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THE MARCONI CASE

REMARKABLE EVIDENCE is TO STRATEGIS WIRELESS

STATIONS.

Before Mr. Justice A. T. Lawrence. in the King's Bench Division, the hearing was resumed of the arbitra- tion between Marconi Wireless Tele

THE CHINA MAIL.

That was the only profit they were THE CHAMPION SAWYER. CHINESE, COTTON MILLS to get out of the contract - think so. --Were they even to get that?--I am not sure about it, because I think probably the cost of the stations might have been slightly more than the contract price..

EX KAISER'S RECORD.

The Witness said it was the con- The ex-Kaiser is qualifying as the tention of the Marconi Co, that the champion wood sawyer of Europe erection of the stations at the conWithin the last six months he has tract price would involve a loss. sawn up 5,000 fir trees into 30,000 Was that contention true?-1.deblocks, and each black bears the date,

not know.

The Witness said he was prepared

TWENTY NEW MILLA: BEING

BUILT.

Despite the war observers of affairs) in Shanghal have been struck by .. eens of the Chinese to place or ders bobl with British and Anseriein Hens for the delivery of plant des n number of tree, and his initials W. 11. led to hoke in China inch of the

No longer dres the ex-Emperor produce that at present to suggest that it was, because the give his photographs to those he preted to fonsign countries or Marconi Co. uhinately began to destres to honour; he prevents them altarit vely worked up in factories the realise that the cost might exceed with a block of wood nine inches inged and owned by reigne

the contract figure, or that some diameter and two inches thick, sawn Particularly has this been the such state of affairs might arise that by the imperial and, they appeared to be so anxious in the autumn of 1944, to alter the terms upon which the stations were to be erected.

graph Co., Ltd, and the Postmasters General, arising out of the claim ..of the company. against

for damages Postmaster Generat alleged to have been caused to the company as the result of the repudia tion by the Postmaster-General of a center between the company and the Government to erent a chain of

six long distance wireless stations whin the Empire. The claim amounts to $7,191,741, which the Postmaster General says is excessive, and that the damages, if any, are

nearer to £50,000.

Council appearing for the Marconi Co. were Si Ed. Carson, K.C... Mr. Leslie Scort, K.C., M., Hunter Gray.! KC. Mr. Stuart Bevan, K.C.. and Mr. Hildesley (instructed by Messrs. Coward, Hawkesley, Sons and Charcel and the Postmaster-Generati

was represented by the Attorney- General (Sir Gordon Hewart, K.C.), the Solicitor-General Sir E. Pollock,

in the demand for cotton paville, the From ten o'clock to one o'clock purchasers, of which are detrated airy morning he saws diligently with a desire to work tibi owa pr her eath his favourite fir tree while he fo their own cuntry for lit the x-Kaiserin reads the papers own cumption. In this centrees Sir Edward asked the witness if hef aloud. For the first week or two lem is interesting to lear, that in could point to any letter where any Wilhelm did the saving himself, but funt months quite a kore numbe

The new uses a double handed saw reders for nut plant have been such suggestion was ever made?

Mr. Brown said his view was that and is assisted by a companion, gene place with firms in Shanghai. The the whole tone of the correspondence raily his doctor. The exKaiser is total figures are not available, but supported it, and suggested a desire remarkably strong in the right arm one firm sino, Messrs. Andersen. by the company to get out of the and he takes a very human delight Meyer & Co., Ltd, have received in the fact that he has tired out every this year no fewer than 20 orders for the assistant he has employed. While at the total cost of which will run Sir Edward Carson-On greund that the royalties were un-

worlt he smokes three cigarettes, one into millions of meks. each hour. | satisfactory ?—Yes.

contract.

Sir Edward Carson-Were they, in your view, to go on for ever if they could get no push from the Post Office -I do not say that.

The most important d'evelopment | SULKING CR SAWING,

which has taken place intely is the usually sulking. He has periods of generally in the development of the When Wilhelm is not saving he is great interest shown by Chinese

deep depression, and, sits for hours. coton industry. There is no doubt near a greenhouse in the grounds of they have been actuated in the first Count Bentinck's castle, speaking: to place by the enormous profits which no one. Tugging fretfully at his fave been made by the local milk Vandyke beard, he conjures up churing the past few years with pre memories of what might have been,pects of continuous prosperity for

Chinese desire to namufacture, goods

Is not the reality of the case that all through these latter months of the year 1914 the Government were backing out of the contract --No.

When did they first make up their K.C.), Mr. T. Terrell,, K.C. the Hon. minds that they would repudiate the and' these dark hours are succeeded venes to come, and secondly, by thei Evan Charteris, K.C.and Mr. Giveen contract which had been ratified by by fits of temper.

Parliament 2-

A tired old man is the ex-Kaiser of in their own country for home cons The Witness-Am I to give evid-to-day. The fire has gone from hisumption, thereby avoiding the im ence as to what occurred at the eyes and the ruddiness from hisportation of manufactured articles Cabinet meetings?

cheeks, and despite his strenuous from countries which do not have the exercise he is putting on weight..

sympathy of the Chinese

(instructed by the Solicitor to the Post Office).

Mr. Frank James Brown, of the Post Office foreign and wireless tele- graph branch was now examined.

Sir Edward Carson-No. What He said he had reason to believe that ask you to say is when did they firs: cable rates in certain cases would be make up their minds to repudiate shortly reduced, and there were. I think it was shortly before the agreements, to tha: effect between letter of December 30 was written.

During the day, he dresses in mufti. but for dinner be dons one

of this gorgeous uniforms, and with his small band of retainers holds a

o

At the present the there are in approximately Xxx,an spines, and the importion of

se gods of runous kerels." fram

the Eastern Extension Australasia Were they not in consultationmimic Court, thus seeking to recap yarn to completed pics mus.

about erecting. fewer stations before that? Yes.

and China Telegraph Co. and the Commonwealth Government, and with the Japanese Government, pro- viding for certain reductions; but in view of the abnormal conditions of the present time the reductions had been held in suspense. For example, in respect of ordinary messages the Australian rare of 3s a word was due to be reduced to Es 6d, and the Japanese rate of 3s 11d per word to

36 Ed.

Was not that getting out of the contract?

No, I think not

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Why not?-Because the conference took place on the same terms as regards both parties. If Mr. Isaacs did not want to get out of the con- teact by imposing fresh terms, neither did the Post Office want to

cure a glimpse of his past glory, won't give occation in China O After dinner he talks with great 15,000,000 «pirkeblas. animation, and he has a disturbing

On that has rise deverint trick of throwing all his weight on

which has taken place during the the arm of his chair, and his toll of st six months with regard to the broken chairs is mounting rapidly.extension of the cottery milil: industry A! his correspondence i cersored. viewed with a great denk more and his haughty spirit chafes against tranquility stan if the industry s this necessary restriction.

FEARS OF KIDNAPPING.

at present osta Nished were sufficient

to ever the, much of the entry.

get out of the contract by suggesting His dominant fear is teroplanes to an be appreciated that He has conceived the idea that belly all the etato un in- may be kidnapped from the air, 24 k

that three stations might be erected

new terrns.

Asked if a reduction of rate necessarily meant an increase of traffic, Mr. Brown said that broadly i Mr. Brown said he thought the speaking a reduction of rate did running of the six stations would lead to an increase of traffic: but have cost £150,000 a year apart from it did not lead to that increase loss for depreciation, &c. which correspondingly recouped the reduction in the rate.

Mr. Brown gave statistical records as to the effect of the rate reductions, and he said that experience in these matters did not support the conten- tion of the Marconi Co. that reduc

Counsel It was in contemplation you say that the Government should run the stations at a loss of about £90,000 per year?-Most certainly Personally he always contemplated that they would run at a loss.

The Witness, added that the object tions almost at once produced was largely strategic in erecting the sufficient traffic to make up the stations, and any commercial trame loss. This view of his was, he that they could have done in diminu thought, confirmed by the experience tion of the expenditure of putting of the Marconi Company themselves, up and running the stations for who had found that a reduction' strategic

within

purposes

Icon centred in Shanghat.

he never ventures into the grouna w few exception. The fact that without first carefully scanning the the cotton has to crane Brons aft over

morning i sky. One

Datch the country, paying äkin on its way aeroplane flying over the castle gave to Shanghai, that the yarn and other him a severe fright, and he keptp de mide by the tre has to be indoors for the remainder of the day.

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Bis frequent companion is the little dachshund "Senta," which still wears the medal showing is taxes have been paid in Berlin. All the children in the vilage know "Senta," who has pronounced" democratic instinces and a weakness for chasing stray cars,

back to the same places front which the cottan emne, ingala paying like and higher rates of internal retima operted goods, hus

mule it obvious to anybody who has | stood the stuacion-bhat there are prospects for the establishment

in centers where cotton is ah and where there ready enle on the spot for the produre ofj

dy it has takecar dealiyof for the Chinese to appreciate fact, hit it appears from recent

the opportunity and are begin-

take advantage of the situa

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1919

HONGKONG-SHANGHAI AIR-MAILS.

BRITISH NIGHT BOMBLE, "{400,"

Selected for Hongkong Shanghai aerial service. Passengers' cabic will be built into the fasilage behind the pilot's cock-pit-in, et about the position of third rear standard supporting wing.

Size of plane may be guaged by comparison with mun standing on the ground.

TAKING IN THE MAUS

View of observer's seat in a Handley-Page "0/400. "

viz., a penny or twopence per word : Mr. Justice Lawrence said he the castle grounds, the walls of which are to-day big foreign and big Japan DEATH OF A MISSIONARY. MR. C. LAURITSEN AND

wireless station put up by the Marconi with ships.

system.

Mr. Brown-No, it is being done

Telefunken.

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THE REY, ALVIN FIELD.

ASSISTANT FINED.

AN ASSAULT CASE.

CHURCH SERVICES.

St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon.

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Union Church, Kennedy Read.

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Et. Peter's Church, West Point,

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WEATHER REPORT.

August 80d, 1th. 25Warning to Hongkong, Phulien, Const Porte &c.;- Typhoon in Lat. 170 N. Long. 1940 E, direction W.N.W. velocity 8 to 1# m.h.p. August 30d. 11. 80%-No returns from Vladivostock, Japan, Weihaiwel or N. Luzon.

Press has increased moderately over N. Annam, and- alightly in the neighbourhood of Hougkong. It has decreased alightly at Shanghai and Mantin

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A shallow depression is shown be tween Haiphong and Tourane. At 6 m. this morning the phoon was in about latitude 170 or 150 N. and longitude 230 to 12 o E, moving W, or V.B.W.

Hongkong Rainfall for the: 24 hours ending at 10 am to-day, 0.65 inch. Total sinos January 1st, 64.997 inches” seninet en weerage of 65.56 inches..

Forecast for the 94 hours, ending al Boom on August Stat

well-informed, circles at the would have Hague it is believed that the ex- of rate in the various services they been very welcome. If the stations Kaiser will live and die in Holland. had introduced did not lead to any had been up at the outbreak of There is little probability, they think,mences, Birt they inve at hist thing like an increase of traffic to the war they would have been that the Dutch will hand him over to correspond to the reduction of rate. very useful for strategic purposes, the Allies, the Dutch laws holding Questioned about Mr. Isaacs' views but the war broke out, and it would that a political refugee ja inviolate as to the increase of wireless traffic. have taken many months before the He would not be prevented from

In ennerbion with the develop Mr. Brown said that taking past stations could have been finished, going to Germany, his guards consist of the cotron i industry experience into account, there was even in the case of the Englishg only of Dutch policemen, but he then is one feature which is of tree not the remotest possiblity that station, which had got further than is not likely to take the risk of that crinary psychobgical interest. twenty-eight years the the others. The Admiralty contract revisiting German soil. His present it was duined and freely expressed general telegraphic trafic would in was made with the object of getting intention is to buy a house in the few years ago that it was only a crease in the manner suggested unless a more speedy class of station. They province of Utrecht, and several suit-matter of time when the whole of the rates were reduced in some such wanted stations more adapted for able residences have been inspected the Chinese milli industry would be manner as that which the late Mr. communication with ships than these on his behalf.

in the hands of the Japanese. There Wilhelm never ventures outside Henniker Heaton used to suggest, would have been.

ese interests in the established mills, throughout the Empire.

thought all these station woulds have have been heightened by boards to Mr. Brown said that the emergency been in a position to communicate prevent photographers from taking but the development which has taken snapshots. The ex-Kaiserin some plach during the past six roonths hus Co. in Scotland for communicating The Witness said that the Imperial times takes tea at neighbouring ben practically exclusively Chines with Holland was on the point of stations were of a greater range than houses, but she is rarely away from and when the mids, which have now

The death occurred at the Matilda being converted to the Poulsen are the Admiralty stations, and they her husband's side. She is the only been ordered and some of which are were using longer wave lengths than one who can restrain him in his fits already in course of erection, are all

the Chinese Hospital yesterday anorning of the accomplished facts, Mr. Justice Lawrence. Is that the installations on the ships were Although the ex-Kaiser has con- themselves will have by far the priory Alliance, Wuchow. The G. Miskin appeared before Mr. N.

of passion.

Rev. Alvin Field of the Christian The chauffeur employed by Mr. being done by the Marconi Co.? adapted for using,

tributed £1,000 to the local rates dominant interest in the coton mal late Mr. Field had been in Kwang South yesterday, afternoon sun (Laughter.)

to discussion that took place in the residence, the local inhabitants would due to men like H. Y. Mohr, C.,Cis years, being principal of the chauffeur of the Dragon Clyde Com- Sir Edward Carson, KC, referred for the first three months of his industry of this country. This is Province as a missionary for the past moning the manager and the Indian by the Admiralty.

House of Commons with respect to not be sorry to see his departure, as Nioh and C. C. Yung who have His Lordship. What is the system the ratification of the contract. When they fear his presence may involve tackled the problem in a most busi-

Biblo School. He was a native of pany for assault, on August 21. Carada. He succumbed to malarial | used in Hold-I think the the then Fostmaster General, Mr. their country in trouble with the newslike and far-seeing manner, and

Mr. D. V. Stevenson appeared fever which he contructed a few days for the prosecution, Samuel, was speaking to the House Allies. This is all the more remark by interesting their countrymen The witness mentioned that on the (said Mr. Brown) he was expressing able seeing that during the war the haring the necessary capital, they go. He leaves a widow, who is

· The complainant said his our was' occasion of a cable breakdown the his own views, and in witness's district was strongly pro-German. have establish a lead for the Chi- engaged in missionary work. public were informed that they could opinion Mr. Samuel was wrong when Throughout Holland, indeed, there here themselves with which every

The funeral took place at the Pro kept in the garage. He was sent for wireless to Holland.

a profit. he said that the stations would make is an uneasy feeling that the longer body, who has the interest of the textant Cemetery at 11 o'clock this by the No. 6 chauffeur on August 21 moming and was uttended by a arge 7.80p to see him at the The stays the deeper will be the Chinese at heart must be gratified. Sir Edward referred the witness to national embarrassment, but at the Not beer than 400,000 spindles have number of the deceased's colleagues gauge, ne when he reached there a memo by Mr. Hobhouse to the

the Indian chauffeur naked if he had The Witness-Nothing. The news effect:

same time the people at large are been cadered during the last sendei. "Cabinet, in spite of my against delivering him up to the months, part as additional equip.. papers kindly inserted these notices, warning as to damages following on Allies.

The Bov. Robert A. Jeffrey who een driving a certain car, to which munt for milks already operating arrived from Canada yesterday by he replied in the negative, when be repudiation, refused to provide the Mr. Brown sald that early in the money for the completion." Does

The greater part of it, however, is the a... Andre Lebou," officiated was struck with a broom, and a ro98 the nudeux of new mills and' in a both. present years there was a partial not that suggest (asked counsel) that

the mortuary chupet and at ensued. Defendant went to the telephone and called for the mud, side: breakdown of the cables, and the the Postmaster-General was saying vinced on figures such as these that member of cases the new mils have the

ager, who on arrival pushed the DOL public were notified in the Press that that it would have been better to it cannot, and we could not have additional loans to take cure of the After the service in the impet if they wanted messages sent by complete as they would have to pay reduced the rate below cable rate.

yaan production. One mill has been Mr. Jeffrey addressed the pont plant out of the gagn wireless they should state so. That such high damages?

Mr. Brown. added that wireless established to spa exclusively high and made & few remarks on the The manager informed the Magis was in order to overcome the objecMr. Brown replied that he did not telegraphy made a very great stride counts, another with the necessary storting qualition of the deceased both trate that the fight between the tion which some people might have think it suggested that the Postmas-since the contract was entered into, additional machinery to spin threed Ts a friend as well as a fellow worker. Indian and complainant was because to the use of wireless on the ground ter-General contemplated heavy and he thought to a large extent the which has not heretofore been mun Mr. Jeffrey said that while en route of lack of secrecy. The result was damages. N

idea of a chain had become obsolete. fuctured in China. One of tho fue.

from Canada, bis foremost desire was the latter, being a private driver and the number of words handed in for Mr. Frederick Brown was furtherThe idea would now rether be toores at Tientsin his looms to en

to meet once more Mr. Field, with bolding a private certificate, had no transmission by wireless was about cross-examined by Sir Edward Carson have stations in the United Kingdom able to make cotton dunk of the 5 per cent. of the total amount of on behalf of the company Asked communicating direct with various heaviest dostiption, a new venture whom he had had the pleasure of thority to touch any of the the traffic. Other messages went by to estimate the cost of working the parts of the Empire, or through an for the company owung lb. A great wording for six years and had always unge's car. He was seen driving cable with considerable delay, and stations, witness said he estimated a intermediate station, and he thought many of the new malls are to be built found him as koezi worker; á ganuine three of his cars and he was re- some went by posti... ·

loss of £90,000 a year.

it was unlikely that stations put up in Shanghai, but several of them are follower of Christ and the truest of ported to Inspector Gurod (be Finmfellty Sir Edward Carson, cross-examin- Edward put to witness the under the contract could have been to be erected in the country, one ende They could, therefore im Traffic Inspector) who cautioned hind ing the witness, asked: May I take it figure of £85,000 odd for working the modified to fall in with such a near the railway ne at Hanow that the not result of your evidence English receiving station. Witness schefaember at Tenten which up to be aging the shock he received when he at the station. is that the Marconi Co. would get as said he was amazed at the figures; Sir Edward Carson-You think years ago bid no cotton, mais atakured that his beloved brother had Complainant said No Bobaufour their profit on this contract some and asked is that a mistake for the Government made a mistake, and one or two in Shantering bear passed away about the same bir his stricted bar to take out his our value about £1,000 a year from each £8,000? M then, in entering into the contract? Tsingloo. Thus the activity is being shy arrived in Hongkong harbour, to woah, na le bid a sors band and station over a period of about ten Sir Edward No, it is not.

-Witness 1 do not think that in spread throughout Chick, showing the

There were many foral tribute confid not dy the years? Yea

Mr. Brows. Well I always the light of the information they populatim at large, what unnulaevackidogous from the Rey, and That was not a very profitable con- thought that Marcon, could compete then had a mistake was made. tuning on foreign linee is like and fact?-Fazly so, I think.

Mr. Jeffrey

dunty $5. what can be done with W, with cables, but I am absolutely condThe hearing was adjourned.

Sir Edward Carson, K.C.-Would you like to tell us how much was spent in advertising this fact?

for us.

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