TRADING WITH ENEMY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 225, 21 September 1915, Page 6

TRADING WITH ENEMY.

CHARGE LAID IN SYDNEY. n| °| A WTRELESS BARGAIN. I SYDNEY", September 20. U the C-ntral Summons Court the Amalgamated Wireless (Au* i tralasiai Limited -_. Fuk - V ip. Ti.rthol..ni.-w. H. R- D*wson- w.re el.ar-.-d under the Enemy I Tradin- Vets with bav,ng, on or aho'Jt , j December > by nx.-cutinp an indenture "l of license with'the Telefunken Company. ■trad-1 with the enemy. The case for ' the i r-.un sug.-.-st.-I that on the cxc- ' cition of the indenture by the Amalga--1 mat.,! Company the Telefunken i"oin- ' ' panv would be put in a strong posit.<on 1 in regard to th- patent rights of wireless tr-b-'raphv throughout the L ommon- ' wealth during the war. It appeared ' that a draft license had been prepared a j considerable time before the war. but 1 was not executed before the outbreak '! nf hostilities. Tl.,- Crow- contended 'that the execution of the indenture "' after the outbreak of war was trad- , ing with tlie enemy. I Counsel f.,r the defendant claimed that . the documont.. fa led to show that any I financial or other contract had been entered into w tb or for th.- benefit of the enemy within the moaning oi the ' Act, The only thing the Amalgamated ' , lon [-any would get was a formal docu- , I m*nt t.i whi b it was entitled at any '"' . time from 101J onward. The general manager of the AtnalcTI mm, I ("„nipanv gave evidence regarding ' Ltigat on between the Mar'oni the Telefunken and the xustralasian Wireless Companies over patents and the sccuruig |of a 1:. ens,-. I:.- i use has not concluded. — .—