Many Japanese Leave City For Montana Prison

At Least 80 of 119 Arrested Believed Confined at Fort Missoula

The removal to an internment camp of the bulk of Japanese aliens arrested here since the start of the war was revealed today.

The departure of about 80 of the 119 Japanese aliens from the United States Immigration Station, 815 Airport Way, was observed early Saturday morning, but public announcement was withheld until they had reached their destination -- Fort Missoula, Mont.

No German or Italian aliens, 34 of whom have been taken into custody here, were observed in the group that departed.

R.F. Bonham, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, who was at the station, was thanked by many of the Japanese for the kind treatment they had received. There were few sullen faces among those who were forced to leave their homes and families.

The immigration station was teeming with activity all last week. Hallways were filled with weeping Japanese women and children who had taken baggage and had arrived to say good-bye to relatives and friends.

Since another group of interned Japanese aliens left here several weeks ago, it is believed that nearly all the 119 arrested already have departed.