AMERICAN SHIP SUNK

Grey River Argus, 10 September 1941, Page 5

AMERICAN SHIP SUNK

In Red Sea BY UNIDENTIFIED BOMBER. (Received Mid-night WASHNGTON, September 8. The State Department has announced: The American freighter “Steel XX Seafarer” has been sunk in the Red Sea, by an aerial bomb. The bomb was dropped on Sunday last, September 7, fpom 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 freighter?. President Roosevelt has allowed the American ships to use these waters ever since the British drove th P Italians from their African colonies bordering the Red Sea. ROOSEVELT’S INTENTION. STIFFER MARITIME POLICY. (Received Mid-night). WASHINGTON,-September 8. It is predicted that when President Roosevelt makes his postponed broadcast on Thursday, he will warn Germany and Italy that America insists on freedom of the_ seas. He is now expected to ask Congress, or at least to prepare the people, for an amendment of the Neutrality Act and for a stiffer maritime policy. Propaganda For War! U.S.A. FILM PRODUCERS. OBJECT TO SENATE INQUIRY. (Rec. 3.0.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Mr Willuie, on behalf of the motion picture industry, told a Senate Committee that the picture industry disputes the legality of he Senate holding an inquiry into allegations that the industry has carried on pro-war propaganda. He said the companies intended to produce witnesses to protect the film-makers’ good name. “The Fight For Freedom” Committee denounced the Senate’s inquiry into the allegations as “a most barefaced attempt at censorship and racial persecution ever attempted.” Senator Clark thereupon denounc ed the “Fight For Freedom” organisation as one wnich is making no secret of its determination to involve the United States in a bloddy and useless war.

WITHER WIEDEMANN? RIO D A E JANEIRO, September 9. After having been expelled from the United States to Berlin, Fritz Wiedemann, former German Consul* at San Francisco, arrived here by air. He said he has come on a special mission to South America. He intends to fly to Buenos Aires. At Berlin it previously had been annoimced that Herr Wiedemann was becoming German • Consul-General at Tientsin. China. U.S.A Envoys ARRIVE IN AUSTRALIA. ANOTHER CHINESE MINISTER. (Rec. 12.15.) SYDNEY. Sept. 9. The United States Minister to Australia, Mr Nelson Johnson and his family, also Colonel Merle-Smith, United States Military Attache in Australia, with his assistant, Lieutenant Robert Odel], have arrived here. They were met bv Federal Ministers and other’ prominent people and were warmly welcomed. There has also arrived a new American Consul., General C. H. Derry. The first Chinese- Minister to Australia, Doctor Hsu Mo. has also arrived in this country. Dr. Hsu Mo said that the Chinese people were never in doubt about tha outcome* of the conflict 'in Europe and Asia. It had been Jhe Chinese policy to offer resistance to aggression ana coincidently to pursue the work of national reconstruction. LONDON, September 7. Three of the principal United States Representatives in Europe have met at Barcelona, 1 in Spain. They are the Ambassador to Vichy (Admiral W. D. Leahy), the Ambassador to Spain (Mr Alexander Weddell), and Mr Roosevelt’s personal envoy to the Vatican (Mr Myron G. Taylor). There has been no indication of the subject of their conference. *