PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
REVELATIONS
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER
OF THE OF THE MUNITIONS
TRUST INVESTIGATIONS
BY RODNEY DUTCHER
Sixteen years after the last shot in the war to "make the world safe for democracy":
The world is overloaded with dictatorships, and fta air reeks with more rumours of imminent war than ever before.
Some 200 treaties of amity have been signed and they all look like no'many "acrops of paper". Dis armament efforts have broken down. New generations of cannon fodder are ready to be und formed.
About $10,000,000,000 has been spent in these 18 years on "insurance against war"-munitions, armaments and military establishments,
PRODE
SHOWS COURAGE
And the only note of slight comfort in the whole picture is the fact that after 16 years a govern- ment has had the courage to investigate the munitions trust-the "war, insurance" agents- and their method of high pressure salesmanship. On the theory that these bllthe go-getters, are, al- ways potential, and sometimes actual, war-makers.
The Senate Munitions Committee has unearthed enough evidence to provide at last three square meals of thought. It is going to reveal a lot more, beginning early in December.) You can take your choice from the gruesome menu, but here are a few samples:
It has been shown, for instance, that the United States hardly could fight a war with any country in the world to-day without the assurance that its soldiers or Bailors would be slaughtered by
weapons produced by American factories or American brains-and-sold by American super- salesmanship,
ARMS AIDED PROSPERITY
Submarince, warplanes, explosives, gas, machine guns and other sinews of war have been "pushed" around the world In these 16 years and were part of the great flood of American exports turned loose in the post-war prosperity era, The Navy. War, Commerce and State departments have helped to promote sales. In some cases public servants-supported by American taxpayers-
AIR-Lithe craft replace clumsy wartime planes.
SEA-Now.air bombs add to menace at sun.
have helped sell to foreign countries what were supposedly our own war secrets. And many of the buying nations paid with money obtained fromTM American investors for bonds which are worthless to-day.
American submarine patents helped make possible the German U-boats which took many American Bves at sea. They're now being used to make Japanese submarines, CHEAP POWDER SECRET
When the world was considerlag a boycott of. Japan for its violation of treaties in Manchuria, and China, a big American company sold Japan a secret process for producing cheap powder. To- day, most of the merchants of death", in this country and abroad, seem to be shipping their wares into Nippon--so often considered our next antagonist in war.
Participation of munitions makers in war seares, has long since been shown. War scares lend to war. American munitions makers also have been
LAND-Will there be a repetition of thisṛ'-
exposed as egging on South American countries to increased armaments against each other. It was Lammot du Pont who admitted that activities of the United States in a friendly and peaceful South American country would, if exposed, lead to rioting and destruction of life and property.
MORE EXPOSES
The Nye committee has shown how munitions makers take lightly efforts of the State Depart- ment and foreign offices to reduce armaments. Later it will expose direct attempts to thwart such efforts such as the successful work of William B. Shearer, in the employ of American shipbuilders who still receive our naval contracts, to break up the three-power Geneva naval conference of 1927. But in the story ns revealed to date of greed, fantastic war profits, wholesale bribery, lobbying. patent-swapping, spreading of fear and hate, prodding of nations into greater war preparations there is an especially clear chapter which may be of particular interest to such veterans as can. remember whom we were fighting in the list grest .war,
GERMANY ARMED.
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The one pleasant idea that arose from the amoking battle-fields with their mounds of dead after November 11, 1918, was that united nations could enforce gone kind of International control and so keep the peace.
The best way to keep the peace, everyone then agreed, was to keep Germany disarmed. That's why the Versailles treaty prohibits German "ex- portation or importation of arms".
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PAGE THREE
ACROSS ATLANTIC BY MOTOR-BOAT
By MORRIS GILBERT.
Paris, Nov. 8.
The adventurous caroer of Me-. damo' 'Juanita Desbriere Irwin, Parle-born wife of the American 'petroleum ongineer, Captain Danfel Irwin; is reaching lis climax in her plan to cross the Atlantic in 90 hours. In 'n specially- designed motor-spred-boat, bullt on submarine lines.
"Such a plan, Mme. Irwin told the correspondent, "has never bo- fore been attempted. Apart from ВиссеВа its sporting angle, its would be highly interesting from a technical point of view.
"It can be done," Mme, Irwin continued, "and we hope to make the attempt in August, 1935."
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The boat, 65 feet long, 9, feet wide, has been designed by John Hacker, naval engineer of Mount Clemens, Mich. Its Hnes, Mr Irwin explained, will be similar to those of submarines, so that it can pass beneath the crest of big waves.
It will be completely closed and its bridge will be hardly raised above the general top lines of the craft. Visibility is to be assured by a 15-foot-high periscope. The hull will be of triple thickness of wood, and the vessel is to be di- vided into several perfectly water tight compartments. There will be a small cabin below the enclosed The bridge, with four berths. rest of the craft will be taken up by motors and fuel reservoirs with a capacity of 16,000 litres. At present, the plans call for a motor developing about 850-horse-power, with a speed of 35 knots.
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The equipment will include a To-day, everyone agrees that Hitlerized Ger- powerful radio sending and re- compass, a many is armed. And that Hitlerized Germany is ceiving set, a radio the clef menace of the peace of Europe. strong searchlight on a military Machine guns begun to trickle into Germany and mast, and an auxiliary engine de- soon there was a general flow of war materiais.veloping 9 knois in case of break- America's contribution has been chiefly in airplane dowil. engines and patents.
It also appears that the United States is headed into a naval race with Japan, which is exactly the scrt of thing the munitions makers love but doesn't load away from war.
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After consultation with Dr. Kimball of the U.S. meteorological service, it was decided the best season for such a venture is Au- gust, because the icebergs which
Madama J. “It can be done.”
fringe northern route are then melted/
Mme. Irwin, daughter of a die- tinguished French army colonel who was an authority on military historian of note, affairs and a was first married to the Count Le Moine des Mares who was killed in active flying service during the Great War. She herself served as - an army nurse on the French front and later in the Sahara. With her first husband she visited many día. tant places, such as the Igunga Falls in the heart of Africa, and the Chaco country in South Ame- rica..
Her second marriage, to Cap. tain Irwin, brought her moro ad- venturce. She lived for BOMB time in Colombia, Venezuela and the West Indies, where he had oll interests. She travelled along through Brazil, up the Amazon to
Manaos.
Mme. Irwin raised leopards in Colombla and ADME of her favourite peta have been anakes.
These days, she is a volunteer donor of blood to sufferers from Infantlio paralysis, having been a victim of this illness as a child.
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