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MARCONI ABUSED.

"I want to submit calmly and quietly that Marconi, the name of the most illustrious inventor of our time, stands in Britain quite definitely for scandal and corruption. It is most lament- able that a scientific inventor should have his name abused in this way, but the fact remains,"

There are two sentences from an astonishing attack made in the House of Commons on the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Com- pany by Mr. Walter Baker, a Socialist member, who is closely connected with the Post Office through the Post Office Workers' Union, of which he is a leader.

Calm and quiet are his usual qualities, and they enabled him to sustain an argument in which the word "corruption" constantly re- curred for more than an hour. He suggested that Sir William Mitchell-Thomson, the Post- master-general, was not chosen to look after the public interests in the Imperial Cable and Wireless Conference, because be regarded the business as "a scandalous ramp."

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The famous magician, Long Tack Sam, who will begin a Hong Kong season of four nights at the Queen's Theatre at 9.20 p.m. to-morrow, Wednesday, August 1. Long Tack Sam, with his company of Chinese wonder workers, has topped the bill at the leading theatres in London and New York, and his performance is said to be extraordinarily entertaining.

Mr. Baker, as a Socialist, is op posed to the handing over of the Government's beam wireless ser- vice to private control. No deci- sion has been taken on the sub- ject, and Sir John Gilmour, the Scottish Secretary, who has acted

Ordinary shares in the Eastern for the Government in the Im-Telegraph Company, which had perial Cable and Wireless Confer-failen from £186, their highest ence which has sat for months, figure in 1927, to £136 in January, assured the House that no de jumped to £160, and soon reached cision will be reached without £242. consulting Parliament,

Marconi's, which were worth Sir John made two statements 18s. last year, rose to 37s. 6d. at of great importance. He first the beginning of this year on the pointed out that the conference strength of the beam profits, but was only able to make recom- in March they jumped to 69., and mendations to the British and

now stand at 71s. Dominions Governments, and |could not come to any operative

conclusions.

"That shows the value of inside information," he commented.

not repeat in the House, unless I am able to prove them. I must be allowed to leave the matter at that point."

Mr. Ammon, who was Financial! Secretary to the Admiralty in the Secialist Government, said: "There seems to be an atmosphere of corruption and wirepulling around the wireless communica- tions and cable companies with- out parallel in the history of any commercial movement.

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"The whole aim of the wireless SAILORS' AND SOLDIERS' HOME and cable merger is to get pos- session of the whole of the wire- less and cable communications. We are threatened with interfer- ence from the Radio Company of America. It is only the state- owned service which prevents the merger getting a complete mono- poly, and we are told that unless things go their way the American companies and the British mer-

was

"Before any definite conclu- Mr. Baker recalled that a for- sions can be taken," he added, mer Post-Master-General [Mr. "the matter will be brought be. F. G. Kellaway] joined Marconi's, fore Parliament.. I hope this and added that other personal had statement will reassure those left the Post Office service for who have doubts upon the pro- Marconi and the cable companies. blem."

He did not suggest that their action was in any way dishonour- He referred also to the gigantic able, but he pointed out that the cable and vireless merger which knowledge and experience gained was announced during the sit-in the Government service was tings of the conference, and stated that the merger was to be being transferred to private enger will come together and seek to

terprise.

wage war against British inter- subject to a satisfactory ar- rangement being made with the and no civil servant should be

He suggested that no Minister esta in order to get a monopoly."

An interesting speech British and the Dominions Gov-allowed to enter any private com-made by Mr. Otho Nicholson, the ernments.

pany with whom they had been in Conservative member for the "All the possible reactions of private negotiation, and demand- Abbey Division of Westminster, this merger have to be examined ed a full list of those who had who rarely speaks in Parliament. in great detall by the confer- done so.

He said that the beam linking ence," he added, and gave this as

Britain with Canada, South one reason why no speedy conclu-

Africa, Australia, and India now sion of the conference, can be ex-

carries 80,000,000 words a year, pected.

and could carry five times as many. It was cheaper and quicker. A speed of 200 words a minute could be reached by the beam service and the speed might shortly be increased to 600 words a minute.

Another sweeping statement which Mr. Baker made was that, in his belief, the home Govern- ment's difficulties were almost entirely due to the financial opera- tions of the Marconi Telegraph Mr. Baker said he understood Company in the Dominions. He that the beam service, although did not wish to be specific. still in its infancy, was estimat-

"FRANKLY AFRAID." "

ed to make a profit of £500,000) "GRAVEST CHARGES." this year. The cable companies "I wish I could be specific," he were frankly afraid of the com-said, "but the gravest possible petition, and had entered into a charges are made in regard to the financial merger in the hope that Marconi Telegraph Company's they would secure control of all operations in the Dominions. Die the independent wireless and tinguished members of Parlia- cable companies in the Dominions. ment have told me in conversa The parties to the merger were tion certain things which I dare grouped under the Marconi Wire- less Telegraph Company and the Eastern and Associated Tele. graph Cable Company.

He alleged that the cable com- panies had threatened to the Im perial Conference that they would pay out their shareholders and scrap their cables because they could not compete success- fully with the beam rates.

"The proper course would have been to reduce their profits," he said, "in order that commercial users might have the best ser- vice at the lowest cost. But they have chosen to get together with the Marconi Company in the hope that they could continue to exploit the commercial and in-. dustrial users,"

If, he added, it were objected that the beam could be tapped, the reply was in a new invention known as the cryptograph, which could automatically code mess- ages and decode them, and even change the code word by word, and almost letter by letter, so that no unauthorised person could possibly understand the messages. A telegraphic speed of 600 words a minute suggested to him that London newspapers might be able in the future to bring out editions simultaneously in every capital of the Dominions.

TO GET DRUNK."

PEER OPPOSES LOCAL OPTION BILL

The House of Lords debated a Bill promoted by Lord Balfour of Burleigh to provide better public- houses.

The measure provides for B local poll to be taken to decide on the introduction of disinterested management to replace the pre- sent arrangement where the

SAFEGUARD YOUR CHILD He declared that the Marconi Company had entered into finan Against Contaminated Food. cial and working arrangements not only with American but with

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bowels may be the beginning of a woman chooses to get drunk," he said, "It is their own lookout, but there are people who consider It is their duty to see that nobody gets drunk, and therefore they bring forward temperance legis- lation."

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"I understand," he said, "that serious intestinal infection. even the Marconi Company share. holders are unable to obtain that

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"We are being asked," he con. tinued, "to hand over our imperial wireless communications to two

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