The Archive · 1941

Thailand Not Included

Bangkok, Feb. 15.

The United States legation here to-lay announced that it had received no instructions from Washington re-Jcrding the evacuation of Americans from the Far East.

Americans here believed that the new advice to Americans in the Far East to evacuate did not include Americans in Thailand. They recalled that the previous advice by the U.S. State Department did not affect Americans in Thailand.

Meanwhile the Foreign Office so that it had not received any information from Tokyo regarding the pro gress of Franco-Thai negotiations. Some Thal quarters interpreted ssu a fact as to mean that there was deadlock in the negotiations.—United Press.

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