GERMAN COAL IN THE PACIFIC.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 5

GERMAN COAL IN THE PACIFIC.

"Refprrinrr to the recent r^nort of] omi<ws bpina; off Thnvsfi-iv i Island, a oorrpspondont writes to the! Dominion: — "While pnsxinppr c^n a German la-, bor-recrnitincr vp^sp], irs had 00-' pn?ion, dne to encinn hrpikdown, to cr»11 in nt_ a port onlWl Matupi/'m Npw Britain (Ntii PomerainV T wpr.t asnore onp oven me;, and found a largo quantity of coal'stored

under cover, also some i« an old lmHc. moored alongside some well-buil! iocks. I consider there must have /een close on 5000 tons of Wesfc port coal.^ "ctw»

'Outside of Mutupi Germany has coahiiK depots, in Apia, Sa.noa, con.rolled a by German ih m , LD.-.taining about ono tons, and ~ f JW . hundred £ n a™ Olwl, i.i the Caroline Group In Austialasian waters German has , hree 3econd . dass £* r uhu-h were expected m Apia, Samoa also a small gunboat, the Moeve similar to the Amokura. used for pt nitive exp.»ditions in German New Guinea. No doubt, Jn v i«w of recent «s a rendezvous for the German mbroW, mcn which Aiiatrah.sri.n poits."