Washington, Sept. 27.
The State Department announced that it has received reports that the German frontier has been closed along the Czech border and that United States citizens attempting to leave Czechoslovakia have been forced to return to Prague.
The United Stetes Minister in Prague has asked the American Embassy in Berlin urgently to effect an arrangement whereby United States citizens could enter Germany and teach seaports, Eighty Americans, with German visas for Paris, the Minister added, were unable to cross the frontier at Eger yesterday.
Mr. Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, says that while United States citizens have been advised to leave France, there are no concerted plans for the evacuation of Americans from France.—Reuter.
London, Sept. 26. The United States Consulate General was overwhelmed with applications for visas by—non-Americans today who were anxious to go to the United States to escape possible war or its. effects in Europe.
The Consulate was forced to institute a ruling that those holding steamship reservations would be given first consideration in the granting of visas. Consulate officials found dozens of Britons and other Europeans taking the precaution of obtaining visas although they had no chance of getting steamship passage for at least two months.
The pressure of work resulted inj delaying the granting of visas to bona fide travellers with passages already booked.—United Press.
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