Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-21 | Page 4 | Japan Okehs Departure of 26 Americans

Japan Departure Of 26 Americans TOKYO Aug l U UP The Japanese N Y It Kj Ij ste steamship p ship line was understood t Thursday urs ay to have accepted bookings for 26 26 American Amen Ameri can officials on the S S. S S. S Maru sailing from Kobe for fot Shanghai on August 28 The bookings bookings book bool ings w were re believed to have been taken Under foreign office pres pres- sure The United States recently has been awaiting a satisfactory Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese explanation of refusal of permission permission permission per per- mission for about Americans to leave Japan and has implied they were being held as hostages The party booked to leave Kobe included nine navy and two marine marine marine ma ma- rine officers and four army language Language language lan lan- guage officers in addition to two consulate clerks on home leave and nine consular employees evacuating evacuating evacuating ing from Russia Most of them expect to get passage passage pas pas- sage across across the Pacific on the thet transport t r I a an n s p o 0 r t Henderson leaving Shanghai late this month The N Y K action was along lines believed to have been originally originally suggested by the United States embassy for evacuation of officials when Japanese sailings to the United States were canceled Other Americans leaving included Miss Martha Klein of Brooklyn Ray Deven executive of an importing importing importing im im- im- im porting firm and Ray Lewis em em- of an American American steamship line v