Complete Freedom of Action Reserved by Government London, Mar. 22.
The Premier answered in the House of Commons to-day a number of questions regarding wireless and able telegraph services.
He said that the Government and Imperial Wireless and Cable Con~ ference had no previous knowledge of, oF details: of, and no respons bitty: for, the financial. arrangements recently made for a merger' of the. Eastern Telegraph and Marconi companies.
As regard the Government's at-tirade on the general question of wireless telegraphy, he could make no statement in advance of reports from the Imperial Wireless Conference, which only on Monday received the proposals for a merger of the Eastern Telegraph and Marconi companies. But, as to the attitude of the Government towards wireless in' Great Britain, thought it right to say that' the Government, while prepared to Join in discussing measures for a working arrangement with the amal-gameted Eastern Telegraph and Marconi companies, was not committed even in principle, and reserved freedom of action, in regard to any proposals for transfer to the combine of the operations and control of the Imperial Wireless Sorvice at present administered by the Government.—British Wireless through Reuter.
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