DEALERS IN WAR MATERIAL

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 37, 12 August 1918, Page 7

DEALERS IN WAR MATERIAL

FROM MAUSERS TO DREAD-

NOUGHTS

REMARKABLE FEATURES IN LON-

DON COURT CASE.

(Received August 12, 8.30 aim.)

LONDON, llth August. Some remarkable features were disclosed in the hearing of charges against Geprgo Heyl and Jacob Stonor for dealing in war material without a permit. Sir A. H. Bodkin, K.C., prosecuting, ■said enormous correspondences had been poized by the police, and it showed that Heyl and Stonar, with the co-operation of men in Rio Janeiro and Nevr York, sought to dispose of huge-quantities of Mauser, Hotchkiss, and Krupp guns and explosives, and even Brazilian Dreadnoughts, to the various Governments, The war material referred to was mostly in South America. One deal concerned half a million rifles; another showed the purchase price at £9,713,000 sterling and the sale price £10,516,000. Heyl explained to the cable censor that the firm had a.^ pre-war contract with Russia. Stonor's name before the war wa3 Stein.

The prosecution called evidence to show that with a view to evading the gensor, their agents addressed them under women's names. They referred to love matters, and used simple words meaning the armament of a particular ship, and used the word "cheeses" for "rifles." Detective-Sergeant Ashley, in reply to counsel for the defence, said that Stbnor's loyalty qutside this case ■ was beyond suspicion. He had had one son killed at the front, and another, who was previously wounded, had been highly decorated. Stonor had been of great financial assistance to the Government. The case was adjourned till the 16th.