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Show AMEFNGAN MARINES : ORDEREDTD DANZIG WILL SEE THAT OUR SHIP8 HAVE FULL PRIVILEGE OF LANDING CARGOES. United Stateo In Accord With France and Italy In Stand Taken Regarding Regard-ing Polish Occupation of Russian Rus-sian Territory. Washington. It was announced by Secrctarot the Navy Daniels on Saturday Sat-urday that Admiral Huso and the American squadron now at lteval had been ordered to proceed from tliat port to Danzig. ' Later In the day Secretary Colby held a conference with Admiral Ktiapp nt the depurtment of state. It was learned from an official source that a complete new f-et of Instructions In-structions were sent to Admiral Huse. They ure so revolutlonarj'i In focti that they constitute a material change of policy on the part of the United States. First und most Important of nil, It is ns"ertaliied, the American government has determined nut lo Insist that tho Polish armies remain within the ethnic borders of Poland, hut that they shall be permitted to proceed u sufficient distance Into Itusslaii territory to safe-' gunrd Poland against further Invasion by tho soviet armies. In this the United States Is In thorough accord with Franco, regardless of the attitude ussumed by (3 rent llrltaln, Italy mid the other nations Poland has already been Informed of this change, but Is warned that hur armies must not proceed pro-ceed far enough Into Itusslnu territory to arouse suspicion as to the good faith of her purposes. It Is expected by the state depart-ment depart-ment that this liberty of action to Poland Po-land will bo more effective In bringing bring-ing about peace than any other suggestion sug-gestion yet made. In granting It, tho United States nnd Prance vlrtunlly accedo to the urgent request of Poland that a provisional ntnigetlc lino bo fixed preliminary to n final boundary that shall bo agreed upon by all nations, Including Kussla, at a council of ambassadors. Dispatch of Admiral Huse's squadron squad-ron to Danzig Is In accord with the determination by this government that American .merchant ships vhall have tho full privilege ot lundlng cargoes at that port. Tho first American test will conio when tho Warsawa, an American ship loaded with munitions nnd supplies, and now two dns at sea from Antwerp, Ant-werp, urrlves ut Danzig. Discussing tho overnight decision to send tho squadron from llevnl, Sccre'tary Daniels Dan-iels tuild, "I cuu only say that It was nt tho request of the state department, depart-ment, to protect American Interests." It was learned hero that Prance Is alreudy acting under tho policy. After wrangling for two days with Kir Iteg-Inald Iteg-Inald Tower, n French cruiser took tho situation In hand and began discharging discharg-ing arms and ammunition for tho Poles at Dunsdg. It was announced that It wus hoped these supplies could bo delivered to tho Polish forces by good will of the workmen, but If necessary nec-essary force would be used. |