The Archive · 1940

Ships Heavily Booked

The widespread anti-foreign feel iment Japanese, nourished by vigor fous anti-espionage campaigns, has aly had the effect of creating an uncomfortable feeling even among old American residents of this county. who now are heard to say for the brat time that they find life here ise agreeable and uncomfortable.

Ships sailing from Japan this month aire heavily booked by foreign residents and warehouses in Kobe and Yokohama are being fied with the houxchold goods of Americans, waite ing to be shipped home.

American missionaries in this eoun-

Press Attacks on US. Continue Tokyo. Oct, 10.

The Japanese press today carried truculent headlines charging the United States with taking a "threatening attitude" toward Japan.

The leading Japanese newspaper refrained from writing. editorials on the evacuation of all Americans from the-Par East, and avoided other, Japanese-American issues. but Japan ese news despatches from New York. Washington and Shanghai were high opinionated, 'The "Asahi Shimbun," in a des: patch from New York' said. that! Japanese-American trade "relations already are on a semi-war basis.

The "Yomiuri Shimbun" said Possible withdrawal of United States Marines from China was "among the manceuvres to place further pressure on Japan,

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