Evacuation Committee Unable to Fill U.S.S. Sacramento The Commander-in-Chief of the S. Asiatic Fleet issued the following statement last night:
"The U.S.S. Sacramento left Shanghai at 230 p.m. for Hongkong with 24 American nationals as passengers. Included among the passengers were men, women and children. These passengers will be transferred to the s. President Coolidge, leaving Hongkong on September 18. The Sacramonto has accommodation Kor forty persons. Forty spaces have been reserved in the President Coolidge. Every effort was made by the evacuation committee to find forty American citizens who were willing to leave Shanghai at this time. They were only able to find twenty-four."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.