Nazis Reported Supplying Arabs with Arms

ARAB TERRORISTS IN PALESTINE ARE BEING EQUIPPED WITH ARMS FROM GERMAN ARMAMENT CONCERNS, ACCORDING TO THE PARIS NEWSPAPER, MARIANNE. THE ARMS ARE FURNISHED MAINLY BY THE SUHL AND ERFURTER GEWEHRFABRIK FACTORIES, THE PAPER DECLARES. THERE FACTORIES HAVE ALSO SHIPPED TO THE ARABS 98 M.M. GUNS AND OTHER FIELD PIECES, IT IS ASSERTED.

FRENCH FRONTIER GUARDS, THE PAPER STATES, HAVE FREQUENTLY INTERCEPTED CARAVANS SMUGGLING ARMS FROM SYRIA TO PALESTINE, BUT THE PRINCIPAL ROUTE IS ACROSS THE TRANSJORDAN FRONTIER. “ARMS BROUGHT FROM TRANSJORDAN ARE ALWAYS OF GERMAN ORIGIN,” THE PAPER SAYS. “IN FACT, TRANSJORDANIA IS FREE TO BUY ARMS WHERE SHE WISHES. SHE HAS CONCLUDED A CONTRACT WITH THE KRUPP WORKS AT ESSEN WHICH RUNS UNTIL THE SPRING OF 1938.” THE PAPER IDENTIFIES A GERMAN RESIDENT IN PALESTINE SINCE 1920, AS THE CHIEF TRAFFICKER IN ARMS. THIS MAN, IT STATES, CROSSED ASIA IN 1920 AS A MEMBER OF A SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION AND PLAYS A ROLE “SIMILAR TO THAT OF COL. LAWRENCE.”