COPPER FOR RUSSIA

Waikato Times, Volume 126, Issue 21035, 10 February 1940, Page 10

COPPER FOR RUSSIA

SHIPMENTS FROM MEXICO PORT A CLEARING CENTRE (United Press Assn.--EJec. Tel. Copyrig-ht) NEW YORK, Feb. 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 journey to New York. Three thousand tons of copper and 2000 tons of lead are awaiting the arrival of Soviet freighters. 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 Son 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 to-day to load copper and would then proceed to Vladivostok.