EGYPTIAN SHIP SUNK.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 185, 20 May 1941, Page 5

EGYPTIAN SHIP SUNK.

LOSS OF 323 LIVES FEARED.

HUNDRED AMERICANS INCLUDED (Roc. 9.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 19 It. is learned that the Egyptian steamer Zamzam, of 8299 tons, was sunk by enemy action in the South Atlantic, and 323 persons, including 100 Americans are believed to have been drowned,-

It is understood that the passengers on tho Zamzam included 24 American ambulance drivers on route for service with the British forces in Egypt, also 36 American Catholic missioners bound for Central Africa.

The cargo included trucks, automobiles and machinery marked with the flags of non-belligerents, consigned to Egypt, probably destined for the British forces.

THE AMBULANCE EQUIPMENT.

MANNED BY 24 AMERICANS. (Roe. 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. It is known that a British-American ambulance corps was aboard the Zamzam, destined for the Free French forces in the Middle East. This piece of equipment included over 20 vehicles, together with a field kitchen and X-ray trailer, manner, by 24 Americans, all of them either doctors or male nurses. The drivers all spoke French.