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Political Prisoner of Nazis Recommended

BOUND OVER

5,

1934.

MR. SCOTT HARSTON VICTIMISED

Fung Yo-kuen, a servant employ- ed by Mr. J. Scott Harston, of No. G20 The Peak, was bound over in a personal bond of $100 to come up for judgment within six months

HERR CARL VON on a charge of larceny by servant

peace

OSSIETZKY

London, Sept. 4.

(By Telograph. Copyright Telegraphic Mesacapes Ordinance, Sir Basil Zaliszaff, Europe's mystery quarters in Paris has submitted her for it. 1804. Received, Sept. 5, 9.23 m.)

WASHINGTON, SEPT. 4.

SOME OF THE SECRETS OF THE GREAT IN-

TERNATIONAL ARMAMENTS RACKET, SHOW. ING HOW THE ACTIVITIES OF THE BIGGEST FIRMS IN THE "WAR TRADE" INTERLOCKED ACROSS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, CAME INTO THE SEARCHLIGHT OF PUBLICITY IN WASHING- TON TO-DAY.

The part played by Sir Basil Zaharoff in important | transactions between Spain and American firms was revealed, including the fact that he drew $766,099 in commissions between 1919 to 1930 in connection with submarine construction for Spain.

It was also disclosed that Vickers Limited, the British armaments firm, had asked the Electric Boat Company to withhold from the United States Govern ment its knowledge of British submarine building plans.

INTERLOCKING OF BIG FIRMS

reintions between United This remarkable testimony was the given by Mr. Henry Carse, Pre-States armaments manufacturers sident of the Electric Boat Com- and large foreign firms,

before pany, when he appeared

Senate Commission, of which the 'Senator Nye is the chairman, and the which ik Investigating activities and profits of American

man of Stence and armamanta.

of one bottle of malt, two cigara, a cake decorator, a leather cigarotte CARE, 2 neck tle, a brush and a cigarette lighter, to the total value Herr of $33, on September 3. A political prisoner of Hitler, the well-known German Mr. Hamilton, before whom the pacifist Herr Carl

von Ossietzky, ense was heard at the Central has been nominated for the Nobel Magistracy this morning, toll de

prize. An

International fendant he was fortunate that liberal organisation, the League Miss Scott Harston was not press- for the Rights of Man, with heading the case, and he should thank

Herr Ossietzky's name to the prize Sorgeant Harris, in the witness committee in Stockholm.

box,

ox, said he searched the defen- Mr. Wickham Stead, former dant's basket, and found all the

to that news- Miss Pamela Scott Harston 4 published letter paper, urging bestowal of the prize fientifled the articles us belonging on Herr Onsietzky and a number of to her father, her mother and prominent individuals, including the herself. The tle and the lighter novelist. Herr Llon Feuchtwanger: were her property. She had not himself a political fugitive from thrown them away. nor had she Nazi Germany, have sent measures given them to the defendant. The to Stockholm. supporting the pro-brush was not given to defendant posal.

ጋማ a present, but probably her

DUKE LEAVES FOR editors of The Timce, has written articles in li

AUSTRALIA

Looking Forward to Good Time

In

From Marseilles to Australia, he will travel in II.M.S. Sussex, which, on arrival in Australian waters, will be attached for some months to the Royal Australian Navy.

Herr Ossietzky is now nearing mother had asked defendant to use London, Sept. 4

his second year as a captive in a it in cleaning something. The Duke of Gloucester this Nazi concentration camp. He was Defendant admitted stealing the 10 arrested during the night of the cigars and the bottle of malt only. afternoon began his journey Australia. when he left Hundon historic Reichstag fre, FebruaryHe said he took the bottle of malt Aerodrome in the Prince of Wales, 27, 1933 and taken to Sommenburg, for fear it would break, and he "Dragon Moth" aeroplane for later having been transferred to the had stowed it away. Bourget, Parks,

Papenburg camp near the Dutch Sub-Inspector Kirby prosecuted It is known that he was and said he understood defendant The Duke wald he was looking border, forward to a good time the neverely maltreated during his had been a rather good servant, and Mr. Scott Harston was not Dominions. He will spend over captivity. two months in the Commonwealth, He is married and has a 13-year-pressing the case. visiting all six States, and will old daughter, now living in Eng- then proceed for a five

His wife, has been in a or six Jund,

state of chronic nervous collapse into the courtroom, the strains of weeks visit to New Zealand.

for many months.

military tunes were heard na a After serving in the German detachment of German regular army during the War, Herr army troops marched below the Ossietzky organised the No-More courthouse. War movement in his country and As those present paused to became political editor of liberal listen to the martial music, Herr Mr. Henry Carse is the re-

newspaper, the Berlin Volks-Ossietzky glanced at the judge sident of the Electric Boat Com-

zeitung, Inter assuming the func, who was trying him and, araid the pany, the largest submarine- The Duke will make the return ions of editor-in-chief of radical blare of the troops band, remark bullding firm in the United States, Journey in II.M.A.S. Australia weekly. Die Weltbuchne, suppressed ed, "Ah his master's voice!" and he admitted that his company which, on reaching England, will after Hitler assumed power and He was amnestled under the

period. with questions by the and the more famous British ar- be attached for the same

now being published as an emigre chancellorship of the late general von Schleicher, but proved "In- remanents fire, Vickers Limited, to the fleet in one se

organ in Prague. have divided the world into ex-

Occasion is thus being taken Under Herr Ossietzky's editor corrigible" In his animosity to

the Nazia. Friendly the Weltbuchne published an wards elusive areas for the sale of sub-

to revive the practice of inter- ship marloes.

changing ernisers between the article by Herr Kreiser entitled, officials at Berlin police headquar

"Windy News of German Avia- tera advised him to flee the coun- British ZAHAROFF COMMISSION.

and Australian Navies on. Both Ossietzky and Kreisor try when Herr Hitler became which was interrupted by He stated

were indicted and charged with chancellor, but Herr Ossietzky de- the two firma financial crisis in Australia. had inter-changed patents apply-

trenson for information contained clined.. The main purpose of the Duke's in the aeronautic

Liberals and pacifists in Europe article. Horr ing to ship and particularly ub

visit to Australia is to represent Kreiser fed, but Herr Ossietzky have been conducting an energetic The agreement with Sir Basil marine construction.

the King at the Centenary cele-announced that, he would face campaign for his release unavail- is still effective, he added.

The Committee was visibly sur-brations of the State of Victoria, Įtrial.

ingly. It is suggested that, should He also disclosed that his com

He was sentenced to 18 months' he receive the Noble prize for his pany and Vickers-Armstrong had rised when Mr. Carne gave far- which will be officially opened by split profits and had divided the ther testimony to the effect that the Duke from steps of Parliament imprisonment. An incident dur-contributions to the peace cause, world into zones in which each Sir Basil Zaharuff, the most my House in Melbourne on Octobering the trial caused comment his liberation would be assured.

abroad. With the sun pouring United, Press, · stood supreme, the other not sterions figura in Europe politics: 18-British Wireless.

and one of the richest men in! Lendering for orders in tho Europe, whose connection with

armament firms.

Comms outlined the amount of the com- mission paid to Sir Basil Zaharoff and said that these commissions represented fire per cent, of the gross value of the deals obtained by his influence,

STILL EFFECTIVE.

"rival" zone.

1

that

The Electric Boat Company had the armament trade is well known,

a free hand in the United States, had been paid a commission at the Cuba and other "United States. rate of five per cent. on

controlled countries, while Vickers were supreme in Britain, Canada, Ireland, Indin and so on.

PATENTS PASSED.

American submarine patents wore licenead to Vickers, who passed them on to other firms in Japan, Holland and Spain?

Mr. Carse said that the patent royalty income of the Electric Boat Company, Included from Mesars, Vickers, $222,257 and the Mitsubishi, $196.245.

work done by the Electric Boat Com- pany for the Spanish Government.

U-BOAT INFRINGEMENT. He also stated that the German U-boats used during the war were American-owned built upon an

patent through the infringement of patents which Germany re. ceived from an Austrian concern, with which the Electric Boat Com-

any had a contract.

He added that his Company bud put in a claim for $17,000,000 for | the infringement, but had ro

He denied that the company ceived nothing-Reuter. had ever refused the United States its patents-United Press.

WORLD DIVIDED

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Vickers And Electric

Boat Company

Washington, Sept. 4.

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