Twenty-four Americans left Shanghai yesterday afternoon for Hongkong in the U.S.S. Sacramento. The warship will make a fast trip to the Colony in order to enable her civilian passengers to make conngctions there with the s. President Coolidge which will carry them to San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The warship's passengers gathered on the Customs Jetty at 1 p.m. and were conveyed to the Sacramento, lying in mid-stream off the French Bund, in naval tenders. At 2 pin. the warship steamed slowly out of the harbour while eight Japanese bombers sprinkled "eggs" over Pootung and Nantao.
A large consignment of outgoing mail was taken south by the w ship. After a brief stop in the south, the Sacramento is expected to return to Shanghai
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