MARCONI INQUIRY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1763, 30 May 1913, Page 5

MARCONI INQUIRY.

REPORTED DISSENSION.

OVER DRAFT REPORT.

By TelecrflDli—Prea» AMoclatton—Oopyrlslit (Ecc. May 29, 11.20 p.m.) London, May 2D. It is reported that tho Parliamentary Select Committee, which was appointed to inquire into tho contract between the Marconi Wireless Company and the British Post Oflice, i 3 sharply divided on party lines. Neither sido is said to approve 'of tho draft report of Sir Albert Spiccr, M.P., chairman of tho Select Committee.

Some of tho Liberal members of the committee, it is stated, take exception to n paragraph in which tho report refers to Ministers' "errors of judgment."

THE CHESTERTON LIBEL CASE. MR, SAMUEL'S EVIDENCE. By Telesrash—Press Association—Co Wright London, May 2S. At the trial of Mr. Cecil Chesterton, editor of the "Bye Witness," summoned for libelling Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, whom ho accused of corruptly conspiring in regard to tho Marconi wireless contract with the Attorney-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs) and the Postmaster-General (Mr. Herbert Samuel), the threo being described as malefactors, Sir. Samuel, in continuing • his evidence, said that during the negotiations he did not know that any of his colleagues wcro shareholders in the American Company. He refused to give his. assent to Mr. Godfrey Isaaes's suggestion to treat tho clause terminating tho agreement at any timo as a secret one.