Armaments Inquiry

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 17 September 1934, Page 5

Armaments Inquiry

Allegation That Hitler was Financed by Munition Makers THE “INTERNATIONAL SPY” lUnited Press Aiscciati n—By Electric telegraph Copyright.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 14. Questioning of the Dupont Company by the Armaments Investigating Committee of the Senate coiiclucL ed to-day with evidence that on I ebruary 1, 1933, the company entered into" contract with Jungo Geira, described as an “international spy,” to act as its agent if or the sale of military explosives to the German Government.

The company’s executive committee had torn up the contract, but later made a new agreement with Geira, which stipulated, however, that no contracts should be entered into for the rearmament 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 were 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 received some. Larnmot Dupont, president of the E. I. Dupont d e Nemours Company, told the committee that he had leports indicating that Germany was making war explosives in considerable quantities in violation of the Versailles Treaty.

At this stage a censorship was placed by the committee on a sheaf of cables apparently relating to a successful effort by the Dupont Company and the British ally, Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., to keep a German concern from building a powder (plant in Argentina. ;lf those cables were made public, said (Mr Stephen Raushenbusli, secretary of the committee, it might mean the destruction of life and property. Senator Bennett Clark (Missouri, Democrat) asserted that the rise of Hdrr Hitler had been financed indirectly by French munitions manufacturers to stimulate their own arms sales.

Denial From China

MONEY USED FOR RECON STRUCTI'ON

Received TL3O a.m. to-day. SHANGHAI, Sept. 16.

An emphatic denial, backed by a statement giving and accounting for expenditure up to date, was made today by Mr H. H. Kiing, Finance Minister, in refutation of the statements made at the Washington Arms Inquiry, that China used a large proportion of the proceeds of huge cotton and wheat loans, totalling 20,000,000 dollars, from America for the purchase of arms and ammunition.

He staled that the proceeds had been and would be devoted to reconstruction work. Twelve million had already been used for rehabilitation work in the territories recaptured from the Communists and famine and flood relief.