New York, Mar. 21.
Mr. Louis Brown, secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, branded as groundless reports that Soviet officials had ordered the Chamber to vacate its Moscow offices Tokyo, Mar. 22.
Much anxiety has been aroused here over the fate of Lieut. T. A.
Peacocke, attached to the lst Heavy Battery at Singapore, who has completely disappeared since the middle of January. It feared he met with an accident while skiing at Shigakogen, in Nagano prefecture.
He arrived in Tokyo on January 14 later left en a skiing trip to Nikko and Shigakogen. His plan was to catch the P. & O. liner Com-erin from Yokohama on February 23 for Singapore.
The disappearance of the officer was first noted when the management of the Toho Hotel in Tokyo drew the attention of the police to the fact that Lieut. Peacocke's luggage had not been claimed.
Investigations by the police and the British Embassy failed to trace the officer's whereabouts. All the Embassy officials discovered was that Lieut. Peacocke had registered at the Kanaya Hotel in Nikko in the middle of January, after which his movements were unknown. assist the local Japanese authorities io clear up the mysterious disappearance of Lieut. Peacocke.
The Japanese authorities, with the aid of local boy scouts, are energetically combing the district in search of the British officer.
In view, however, of the fact that he left his trunk and hotel account unpaid at the Hot Springs Hotel at Hoppi and failed to claim his letters at the Nagano Post Office, Lieut. Peacocke is feared to have been overwhelmed by one of the many avalanches on the Shiga Plateau at the end of January.—Reuter.
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