THE WORKMAN SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928 PAGE THREE British Finance And Commerce The Prosperity Tailor CLEANER DYER No. 6, 19th Street Central Avenue PANAMA CITY Telephone 695 DYEING, CLEANING PRESSING FLOWERS The Film Dawn Abogado. Attorney at Law OFFICE: No. 44 ST In connection with the showP. BOX NO. 38 PANAMA CITY ing of the film. Dawn, the TELEPHONE No. 1377 moving picture production depicting the horrible execution Practicing before all the courts of of Edith Cavell by the Gerthe Republic since April 1914 mans in Belgian during the world war, a cable despatch from New York, dated April 14th says: With the license for the showing of Dawn. British film of the war career of Edith Cavell, already granted to Arch Selwyn, holder of the American rights, James Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, and Charles ObPresident of the United German Societies of DROP IN AT New York, coníerred yesterday on the matter of obtaining an injunction to prevent the picture from being exhibited 122 CENTRAL AVE. here. As the first step, Mr You ill Find Them Gerard and Mr. Oberwager have requested Mr. Selwyn to OF THE HIGHEST ORDER NEED WATCH? erwager, Work Done While You Wait FULLER TRY US AND YOU LL BE SATISFIED Alterations and Repairs at reasonable Prices Ladies Garments carefully handled Moderately Priced. arrange a private showing REID Propietor that they may decide what action can be taken. Since it was announced that action would be taken against the presentation of Dawn have received nu.
merous letters to the effect that this attitude was the only one to take in a matter that concerns the peace and Iriend ly relations of different counSXXSXSXSXSDC15 yesterday. One of these lettries. Mr. Gerard declared ters, by tħe way, came from a Lieutenant Colonel in the Eritish Army who affirmed that the picture ought not to be shown. He added that he didn believe the picture was his(Continud on ng)
SILVER (By Robert Mackay)
Apart from the ties of sentiment and blood, one of the most important factors in knitting together the con monwealth of nations known as the British Empire is ios network of telegraphic communication. We write telegraphic for, although it is rapidly growing, telephonic communication on an Empire scale has yet to be established, and it will be some time before verbal communication displaces the cablegram as an instru.
ment of business. It follows, threfore, that the cheapness and efficiency of telegraphic communication is a matter of primary importanc not only to British business interests but to those wider concerns of statecraft represented by the Governments of Great Britain and the Dominions. It is for this reason that there has been convened, and is now sitting, the Imperial Wireless and Cable Conference.
The origin of this Conference is as follows. Two years ago the Pacific Cable Board duplicated its cable in the Pacific at a cost of 2, 000, 000.
This Board consists of the representatives of the Government of Great Britain and those of the Dominions of Canada, Australia and New ZeaJand. Subsequent to the Board incurring this heavy expenditure, the beam system of wireless communication passed out of the realm of experiment and became a commercial proposition and the British Post Office owns and operates with great success beam communication with all the British Dominions. The cost of telegraphic communication by both the cable and radio systems has been considerably cheapened by this new agency, and much of the traffic formerly carried by the cables has been transferred. So much has this been the case that the Prime Minister of Australia recently informed his Parliament that the beam service was carrying 46 per cent of the traffic previously carried by one of the great cable systems.
The position therefore may be thus described. This recent extension of radio communication, due to the genius of Senatore Marconi, has been adopted by the British Post Office with such success that the Pacific Cable Board, on which the British Government is represented, has had to face unfavourable working results.
The Canadian Government thereupon suggested that a conference should be summoned to consider a remedy for this state of affairs. The suggestion was adopted and the conference is now in session.
While these Governments have been considering these important matters something in the nature of a bombshell has been exploded by the private cable and radio interests.
This is not to say that some such action has not been adumbrated, nor that it was not to be expected at some date in the near future. But the size and completeness of the projected cable wireless merger, announced a fortnight or so ago, seem to have taken aback certain onlookers. The projected amalgamation, if it materializes, will be one of the most important fusions arranged in recent years, the capital involved exceeding 53, 000, 000.
We will return in a moment SPRAY PILSENER to the projected scheme, but it is necessary first of all to ear that the agreement between the companies is subject to satisfactory arrangements being made with the British Government and the Governments of the Dominions and India. The British Government, it goes without saying, will be guided by the decision of the Imperial Conference, and it is in no way, as the Prime Minister himself has an nounced, committed to any action even in principle. Returning to the merger, it is proposed, subject to the arrangement referred to above, that the interests of the great cable network, the Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies, and the great radio corporation, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, should be acquired by a new company of the capital already mentioned 5614 per cent of the voting power in the new company will be held by the shareholders of the cable companies, and the balance by the shareholders of the Marconi Company, and of the directors of the new concern 12 will be nominated by the cable companies and Dy the Marconi Company.
The Eastern group of cable companies comprises a large number of concerns, but the three principle are the Eastern, the Eastern Extension, and the Western Telegraph Companies. The Marconi Company operates, under licence, communication by radio between Great Britain and foreign countries (and inforeign countries) other than those worked by the British Post Office between the homeland and the Dominions. Such is the position at the moment of writing. Meanwhile no further steps can be taken until a decision has been reached by the Imperial Conference and the British Government.
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