SALE OF WAR GEAR
INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE OPERATIONS OF AMERICAN COMPANY CENSORSHIP PLACED ON INQUIRY (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) WASHINGTON, September 14. (Received Sept. 16, at 6.30 p.m.) The questioning of the Du Font Company by the investigating committee concluded to-day with evidence that on Febraury 1, 1933, the company entered irito a contract with Jungo Geira, described as an *' international spy," to act as its agent for the sale of military explosives to the German Government. The company's Executive Committee had torn the contract up, but later had 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 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 Hitler's rise to power, but the Communists and other private armies had received some.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22369, 17 September 1934, Page 9
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163SALE OF WAR GEAR Otago Daily Times, Issue 22369, 17 September 1934, Page 9
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