The Archive · 1938

Musiea's China Arms Deal

General Chiang Kai-shek Vetoed Purchase of Out-Moded Lee-Enfields; New Revelations

New York, Dec. 20. MEE 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' 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 seeking to purchase 2,000,000 Lee Enfield rifles

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