British steamship Como bound for England according to a letter of the German naval attaché at Istanbul dated 9 December 1939

In his letter dated Istanbul, 9 December 1939 No. 505 g. reported the German naval attaché to the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Abteilung Ausland merchant ships loaded with contraband for the enemy. An item reported that the unarmed British steamship Como went on 4 December to Constanta, Romania to unload 300 ton war stores for Romania ordered before the outbreak of the war and went via Istanbul directly to Izmir,  to be full loaded there destined for Liverpool, England. Later it became known that it were machine guns.

Source

Bundesarchiv. German Marineattaché for , Greece, Romania and Bulgaria 1939-1941. RM 12-II/459.