NAZI SUBMARINES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1939, Page 7

NAZI SUBMARINES

IN THE CARIBBEAN

EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH AGENTS IN MEXICO

NEW YORK, November 12.

The Mexico City correspondent of the "New York Times" states that the first positive evidence that German submarines in the Caribbean Sea were

communicating with agents in Mexico came when a carrier pigeon fell exhausted near Mexico City. An Indian retrieved it, and it eventually reached representatives of the Allied Powers, who found a tube attached to the leg containing three pieces of paper. The flrst was a cutting from a German newspaper, in the margin of which was written the date October 17, the time 4 a.m., and the position, latitude and longitude, roughly 15 miles off the mouth of the Panuco River.

The cutting did not relate to the war, but it is thought that it may have a code meaning. The writing is believed to indicate a rendezvous of a submarine with Mexican refuelling agents.

The second piece of paper was yellow tissue on which was written UZ 69, apparently a German phrase which, translated, is, "Salute to distant pretty Mexico." It was signed "Lenz, Superior Captain, Navy."

The third was a white sheet of paper at the top of which the letters JU were repeated three times. The remainder was blank. This is believed to contain writing in invisible ink. Investigators are attempting to use the pigeon to discover where it was headed when it fell.