COPPER FOR GERMANY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 104, 12 February 1940, Page 5

COPPER FOR GERMANY.

RUSSIANS’ REPORTED PUN. TRANSPORT BY AMERICAN'S. NEW YORK, February 9. The Mexico City correspondent of the 1 New York Times ” confirms that Manzanillo (Mexico) t has become a clearing house for United (States .copper for Vladivostok, from where, it is suspected, it is to bo railed 7 to Germany. j e The opinion is expressed that! it will bo shipped frouxjMexico in American .bottoms because the Soviet cannot spare ships for a. iong voyage. . Three thousand tons of copper ami 2000 tons of lead arc awaiting the arrival at New York of the Spviet freighters Engels and Kim. The- Soviet freighter Mayakovsky loaded at San Pedro 200 tons of molybdenite consigned to Leningrad. It 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 W£tv inaugurating a service between Mexico and Russia. A message from San Francisco stated that speculation as to whether Manzanillo is to bo the point of transshipment of American copper destined for Germany via tlio trans-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 tho Pacific. The gold is consigned to the Chase National Bank.