SECRET WAR STOCKS.
Wholesale Selling Begins. BIG PURCHASES REPORTED. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association LONDON. March 21. The “Despatch'’ reveals that extraordinary negotiations were carried out on behalf of several European countries ior tlie purchase of large quantities of arms and ammunition. An Italian company received an order from Greece for 200.000 rifles. The Soviet is similarly buying rifles, and thence shipping them to China and Persia. The efforts to place orders in England 'have entirely failed. -German armament firms are being inundated with orders. It is believed that secret war stocks hidden in nearby countries recently led to wholesale selling. Rifles were mostly shipped to China and Turkey, although Russia was the biggest buyer, mainly acting as a middleman, and reselling to the Balkan States, Finland, Lithuania, Poland and Yugo-Slavia.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1926, Page 7
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135SECRET WAR STOCKS. Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 23 March 1926, Page 7
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