Identifier: empirecentury00gold (find matches)
Title: The empire and the century
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Goldman, Charles Sydney Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
Subjects: Imperial federation
Publisher: London, John Murray
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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of private cables by theState. . . . No serious attempt has been made to provethat submarine cables would be more efficiently managedby the State than by private companies, and we ourselvesare decidedly of a contrary opinion. Many of the cablestouch on foreign territory, and it is evident that seriousdifficulty might arise if the British Government en-deavoured to work them by its own operators. * Nevertheless, the same Committee felt it to be itsduty to add that the cable communications betweenBritain and India are not strategically satisfactory, aslong as a cable is not laid by the Eastern TelegraphCompany from Southern India to Cocos, a British islandsouth of India. From Cocos a cable runs to Australiain one direction, and to South Africa in the other.Thanks to these all-British routes, India would escapebeing cut off if both the European land-lines and thecables in the Mediterranean were cut. It should, however, be added that India is already* Second Report, paragraphs 96 and 98.
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BRITAIN AND THE WEST INDIES 261 connected with Australia via Java. From Australiatwo all-British routes go to Britain. That considerationmodifies, to some extent, the urgency of the need for theCocos route. Great Britain and the West Indies. Directly south of Halifax in Nova Scotia lie our WestIndian possessions. Halifax is united by cable withGreat Britain, and from Halifax a line of cable runs viaBermuda and Turks Island, which are both Britishpossessions, directly to Jamaica. Since Jamaica is themost important of our islands in that region, and isin close touch with the others, strategic requirementsappear to be reasonably satisfied by this all-Britishconnection. The Cable Committee of 1902 did, indeed, report that the Admiralty have for some time advocated the con-struction of an all-British cable to St. Lucia for strategicreasons, and in our opinion it is highly desirable thatsuch a cable should be laid.* This cable would haverun direct from Jamaica to St. Lucia. It has not beenc

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