HOW GERMANY MADE READY FOR WAR
SECRET C9DE TO STEAMER CAPTAINS London, April 5. The correspondent of "The Times," in New York, states that proof that German merchantmen were ready, for some years for the outbreak of war is shown by the evidence in. law suits, which are being tried against the North German Lloyd liner Kronpriuaessin Cecilie (19,503 tons). Captain Pollock testified that when he took over the vessel in 1912 he reo'eived from the former captain a sealed envelope, with instructions not to open it until he got a message telling him of illness, and signed "Siegfried." On the night of July 31 the Kronprinzessin Cecilie was a thousand miles from flymOuth, when a wireless message came stating: "Eberhardt suffering from catarrh;" and signed "Siegfried." . Captain Pollock opened the envelope and found a code, which enabled him to decipher the message, which meant that war had broken out with England, Fiance, and Russia. Later he received, a message from the German Admiralty stat-ing that war was only threatened, and that he was not to touch port in France. England, or Russia. — ("Tithes" and Sidney "Sun" Services.)
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 5
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188HOW GERMANY MADE READY FOR WAR Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2429, 7 April 1915, Page 5
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