JAPS MUST LEAVE CITY NEXT WEEK

Two thousand Japanese from two districts in Seattle will be evacuated next week, it was announced today in San Francisco by Lieut. Gen. John L. De Witt, commander of the Fourth Army and the Western Defense Command.

Soldiers will be detailed from Fort Lewis to handle the removal.

Japanese will be removed from two areas in Seattle, under the present orders. The areas generally are the northwest section of the city and the entire South End. Their detailed designations follow:

1. All that portion of Seattle within the boundary beginning at the point at which the north city limits meet Shilshole Bay; thence easterly and following the northerly limits to Roosevelt Way; thence southerly and following Roosevelt Way, Eastlake and Fairview Avenues, Virginia Street and Westlake Avenue to Fifth Avenue; thence southwesterly in Fifth Avenue to Yesler Way, thence easterly in Yesler Way to Maynard Avenue; thence southerly in Maynard Avenue to Jackson Street; thence westerly in Jackson Street to Elliott Bay, and thence northwesterly and northerly and following the westerly city limits to the point of beginning.

2. All that portion of Seattle lying generally south of an east-west line beginning at the point at which Jackson Street meets Elliott Bay; thence easterly along Jackson Street to Fifth Avenue South; thence southerly in Fifth Avenue South to Dearborn Street; thence easterly in Dearborn Street to 23rd Avenue; thence northerly in 23rd Avenue to Yesler Way and thence easterly in Yesler Way to Lake Washington.

The garden areas adjacent to the city are expected to be included in further orders.

The Seattle evacuation is part of a general order which calls for the evacuation of 12,800 Japanese from the Pacific Coast during the next ten days.

All Japanese in Area No. 1 must register Saturday and Sunday between 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon at 2100 Second Ave.

The evacuees in the two districts will proceed, or will be transported to the assembly center at Puyallup next Tuesday, Thursday or Friday, as indicated when they register.

The Army asked that the head of each family register for the entire family, thus saving time.

Evacuees will be permitted to use automobiles to transport themselves to the assembly center, the Army said, if such automobile is registered in advance. Those not having transportation will be taken to Puyallup by train or bus.

Col. Karl R. Bendetsen, assistant chief of General De Witt's staff, said the tempo of evacuation is being increased all along the Coast.

The Seattle evacuation will be the first since the removal of 239 Japanese from Bainbridge Island late in March.

The next move here, it was expected, will be the removal of remaining Japanese in Seattle, those in the valleys to the south and those on Vashon Island.

The agricultural division of the Wartime Civilian Control announced today that 70 per cent of Japanese farm lands have been transferred to other operators. Most of the transfers have been made in California, it was said, and operators still are being sought for Japanese farms in the Puget Sound area.

[Photo caption]: Here are the two zones from which Japanese will be evacuated next week, as the result of an Army order today. About 1,000 Japanese are in each area, the Wartime Civil Control Administration said. Note that the orders did not affect Japanese who live in the University, Capitol Hill and First Hill districts. Presumably, their evacuation will follow later.