GERMAN ARMS

Evening Star, Issue 19613, 20 July 1927, Page 12

GERMAN ARMS

NOT TO BE SHIPPED TO EAST. The Association of German. Shipowners and . the .German East-Asiaiic Societv, which includes most German firms trading with the Far East, have decided not to undertake, nor execute 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 slresemanu has stated in the Reichstag that no such transactions have been carried out to the knowledge of the Government. An explanation offered as to the origin of the allegation is that quantities of German arms had to bo surrendered to neighboring 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 Germany is particularly sensitive in the matter of neutrality in the Chinese conflict. On the whole, comment here has been less anti-British for some time, and there has been a tendency, sometimes in unexpected quarters, to appreciate British difficulties in the Far East and their importance to the rest of the Western world.