MUNITIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 5 September 1934, Page 5

MUNITIONS

INQUIRY IN AMERICA EVIDENCE AS TO COMMISSIONS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received sth September, 11.10 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 4th September. Sir Basil Zaharoff. the European ‘man of mystery,’' received commissions from tlie Electric Boat Company of New London, Connecticut, Mr Henry R. Carse, prsai i nit, • testified before the United States Senate committee to-day in its munitions inquiry Mr Carse said that the company paid Sir Basil Zaharoff commissions amounting to 766,000 dollars between 1919 and 1930. Mr Carse also stated that Sir Basil re reived commissions on their “Spanish business.’’ The committee was informed that German U boats of the Great War had been built upon United States owned patents. Mr Carse fuithcv testified that his company and Vickers Ltd., had divided the world into exclusive areas for the sale of submarines and that tlie companies interchanged patents for building boats Sir Basil Zaharoff, G.C.8., G.8.E., Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, was born in 1850. ancr educated in. London and in Paris. He established Chairs of Aviation in tlie'Universities of Paris and Petromad, and also a Chair of Aviation in England. At the Paris University, lie established the Field-Marshal Haig chair of English Literature.