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Show HOPE FOR BREMEN ISJpONEO LOSS OF SUBMARINE WHICH ATTEMPTED AT-TEMPTED TO CROSS ATLANTIC VIRTUALLY CONCEDED. All That is Definitely Known is That She Set Out From Bremerhaven and Should Have Arrived a Month Ago. Washington. Loss of the German submarine merchantman Bremen virtually vir-tually was conceded on Thursday by ranking Teutonic diplomats in position posi-tion to be familiar with the movements move-ments of the vessel. The Bremen is now one month overdue. It was admitted that German officials offi-cials not only in this country, but in Berlin, were without information as to the fate of the Bremen. All they know is that she set out for America from Bremerhaven and that she should have arrived at an American poort soon after the middle of last month. It is regarded as doubtful that accurate information concerning the fate of the vessel will be available until after the close of the war, if then. The disappearance of the Bremen will not cause abandonment of the project to send merchant submarines regularly from Germany to the United States, it was said. There appeared to be reason to expect that another submarine freighter, either the Deutschland or some other, would reach an American port some time within the next month. German officials in Washington do noi Deneve me uremeu cuuiu nave fallen into the hands of the British unless she had some accident to her machinery. They pointed out that un like naval submarines, merchant submarines sub-marines avoid all localities frequented frequent-ed by shipping and therefore are not open to the same risks. |