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Show iEROi DIE IN CRIIIRF ft NATIONALIST SOLDIERS UNBRIDLED UNBRI-DLED ATTACK ALIENS, BRITISH BRIT-ISH LIVES ALSO LOST U. S. and English Warships Open Fire, and Ultimatum Goes Forth Washington Tho Chinese situation flamed to sudden crisis, filled with gravest possibilities in the roar of American and British naval guns at Nanking. An unknown number of American and British lives have been taken by a mob of undisciplined nationalist soldiers. sol-diers. Gnus of American and British warships and rifles and bayonets of American and British sailor3 blasted a way to safety for the survivors. Other foreigners, including mora than a hundred American men, women and children, are still in the seething turmoil of the river city, their fate uu-known. uu-known. Solemn warning has lj-jsn served cn nationalist leaders by tho American and British commanders io produce these unharmed or take the consequences. Menacing muzzles of naval guns, trained on a swarming city of a quarter of a million population, popula-tion, backed the demand. By what steps Rear Admiral H. H. Hough, American naval commander at Nanking, and its British colleague plan to enforce their ultimatum was unknown to the Washington government. govern-ment. In face of that fact Secretary Wilbur declared after conferences with Secretary Kellogg that Admiral Williams, the American naval commander com-mander in China, had unlimited authority au-thority to employ his forces ns he deemed necessary to protect American lives. "He has the full 100 per cent support sup-port of the government'., the naval secretary said. |