DEALS IN DREADNOUGHT.-

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 244, 12 October 1918, Page 15

DEALS IN DREADNOUGHT.-

KEMAItKAItI.K ALLEGATIONS. I At Bow Street l'olice Court. Ixjndon, jUeorge Kiin-anl Ileyl. of Itoehampton, and 1.1 I>nib J. Slonor. M.irk l.«ne, were charged ! wllh having, without a permit, between I .September. 101."., unci January, 1918, dealt ,ln «:,r material. Sir Archibald Bodkin snid Heyl wae a Mm-phnldfT nmi director of two companies. Illith tl\(.sc cnmpanlec had now ceased to IrseM. The iiMi.es tfere in Kingsway, on<l tliesi' were under the r-ontrol of Ileyl, who linil a staff of lady i lerks. Several men resorted in Klugswa; House, including Heyl. and deal: in groups In large quantities of and war materials, and eve.n In Brazilian Dreadnoughts, added ronnsei. IThMP various kiii<)s of war material wonld : eeem t" have been principally located in Isimtli America, whllp si.me were in Spain. 'flic evidence <if lady clerks employed in ' Kingsway House would prove that after the I out break of war the business tra -.acted ■there was entirely In connection with these ! war materials. As the result of investiga- ! tions Captain IMirant. of the War Office, wrote to Ileyl's linn at Kingsway House, whii-h was trading i" the name of Stein. Forbes and Co., drawing their attention In I the f:)ct that trading in war materials I without license was prohihited by an Order Tn Council, in which letter Heyl replied that the transactions had been begun 'before the Order had come into force. Counsel next read n iiumhrr of letters which had passed between Ileyl and Captain llirant with reference to a contract which Heyl had entered into for the supply of riOn.OOO rides to the Russian llovernmpiit, as (he result of which correspondence J Ileyl expressed his intention of resigning from I lie tlnn, an intention which, added counsel, was never carried out. Subsequently the offi.-es of Stein. Forties and those of Heyl. Previous to tile police searchiiis lleyls olllce the latter instructed bis ,-iiiof in,lv clerk. Mies Murray, to rent a safe in her name with the Chancery Ijine Safe IK-posit Company, where Ileyl deposited an enormous qunntity of documents qnently discovered by the police. The documents seized by the police included a number of contracts entered into with various firms in South America and elsewhere for the supply of K uns and ammunition. Coliiinuinc. counsel said after the prohibition had been put upon the transactions of the defendants very ingenious method!! were resorted to. In the subsequent correspondence carried on by them lleyls name became (ieorge or (Jcorßina Hishop, gune were referred to as sticks for leaden soldiers, and rifles described as bananas. The name of a fictitious boy, "Little Tommy." was introduced into the correspondence with reference to his supposed education for the purpose of describing the way in which the firm's transactions were prospering or otherwise. If t-hincs were shaping all right "Little Tommy's" studies would be described as KOIUK on satisfactorily; if otherwise. "Little Tommy's" progress was described as not being all that could be desired. Captain Somerset, Military Intelligence Dofiartment, said no permits for trading in arms or war materials bad ever been issued to either of defendants. After further evidence th« hearing waa adjourned.