WHOM WERE THEY FOR ?
.••'/'■ THOSE UNCLAIMED GUNS HUNGARY SAYS POLAND CyENEVA, Sth'March. The guiis decision was followed by a tense little scene, in which General | Tanczos and' M. Titulescu appeared to be losing control, of themselves, when Sir Austen Chamberlain intervened and asked, "What has bocome of the birth certificates?" (moaning the. .-.waybills for the machine-guns); "secondly, why has Hungary become so excited at the prospect of the League holding an inquiry?"- "..'.. - ; | "Waybills!" exclaimed' M. Tanczos. "Hero they are: -five of them." Continuing, he declared that Hungary was ; not excited. . They knew that guns from Italy were en routo to Poland, and there had not been ah application for a transit license. M. Briand asked; why Hungary had destroyed the machine-guns when the, question was before, the League? M. Tanczos replied that they acted meroly in conformity with tho- International Railway Convention for the destruction of smuggled goods.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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