The Doutschland's Cargo

Horowhenua Chronicle, 22 November 1916, Page 3

The Doutschland's Cargo

CANADIAN NICKEL AND ORES. (Renter Telegram). Vancouver, November 11.

Tho Providence .Journal will say tomorrow : The Deiitschland lis ready for

«ea. Kvory precaution litis been tak-. en to prevent knowledge of tlie contents of the cargo becoming public property. The Journal, however, lias secured details. The cargo tonsils of nine carloads of nickel, ten carloads of crude rubber, a total of •"> 10 tons; also three carloads of ehronlimn, and one of vanadium (used for li'irdeniing steel). Remaining in the warehouse are 400 tuns of rubber and 200 tons of nickel, apparently aw.i.ihing another submarine. The nickel contained in the cargo came origally from Sudbury, Ontario, and was m.nod by the Canadian Copper Company, which sold to the International Xickei Company, who in (turn sold in November, 1914, to 1 GcrmanAnioricaiis, acting on behalf of Dr. •Hernrieh Albert fiscal agent of the German Government in America. The nickel has been shipped half a dozen times to. confute steps being taken to trace it. Ore from Canada a year ago was stored in casks at a Brooklyn warehouse. It then went to Pittsburg on box-cars, then to Baltimore and, finally to New London. The Journal fully describe* the shipment tlio size of the packages, and every itsin of the cargo. Lying alongside the Deutschland is the interned German steamer Wiillehad, aboard which a representative of the Journal pursued his investigations. The naval officers hare been repeatedly fcoled by the officers of the Will eh ad, which has sent wireless mesages daily for the last three weeks to vesesls at sea by means of a secret apparatus aboarj. The Journal declares that it is • ready to prove that on Wednesday or Thurfida'y night the Willehad's apparatus sent messages to a vessel off Long Island. is*re*r zx " t gjcaswe*.