A LIBEL ACTION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 21, 29 May 1913, Page 5

A LIBEL ACTION.

DEALINGS IN MARCONIS. M ALI CTO US ALLEGATIONS. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.]

London, May 28. fhe trial of Cecil Chesterton, editor ol the New TV itness, who was summoned at Bow Street for libelling Mr GodIrey Isaacs, whom he accused of corinptly conspiring in the wireless contract with the Attorney-General (Sir Rufus Isaacs, his brother), and the Postmaster-General, has begun. Chesterton’s article declared that Mr Herbert Samuel and the two Isaacs engaged -in a swindle, and were guilty of theft, knavery and villainy. It also attacked the relatives of both parties. The second article said that when the Hon. Samuel was caught with bis hand in the till, the Marconi shares slumped. It also accuses the Hon. Samuel and his cousins of pulling this wires over the Indian silver shares.

MR, SAMUEL’S EVIDENCE. Mr Herbert Samuel testified that the Imperial wireless negotiations did not originate with him, and he hold no communication with Sir Rufus Isaacs from first to last. The statement of the newspaper Eye Witness that he, Sir Rufus Isaacs and secretary arranged that the public should pay a large sum to the Marconi Company was a wicked and childish falsehood. It was inconceivable, even if a Minister was wrong-headed and dishonest enough to desire to enter into such a contract, inasmuch as six Government departments had to examine and approve the terms. ACTION FOR DAMAGES. London, May 28. Mr Olliver Locker Lampson, M.P., and Mr Peter Wright, shareholders in the English Marconi Company, have issued a writ against Messrs Godfrey and Harry Isaacs, Heyboume and Marconi, and other directors of the company, to recover the difference between the sale price and the par value of 500,000 shares and of American ; Marconi shares. There is about a million sterling involved,.