GERMAN WAR-MAKERS.
LONG-LAID PLANS. HOW SHIPS WERE WARNED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 5. The Times' correspondent in New York says the proof that German merchantmen were ready for some years before the outbreak of the war is shown in lawsuits now being tried against the S.S. Kronp'rinzessin Cecile. Captain Pollock, giving evidence, testified that when he took over the vessel in 1912 he received from the former captain a sealed envelope, with instructions ' not to open it until he received a message telling of an illness and signed Siegfried. On the night of July 31 last the Kronprinzessin Cecile was a thousand miles from Plymouth, and a wireless message that came read, " Eberhardt suffering Catarrh," and it was signed " Siegfried. Captain Pollock Opened the sealed envelope, and found a code message, which, when deciphered, read, " War has broken out with England, France and Russia." Later Captain Pollock received a message from the German Admiralty stating that war was only threatened, and instructing him not to touch at any port in France. England, or Russia.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15887, 7 April 1915, Page 8
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177GERMAN WAR-MAKERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15887, 7 April 1915, Page 8
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