London, Jan. 24.
The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph wires that, if the Berliner Tageblatt" is correctly informed, General von Greener, the new Minister for Defence, will have to explain to the Reichstag an even more delicate scandal than the Phoebus film affair in which his department is involved.
The "Berliner Tageblatt" alleges that a lieutenant on the active list of the Army and a high official of Reichstag, Dr. Stresemann, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Naval Department had assured the Foreign Office that neither it nor any of its officials had anything to do with shipments of tions to China and the Foreign Office accepted this as '8 formal denial of the rumours that had been circulated, The. "Lokal-Anzeiger" publishes a telegram from Hongkong stating that the Nanking Government has ordered all the branches of two German firms to be closed and their shipment of seventeen waggons of munitions which the Kiel police stopped when they were about to be shipped to a destination declared to be Also but suspected to be China, The "Berliner Tageblatt" speaks derisively of hints that the Kiel munitions affair should be hushed up "in the interests of national defence." It says "There is no question of the interests of national defence. It was a piece of business in which money was to be made and the question must be cleared up to what purposes this money was to be applied."
After stating that the War Department knew nothing whatever about this consignment of mu tions, the "Berliner Tageblatt" Jassumes that General von Greener will end such dealings once for all.
Tt will be remembered that. on January 10 the Customs authorities at Kiel discovered that 260 tons of goods which had arrived from Halle for shipment to Also on the wegian str, Aker were munity believed to' be intended for China, The shipment was detained pend: ing an investigation. Also the Norwegian str, Skule, from Oslo, and another vessel have recently landed large shipments of munitions fat Tsingtao while the Czecho-'Slovakian str. Braga, which recently left Manila allegedly for Chinwangtao, has.a large cargo of arms and ammunition which came from the Czecho-Slovak arms factory at. managers arrested on a charge of rebellion as the firms are accused of supplying Generalissimo Chang Tso-lin with weapons shipped by the Norwegian str Skule, Dissatisfaction with Clementi Issued Jan, 25, In the Reichetag to-day, Herr Stocker, the Communist member who yesterday questioned the Min-inter for Foreign Affairs in regard to the alleged shipment from Ger many of munitions to China, with the connivance of a lieutenant on the active list of the Army and a high official of the Naval Transport Department of the War Office, said ered Dr. Stroverian', Herr Stocker declared that the Navy Department itself might not have been directly concerned, but the names, of oticers belonging to that Department had been published as being implicated in the alfa Dr. Stresemann, replying, exe pressed the opinion that the Navy Department's clementi meant. that ro individual member of its start had been involved, According to the "Berliner Tages batt," the: Ministry of" Defen contends that the name of ltd Transport Section has apparently been misused by private firms for and the Ministry is supporting police inquiries to the utmost Berlin, Jan, 24.
Replying to a question asked in the Budget Committee of the alleged to have been int sugicests that proceedings against them—Reuter.
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