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Like nearly 200 German seamen, seized in a dozen cities, including Miami, Kansas City, San Francisco, Chicago and Manhattan, two nights earlier, the Italian waiters were seized at Attorney General Jackson's orders. Most of those seized were not in hiding but it appeared that the Government meant to round up in advance transients from the Axis countries who might be potential enemy agents...
...cruises will be run this year for persons enlisting in Class V-7 of the U. S. Naval Reserve, A. L. Madden, Lieutenant Commander, U. S. N. R., revealed last night. After a 30-day period as apprentice seamen, those who qualify will be given a 90-day course as reserve midshipmen and will receive commissions as reserve ensigns at the end of this time...
...cast anchor at the Government Anchorage, hard by the Staten Island ferry pier. Palm Sunday passengers noted the flag fluttering at her stern: the British ensign. Around 11 o'clock, half her crew went ashore for liberty, and Manhattanites soon knew what ship she was. On the seamen's flat-cap ribbons was the gilded legend: "H.M.S. Malaya...
...British flags, crossed the Hudson to New Jersey, received 100 presents (including one package, thought to contain a bomb, which turned out to be a big metal statue of Winston Churchill, thumbs up), conferred with one archbishop, three bishops and several clergymen. He opened a clubroom for British seamen, roared with them "Are we downhearted? No!" with thumbs up, for the benefit of cameramen...
...Axis commitments. They announced that there were 35 German officers, petty officers and seaman-gunners among the survivors. And the Admiralty declared: "It would have been possible to save 200 or 300 more but for attacks by German bombers on the ships engaged in the task of rescuing Italian seamen." Judging by the complements of the lost ships, about 1,500 Italians had perished...