REARMING GERMANY

Grey River Argus, 17 September 1934, Page 5

REARMING GERMANY

WORK OF RING Too Bad to Reveal J (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received September 16 at 7 pm.) WASHINGTON. September 14. The questioning- of the Dupont Armament Company by the Senate Al unitions Investigation Committee concluded to-day with evidence that oi Feb ruary Ist, 1933, the Dupont Company entered into a contract with one Jango Geira, who is described as an “international spy,’’ to act as its agent for the sale of military explosives A o the German Government. The Company’s executive committee had torn that contract up, but they later made a new agreement with Geira, which stipulated however, that no contracts should be entered into for the re-armament of Germany except with the approval of the United States Government. It way further revealed that considerable quantities of American .small arms and machine guns had bee j smuggled into Germany form Holland., Most of this equipment went to Nazis before Hitler’s rise to power, but the Communists and other private armies also received some. Mr Lammot Dupont the President of the E. I. Dupont De Nemours Company told the Committee (that he had imports indicating that Germany is making war explosives in considerable quantities in violation of the Versailles Treaty. At this stage a censorship' wis placed by the Committee on a sheaf of cables, apparently relating to a successful effort by the Dupont Copany and their British ally, the Imperial Chemical Industries Limited, tc keep a German concern from building a powder plant in Argentina. “If those cables were made public,” .-‘aid Mr Stephen Raushenbush, Secretary of the Committee, “it might mean the actual destruction of life ami property. ’ ’ Senator Bennett Clark, of Missouri, Democrat, asserted that the rise of Herr Hitler had been financed ludireotly by French munitions manufacturers to stimulate their own arms sales