BLOCKADE.RUNNERS,

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16372, 28 October 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

BLOCKADE.RUNNERS,

SOME FORMS OF SLIMNESS.

The tricks of the' blockade-runner an many. False manifests, giving an inaccurate statement as to the destination of th» goods carried, and even as to the good» themselves, are at once, the most frequent and the most easily-detected form of slimness, but there are others more difficult to penetrate, says the London Magazine. When the cargo is Hour, you may satisfy yourself that sacks or barrels lying near the top of the hold do actually contain flour, but you may not suspect that a layer or two lower down the flour gives way to cotton. Bulkheads are the partitions that divide one part of a. ship from the next, Did usually consist of a single sheet of iron; but it a second sheet is built in, say » foot away from the original, the inter- ' vening space becomes a useful hidingplace. The master of a sailing ship who thought to walk his leisurely way through the blockade must have been vastly surprised when his little trick was discovered. An enormous number of fairly stout plates of copper had been riveted to his ship under the water-line; those copper plates were removed— in a German dock, but in a British one. i