TRAFFIC IN ARMS

Evening Post, Issue 67, 17 September 1934, Page 9

TRAFFIC IN ARMS

FURTHER DISCLOSURES

U.S. MUNITIONS INQUIRY

G.EBMAX ACTIVITIES

United rruss Associatiou—By Electric Tele

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WASHINGTON, September 14.

Tho questioning of the Dupont Company by the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee concluded today with evidence that on February 1, 1933, the company entered into a contract with Jungo Gcira, described as an "international spy," to act as its agent for the sale of military explosives to tho German Government. The company's executive committee had torn the contract up, but later made a new agreement with Geira, which stipulated, howover, that no contracts would bo entered into for the re-armament 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 Dupout, president of E. I. Dupont do Nernours and Company, told the Committee that ho held reports indicating that Germany was making war explosives in considerable quantities in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

At this stngc censorship was placed by (lie 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 Gorman concern from building a powder -plant in Argentina.

'-'If those cables were made public," said Mr. Stephen Kaushenbusli, secretary of tho 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 Trench munitions manufacturers to stimulate their own arms sales.