Title: "Army to Take Japanese Off Island Monday," Seattle Times, 3/29/1942, (ddr-densho-56-728)
Densho ID: ddr-densho-56-728

ARMY TO TAKE JAPANESE OFF ISLAND MONDAY

Nipponese to Be Brought Here on Ferryboat, Then Put on Train for Manzanar Concentration Camp

Final plans were laid yesterday for the Army evacuation of 239 alien and American-born Japanese from Bainbridge Island "sometime tomorrow," under direction of troops of the IX Army Corps.

Removal of the last Japanese from the island will make it devoid of Nipponese for the first time in half a century.

The evacuees, men, women and children will be brought to Seattle on a chartered ferryboat, under the close supervision of armed troops, according to plans announced by Maj. Gen. Kenyon A. Joyce's office. The Seattle interlude will be brief, taking only so long as it requires to march the Japanese from the dock to a nearby railroad siding.

A special train of Pullman cars will leave Seattle for the reception center at Manzanar, Calif., as soon as loaded.

Army officials said the voluntary evacuations are over. Although the Japanese could have left voluntarily until tonight, all notified Army authorities that they would accept government transportation rather than go at their own expense and risk.