U.S. FREIGHTER SUNK

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 295, 10 September 1941, Page 7

U.S. FREIGHTER SUNK

Bombed In Red Sea ROOSEVELT MAY WARN AXIS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright.) (Received September 9, ,11.55 p.m.)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8.

The State Department announced that the American freighter Steel Seafarer was sunk in the Red Sea on September 7 by an aerial bomb from an Unidentified plane. All hands are safe. There are no further details.

Large quantities of war materials have been shipped to the British armies through the Red Sea recently in American freighters, President Roosevelt having allowed them to use these waters since the British drove the Italians from their African colonies bordering the Red Sea. It is predicted that when President Roosevelt makes his postponed broadcast on Thursday he will warn Germany and Italy that America insists on the freedom of the seas. He is expected to ask Congress, or at least prepare the people, for an amendment to the Neutrality Act and a stiffer maritime policy. * y GREER INCIDENT Nazis Abuse Roosevelt LONDON, September 8. The Nazi papers today opened up a battery of abuse upon President Roosevelt. ' Referring to the American statement on the Greer incident, the German radio denounced the President as “a Bolshevik who receives his orders direct from Jewish criminals,” and called him “the world’s worst liar.” A Berlin paper referred to the President as “an insolent liar, and the mobilizer of criminals against Hitler." Another paper declared that the United States has given Germany thousand-fold provocation, but that Germany refused to be provoked.