The Archive · 1937

PROTECTION FOR

EVACUEES

S. Asks Tokyo's Help in Haichow Tokyo, Sept. 13.

Instructions to accord protection and all necessary facilities to American evacuees from Haichow, Kiang-were issued to-day by the Foreign Minister. Mr. Koki Hirota, to the Japanese authorities in China, according to the metropolitan pres Mr, Hirota's action, the papers said, followed a request for such facilities from Mr. Joseph Clark Grew, Amer-Ambassador to Japan, Mr. Grew, according fo the press, informed Mr. Hirota that the American residents of Haichow will be evacuated aboard American destroyers on September 19 and Sept 27.—Reuter, On the left is Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Japanese Third Fleet, on his flagship the Idzumo, The other pictures, are upper right, Japanese troops "mopping up" in the Yanghang sector of Woosung, and, below, a Japanese army unit in Yangtszepoo.

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