Americans in Japan Hold Five-Hour Meeting Tokyo, Mar. 2.
Decision to evacuate all missionaries from Japan, Korea and North and Central China was reached at a meeting of American Methodist missionaries in Japan yesterday at the Aoyama Gakuin. A The meeting, which lasted for five hours, decided on evacuation due to the inability to obtain funds from the United States to live in the Far East. Meanwhile, it was reported that seventeen missionaries sailed last night for the United States aboard the liner President Coolidge—Domei, Equador and Mexico. The number in the other American republics is insignificant, There are a number of reasons for restrictions against Japanese immigration.
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