Commission on Arms Sales to China Queried Nanking, Sept. 19.
Gen. Chiang Kai-shek, Chairmen of the Military Affairs Commission, and Mr. Wang Ching-wei, President of the Executive Yuan, who are now in Kuling, to-day ordered responsible authorities in Nanking to undertake immediately thorough investigations {into the allegations as revealed by a representative of the Clu. Pont Nemours Corporation to the effect that commission had been paid to [Chinese officials in dealings of purchases of arms in 1932, Repofts of the alleged charges which were revealed at the. Sent torial Munitions Inquiry in [United States were cabled to China jand printed in the various English= Tanguage newspapers in China on, September I "These revelations," General Chiang lomphasized in his order sent to. Nanking to-day, "must be probed in a thorough going manner and no stone be left unturned, If these reports should prove to be true, it would have disastrous effect" upon the [prestige of the Chinese Government"
'Simultaneously. General Chiang instructed the Ministry of Foreign 'Affairs to-day to wire to Dr. Alfred 'Sze, Chinese Minister to the" United 'Stales, asking him to call" on' the State Department at Washington, Dr. Sze was Instructed to request through the State Department that Senator Gerald Nye, Chairman of the Senate Committee of Munitions Inquiry, publicly announce the names of the [Chinese officials who were alleged to Ihave accepted commissions in -munt= tions deals.—Central News.
**ePull report of US, arms inquiry page 474.
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