Tokyo, Nov. 17. Means to secure the evacuation of American residents from Kuling, the summer resort in the Lushan mountains in Kiangsi province, are a prerequisite to their eventual removal to nghai, a spokesman for the Navy mistry said here today.
The mountains, he said, were still infested by Chinese troop remnants.
This statement was made in reply io a suggestion that the American residents of Kuling be brought to Shanghai in the U.S.S. Monocacy now at Kiukiang.
The Japanese authorities, the spokesman said, did not regard the time as "opportune" for the movement of the U.S, S. Monocacy because of the number of Chinese mines still Chinese guerillas on both banks—in the river and the presence of
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