8064. Mr. Marconi, I would like to ask you one question. In my examination this morning I failed to ask you specifically whether between the date of the collision, Sunday evening, April 14, and the present time, any officer, director, or employee of the White Star Line, or of the International Mercantile Marine Co., had requested you or anyone associated with you, to your knowledge, to delay any message, or send any silence message, or message enjoining silence on the part of the Titanic's operator, Bride, or the Carpathia's operator, Cottam, with reference to the time and manner in which and to which the Titanic accident was in any way related?
- No; I am absolutely certain that I have received no such request.
8065. Or any officer or employee of your company, without our knowledge?
- Yes. You may add those as part of my answer.
8066. And this answer refers to your operators, the managers of your company, or the officers of your company, in any part of the world?
- Yes; of course, in so far as I know.
8067. Exactly. The silence signal which I refer to is one recognized in wireless telegraphy, is it not?
- No.
8068. Then I will add the words "any injunction of secrecy"?
- Yes; I understand. No; no request whatever has been received, and no instructions were given, to limit or control or suppress or stop any message which the operator or the operators may have thought fit to send to anyone.
8069. Did this include any special directions regarding the transmission of messages?
- No instructions whatever were given so far as I know. Instructions were given in every way or manner which it was thought would expedite or facilitate communication.
Senator Smith:
That is all.