SECRET OIL DEPOTS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 245, 13 September 1940, Page 7

SECRET OIL DEPOTS.

ISLANDS OF CARIBBEAN. STORY TOLD IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Sept. 7. A detailed- report, describing German refuelling depots established by U-boats and armed raiders in remote islands in the Caribbean Sea (on the Atlantic side of Central America), lias been given to the North American Newspaper Alliance by Mr Leicester Hemingway and Mr Anthony Jetikinson, who have returned after an investigation in a schooner. As a result, they believe that tho Germans, benefiting from the smokescreen of their propaganda in South America, are actually»preparing a naval offensive off the Central- American coast. , . , . Isolated, widely separated islands, stocked with Diesel oil, now provide refuges and refuelling bases from which innocent looking schooners operate as supply ships or communicate with islands on the mainland when the use of radio is dangerous. More than 30,000 gallons of oil have been stored on Cozumel Island, and many oil drums have been accumulated at Old Providence and Saint Andrews. Even the Corn Islands, leased to the United States by Nicaragua, are potential German nests. They learned of plans to build or enlarge existing airfields where no aeroplanes for commerce or tourists are found, but which would he useful for an aerial invasion of the Canal Zone.