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Crew Of ScuffSpeeding to EIn AtlanticBULLETIN!fr?iWASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (/instate department officials disclosed today that the German Ifner Columbus was scuttled almost 250 miles inside America's ttuctrallty zone. Immediately they began a study to determine whether this meant that an act of war had occurredwithin the zone.First information yesterday from Stephen Early, White House press secretary, was that the scuttling had taken placewhen a British man of war had come upon the big liner outside the zone. But Inter export cnleu'ation of the ship's position given hy the United States Cruiser Tuscaloosa showed that the Columbus sank nearly 250 miles Inside the zone, on a line due east of Washington.This gives the American nations which fixed the limits of j t the zona in a meeting at Parm- • nut this fall their second proh- j j lent of a possible violation* the j a first being the Brltlsh-Graf 1 r! Spec battle off the coast of lt;i: Uruguay last week which, like i the Columbus incident, resulted » t in the sinking of the German I vessel Involved.ro\WASHINGTON. Dec. 20 GP»--i\ After burinlng and abandoning! their luxurious 32,000,-ton ship at » the approach of a British man-of- war. 579 crew members and offi* 1* ?cers of the Gorman liner Coium- , bus were being sped to El Us Island today by an American cruls- jer tThe blazing derelict, onetimequeen of the German merchantfleet, was left alone to sink beneath the Atlantic waves in a cloud of steam.Was Sinking „The Columbus. which felled in a desperate dash for Europe from Vera Cruz Mexico, already was settling whtett the U. S. S. Tusoa- ! [ loosa completed a dramatic rescue at dusk yesterday 400 miles east of Cape Henry, Va. Only two Ger* j man sailors were known to have ; been lost.The survivors, including nine !women, were due in Now York u harbor about 4 p. m. Eastern : j, Standard Time, lt;2 p. m., M. S.. ’ b T. for examination by immigrate tlon officials. If they are found ; ^ to be bona fide merchant seamen, j they can remain at liberty in the jt United States for fiO days.Might Be Interned If an Inquiry should determine that they are navy .men or that the liner was arched, temporarydetention or even Internment for the duration of the War might be ordered.The Columbus foundered outside the American neutrality zone, although the Tuscalposa was on neutrality patrol when she sighted the ship, ablaze from bow to stern.In terse wireless messages to hissuperior, Capt. Harry A, Badt ofthe Tuealoosa reported that the liner was being scuttled and that a British destroyer was nearby, all hough there was no evidenceof fighting.Had Pulled Away The crew already had pulled ft way from the sinking vessel in 22 lifeboats, and the Americancruiser stood by until all the occupants were picked Up. The liner's sou valves Were open, to hasten her sinking,The Columbus was found only SEE NO* 5, PAGE 8
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Clovis News Journal
Clovis, New Mexico, US
Wed, Dec 20, 1939
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