THE MARCONI CONTRACTS.
INTERESTING EVIDENCE. By Tolcßr;vii3l.--T , it-Hs AhsockUJoii. OpyrigiH Received April li, '.).:.!:> p.m. London, Friday. Lord Robert Cecil, on behalf of a minority, strongly resented (ho committee refusing to press Mr Hoybourne to disclose liin private business. Mr Godfrey Isaacs gave evidence that ho refrained from taking .£-J<;,2. r >() profit on Heybourno's purchaso, which went to the company, and still held his own two thousand five hundred shares no an investment, He produced Poulsen's Prospectus containing the name of the expert, who reported on the system, and who Sir Henry Norman rGcomniencied as bent able to advise the committee which was the best system for the Government, to adopt. Witness heard in July '.hat a syndicate was arranging to attack Ministers and make certain the Marconi contract would not pass Parliament. He produced a letter from Hawkins, a stock broker, j'ivinjv a conversation at a West End dinner party in May, forecasting that an outcry would bo raised ni the House of Commons,
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 558, 12 April 1913, Page 5
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164THE MARCONI CONTRACTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 558, 12 April 1913, Page 5
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