The Archive · 1941

En Route to Chung!

ex, me Ment rst aus cee high military officials and leaders of the local civilian community.

Roosevelt will fly to Hongkong. tomorrow aboard the same clipper which brought him here.

"A Good Guess"

Capt, Roosevelt declined to reveal his eventual destination, but said that [Honolulu reports that he was en route Chungking constituted "a very Jgood guess." The President's son was Jaccompanied by Major Gerald Thomas, USMC, President Quezcn's Cabinet Secretlary, Sr, Jorge B. Vargas, and Mr. [Golden 'W. Bell, financial adviser of the U.S. High Commissioner to the [Philippines, Mr, Francis B. Sayre, as Jwell as representatives of the US, Navy and Marines greeted Capt.

Capt. Roosevelt was wearing the Juniform of U.S, Marines, He immediately called' on the commandant lof the Philippine naval district, Rear-JAdmiral Harold M, Hemis," Capt. Roosevelt, however, will not se JAdmiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander lof the U.S, Asiatic Fleet, who is leruising ili southern Philippine waters, or Mr. Sayre, who is resting Jat Baguio.

'Capt. Roosevelt was ordered to the }Far East by the U.S, Navy Depart. ment for duty, but the nature of the Jduty has not' yet been revealed.—[United Press.

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