U.S. FREIGHTER SUNK
BOMBED IN RED SEA PLANE NOT IDENTIFIED ALL HANDS SAVED ROOSEVELT EXPECTED TO WARN AXIS Washington, Sept. 8. The Slale Department announced that the American freighter Steel Seafarer was sunk in the Red Sea on Tlh September hv all aerial homh 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 mari-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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