THE LINKS OF EMPIRE.
•'/. ■ r '.. CHEAPER CABLEGRAMS. ;■ ALL-RED LINES: CABLES AND SHIPS. :(By Telegraph.—Proas Association:—Copyrlebt.l London, August 6;/" Sir Joseph Ward advocates a; reduction of cable charges by stages, as giving confidence to the administrators to gradually lower their. chaiges. ■■■;.' ''■ V •■■• In his interview ■ with the: "Daily Chronicle" he said that* personally he' considered reduction one of the most questions of the day. He disliked anything tihat might.be unfair to cable" owners, but it was : most regrettable that the people : of the great growing overseas Dominions should'be kept in a position of isolation through, inability to use cables which were so much unoccupied. Ho strongly,favoured State-owned cables between the Motherland ■ and her Dominions, and was hopeful that the existing conditions would not last much longer. He also entirely favoured an All-Red or an all-British steam service. He recognised that many difficulties existedy adding: "But the ;mora you reduce distances and give people in the Motherland and the. new, countries the opportunity of meeting, the greater becomes the tendency to do business mutually.":
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 5
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172THE LINKS OF EMPIRE. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 280, 7 August 1909, Page 5
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