Russia Gets U.S. Copper Through Mexico

Northern Advocate, 10 February 1940, Page 5

Russia Gets U.S. Copper Through Mexico

NEW YORK, February 8. The correspondent of the “New York Times’’ at Mexico City confirms that the port of Manzanillo, on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, has become a clearing house for United States copper for Vladivostok, whence, it is suspected, it is railed to Germany. It is thought the copper is shipped to Mexico in American bottoms because the Soviet cannot spare ships for the long voyage to New York. Three thousand tons of copper and 2000 tons of lead are awaiting the arrival of Soviet freighters. Destined for Germany? The Russian freighter Mayakovsky, which is to sail from Manzanillo for Vladivostok, with American copper, also loaded at San Pedro, California, 200 tons of molybdenite consigned to Leningrad, and believed to be destined for Germany. The molybdenite had been lying at San Pedro for weeks. Fruitless efforts had been made to despatch it by neutral ships, whose owners feared confiscation of the cargo by the British as contraband. The captain of the Kim said that he would sail for Manzanillo today to load copper and would then proceed to'Vladivostok.