Evening star., 1941-08-01
Transport West Point
Docks in New York
With 0usted ConsuIs
l9 Zomzom Survivors
Also Aboard u. S. Liner
Returning From Lisbon
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aug. THE United
States Navy transport West Point
docked with 38s passengers, mostly
consular service employees ousted
from Axis nations, shortly before
noon today amid scenes reminiscent
Of the first returns of World War
soldiers.
Approximately 2.400 relatives and
friends lined the pier Rs the huge
camouflaged ship was tied up and
tumultous cheer arose as soon as
those on board were allowed on the
pier. Embraces mingled with joyful
tears reminded observers of early
1919, when returning World War
veterans received like greeting.
Uncle Sam regarded their arrival
and the information they possessed
as so important that they were or
dered to 60 to Washington to make
full reports before taking vacations.
Within go days all will be given new
assignments.
State Department officials arrived
from Washington last night to greet
the incoming liner, the former
steamship America
The 27.000-ton liners passengers
included 66 Chinese government Of
ficials from Rome and Berlin,
Ecuadorean officials in Europe, mill
tary attaches. newspapermen, IA
aliens, l9 ambulance drivers who
survived the sinking Of the Egyptian
liner Zamzam and others who fec
the war.
Among the consular officials re-
turning from Europe was Frederick
A. Sterling. Minister to Sweden
whose i'll health caused him to seek
three-month leave of absence
Mr.. Sterling said he would report
to Washington before beginning a
recuperative leave.
With Mr.. Sterling was Prince Carl
Bernadotte of Sweden, who said he
was on a business mission. Both
denied they were here in connection
with reports that Sweden was about
TO enter the war.
Liners Reported Sabotaged.
Alfred r. Thomson of Silver
Spring, Md, consul general in Ham
burg, said he understood that both
the Brennan and Europa. famous
German passenger liners, had been
completely burned out inside by
saboteurs"
While I have no high authority
for this information said Mr..
Thomson, 1T is spoken of by every
one along the North German sea-
board. The Bremen is understood
to be in Bremen. I don't know where
the Europa is"
There are very few large ships
in the Hamburg Harbor I took q
tour around the water front recently
and all 1 could see were smaller
ships, the neutral ones brilliantly
lighted.
Whatever damage is done to the
Hamburg harbor is quickly cleared
up, as it is in Hamburg proper
Within days, even within hours
squads clean up all the debris. And
if an entire building is shattered
within short time there remains
only a cleared vacant lot. None CT
my staff has been injured"
No Antipathy toward U. S.
Mr.. Thomson said that British
planes fly high over Hamburg and
that on the few occasions when they
have flown low the losses of bombers
and pilots were great.
He said the true situation of the
damage done in Hamburg "lies
somewhere in the middle of asser-
tons made in German and British
communicates
"Hltler'S popularity shows no de-
cline in Germany that 1 could no.
tice," he said. MY German friend.
hope we do not come into the war
So far as I can see there Is nc
antipathy toward America"
Ray Colcord, jr, British American
ambulance driver and survivor oi
the Zamzam, who escaped from ar
internment in occupied France sale
that he and another American am.
bulance driver, Donald King
walked out the front door of oul
hotel on July 8 and escaped into
the darkness"