ORDERED TO LEAVE COASTAL AREAS
ENEMY ALIENS IN AMERICA (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 3. Lieutenant-General Dewitt, Western Defence Commander, has designated a coastal area, consisting of 250,000 square miles, extending from the Canadian border to Mexico as a military zone, which all Germans, Italians and Japanese, including Japanese-Americans, must vacate. Although no dead-line was announced, it is assumed that all those affected must move before April 15. Approximately 200,000 persons are affected, thus posing a gigantic . resettlement problem for the authorities. EVACUATION PLANS Officials revealed that plans have been completed for the evacuation of 1,250,000 residents from San Francisco Peninsular and East Bay areas. Old ferry boats, pleasure yachts and every available craft will be pressed into service to carry the evacuees up the Sacramento river toward interiortowns when an emergency arises. The mass movement of vital records and documents is already underway from San Francisco to safer points inland.
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Southland Times, Issue 24685, 5 March 1942, Page 5
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