Papers Burned At Japanese Embassy

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1941, Page 5

Papers Burned At Japanese Embassy

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.

The special Japanese envoy to the United States (Mr. Kurusu), has obtained reservations to fly from New York to San Francisco.

A crowd watched the Japanese Embassy staff burn official papers in the Embassy yard, and then scuttle into the building as spectators shouted “Come' on out.”

The documents were destroyed within an hour of the war starting. The police arrived as the crowd became restless and dispersed them. The State Department announced that it had taken all necessary steps to protect official Japanese establishments and officials in the United States.

The Japanese Embassy doors were locked at 5 p.m.

41,000 in Hawaii

Federal agents are prepared to seize every Japanese national regarded as potentially dangerous. At Norfolk, Virginia, the site of the largest naval bases on the Atlantic coast, all Japanese residents have been arrested.

About 93,000 Japanese registered under the alien registration law last year, of whom 41,000 are in Hawaii.

The Treasury Department has closed the United States borders to Japanese nationals and imposed a strict ban on any financial transactions by Japanese aliens.

The Mayor of New York (Mr. La Guardia), announced today that he had ordered all Japanese nationals throughout the city to remain in their hemes until their status had been established by the Federal Government. The police at Panama are rounding up all Japanese, holding them under a heavy guard.

Such or the cable news in this issue as is so headed has appeared in “The Times,” and is sent to this paper by permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of “The Times’’ unless expressly stated to be so.