POULSON'S money on an 'unbelievable' scale to a series of high-ranking govern. BIG PAY-OUT

payments made to the pet charity of his wife Beryl.

In yesterday's resumed hearing Poulson admitted he had given 'untrue answers' to earlier questions and he was warned by Muir Hunter QC, for the trustees in bankruptcy, that he would face committal proceedings if he committed perjury.

Poulson went on to give evidence on money paid to a variety of local and national government officials and senior officers in industry.

They were T. Dan Smith, former chairman of the Northern Planning Council—a man dubbed as 'Mr Newcastle'; W. J. Sales, a former senior official at the National Coal Board in Yorkshire; R. A. Breene, a high ranking member of the Foreign Office; John Mackae, a financial adviser to President Tubman of Liberia; Iohn Hepworth, former mayor of Southport; Mr Egan, former mayor of Pontefract and Sheikh Khalil Khoury, son of the expresident of the Lebanon.

When the case opened, Poulson's lawyer Leonard Saffman did not make the expected application for an adjournment. He said his client no longer wished further delay.

Hunter then told the court that neither he nor his colleagues had played any part in the preparation of an article on . the Poulson case which appeared in last Sunday's 'Sunday Times' colour magazine. The registrar also said he had played no part in the article's preparation.

Hunter then went on to examine Poulson's relationship with T. Dan Smith. He handed Poulson a pink file marked T. Dan Smith and asked whether Poulson had paid for Smith and his 'numerous family' to go on two holidays to Greece. Poulson replied: 'I thought he went on Hunter: We have had a little trouble with holidays. Do you remember that when I asked you about a certain civil servant on holidays?

Poulson: Yes.

Hunter: We then discovered that you sent Mr Pottinger (an exInhn Doulean hhe wite Cynthia. BARMALA ARAM high ranking official at the Scottish Office) on two holiday cruises.

Yes.

Hunter: So your untrue?

Poulson: Yes.

Pressed about Smith's holidays in Greece Poulson insisted he had no knowledge of them.

Poulson was then asked about his association with Mr John MacRae, former financial adviser to the Liberian President TubTO PAGE 11 FIVE DAYS IT'S GETTING very close to the end of the month and, frankly, we're worried. In five days time we must complete our target of {1,750 and we still have a long way to go.

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