GERMANY'S LOST COFFEE
£100,000 WORTH CONDEMNED AS ] PRIZE. I
In the Prize Court • recently Sir S. Evans gavo his reasoned judgment for the condemnation of coffee, valued at <£100,000, seized in 20 neutral steamships while on voyages from Brazil to Scandinavian and Dutch ports. The President said that before the war Brazil was the greatest producer and Hamburg the greatest distributor of coffee in the wholo world. Germany also consumed inuoh more than any other country of Europe. After tho war began coffee , was urgently needed as rations for. the huge German military and naval forces and for tlio civil population, and steps were taken to obtain supplies through neutral'countries like Holland and Scandinavia, and quantities of coffee, though! consigned to Scandinavian ports in tlia names of neutral consignees, had manag' ed to cludo tho Allied warships and weru landed in Hamburg, as a Tesult'of tho elaborate web spun by the firms of Gustav Trinko and Co., of Brazil, and (i. Trinke and Co., of Hamburg. The President condemned all the coffeo seized.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 7
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173GERMANY'S LOST COFFEE Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 37, 7 November 1917, Page 7
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