BORNEO PREPARES
WOMEN & CHILDREN
EVACUATED TO SINGAPORE
(Rec. 9 a.m.) LONDON, August 12. Women and children are arriving at Singapore from Sarawak, Labuan, and British North Borneo.. Two Singapore religious schools are accommodating nearly 1000 children and are being taken over by the military authorities. Sarawak is appealing for recruits for a volunteer force, and the Government "Gazette" announces the raising of forces, according to the provisions of the United Kingdom Army Act lor
service in Sarawak, British North Borneo, Brunei, and Labuan. The spokesman of the Cabinet Information Board in Tokio announced that the British Ambassador, Sir Robert Craigie, conferred with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Admiral Toyoda, on Monday, but declined to reveal the subject. He also announced that the 16,000----ton liner Asama Maru, which has been overdue at San Francisco since August 6, is returning to Japan without touching an American port. The vessel is carrying 98 passengers, of which 40 are Americans, and a cargo of silk valued at 3,000,000 dollars.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 7
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