The Archive · 1938

Report to Mr. Roosevelt

DAVAO JAPANESE COLONY PROBLEM EXAMINED

Washington, Jan. 14.

Mr. Paul V. McNutt, United States High Commissioner to the Philippines, will visit Shanghai on a tour of inspection of American interests in the Far East before leaving for Washington to report personally to the President, high Government oficials informed the United Press here to-day.

Mr. McNutt will go to Shanghai aboard an American warship to con-for with Admiral Harry Yarnell, Commander in Chief of the U.S.

Asiatic Fleet, and other leading Americans in China before taking a Clipper plane to the United States, it was said. Officials said it had not yet been decided whether the U.S.S. Augusta, which is now in Manila after service in Shanghai during Sino-Japanese hostilities in that area, would be selected as the warship to take Mr. MeNutt to Shanghai.

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