Mrs. Simon B. Fleisher is in Washington to keep in touch with the State Department in order to learn something definite regarding the fate of her son, Benjamin Wilfred Fleisher, editor of the Tokio Japan Advertiser, and his wife.
Mr. Fleisher is the founder and first vice-president of the American-Japan Society of Tokio and president of the Pan Pacific Congress of Journalists.
The State Department has received word from the American Embassy anouncing the following among the survivors:
G. Baer. W.W. Baer, George Bloomendell, P. Boroskv, J.L. Koffman and family, L. Kopilova, U.G. Levitsky, Mrs. Charies and Master David Reich, L.C. Sharman.
The list of dead includes Mrs. M. Mendelsohn and child, and Jacob Stuchinsky.
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