The Archive · 1938

Musica's China Arms Deal

General Chiang Kai-shek Vetoed Purchase of Out-Moded Lee-Enfields; New Revelations New York, Dec. 20. HILE the State Board of Trade summoned nine out of seventeen directors of McKesson Robbins, Inc. to explain how Philip Musica, or F, Donald Coster, the president of the world's third largest drug firm, had duped them for ten years, authorities here today began investigation of the report that the Chinese Nationalist Government was the Foreign Power secking to pur~ chase 2,000,000 Lee Enfield rifles

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