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Show Warships Guns Protect Lives Shanghai Under the protecting muzzles of American and British war vessels an almost complete foreign evacuation of the great Yantze valley was under way In the midst of a rising ris-ing tide of antiforeign all along the river. From virtually every Yangtze port and from many inland stations the waterways and landways are dot-tod dot-tod with groups of foreigners, mostly Americans, fleeing from nationalist territory to the new uncertain haven of Shanghai. The evacuation is under official supervision and Is Impelled by the fear of the antiforeign wave now sweeping the Yantze valley as a reaction re-action of the Nanking bombardment to protect tho foreigners on Socony hill. A landing party of forty sailors from the United States destroyer Noah was the first of (he foreign forces to get ashore Thursday afternoon to rescue the beleaguered foreigners on Socony Hill in Nanking, it was learned on the arrival here of the U. S. destroyer William Wil-liam B. Preston. |