ARCTIC VOYAGE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20051, 25 September 1939, Page 11

ARCTIC VOYAGE

REPORT OF BREMEN RUSSIAN PORT REACHED CAMOUFLAGE AT SEA SOVIET LEGAL QUERY (Elec. Tol. Copyright—Vnitod Press Assn.) (Reed. Sept. 23, 2.30 p.m.) NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 22.

The German Consul-General, Baron Edgar von Spiegal, said that the liner Bremen was safe at the Russian port of Murmansk. After being camouflaged at sea, the vessel crossed the North Atlantic and reached the Arctic through Denmark Strait. The Soviet Government is examining the legal aspects created by the presence of the liner at Murmansk.

The Bremen, a quadruple screw steamer of 51,731 lons gross register, built in 1929, is owned by the Norddeutschcr Lloyd of Bremen. With her sister ship Europa. the Bremen maintained an express mail and passenger icrvice between Germany and New v or k. The Bremen left New York on August 30, after being delayed for 40 hours by the United Slates authorities, whose officials made a thorough search of the vessel. The substance of an article recently published in the Herald concerning the extremely poor support received by the German liners in the Atlantic passenger trade are borne out by a personal observation by Mr. A. C. Langford, who returned from a tour of Britain and Europe. Leaving Southampton in the Empress of Britain on the first stage of their homeward journey, Mr, and Mrs. Langford, ’ saw the German liner Bremen leaving for Hamburg with only a handful of people lining the rails of the upper decks. Mr. Langford was informed that in recent months the number of passengers carried by the Bremen and the Europa had dwindled steadily, although the ships offered the last word in luxury travel at moderate cost.