COPPER SUPPLIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 35, 10 February 1940, Page 11

COPPER SUPPLIES

TO GERMANY VIA RUSSIA

SHIPMENTS FROM MEXICO

USE OF U.S. SHIPS?

JBy 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 Vladivostok, 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 Kirn.

Rio de Janeiro reports that the German steamer Konigsberg sailed from i_.elem (Brazil) 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 German freighter La Coruna and the Wolfsburg in an attempt to run the blockade.

The Soviet .reighter 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 was inaugurating a service between Mexico and Russia.

A message from San Francisco published yesterday stated: Speculation as to whether Manzanillo is to be the point of trans-shipment of American copper destined for Germany via the trans-Siberian railway was renewed when the Soviet freighter Kirn 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 Kirn's sole cargo. She made a secret passage across the Pacific. The gold is consigned to the Chase National Bank.