Germans Claim Rescue Of U.S. Passengers
SINKING OF ZAMZAM LONDON, May 20. It Is officially announced In Berlin that a German ship rescued the passengers and crew of the Egyptian liner Zamzam, which carried 100 American citizens, many of them sons of prominent United States families. A message from New York yesterday said that the steamer had been sunk by enemy action in the South Atlantic and that 323 persons, including 100 Americans, were believed to have been drowned. The United States Vice-Consul at Alexandria, however, said it was reported that the vessel was safe. The Zamzam carried an elaboratelyequipped British-American ambulance corps destined for service with the Free French forces in the Middle East. The German radio announced that the crew and passengers of the Zamzam were safe somewhere in occupied territory. It claimed that the Zamzam carried contraband and was sunk strictly in accordance with the blockade operations. The Paris radio stated that the Zamzam was sunk by a mine. The American State Department has cabled the United States Embassy at Berlin for full details on the sinking of the Zamzam.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 120, 22 May 1941, Page 8
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