PACIFIC CABLE PROJECT
JAPANESE SEEK CONTROL. UNITED STATES NOT AGREEABLE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON. October 6. It is learned that Japan is endeavouring to control the Pacific Ocean cable between the United Slates and Japan. The building of the cable was recently proposed to the American State Department by an emissary of Japanese capitalists, sponsored by the Japanese Embassy, in the name of the Tokio Government. It was proposed that a group of Japanese capitalists should join either the United States Government nr American capitalists in ♦he cable construction. It is understood that Japan insisted that the cable should be operated by a Japanese company upon which the State Department pointed out that as Japan forbids foreign cables landing on Japanese shorejs the American Government could not. allow the landing of the proposed cable on American soil if controlled by foreign interests.
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Waikato Times, Volume 93, Issue 14486, 8 October 1920, Page 6
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