MR. CORDELL HULL
NO OFFICIAL KNOWLEDGE
OMINOUS REPORTS
AMERICANS ADVISED TO LEAVE EAST
(By Telegraph—Pres^ Association—Copyright.) (Received February 14, 9.30 a.m.)
WASHINGTON, February 13.
The Secretary of State, Mr. Hull, at a Press conference, said that he had no official knowledge regarding reports on the urgency of the international situation which prompted the meeting of the Australian War Council, nor of reports that Netherlands ships had been ordered to neutral ports. ' Mr. Hull said that United States consular officials in the Far East had been instructed to renew their suggestions that women and children and non-essential men should leave. He described the instructions as merely a precautionary measure.
A Shanghai message states that the United States Consulate-General has issued a circular reiterating the advice of last October for non-essen-tial American residents, including women and children, to evacuate the city at the first available opportunity.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 7
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