DOMINION CARGOES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 265, 9 October 1939, Page 5

DOMINION CARGOES

IN GERMAN SHIPS. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Oct. 6. Advice has been received that the North Gennan-Lloyd steamer Frankfurt, of 5500 tons gross, which was scheduled to reach Auckland from New Orleans and other Gulf of Mexico ports about September 6, reached Talcahuann (Chile) after being diverged. The Frankfurt, commanded by Captain Freese, left New Orleans on August 11 and cleared the Panama Canal a week later. No further word of her movements was received in Auckland till the advice of her arrival at the Chilean port, but it is presumed that, on the receipt of the orders issued to all German merchantman about a week before the outbreak of war, she made hasty tracks from the mid-Pa-cific to neutral territory. Steps are being taken by the consignees of her shipment of 4600 tons of cargo, valued roughly at about £20,000, to arrange for its transhipment to the Dominion.

The second German ship carrying cargo for New Zealand which was diverted from her schedule because of the war was the Hamburg-Amerika motor-ship Heidelberg. This ship, after loading a quantity of furniture at Hamburg for Jewish refugees in New Zealand, was proceeding to jdie Gulf of Mexico to load the bulk of her cargo for the Dominion when war broke out. She was last reported at i the Dutch port of Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela.