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Show OFFICERS OF OIL COMPANY BELIEVE COMMUNIPAW SAFE NKW YORK. Dor. .9. a dispatch from Aloxaiiflr ia. KKypt, nppai ent ly confirmatory confirma-tory nf the rppurt ri'-eivtd hy Jundon Lloyds that the oil tanker Comrnimlpaw waa aaTe wan received today hy the b'tHn-dard b'tHn-dard OH offices here. This message stated that the Com muni paw reached Alexandria on Sunday last and would salt for New York on Tuesday (yesterday). The dispatch riime from Captain Nordstrom Nord-strom of the Conimunlpaw and was given out by David T. Warden, manager of the foreign shipping department of the Standard Stan-dard Oil company f New Jersey. "We are anxiously awaiting word from our vessel, the Petrolite," said Mr. Warden, War-den, "but have received no news except whut we saw in the papers." Whether a mistake has been made In reporting the Conimunlpaw torpedoed, or whether she was lurpudood after leaving Alexandria on her home voyage, Standard Oil officials can (inly conjecture. The Conmuinlpaw could make only nine knotji an hour, .Mr. Warden said, and, assuming as-suming she It-it Alexandria ori Tuesday or 'veti Monday, she cnuld nut have gone 1150 miles to a point near Tohruk, Tripoli, off where the original cable dispatch from Home said the ship hud been struck. This dispatch was filed at itnme at 7:45 p. in. Tuesday, the day the Standard oil com-pa com-pa ny had been advised the L'ommunipaw lei t Alexandria. "I feel mi ro the Conimunlpaw Is safe." paid Mr. Warden. '"Hut we are still puzzled puz-zled as tu what, if anything, has happened to I he Petrol lie. We do not expect any wuid from her until she reaches Algiers." |