The Archive · 1934

Shipments to Germany

Washington, Sept. 10.

An offer to sell huge British stocks! of small arms left over from the Great War was disclosed in a letter which was read to-day, The letter was addressed to Mr. A. J. Miranda, president of the American "Armament Corp, 1033 Inc, by Mr. John Ball, director 2 {be'Soley Armament Ca, Ltd, Lon-

It said that the Soley Ca. was als posing, on behalf of the British Gov. ernment, of about £6,000,000 worth of small arms left over " from te War.

Evidence was given that the Soles Ca. arranged for the American Ar-moment Corp. to act as their agents fo sell these munitions to Latin American countries, with the excep-ion of Nicaragua.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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