The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1916 HELPING ENEMY SUBMARINES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 29 November 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1916 HELPING ENEMY SUBMARINES.

' The extraordinary facilities which appear to be granted in the United States for the assistance of German submarines in their work of piracy, is in striking contrast with the anxietyi shown to find fault with Britain on every possible pretext,. The' Providence Journal the other day publish-j ed a detailed account of the cargo! ’ shipped by the German submarine I ! Deutschland on her present voyage, j The cargo is said to. consist of irne carloads of nickel, ten carloads of * crude rubber, a total of five hundred; and forty tons; also, three carloads, of chromium and one of vanadium i (used for hardening steel). Remaining in the warehouse are about four hundred tons,of rubber and two hundred of nickel, apparently awaiting another submarine. It is said the nickel contained in the cargo came originally from Sudbury, Ontario, and was mined by the Canadian Copper Company, which sold to the International Nickel Company, which in turn sold in November, 1914, to GermanAmcricans, acting on behalf of Dr. Heinrich Albert, fiscal agent of the German Government in America. The nickel has been shipped half a dozen times, to confuse steps being taken to trace it, says the “Journal.” Another statement made is that ore from Ca'nada 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 Now London. The “Journal” fully describes the shipment, the size of the packages, and every item of the cargo. Lying alongside the Deutschland "as the ’ interned Gorman steamer Whilehad, aboard which a representative of the “.lournal” pursued his investigations. According to this authority the American naval officers had been repeatedly fooled by the officers of the Willehad, which sent wireless messages daily for some weeks to

vessels at sea, by means of a secret apparatus aboard. The “Journal” declares that it is ready to prove that one night not long ago the Willehad s temporary apparatus sent messages to a vessel off Long Island. A little consideration for the lives of Aniciican subjects ought really to make the authorities a little sharper in detecting this sort of thing.