GERMAN SUBMARINE SUPPLIES.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

GERMAN SUBMARINE SUPPLIES.

SMUGGLED CARGOES

AMERICAN SAILORS' ALLEGA-

TIONS

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association)

(Received May 9, 7 p.m.)

iWi .Washington, May 8

Sailors on board the steamers Mani- i towoc, Muskegon, and Allap.uiah made charges with the port authorities at St. Thomas, where the vessels , called" en route to Buenos Aires, that , underneath- the cargoes of coal loaded lat American ports were fusel oil and ' many other supplies,, especially for' submarines. ' . v I The sailors assert that on previous

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trips they'got rid of their cargoes while at sea to German submarines. Among the alleged supplies- were chests of gold containing £50,000 each. - <