“SWINDLERS AND THIEVES.”
LIBEL ACTION CORDIALLY INVITED.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, May 9.
On March 19th last, when a - vote for
the Transvaal concessions and Lands Commission was before the House of Commons, Mr A. B. Markham, M.P. for Mansfield, made sweeping charges against some leading mining companies in the Transvaal. He described the AVernhcr Bert Company as common swindlers and thieves, and declared his readiness to repeat tho charges outside the House. He invited legal action. Mr Markham, in order to facilitate an action for libel, today reiterated tho charges against tho Wornher Bert Company.
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Gisborne Times, Volume V, Issue 103, 10 May 1901, Page 3
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