Show 1142 AMERICANS ON WAR lOST EGYPTIAN SHIP Steamer teamer Feared Sunk by Axis Near Capetown NEW YORK May 19 UP UP- UP The Egyptian liner Zamzam with about Americans aboard was reported missing and presumed lost in the South Atlantic Monday The ton steamer once a World war transport left here March 20 for Alexandria Egypt by way of Trinidad Recife Brazil and Cape CapeTown Town South Africa It never reached ached C Cape pe Town Of the persons aboard were passengers and according to the Thomas Cook Wagons Sons-Wagons- Lits Travel Trave agency about of the passengers were Americans The passengers included 24 members members mem mem- mem members bers bers- of a British-American British ambulance Ia lance lanc e unit found from Mombassa Kenya with their equipment to serve with the free French forces forces' of General GenE Charles De 57 missionaries and eight children and anda a number of professional and business business business busi busi- ness men and women Among the missionaries were 17 from the Catholic Order of Oblate Fathers in Montreal J. 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J Mariner vice president of the travel agency said that among the passengers in addition to the Americans were 23 Canadians 28 British citizens four Belgians two Gre Greeks ks one Norwegian one Italian and one Frenchman The Zamzam if destroyed by enemy action would be the second ship disaster of the war in which American lives were lost Twentynine Twentynine Twentynine Twenty- Twenty nine United States citizens died when the British liner Athenia was sunk on the day the war started September 3 1939 I The department of state however however how how- ever was reluctant to record the Zamzam as lost until it had investigated investigated investigated I gated all possibilities The department ordered the I Cook Travel Trave agency not to publish the passenger list here The list I wast sent to Washington at the state departments department's order In Un Washington the state stale department department department depart depart- I ment said it had asked for the pas pas- Continued on Pale Page Five Column Three l I ta Ie la S Surrendering d. d e mg 1 i j o 0 British in In Ethiopia l CAIRO Egypt May 19 UP s- s I bout Italian soldiers are arc sur- sur in Ethiopia and their I at Alma the duke I ref tf Aosta and his staff will surer sur sur- nd er r at noon Tuesday the Brit- Brit sh announced officially Monday The Italian capitulation at their stronghold in northeast came after the Italians I I ler were allowed one full day in which Ito t T collect t their wounded a com- com que said e provision that Aosta IDled anted d by General and all he dukes duke's uke's personal staff surrender at noon on Tuesday was made in com- com li with ce with his urgent request it ites es as said On the North African front two columns which crossed the tian frontier with the support tanks were declared ive been forced to withdraw when i they were engaged by British mechanized forces No 1 Change hange at No change was reported in the it tion at Likewise vise e no change was reported report- report ed n Iraq where it was said Basra nd remained quiet In northwest Ethiopia however Ethiopian natives were reported to lave have captured an important position position tion in the Gondar sector after inflicting infecting ting severe casualties The e said the whole of the e forces in the area of Amba ji a foot high mountain 4 miles northeast of Addis Ababa were were surrendering and that it is estimated the prisoners will number number num- num I b ber together with considerable consider consider- t able ble quantities of guns and material ma ma- The he delay in the dukes duke's personal surrender it was said was due to to be the last man to leave The figures on actual prisoners expected to be taken differed from previous estimates that to troops including ItalIans Italians Italians Ital Ital- ians had been trapped at Amba The R RAF A F reported heavy damage damage damage dam dam- age on axis motor transport and tanks in the Fort and pass areas in Libya A number of tanks were said to have been put out of action and serious damage inflicted on vehicles Observers in London pointed out last night the surrender of this force would not represent a cleanup cleanup cleanup clean clean- up of Haile Halle Selassie's square mile domain although it would release release re re- re- re lease many British troops for fighting fighting fight fight- ing elsewhere These sources said to 34 troops troops almost almost half Italians and the rest colonials remained colonials remained in the mountainous country and that Italian strongholds in the Gondar region northwest of Addis Ababa and in the lake country south of the capital were yet to be taken Credits British Forces A British credited the Indian and British South African African African can forces with brilliant operations operations operations opera opera- aided by the R A F in cornering cornering cornering cor cor- nering the duke who as an air corps officer helped subdue the Ethiopian kingdom of which he was made his kings king's representative in 1937 An Ita Italian ian Sunday prepared the Italian people for the news from the Amba stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold by acknowledging the situation situation situation situa situa- tion for the dukes duke's forces was becoming becoming becoming be coming more difficult from hour to hour The attributed this to the scarcity of means the losses suffered and the impossibility ity of carrying away and tending the wounded A AMERICANS ON LOST CRAFT Continued from Page One enger list but had not ordered the he travel agency to withhold its publication The Zamzam departed for Cape CapeTown CapeTown CapeTown Town April io 10 It should have arrIved arrived ar- ar rIved Ived April 21 or 23 On May 9 the IB travel agency here received word vord from Cape Town that the Zamzam had not made port If the ship was lost by enemy action it might have been torpedoed torpedoed torpe- torpe oed by a submarine attacked by bya a surface raider or sunk by a mine In n the first case some survivors could be presumed to have taken takeno to o lifeboats In the second all might have been taken aboard the raider aider In the third all hands might have gone down with the ship hip Capture Move Possible a aA A surface raider instead of sinking sinking sink- sink ing ng the ship might merely have captured it and taken it to some port From Trinidad on the ship was wassailing I sailing ailing in waters which while technically technically technically tech tech- safe for neutral shipping were vere regarded as actually danger danger- ous us Letters from passengers dispatched dispatched dis- dis patched at Recife disclosed the ship was blacked out nightly and that those hose aboard realized they were face ace to face with the hazards of war Meanwhile the state department sent ent messages to its representatives In n the area asking them to be on the he lookout either for the ship or news of its fate I Among the passengers was Captain Cap- Cap i ain tain William WilHam A. A Loe Bruck-Loe 50 of New York a member of the unit t letter Tells Warning l Miss Hariet M. M Halsey 60 Syracuse Syracuse Syra Syra- i cuse N. N Y one of a group representIng representing representing the African inland mission wrote from Recife to her sister Mrs C. C C. C at Kane Pa that passengers had been told they were taking your lives Ilves in your own hands The ship started out with passengers but two more more Charles Charles j J. J V. V Murphy an editor of Fortune magazine and David Scherman photographer for Life magazine magazIne- boarded it at Recife Dr Emory Ross general secret secretary secretary secre secre- t tary of the Foreign Mission Conference Conference Conference Con Con- ference of North America estimated ed here bere that nearly Americans Ameri Amen i cans were aboard but the travel agency believed was correct The British-American British corps indicated that it had no hope for its members This is a terrible blow said saidi i William V. V C. C Ruxton of the corps Fragmentary reports seemed to leave no doubt that the ship hai had ha i been lost There was no word of th the e j s fate of her p passengers and crew which comprise comprised Egyptians an and 10 British officers including CapI Captain Cap Cap- I tam tain o William Gray Smith her masi master mas mas- i ter r We believed we had taken eve ry possible safeguard for the protection protection t tion of these men Ruxton said They were In transit to Mombassa chief port of Kenya British East African colony where they were to travel overland to the Lake Chad Chac region to be billeted with the free fre e French forces of General Charle De The Zamzam was a neutral ship It was carrying nonbelligerent nonbelligerent non belligerent cargo |