Nanking, Oct. 12, The staff members of the local branches of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company and the British-Ameri Tobacco Company and their families will shortly evacuate Nanking under orders from their com-Danis.
Their belongings will be taken aboard two American gunboats which yesterday steamed up to Hankow to evacuate the American residents there, when these vessels return here, Amer ans Rush to Book Passages Shanghai, Oct. 10.
Following the announcement that American subjects in Shanghai would be advised to evacuate the city as quickly as possible by the American Consulate, there was a rush Americans to try to obtain bookings on ships crossing the Pacific yester~ day. They found, however, that both the American President tine and the Canadian Pacific Line ships are completely booked out until the beginning.
January, there being, at the moment, no available accommodation.
Other Americans remaining in Nan+ king will also leave the city, If developments in the Far Eastern situa-make their evacuation necessary.
Among 70 American nationals now residing in Nanking, 30 of them con-eled with churches and religious Work refused to withdraw from the city, pointing out that they remained here even at the time of the Sino-Zapanese Bighting in the Nanking see-
More Hongkong Evacuations Hongkong, Oct. 12.
The Hongkong Government has requisitioned another ship for the evacuation of additional" Hongkong residents to Australia, it was learned here today, 3
An official of the American Presi-tent Line told" the "North-China Daily News" yesterday that the best that can be done at present is to put those seeking passage on a waiting list, with no guarantee of any definite sailing date. "Ships of the American President line have been booked up until Christmas for a Tong time, he added, and at present no emergency measures for increasing accommodation of cots in the public rooms, have been adopted. It was emphasized that the ships have been heavily hooked up for the last year, 'A wholesale evacuation of Ameri cans isnot possible he stated, as ships are not available to cope with the situation, since it is believed that there is a' tolal_of about 15.000
Americans in the Far Enst.
'American business concerns 'Shanghai, however, are sending in reports on' the number of their employees seeking passage to the US.A.. and these are being advised of the Situation as it stands at present, The evacuation ship probably will all from Hongkong about November 4, it was understood—United Press.
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