A RED SEA INCIDENT
U.S. FREIGHTER SUNK STRUCK BY AERIAL BOMB. ALL HANDS SAFE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—CanvEJght,WASHINGTON, September 9. The State Department announces that the American freighter Steel Seafarer was sunk in the Red Sea by an aerial bomb on September 7 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 hordering 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.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLX, Issue 14839, 10 September 1941, Page 5
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