ARMS FOR GERMANY

Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 301, 17 September 1934, Page 9

ARMS FOR GERMANY

More Revelations at American Inquiry CABLES SUPPRESSED Official’s Indication of Their Importance By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received September 16, 5.5 p.m.) Washington, September 14. The questioning of the Dupont Company by the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee concluded to-day with evidence that on February 1, 1933, the company entered into a contract with Jungo Geira, described as an "international spy,” to act as its agent for the sale of military explosives to the German Government. The company’s executive committee had torn the contract up, but later made a new agreement with Geira, which stipulated, however, • that no contracts would be entered into for the rearmament of Germany except with the approval of the United States Government. It was further revealed that considerable quantities of American small arms and machine-guns had been smuggled into Germany from Holland. Most of the equipment went to the Nazis before Herr Hitler’s rise to power, but Communists and other private armies had received some. Mr. Lammot Dupont, president of E. I. Dupont de Nemours and Company, told the committeeJhat he held reports indicating that Germany was making war explosives in considerable quantities in violation of the Versailles Treaty. At this stage censorship was placed by the committee on a sheaf of cables apparently relating to a successful effort by the Dupont Company and its. British ally, Imperial Chemical Industries, Limited, to keep a German concern from building a powder plant in Argentina. “If those cables were made public.” said Mr. Stephen Raushenbush, secretary of the committee, “it might mean actual destruction of life and property.” Senator Bennett Clark (Missouri, Democrat) asserted that the rise of Herr Hitler had been financed Indirectly by French munitions manufacturers to stimulate their own arms sales.