The Archive · 1936

Arms Not Coming to China

La Santa Maria Munitions Untoaded at Scheldt

London, June 2.

La Santa Maria, the steamer which was reported last Friday to be on her way to Shanghai with a large consignment of arms and high explosives, originally destined for Abyssinia, arrived in the Thames to-day without her cargo and is now moored off Silvertown, The munitions, valued at between £15,000 and £20,000, were unloaded on barges at Scheld!, near Antwerp, according to reports, and the ship then sailed for London.—Reuter.

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