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Show TWO CRUISERS JOIHSHANGHI AMERICANS CONTINE TO EVACUATE EVACU-ATE OVER WEEK END; ARMADA STRONG Immediate Action on Foreign Property and Life Protection j Advocated I i Shanghai With the evacuation of j Americans still remaining in various sections of China continuing over the week-end, the United States cruisers Richmond and Marblehead arrived here Sunday, reinforcing the American naval armada already in Chinese waters. The cruiser Cincinnati is expected ex-pected soon. Her arrival will complete the concentration at Shanghai of the American third light cruiser division, which will be the most modern naval unit in Chinese waters. The division is under the command of Rear Admiral Ad-miral John R. Y. Elakeley. The cruisers will be hold temporarily temporar-ily at Shanghai awaiting a decision for their employment. Asserting that militarism, brigandage brigand-age and bolshevism have destroyed all semblance of law and order in most of China, the American Chamber of Commerce Com-merce issued a statement in which the belief Is expressed that "immediate, concerted action of the powers to restore re-store the security of foreign lives and property at the treaty ports and t recover all foreign properties destroyed destroy-ed or confiscated will have a far-reaching 'fiueace throughout China and bo o! ultimate benefit to tho Chinese." |