]ANbSOME in her white paint ani blue-tipped funnels, the Matson liner Monterey steamed slowly up the Whangpoo River early yesterday afternoon ready to do her work of evacuate ing the first batch of Americans from the Far. East.
She bore little resemblance to what might be: expected of an evacuation ship for on her decks were no crowded masses of haggard refugees. On the-contrary, there were folly a few scattered groups of placid people on the decks of the luxury liner.
In fact she brought only sixty evacuees from Japan who mingled leisurely with about 115 passengers from America.
From Shanghai, the Monterey will take about 300 evacuees when she
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