Japanese Diplomats Ιο Be Guaranteed Safe Return Home

Nomura and Kurusu May Be Held Until Grew Leaves Tolcio

By HI.AIR BOI.LES. Announcement of arrangements

for the protected departure of Japa- nese diplomats from Washington was expected momentarily today to come

from the State Department, and the handsome white stone Japanese Em- bassy at 2514 Massachusetts avenue Ν W. soon will be but an untenanted reminder of the davs when Japan and the United Spates used to avow ♦heir friendship beneath the sym- bolic setting of the Japanese cherry- tree· that shade Potomac Park

The diplomat.*—headed by Am- bassador Kichisaburo Nomura, who arrived here last February 14— and consul* are ready to go. Members of the Embassy staff yesterday burned their code books In an out-

flr# behind the Embassy, on to»· grassy «lope that runs down Into Hock Creek Park. Newspaper men Watched while the Japanese aecrets •ere fed Into the crackling flames.

The Are of private paper· burned •r> brightly In the office of the San Francisco Japanese Consul, Joshio Muto. that the Fire Department harried to the scene. A wall of the consulate broke Into flames. The Conaul In New Orleans. Kenzo Ito. burned his papers In the back yard while police on special detail watched with unconcern.

Safety Guaranteed. International protocol dictates

Iruarantees of safe conduct for the dinlomat* and consular nMro rt r\t

the enemy nation But the same protocol and practice allows for every precaution, which Includes sending diplomats from the Capital to the seaport of embarkation in railroad cars sealed to prevent their communicating with other persons.

In following these dictates, the United States is mindful of Its 45 diplomats and consular officers In Japan and Japan-held territory, chief of whom is Joseph C. Orew, the American Ambassador In Tokio for the past 10 years. Our repre- sentatives in Japan-held territory on the Asiatic continent are at Dairen. Kijo and Shanghai.

There is an unsubstantiated re-

port here that the United States Intends to hold Ambassador Nomura and Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu, the "peace" emissarv, in San Fran- cisco until Washington knows that Mr. Grew and his stafT are safely on their way to American territory.

War came three weeks and one

day after Mr Kurusu s arrival In Washington. Whatever mieht have been his own honest intentions in his mission, his conversations with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull served 'he Tokio government as si screen for its preparations to etrike against the United States.

In keeping with protocol re-

quirements, special police details have be^n guarding the Japanese Embassy and the homes of members of the Embassy staff—25 strong— since ye-terriav afternoon a* the reflect of the White Heure A pohre guard will watch over the Embassy until the day we resume relations with Janar..

•Tanane** Protected. Til" State Department made a

public announcement of the official solicitude for the well-being of Japan's official representatives In the United States.

"Immediately upon receiving news of the Japanese attack upon Ha- waii.'' the department stated, "the American Government took steps to nee that absolut* protection was ac- corded the Japanese official estab- lishments and official personnel with- in the jurisdiction of the United States."

The offices guaranteed protection include a consulate general in Hono- lulu. a consulate general in Manila and a con.-ulate in Davao Philippine Islands. No reports have come of threats against these offices, al- though thev are in the zone of bat- tle action already in progress.

Before the Japanese Embassy a rrowd of 150 to 200 persons gathered yesterday afternoon to watch the activities within. Shades were drawn over the windows of the chancery— the business office of the Embassy. The building is shaped like an L. with the Embassy proper set back from the street and the chancery coming down from it at a right angle to the Massachusetts avenue side- Walk.

Attaches walked about the roof of ©ne-storv chancery, peeping over

the high ledge to gauge the temper ©f the crowd, which for the most

part was good natured. Occasion- ally a cry would ring out. "Come out. you come on out." Secre- taries and attaches arriving at the chancery from their homes were booed as they turned their keys in the front door and hurriedly popped Inside

Visitor* Watched Closely. The roof watchers occasionally

took motion pictures of the crowd. Persons who rang the door bell were

acrutinized by members of the staff in the chancery, who drew back the shade on the right-hand window to aee who was calling Only telegraph messengers and Japanese were ad- mitted.

The high gates to the driveway leading up to the miin entrance of the Embassy were locked. About 4:30 ρ m. police chased from behind

Embassy a throng of citizens Interested in the progress of the Blysterie* within. A detail of four pcliee. guided by Commissioner Guy

REVEALS ATTACK—Stephen Early, presidential secretary (left), telle reporters at the White House that Japan has attacked United States naval and military bases In the Pacific. —A. P. Photo.

Mason -watched the crowd before the Embassy.

That portion of Massachusetts avenue on a Sunday afternoon Is. ι under any circumstances, a favorite stretch of Washington for promenad- ing. While the onlookers waited. Chairman Hill of the Senate Military AfTairs Committee, with his young son and spaniel, strolled by He smiled as he looked at the Embassy.

In order to make sure onlookers understood his sympathies, an oc-

cupant of the apartment next to the Embassy hung an American flag out of his window. Police Inspfctor Maurice Collins was in official charge of the Japanese Embassy protection The afternoon was cold for standing about and the crowd was dispersed % 5 ρ m.

Americans I^eave Japan. State Department officials said

there was no accurate census of Americans in Japan, but that de- velopments in Japanese-American relations in recent weeks had caused all but a few American citizens to leave that country.

The largest continent of Ameri- cans still in Japan are 45 American diplomatic and consular officers.

In addition to Ambassador Grew, the latest American foreign service list gives the following diplomatic and consular officers assigned to Japan:

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Dooman. counselor. New York: i Frank S Williams, commercial at- tache. Fannin. Miss.; George A.

Makinson. first secretan·. San Fran- cisco: Edward B. Crocker, first sec-

retary. Fitchburg. Mass.: Charles Ε Bohlen. second secretary, Clayton. N. Y : H Merrell B^nninghoff. second secretary. Chicago and Rochester. Ν. Y.; William T. Turner, second secretan'· Atlanta. Ga : Carl Boeh- ringer, third secretary. Bar City, i Mich.; Frank A. Schuler. third sec- i retary. Muskegon, Mich.: John K. Emmerson, third secretan·, Canon City, Colo.: Charles A. Cooper, third secretary. Humboldt. Nebr.: James Espy, third secretary, Cincinnati, Ohio; David T. Ray. language of- ficer, New York Citv and Berkeley, Calif.

The Army and Navy attaches at the Embassy are listed as Lt. Col. Harry I. T. Creswell. military at- tache: Lt. Col Henri H. Smith-Hut- ton. naval attache; Maj. C. Stanton Babcock. Capt. Karl T. Gould. Capt. Dana W. Johnston, and Capt. Ar- chibald Stuart, assistant military attaches: Lt. Everett L. Phares, and L*. Martin R. Stone, assistant naval attaches. No home addresses of the military and naval officers were im- mediately available.

The Consul General at Tokio is Ralph J. Blake of Portland, Oreg., and with him are two vice consuls, David A Thomasson of Henderson. Ky„ and Donald W. Lamm of Wash- ington. D. C.

O'her consular officers on duty in Japan or Japanese territory are list- ed as:

Dairen. Manchuria: Agustus S. Chase. Waterbury. Conn : W. Gee- land Richardson, vice consul. Fries. Vh.

Kijo. Chosen «Korea : Harold Β Quarton. Consul General. Algona. Iowa: Arthur B. Emmons, vice con-

sul. Boston. Mass. Kobe: Samuel Sokobin. consul.

Newark. N. J.: Arthur Tower, con- sul. Glidden. Iowa: Gerald Warner, consul. Boothwyn, Pa : William C. Afield, jr.. vice consul. Clarinda. .Iowa, and Minneapolis: Roy M. Mel- bourne. vice consul. Philadelphia: Frederick J. Mann, vice consul. New York; Otis W. Rhoades. vice consul. Frederick. Md.: Charles H. Stephen, vice consul. Brooklyn. Ν. Y.

Osaka: John M. Allison, consul.

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Holton, Kans : Stanley O. Slavens, consul. Austin. Tex.: Meredith Weatherbv, vice consul. Waco. Tex ; Thomas È. Burke. Tice consul, Tor- rington. Conn.

Taihoku. Taiwan: Glen W. Bruner. vice consul. Red Cloud. Nebr.

Yokohama: Irving N. Linnell. con- sul general, Boston. Mass: Jule L. Goerzmann. vice consul. St Paul. Minn and Niles W. Bond, vice consul. Newton, Mass.

Japanese Official* Here. At Shanghai. Frank P. Lockhard

is consul general. The Japanese, who have held Chinese Shanghai since early in their war with China, yesterday took over control of the International Settlement in Shang- hai.

In the United States and Ameri- can territory, the Japanese are rep- resented by their Embassy here, a

commercial secretary <Toyoji Inouvei in the New York, consulates general in San Francisco. Chicago. Honolulu. New York City and Manila, and consulates in "Mobile. Los Angeles. New Orleans. Portland. Oreg. Philadelphia. San Juan. P. R.; Galveston. Seattle and Davao.

Besidse Ambassador Nomura and Special Envoy Kurusu, the staff at the Japanese Embassy includes:

Kaname Wakasugi. minister pleni- potentiary: Tsutomu Nishiyama, financial attache; Maj. Gen. Saburo Isoda. military attache; Sadao Iguchi. counsellor; Col. Kekkiti SlnTyo, assistant militarv attache: Capt Ichiro Yokoyama. navel

attache. Katsu70 Okumura first secretary. and Koto Maisudaira. first secretary.

Hidenari Terasaki, first secretary and Embassy spokesman. Comdr Yuzuru Sanematsu. assistant naval attache; Lt. Comdr. Yoshimor: Terai. assistant naval attache; Mai. Murazi Yano. assistant military at- tache; Hiroichi Takagi. third sec-

retary; Lt. Magoto Takit, assistant naval attache; Masao Yagi. third secretary: Masana Horiuchi. attache, and Hiromu Hoshida, attache.

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Hisajiro Fujita. attache; Seiichi Shima, attache; Ryuichl Ando. at- tache: Jiro Inagawa. attache; Yoshio Yamamoto. attache; Nara-

ichi Fujiyama, attache. The -wives of seven of these diplo-

mats are here. The Japanese consular represent-

atives are:

Mobile. Ala., William Henry Arm- brecht. Honorary Consul. He is not a Japanese.

Los Angeles, Shintaro Fukushima, Consul.

San Francisco, Joshio Muto. Con- sul General, and Yasuro Ito, Consul.

Honolulu. Otojiro Okuda, Acting Consul General.

Chicago. Kihachiro Ohmori, Act- ing Consul General.

New Orleans. Kenzo Ito. Consul. New York City, Morito Morishima.

Consul General. Portland. Oreg. Kenichi Fuji-

shima, Acting Consul. Philadelphia. Edward Shippen

Morris. Honorary Consul. He is not a Japanese.

Davao. Jitaro Kijara. Consul. Manila, Katsumi Nihro. Consul

General. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Asiscio

Marxuach, Honorary Consul. He is not a Japanese.

Galveston. J. H. Langben. Hon- orary Consul. He is not a Japanese.

Seattle. Yuki Sato. Consul.

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Wave After Wave Of Japanese Planes Attack Hawaii

Quick Air Blows Deal Death and Destruction To Vacation Paradisq

By th* Associated Pr**·.

HONOLULU. Dec. 8 — Japanese bombers. striking lightning-like aerial blows from off the Pacific, brought death and destruction yes- terday morning to this mid-Pacific island fortress and vacation para- dise.

Scores of men in United 8tates uniform, as well as civilians, died under the savage blows which shat- tered the Sabbath morning peace and spread the European war to the vast expand of the Pacific Ocean.

At sea the United States Fleet apparently had engaged the enemy. Destroyers steamed full speed from Pearl Harbor, and spectators re-

ported aeeing shell splashes in the ocean. Unconfirmed reports said the attacking planes came from two enemy aircraft carriers and probablv th^se and other enemy ships were

being fought by the American ships. 'Unconfirmed reports from

Panama and London said a Jap- anese aircraft carrier operating off Hawaii had been sunk by United States Navy ships.'

At Least 50 Planes Counted.

Wave after wave of enemy planes steamed over Oahu Island for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Witnesses said they counted at leaat 50 planes in the initial attack, which the Army said started at 8:10 ajn. Honolulu time (1:40 p.m. Eastern standard time». The attack ended at 9:25 am.

A censorship was clamped down on outgoing reports soon after the first telephoned reports.

'The White House, in the first official American resume of losses, said this morning that "one old battleship'' had cap- sized in Pearl Harbor, that a de- stroyer had been sunk, several small boats damaged and that Oahu Island casualties num- bered 3 000. Half of the 3.000 were killed and the others wound-

ed. Secretary Stephen Early at the White House «aid ·

An Ν. B. C. observer radioed direct from the scene to New York that I

the United Sûtes battleship Okla- homa had been set afire

Enemy Plane· Felled. Bursts of anti-aircraft shells filled

the sky Two enemy planes fell in the Honolulu area

The attack seemed to center at Hickam Field and at Pearl Harbor, heavily fortified naval base.

The planes came in from the southwest, most of them flying high, a few flying low. Five dropped to within 100 feet of Pearl Harbor to launch their attack An oil tank was set ablaze and unconfirmed re-

ports said one ship in the harbor was on its side and four others were

set afire While some planes were attacking

Pearl Harbor others headed for Hickam Field to drop bomb*

The attack was not confined to

fortified areas Wahiawa. town of 3.000 population ϋυ mues nortnwesi

of Honolulu, reported that 10 or

more persons were injured when

enemy bullets sprayed the streets. Several fires started in the

Honolulu area were immediately controlled. Fire Chief Wallace Blaisdell said the fires "were not as bad a.s I expected

"

Big Hole· in Some Streets. Some street»* were pocked with

big holes, and citizens were wounded by the bomb fragments.

One of the bombs that started Honolulu fires fell near Gov. Joseph Β Poindexter s residence He escaped injury and soon afterward pro- claimed M-day emergency defense measures.

Perhaps the first to die was Bob Tyce, owner of a civilian airport near Honolulu. One plane swooped low and machine-gunned him as he was attempting to spin the propeller of a plane.

Spectators on the hills back of Honolulu could see dogfights all over the area as United States Navy

i and Army planes took to the sky after the first surprise. Anti-aircraft

guns mingled their noise with the roar of motors and the explosion of

j bombs.

Long War Is Ahead, Premier Reported Warning Japan

Tojo Said to Have Told People Fate of Empire Hangs in Balance

3T thf Associated Pr*ss.

BERLIN. Dec. 8—D. Ν Β. re-

ported today that Japanese Prime

Minister Gen. Tldeki Tojo had broadcast a message to his people warning them that they must be

prepared for a long war with the United States and that the fate of

the Japanese Empire hung in the balance.

Gen. Tojo placed responsibility for the conflict on the United States, according to Domei. accusing Wash- ington of making wholly unaccept- able demande on Japan.

"In order to destroy her oppo- nents and establish a new order in East Asia, the Japanese people must count on a long war." Gen Tojo was

quoted as saying. "The rise or de- cline of the Japanese Empire and all of East Asia is dependent upon the outcome."

He asserted he was convinced Japan eventually would prove vic- torious because "history shows that she never has suffered defeat."

Gen. Toi· was said to have ex-

pressed satisfaction with Japan's aJ- liance with Germany and Italy and said her bonds with those nations were growing ever stronger.

The Premier was quoted as say- ing the United States demands on

Tokio included unconditional and total withdrawal of Japanese force* from China, withdrawal of recogni- tion from the Japanese-sponsored Nanking government of Wang Ching-wei and renunciation of the three-power pact.

He declared Japan had showed "unbelievable patience in trying to avert war. "solely because of her desire to spare mankind tremendous suffering."

D.N.B. also reported that Emperor Hirohito had summoned the Japa- nese Diet 'Parliament) to a special session December 15 to approve emergency war measures.

Green Calls for End Of Defense Strikes By thf A«iOci»-.pd Pre»».

President William Green of the American Federation of Labor railed today for an end to strikes in defense industries.

He added in a statement that Japanese "treachery and aggression had aroused in American workers an unconquerable determination to see this fight through to a vic- torious finish at any cost."

American workers. Mr. Greer said, would now produce as worker! in no other country ever have pro- duced and would "keep steadfastlv on the job of supplying our armed forces with munitions of war unti: victory and final peace are won

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