GERMAN ARMS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 20

GERMAN ARMS

NOT TO-BE SHIPPED TO THE EAST.

The Association of German Shipowners and the German East-Asiatic Society, which includes most Gorma*n firms trading with the Far East, have decided not to undertake nor executo any deliveries of arms to Chinese ports, states the Berlin correspondent of the "San Francisco Chronicle." This decision has been reached in consequence of allegations from Communist and other sources that German arms were reaching the combatants in China. Herr Strescmann has' stated in tho Boiehstag that no such transactions have been carried out to the knowlcdgo of the Governinont.

An explanation offered as to the origin of the allegation is that quantities of German arms had to be surrendered to neighbouring States under the peace treaties, and that some of these supplies may have been sold by the foreign States to dealers and exported to China.

The resolution of the Hamburg organisations is' intended, and is apparently regarded as necessary, to prevent such consignments even from passing through German ports or being carried in German ships, as Gormauy is particularly sensitive in the matter of neutrality in' the Chinese conflict.

On the whole, comment here haa been less anti-British for some time, and there has been a tendency, sometimes in unexpected quarters, to appreciate British diiliculties in the Far East and their importance to the rest of the Western' 1 world.