The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-03-30
French Plot Alleged.

Charging that the suit brought by q
French corporation to obtain possession
Of the high powered wireless station at
Tuckerton, had only one object and that
is to hamper and prejudice the Govern
ment and people of Germany, the de-
PENDANTS to this suit have fled an an
swer in the Court of Chancery, at Tren-
ton.
1t is freely charged that the war has
brought the litigation about and that
the Court of Chancery would violate the
neutrality of the United States in its
relations toward the countries at war if
the court found in favor of the COM
plainants. The litigation requires the
Jersey court to decide what is probably
the most delicate international question
| it has ever had to deal with, and its find
ings one way or the other would be of
incalculable benefit to the victorious
nation.
The suit was filed by the Campagnie
Universelle de Telegraphic ct de Tele-
phonie Sans Fill, corporation of the Re-
public of France, against the United
States Service Corporation, Hochfre-
quenz- Maschinen Aktiengesellschaft fur
Drahtlose Telegraphie, Rudolph Gold
schmidt and Emil E. Mayer. The origi-
nal suit was to enforce the provisions of
contract for the sale of the Tuckerton
station and also Of the high powered
wireless station at Eilvese, Hanover,
Prussia, to the French corporation. This
contract was made previous to the out
break of hostilities, and it was claimed
that the defendant companies refused to
carry out the provisions of the alleged
agreement. A bill to force them to do
so was filed in chancery.
The United States Service Corpora
ton and Emil E. Mayer both filed dis
chalmers with the court, setting out that
they had absolutely no right or title in
the radio Geographic station at Tucker
ton, and asked to be dismissed as de-
PENDANTS.
The principal German corporation
which is referred to in the litigation as
''Homag" has filed an answer, in which
it is set out that the real object of the
suit is to get possession of the two
stations, one at Tuckerton and the other
at Eilvese, and bring about the entire
cessation of communication between the
United States and Germany and thus to
hamper and prejudice the Government
and the people of Germany.
The United States Service Corporation.
now in control of the Tuckerton station,
is also defendant. The United States
Government took charge of the sending
and receiving of messages at the station
on September 8, 1914, in order to prevent
violations of the neutrality regulations.
The German corporation, in its an
swer. says the Tuckerton station IS the
best means of communication between
the United States Government and
Germany because of its better capacity
than that at Sayville, Long Island. The
Tuckerton station, the answer says,
is used by the German Government in
with the German AM
in Washington.
The answer further says that the real
object OF the suit is to bring about ces-
sation OF communication between Ger
many and the United States, that none
Of the alien parties to the suit would be
permitted access to the courts Of justice
If the other countries, or be permitted to
,nforce the contract which the French
oncern AYERS was agreed to by the Ger-l
nan corporation.
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