Berlin, May 14, The oMclal announcement of the extension of the German war zone area to the Red Sea was today de~ clared by Germans to be connected with intensified hostilities in the Mediterranean, but was interpreted by neutral diplomatic quarters as Brimarily directed against the United ates, These quarters linked the extension of the war zone to President Roose velt's recent opening of the Red Sea for United States shipping.
Informed German sources declined to confirm this theory. To the contrary, they stated that, the warning was directed against shipping of all nations—United Press.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.