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Messrs. Waterhouse & Co. to Crown Agents

26 JUNIS

Gentlemen,

368

1, New Court,

Carey Street,

Lincoln's Inn, W.C.

20th. June, 1913.

Your letter of the 17th. inst. (E/F.A.152)

addressed to our clients, the Anglo-French Wireless

Company Limited, has been handed to us.

We observe that you have been advised by

the Colonial Office that the Marconi Wireless Telegraph

Company Limited have issued a writ against our clients

in respect of the proposed contracts for wireless

stations for Hong Kong, Barbados, Penang, Singapore

and Mombasa. It is the fact that Mr. Marconi and

the arconi Company have issued a writ against our

clients but that it is in respect of these contracts

is not within our clients' knowledge, as the writ

merely claims an injunction to restrain our clients

from infringing the letters patent No. 7777 of 1900.

We may add that no doubt full particulars of the

information which appears to have been given in advance

to the Colonial Office will appear in the Statement

of Claim of Mr. Marconi and the Marconi Company

should that be delivered. At the present time although

the writ was issued on the 28th. Kay last and appearance

was entered and notice given within a week thereafter

the