COPPER FOR GERMANY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 February 1940, Page 5

COPPER FOR GERMANY

SHIPMENTS FROM MEXICO OSTENSIBLY TO SIBERIA’ USE OF AMERICAN SHIPS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. NEW YORK, February 8. The Mexico City correspondent of the “New York Times” confirms that Manzanillo (Mexico) has become a clearing house for United States copper for Vladivostock, whence it is suspected it is to be railed to Germany. The opinion is expressed that it will be shipped from Mexico in American bottoms because the Soviet cannot spare ships for a long voyage. • Three thousand tons of copper and 2000 tons of lead are awaiting the arrival at New York of the Soviet freighters Engels and Kim. t From Rio de Janeiro it is reported that the Koenigsberg has sailed from Belem with 2000 tons of rubber and an unusually heavy supply of fuel oil. The port authorities there believe that she may be forming a convoy with the La Coruna and the Wolfsburg in an attempt to run the blockade. La Coruna, a German freighter of 7414 tons, sailed on Thursday, apparently heavily laden, and the Wolfsburg at the end of last week. The secretary of the Treasury, Mr Henry Morgenthau, junr, informed the United Press at Washington that the Russian shipment of gold landed at San Francisco is “an ordinary everyday transaction.” “I understand that the gold is for the Treasury,” he said. The Soviet freighter Mayakovsky, at San Pedro, loaded 200 tons of molybdenite consigned to Leningrad. Ife is - believed to be destined for Germany The molybdenite has been lying at San Pedro for weeks. Fruitless efforts have been made to dispatch it aboard neutral ships, which feared its confiscation by Britain as contraband. It was reported on February 3 that the ship was inaugurated a service between Mexico and Russia.

A message from San Francisco yesterday stated: Speculation as to whether Manzanillo is to be the point of transhipment of American copper destined for German via the Siberian railway was renewed when the Soviet freighter Kim landed 5,600,000 dollars worth of bar gold and announced that she was sailing from Manzanillo with a load of copper for Vladivostok. Gold was the Kim’s sole cargo. She made a secret passage across the Pacific. The gold is consigned to the Chase National Bank.”