LORD AND LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

Evening Star, Issue 19781, 3 February 1928, Page 10

LORD AND LADY LOUIS MOUNTBATTEN

MENTIONED IN HONEYMOON BANQUET LAWSUIT.

In the Supreme Court of New York Mr Walter Hyams is smug Mr Felix N, Warburg, a member of the banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb, and Co., for 7,«K) dollars (£1,500) for alleged services in arranging a dinner in honor of Loid and Lady Mountbatten when they were in America in their honeymoon year, 1922. , , ' It is stated that part of the service rendered consisted in seeing that Mi Warburg was seated beside Lady Mountbatten for business reasons. In an affidavit submitted to Justice Wasservogel, Mr Walter Hyams makes various assertions. The affidavit was in opposition to a motion by Mr Warburg to take the testimony of Lord and Lady Mountbatten at Malta, where Lord Louis Mountbatten is detailed as lieutenant on H.M.S. Warspito. ■ , , Mr Warburg also applied to examine Sir Felix Cassel and Anna . Jenkins (relatives of Lady Mountbatten) now in England in order to use their testimony in opposing Mr Hyams’s claim. Justice Wasservogel granted the application. Mr Hyams alleys that the purpose of the gathering iA question was that Mr Warburg might meet the Mountbattens and ‘‘knit up threads” of transactions with the British ment. Such threads, he says, had been broken when Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. refused to participate fin the Anglo-French loan in 1915. It is asserted that there was every reason to expect that the Mountbat-

tens would testify for Mr Warburg as the Cassel family represented Kuhn, Loeb, and Co. abroad. Mr Warburg says he has known Lady Louis Mountbatten since she was a baby. His introduction to Lord Louis was effected through her family, and 'Mr Hyams had no connection whatever with the introduction.