MARCONI ENQUIRY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 81, 12 April 1913, Page 5

MARCONI ENQUIRY.

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

(Received 8.0 a.m.) London, April 11

Mr Kebyty Fletcher, at Ilford, publicly repeated the question he asked in the House of Commons in response to Mr Lloyd George’s challenge. [A cablegram of the Ist instant stated : In the House of Commons Mr Fletcher, Unionist member for Altrinaham, asked Mr Lloyd George whether his salary (£5000) was insufficient to prevent him gambling on the stock exchange. The Chancellor hotly replied: “You had better say that in a place where it can be the subject of a prosecution. Then 1 will meet it as I have met others.” An angry scene followed, Labourites and others calling Fletcher a “dirty snob.” Mr Lloyd George called out “cad.”] AN ORGANISED CONSPIRACY. London, April 11. Lord Robert Cecil, on behalf of the minority, strongly resented the Marconi Committee refusing to press Mr Heybourno to disclose private business. ; . Mr Godfrey Isaacs, in his evidence, said that he refrained from taking £46,250 profit on Heybourne’s purchase, which went to the company. He still held his own 2500 shares ns an investment. He produced the Poulsen prospectus, containing the name of the expert who reported cn the system, and whom Sir Henry Norptan recommended as best able to advise the committee which was the best system for the Government to adopt. Witness heard in July that q syudjJ cate was arranging to attack Mini* ers, with a view to making that the Marconi contract would not pass Parliament. He produced a letter from Hawkins, a stock broker, giving a conversation at a West-end dinner party in :May, forecasting the outcry raised in the House of Comments. - *i