OCR Text |
Show GERMAN SHIPS ARE REPAIRED FOR U. S. NEW YORK, March 20. Five Gc-tmar, steamships aggregating 2S.S46 gross tons, interned In Peru, are at Balboa, undergoing under-going repairs for service under Jurisdiction Jurisdic-tion of the United States shipping board, fit was learned here today. Control of the vessels was turned over to the shiplng hoard by Peru under a contract negotiated last September. From the captain of a merchant ship which recently arrived here from Balboa, it was learned that the former German ships were towed to that port by the United States dredge Culehra and new boilers and engine parts were shipped to them from Seattle. The ships are: Rha-kotis, Rha-kotis, i82 tons; Anubia, 476;; tons; Marie, 1S66 tens; Luxor, 7109 tons, and Sierra Cordoba, 8226 tons. |