:.r S,a'r, v"S.l, Z, m,rnb,- II -"
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