Evening star., 1941-07-21
Expelled i. :. ConsuIs
Head for Portugal;
Will Sail Friday
More Than 300 to leuve
Lisbon Aboard Navy
Transport West Point
Bv LLOYD LEHRBAS,
Associated Press staff Writer.

Portugal, from where they will sail
for New York on Friday aboard the
Navy transport West Point.
The largest unit, totalling 234,
comprising those expelled from Ger
many, Norway, occupied France. the
Netherlands, Belgium and Yugosla-
via, was reported concentrating at
Frankfort, Germany. This group
will cross the French border into
Spain at Hendaye and go on to
Lisbon by special train.
While reports of the concentra-
ton at Frankfort comprised the
latest information available here, an
embassy in Berlin said last night
that the group left Frankfort yester-
day by special train bound for Liz
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Smaller Group Enroute.
After some delay at San Reno
Italy, smaller group composed of
rs legation and consular officials
from Greece and consular officers
from Italy was reported en- route
across France, headed for Lisbon via
Barcelona and Madrid
Both parties have been expected
to enter Portugal at the same time
the West Point arrives in Portuguese
waters.
! With the group from GERMANY
were several Americans who had
been held prisoner by the Nazis
but were released as a result of
negotiations by the State Depart
ment involving the release of some
German nations who had been
held in this country.
Among the Americans were Jaw
Allen, correspondent of the North
American Newspaper Alliance. who
was captured when attempting to
cross the border between unoccu-
pied and occupied France without a
German permit, and Richard Hottie
let, United Press correspondent in
Berlin, who has been held in prison
for four months.
VIII Pick Up Ambulance Drivers.
Before crossing into Spain. the
special train was scheduled to pick
up q American ambulance drivers.
taken captive when a Nazi subma-
rlne sank the Egyptian steamer
Aamzam on April II. and released
after protracted negotiations.
With the Rome contingent were
Leslie E. Reed, Charge dAffaires
OF the American Legation in Athens.
which was ordered closed when
Italians replaced German troops in
conquered Greece, and IL members
OF the Legation and consulate staffs.
Each OF the Americans has been
permitted to take S2,5OO or the
equivalent out of German and Ital-
ian territory, but has been limited
otherWise to personal baggage. SIM
liar restrictions were placed on
AXIS officials ordered out of the
United States when they sailed
from New York on the West Point
The exodus of American officials
from AXls-controlled Europe leaves
the United States without consular
representation in most of the conti-
nent.
Situation Summarized
Here is how the situation shapes
up:
Germany-37 consuls withdrawing
from Berlin, Bremen, Cologne
Dresden, Frankfort, Hamburg
Konigsberg, Leipzig, Munich, Stutt-
gart and Vienna Embassy con-
tmues in charge of Leland Morris
Charge d'Affaires.
Belglum-SlX conSuls withdrawing
from Brussels and Antwerp consul
and vice consul remains in Leopold
vile, Belgian Congo, which has not
fallen to the Germans. Embassy
previously closed.
Denmark-Three conSuls with
drawn from Copenhagen. Legation
remains under Mahlon F.. Perkins
charge d'affaires. Consul and vice
consul remain in Greenland, now
under American protection, and a
legation is to be established in Ice
land, which was recently placed
under American protection.
France-Eleven consuls withdrawn
from Paris and Bordeaux in Ger
man-occupied France, in addition
to those previously withdrawn from
Calais, Cherbourg, Havre, Lille
Nantes and Strasbourg. Embassy
headed by Ambassador William D
Leahv remains in Vichy and consuls
remain in Lyon, Marseille and Nice
in unoccupied France. (Consuls
also remain in French colonies OF
Algeria, Morocco. Tunisia, Indo-
China. Martinique, st. Pierre
and Miquelon, Tahiti, Madagascar
French West Africa and Syria)
Greece: Two consuls withdrawn
from Salonika. Legation closed after
Italian replacement of German
troops.
II Withdrawn From Italy.
Italy: Seventeen consuls with
drawn from Rome, Florence, Genoa
Milan, Trieste. Turin and Venice
Embassy remains in Rome under
Ambassador William Phillips.
Luxembourg: One consul with
drawn.
Netherlands: Six consu1s with
drawn from Amsterdam and Rotter.
dam. Legation previously closed.
YugoSlavia: Two consuls with
drawn from Zagreb. The Legation
was closed after conquest of Yugo-
slavia.
Under an arrangement between
the United States and Germany sew
eral consular officials have beer
permitted to proceed to Turkey for
assignment All others were sched-
uled to return to the United States
Among the consular officials Or
dered from the Axis-dominateG
countries, are:
M. Gordon Knox, Catonsville, Md.
from Germany: Consul General Al
fred r. Thomson, Linden, Md, from
Hamburg; John A. Bywater, Wash
ington, from Konigsberg; Vice Con-
suls j. Stanford Edwards and Johr
A. Lehrs. both of Washington, from
Denmark; Jack S. Williams, Lynch.
burg, Va, from Paris; Eugene A
Masuret, Washington, from Bor.
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