United States" officials yesterday abandoned a plan for evacuating American nationals in the Far East to the Philippines before taking them back to the United States, it was learned last night.
The plan to abandon the Philippines as an immediate haven for American refugees from China, Japan, Manchoukuo, Hongkong and French Indo-China was based on experience gained several months ago when British women and children were evacuated to Manila from Hongkong, At that time it was found that accommodations could not be found for large numbers of refugees arriving at one time.
The Manila plan, which had been under consideration here for several days, was to evacuate American nain the Orient to Manila imrely through the establishment of a shuttle service between Manila and points from which Americans have been advised to evacuate. Ships sent on emergency missions from the United States then would have gone to the Philippines to pick up the refugees.
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