London, Aug. 19.
Japanese subjects seeking evacuation from England may not be able to leave as Japanese vessels no longer call at United Kingdom ports in view of the German counter-blockade announced on August 17, it was observed here.
It was revealed that the Ministry of Communications on Saturday instructed the captain of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Suwa Maru, which was' due in Liverpool yesterday, to immediately leave the danger zone and take refuge in an appropriate port.
The Suwa Maru, together with the Hakone Maru, another N.Y-K. vessel, was to have evacuated the last 40
Japanese from England. The Hakone Maru, it was learned here, only left Durban en Route to Liverpool a few days ago, but probably will terminate its voyage at Lisbon.
+Meanwfhife, Mr. Chuichi Ohashi, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, told the press that he would study the problem of how to rescue the stranded Japanese. He pointed out that all ther neutral Governments are worried over the same question—Domel.
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