The United States has not yet been able to determine what caused the sinking of the American freighter, Robin Moor, but it was cheved the vessel sank' in American waters on this side of the Atlantic, Mr. Stephen ked Early, White House Secretary, an nounced yesterday.
"We don't know yot the cause of the sinking of the Robin Moor," he declared. "We are trying to deter~ mine that, The position of the ship seems fairly well determined and that would put it, in American waters fon this side of the Atlantic."
'The U.S. Ambassador to Brazil, Mr. Jefferson Caffrey, reported to the State Department' from Rio de Janeiro that he had been advised the American freighter had been "suak™ approximately midway between. Brazil and West Africa. The Navy Department previously had announced had been advised that a German Submarine had torpedoed the fcelght= or—United Press,
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