The State Department authorized consulates to issue emergency certificates permitting accommodation of travellers in public rooms and other parts of ships where passengers or-dirianly are not carried, in order to facilitate evacuation from the Far it was estimated th: President Coolidge would be able to carry 1,200 persons instead of the rormal 900 passengers.
Observers understood that the State Department did not contemplate sending any special evacuation ships to the Orient. (The American Consulate-General in Shanghai announced information.) sent to Meanwhile, a Rome radio report was heard here saying that Empero: Hirohito of Japan' had received Mr Yosuke Matsuoka, Foreign Minister and Lieutenant-Gereral Hideki Tejo, War Minister, in special audiences—United Pre nationals were week.) here estimated there are ican Occidentals in China, 2,000 in Japan, 1.547 in Hongkong and 128 in French Indo-China ted Press,
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