, 1913-03-29
G
ST. CROIX STATION.

ttStlfylng regarding the Post Once MarcOnt
contract, said the contract was signed on
March 18th and that he first heard of the
American Marconi Company upon his bro
theirs return from the United States on
April 9th. He took from his brother ten
thousand shares at ten dollars each. or cheap
err than the later public issue, after his bro
Their bad informed him that the American
Company was not Interested in the British
Company or its Post Office contract. He sold
un credit to Mr.. LLOYD George and the Mas
ter of EIibunk each one thousand shares ut
ten dollars, and subsequently sold 1870
shares at sixteen dollars and still holds a
large balance. MIR. Lloyd George and the
Master of EIihank each owe their share Of
the loss upon their shares, which they had
not paid. The present total net loss is $500
dollars, including !, 900 dollars lost by Mr..
Lloyd George and the Master Of Elibnnk
apiece. He said he had smarted unuer the
foul lies about himself and his colleagues.
Sir Albert Spicer, the Chairman, asked him
why he had not promptly and candidly dis
closed the foregoing dealings, to which he
replied that the necessity did not occur
to him, and he took the entire res
possibility, MIR. Lloyd George and tho
Master Of Elibank having bought only
upon his recommendation. He admitted he
now thought the transaction unwise, but
he never thought corruption attributable to
il, and he never thought of such charges
arising in British public life. Every bank
pass-book was offered in confirmation of the
foregoing statements. Mr.. Lloyd George
viii testify on Thursday. Mr.. Bonar Inv
has postponed questioning Mr.. AsquIth un-
til the conclusion of the inquiry. Comments
are not altogether complimentary, and it
is doubtful whether Sir Rufus IsaaCs will
now be available as successor to Lord Aver
stone as Lord Chief Justice. The report is
revived that Mr.. Lloyd George would DO
glad TO press his land campaign, without
Ministerial responsibility. The LAbour or
gan urges the designations of all concerned.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst has issued a long
description of her prison experience.
Mr.. McKenna, the Home Secretary,
has introduced a Bill in the House of Com
mons for the release of hunger-strikers, and
their rearrest after recuperation.
Lord Haldane had agreed to receive the
s~uffragettes, after addressing the National
Teachers Conference at Weston Super-Alare,
nevertheless they made his address impossi-
bic until after the violent election OF the de-
monstrants.
Paris advices state that the Barthou Cab
ipet has announced It's policy to the Cham
Der of Deputies. Firstly, a three years mill
tary service law, and secondly, electoral re-
form, to be referred to u joint committee of
members of the Chamber and the Senate.
A vote of confidence was carried by 225 to
1862, but over two hundred abstained from
voting, and therefore the majority is con-
sidered unstable.
In the House of Commons, Mr.. Asquith
said that Europe regards the .%continu-
ance of the Balkan struggle as abso-
lutely purposeles and merely a prolon-
CATION of useless slaughter. His and
Sir Edward Grey's statements leave no doubt
that the Powers will enforce an end to the
struggle, by compelling the Montenegrins
and the Servians to abandon their campaign
in Albania and cease from the siege of Sou
tart.
The Bulgarians have been engaged in
renewed hard fighting at Adrianople, which
was continuous from Monday until yester-
day, when the fortress was stormed and
captured. The Turks set all the arsenals
and stores afire and blew up the barracks
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