Washington, May 20.
Officials here yesterday were anxiously awaiting oficial reports concerning the Egyptian steamer Zamzam.
Officials were concerned not only because of the possible loss of American lives—142 Americans were said to have been aboard—but because the action apparently occurred on the south Atlantic route, which had been regarded as safe for neutral traffic, The Zamzam's route was the same as that to be followed by U.S. freighters assigned to take supplies to Egypt.
Germany has declared the
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