Washington, July 14.
The British Government has pledged not to interfere with the projected trans-Pacific voyage of Captain Fritz Wiedemapn, German Consul-General at Sen Francisco. and Dr. Johannes Borchers, Consul-General at New York official announcements revealed last night.
Mhe request for a safe conduct for the two German consular representatives, members of their families and their staffs, was made by the State Department, and Great Britain agreed to the request.
Earlier. both Germans cancelled their bookings aboard the Yawata Maru which sailed from San Francisco without them, The bookings were cancelled because the Urited States had announced that the "safe conduct" guarantee for German consular officials ordered to leave this country would be valid only Jon American vessels.
To Sail July 31 lithe transport West Point was scheduled to sail from New York on "Tuesday carrying other Axis consular agents, Capt, Wiedemann told the United Press that he had received orders from the German Embassy at Washington that he and Dr, Borchers would not depart until July 31.
He said that these orders followed the refusal by the master of the Yawata Maru to return to Sth Francisco and pick up a group of sixteen German consular offücials after the belated receipt of the British pledge not to interfere with the Ggrmans crossing the Pacific, "Dr. Borchers is to proceed to Shanghai where he will assume the post of German Consul-General,—United Pres
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