Show Note From Prison Camp Hints Hint Sinking of Liner Bremen NEW YORK May 8 Circumstantial corroboration of reports that the crack German liner Bremen was sunk was seen Wednesday by a Manhattan restaurant restaurant restaurant res res- proprietor in a letter he received from a German prisoner in a Scottish concentration camp Our ship was bombed and sunk on an April 9 and we are now naw interned said the letter written on April 18 by Johann Gaertner whose home is Bremerhaven Germany to his nephew Willy Boldt Beldt the restaurant man Although Gaertner failed to give the name of af his ship Boldt Beldt said he was sure his uncle would have mentioned it if it he had been transferred from the Bremen to some other ather vessel Boldt Baldt last saw his uncle when the Bremen sailed from New York on August August August Au Au- gust 30 on the eve of the European European European Euro Euro- war on an her dash through the allied blockade to the Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian arctic port of ot The date given by Gaertner coincides with the first of at two reports circulated last month manth that the ton liner pride of the nazi merchant marine had been sunk in operations off the Norwegian coast On April 9 reports were circulated circulated circulated cir cir- cir cir- simultaneously in Landon London London Lon Lan don Paris and Amsterdam that the Bremen had been sunk in Norwegian waters with 1300 troops on board On April 18 the Exchange Telegraph News agency of af London Landon quoted a Nor Nor- survivor of af a torpedoed British ship as stating that the Bremen had been sunk six days days' before Both reports were officially officially officially denied by Berlin |