NAZI ACTIVITIES

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21216, 12 September 1940, Page 8

NAZI ACTIVITIES

CENTRAL AMERICAN COAST PREPARING NAVAL OFFENSIVE (United Press Asn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) NEW YORK, Sept. 11 I A detailed report, describing Ger- ! man refuelling depots established by ! U-boats and armed raiders in rej mote islands in the Caribbean Sea I (on the Atlantic side of Central i America), has been given to the i North American Newspaper Alliance : by Mr Leicester Hemingway and Mr J Jenkinson, who has returned after an investigation in a ' schooner. | As a result, they believe that the i Germans, benefiting from the smoke- | screen 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 j refuges and refuelling bases from which innocent looking schooners j operate as supply ships or comI municate with islands on the main- ; land when the use of radio is dan--1 gerous. More than 30,000 gallons of oil ! have been stored on Cozumel Island, ; and many oil drums have been : accumulated at Old Providence and I Saint Andrews. Even the Corn ; Islands, leased to the United States I by Nicaragua, are potential German i nests. I They learned of plans to build or | enlarge existing airfields where no ! aeroplanes for commerce or tourists are found, but which would be useful for an aerial invasion of the Canal zone.