The Archive · 1939

Mr. Nelson T. Johnson, U.S

Ambassador to China, will leave Shanghai this morning in the Canadian Pacific liner, Empress of Canada, for Hongkong on his way to Chungking. The American Ambassador went on board the liner last night.

Mr. Johnson will proceed to the provisional capital by way of Haiphong or Hanoi to Kunming, from where he will drive to Chungking. The Ambassador will travel alone, his wife and two children proceeding to Tientsin today aboard the USS, Isabel, flagship of the S. Yangtze Flotilla. The /'Isabel is expected to arrive in Tientsin on June 2.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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