Show ' 11"''"- - I - I' "'""17'-mnWeather: ' ' ' ' - ' showers probable ' ' cloudy WYOMINGCloud x north showers south 1 NEVADA—Partly 0 - cooler cloudy 7 ' t 0 — ' : z - LN r " 1- "NN "444 t a nl 4 1447 110 -- - 1 (11"914ti : ' 1 L - I 1 i1 Gold Metal Market 7a1 - 43 335— Silver (newly mined) Silver (foreign) Copper - at5o r 140 Load 748 Subscription rates: Ittak Idaho Nelada inch' 90 senile year $1050 elsewhere St U :VOL 133 NO 105 daily and Sunday daily end Sunday ma $125 Wyoming IL ustied ver morning City as wool class 2111atdtIrasPorglia'r1381ritilPve SALT LAKE CITY UTAH WEDNESDAY MORNING JULY 28 1937 - Today 60096 dales and Salt last the :hoot ri ' t Tomorrow Iseph of — By 11 Walter Lippman' Have a Heart May NEW 'MIK July 27—Before one can discuss the merits of the fair labor standards bill it is tate its ling Parley Called 0 Speed Sugár Action Coloradoan to Talk Over Measure With Nation's Chief British Ship Captured By' Rebel Ctiiiser Off Coast of Spain - 71 Another English Vessel Escapes in Bombing While Statesmen in London Maneuver To Prevent War From Embroiling Al Europe Labor Board Defended Two American Sol By Roosévelt Reported President Replies To Charges Unit Favors Utions Wiiilita64±----:- ' 111:péipipg by Chinese: : : - 1I ' ' to neccuary a s k ourselves ::' ' : ::!?- :'0r4tZt:e' 0 to catch 7i ::4? 4tp ' 1' :: :: C:1:!:: con-Walt- er 0- ' ::'::::i" ':'i:':::':::: : :::::: - t:i::'S ti r"" ' ' 7 stat-es'1- -- - V air-cool- : 0 '''::' :::!":! :" :::li:'::' ii: ::!:: :1:!::::::::!1::::: :' !" ::: ': - !::!::::i:!': Cleveland Curbs Gatherings To Ease Strike Tension Court Measure Out P :i' ?:1!111': :::':::!::'i an Nippon Plans Hull Strives For P6'ce For War in In Far East - (UP)--Japa- r : 41 "0 e 1 Thirty-seventd 13-thi- ( nk B élfasU Waits o nine-pow- Visit of Kings 0 In Today I f sTribune le S4 f -- Veteran Marine Commands U S Troopsin Peiping te - 4 ' in-th- -- - 11 ?I 85-fo- ot I Patrol ' beet-growi- 1 Asertedly Firea Upon During : I3y HARRY J BROWN WASHINGTON July 27 (As)— LONDON July 27 (UP)--- A Tribune Washington Bureau BritiSh freighter was captured by President Roosevelt defended Tuesi ' lor"""d"' mty 27—DeterWASHINGTON whether we are Spanish 'nsurgents its owners announced Tuesday night and a day his national labor relations July In a fit condimined to force the passage of hospital ship of the British navy narrowly escaped destruction by board which has been charged with 1'1:::1':''':'::i':'i':'51:': i tion tu discuss v ( bill before congress adjourns bombs from a rebel warplane reports from Valencia said 7ity sugar leftism and bias in favor of unions :: Its merits No tho ' 1'::i:i:':::Y'': the The the from incidents congressmen occurred off the conference at He a one asserted would ask press ex ' ' states will meet in a bloc coasts of war-tor- n that the board has been fair to both a runner who Spain while ' 1 ": fin- ' and labor had ' Just capital Jones maneuverBritish statesmen were with Chairman Wednesday 4 tit ished the mar of the house Charges that the board is con-- ::'':'':i''7's-4tf- w' oommi- ing' cautiously to restore the interthe agriculture thon to run :: spiring with communist influences Y::::::1?:': ':''::!::: RIBA 0 s' to destroy southern industries were another mar- - tteeostithor of the bill now on the national neutrality project and pre- ::: ''1:''':: 1441k:' 1 vent war the civil from ) wade yesterday by Representative embroiling athon before house calendar to konAder ways '::'V'"'''' :: ' ! all Europe even he Rankin had (D) Mississippi bill the means and of bringing Led The owners of the British freighter had a chance before the house f tc Previously Senator Nye (R) In— Mirupanu ie '::::':::1:i:::!: IItiti' announced that the yes- diana ::: 1 had declared that the board is and eowsk m '46"111'''A''A:s::': Discussion will center eel around the had been so biased in favor of John L Lewis' :iV 11J captured inSpanith his '06 waters territorial demand of Secretary Ickes that :" by the insurgent breath yet Committee for Industrial Organiza'ps1 !al Ciudad de Valencia while tion "that the average man regards Lippmann grass which is the bill be amended to remove all cruiser ::' :':7 ::: he en route to from Amsterdam Gijon it as an adjunct" hot and is tired from a session restrictions on :': ii 4E?:':!::ir::C:':t:':4:::: ' of sugar :'±'::' !'':::'::: I?t:::! edI refining that has gone on since January in Hawaii '' Hugh L Johnson the former naThird to be Captured aI Rico Puerto and This tional recovery admieristrator conwhich has had its mind fixed in:::'::':::::E':'!:F:::':lt:':''2:::'::A1: tended that the board is a onesided tently on constitutional and po- Is the stumbling block that has beIt was the third British steamer to ty captured by the rebels in the six months held'up house aetion for weeks "pressure" group unsuited for its to islitical queltionsto for tf:'::':i 30 ty past days nt::::r:::i041:?:z:'k consider debate being asked quasijudicial work '!::1‘"?'4: 'S!' of Colore Cummings Representative A :: from Valencia loyaldispatch most the enact and complicated -Doing Impartial Job economical- - proposa- l- since the rado head of thebeetAugar group ist emergency capital reported that '1''''':'''''''::!:' in the house who ananged the an insurgent '"0'"k a6' said 'ruesday warplane dropped A original N R A )ft bombs around the British hospital accased also has been board that the an conference aphas fr Wednesday haiMaine outside Valencia ship of being biased in favor of manageAdministration Needs pointment to talk 'sugar legislation' bor but the explosives missed their was thesis ment The president's with the president on Wednesday mark - that since the criticism comes from ''''?::'!:::J!':'1:'!::':::::1'::''::1:::7::'i::1:i1:!:!:::kr:1:C':::::: morning The confereir e with The 10100-to- n a ' Maine which has both sides it is a sign that the board '''''''''':::ii: Chairman Jones will be i'!tld in the removed 1200 war from is doing an impartial job refuges Dproopchte: I: administration needs afternoon and Cummings- will then Valencia during the last month Mr Roosevelt expressed belief at this momebt is not report the attitude of the president was en rote toaValencia where she that the Wagner labor relations act and took aboard 406 more refugees for men it needs the homely advice Opposes Changes which the board administers is not p e' r removal to Marseille France at all onesided of an intelligent family physi9h i Mr said will ne do Cummings ) the two "incidents" believes if he cian I suppose that Mr Roosea AggraSkting Asked reporter by ' some of the talking at the White were a series of the act could be strengthened by velt is reasonably comfortable in House for he is developments inc:1 bitterly opposed to cluding: ' in more offices of the White the the unions responsible making changes demanded by Secretary 1 Disclosure that Russia en- Winston Churchill House and on his yacht over the Ickes "::: AL Demands living up to agreements the presiJr-week-end- s of the mass use by report But the average Ben- raged on rebel guns trained on dent said he did not know "If the report on restriction of ' of Italian troops by the Spanish Gibraltar ator and represenative lives un- - sugar in Hawaii Puerto refining His defense of the labor board and Rico and der physical conditions tvhich pre- Cuba is once raised" said Mr Cum- insurgents in fighting outside Mathe labor act raffle while Senator 4'::':::::::: drid plans to blast all hopes of reclude fresh and clear thinking at Black (D) Alabama was striving :: "it will not be long before gent guns trained upon the British on the senate floor to prevent the nonintervention the storing this time of year He can go mings ' project the American sugar refining busi2 Demands in the house of com- naval base of Gibraltar administration's wage-hobill through the motions of legislat- ness will be wiped out a all re- mons The 2500 vessel is a of - - - Mirupanu by Winston Churchill warfrom becoming a vehicle for amend""- -ing He can manage a routine will be done iJthe Is1ands ::":::: time first lord of the admiralty tons: Glasgow Ls its home port ':::1!1A'':ii:':::::::g:::: But it is just impossibie that he fining the Wagner labor relations mentsto And when the Is1and get full conThe one cruiser ::441" fired insurgent act shttld be able to bring to the trol of the refining of cane sugar and now a "renegade" conservative 1'ili:::: i:' ' j: i:: (Continued on 1!:ii:::'::::!: :::!': ''''1ii :::: ::':' study of this' bill his full powers it will be but a short time before for information regarding insur :: 11! Changes Proposed I 11 of analysis and judgment That our beet sugar industry is wiped is why Mr Roosevelt needs the out This issue is vital to the beet Opening debate on the proposal to advice of a family physician He establish wage and hour standards as i to well Amerias sugar industry Abandoned hopet for peace needs to be reminded of the ob- - can labor" he sought to headebff a move by General Sung Cheh-yuvious rules of physical and men- Senator Vandenberg (R) Michigan Mr Cummings says he would after receiving Javanese ultimatum I who has announced he will propose tal hygiene that tired men- - Who rather have no sugar bill Ulan the n w — 7 do not get enough sleep who are Jones bill amended to meet the amendments to increase the responfed up with public affairs are views of sibility of labor unions to prevent Secretary Ickes union coercion of employes and to incapable of dealing with such a A CLEVELAND July 27 (AP)—A proclamation by Safety Di- give the employer the right of apcomplicated matter at the fag Opinion Growing end of aWashington summer 16414 The opinion is growing in con- rector Eliot Ness prohibited Tuesday night any assemblies in the peal to the labor board act carries a guarangress that Secretaries Ickes- Wal- riot-tor- n district - fronting Republic Steel corporation's Corrigan-'McKinne- teeTheofWagner collective bargaining and lace and Hull are trying to bluff Wages Bill Held ( outlaws "unfair" practices by emplant congress on the sugar hill that Republic went to court Tuesday ployers Many employes have con- 'Self-Defens- e' As Complicated they say they would prefer no 1 tended that the act is onesided that in an effort to limit picketing bill that did to a sugar legislation For let there be no mistake not remove the restrictions on re"All citizens are hereby prohibit-Reporte- d they should be given more rights — ' this bill is a very com fining in the islands under it and that unions should be TOKYO i - about it measure July 28 (Wednesday) WASHINGTON July 27 GI ed from congregating or 'gathering made more It stts up a Hull apprehensive of plicated n responsible Mr Cummings points out that announced Secretary Wednesday in groups in riotous assembly or "The labor committee reached the ' board of five men who are to failure to pass the sugar bill would mass formations except under per- conclusion it would be unwise and that her patience was exhausted in danger to the 1300 Americans in make decisions affecting wages withhold dolittrs of millions from 27 (UP)- -- mit lawfully issued" Ness ordered ' WA§RINGTON July hours children youths appren- - the to deal with anything in the north China situation and that Peiping disclosed Tuesday he had of Hawaii and sugar The proclamation barred assem- improper tices the physically and mentally Puerto Ricoproducers this bill except wages hours and she was prepared to wage a general expressed to Japan and China the judicial reform bill blies dollars would rep- A three-poithat within 500 yards of any plant child labor" he said but undeclared war in handicapped in any industry or resent the difference between a omitting all reference to enlarge- hope that there will be no fighting gate trade or service that the board profit and a loss on 1938 sugar busi- ment of the within the ancient walled capital of court and Board supreme Asked said who A OV have office would Empowers commerce foreign-is in interstate spokesman thinks el authority ness Moreover he pointed out that the Manchus According to Senator Black's if the sugar bill is not enacted all carrying no provision for additional to issue permits to persons desirThe Bill which bears Black's that the Japanese are "compelled to enter in the The Americans In Peiping Indestricted to he resort the area ing bill not does contain to lower was court judges report "this reported the officials and other employes nanie and thatof the late Represenclude 675 civilians registered at the any delegation of legislative powt-- of the sugar division of the depart- out unanimously late Tuesday by replied:— tative Connery (D) Massachusetts form of decisivemeasures" adcount "Patrolmen on the scene will be would embassy (as of January 1) the "I regret to say that on en" The committee nas sought ment of agriculture would lose their the senate board an administrative give marine corps guard at the embassy judiciary committee authorized to issue oral permits" "to decide every question that Jobs and he does not believe Secrefix ri minimum wage as of the increasingly hostile attitude to power of the consisting of 22 officers and 489 Twentyninth (Chinese) men if? calls for a decision by congress tary Wallace would favor such a It was accompanied by a special Will Alter Shifts' high as 40 cents an hour and a and nearly 100 wives children on legislative policies' If this curtailment of his force Therefore memorial asking Attorney General work week as low as 40 army the Japanese military was or maximum other dependents of tue enlisted were true and manifestly it is he is convinced the S Cummings to report to Ness also announced that com- hours for industries in interstate forced to abandon hopes for a Homer department on the need pany officials agreed to change commerce It would also prohibit peaceful settlement and commence force not true this bill wouid decide all heads are trying to bluff or congress congress next session court reand London Paris hours at said dispatches which he enter out will employes operations" the complex questiont arising child labor judges and leave Utah congressmen are not for additional district k The operations he asserted were port the British and French gov- 74 of the competition among various outTheof accord the plant so that all Black held the floor for several with the main views The three main features: taken action similar shift be will to "impress the" Chinese ernments-havmade changes designed during hours explaining the objectives of tegions of the country and among of Mr Cummings especially as to 1 Intervention by the United of keeping to Hull's But the latter emphasized daylight innecessity of the world If the ex- with the in nations cases States the is labor government the bill behind lie removal that Agricultural 0 After Republic went to court in which they regarded as a thathis move was made independ- bill did really attempt to decide of all restriction on refining in volving constitutionality of federal by a definition written into pledges of empted S'' its ently effort to curtail these questions surely it ought the islands statutes picketing the bill but the senators wanted to scrap paper" Hirosi Saito Japanese ambassaat least to be thoroughly consid2 Direct appeal of constitutional C I O responded it would show make it more ironclad "Japanese patience is exhausted" dor and Dr C T Wang Chinese To Hold Conference "paid agents and hired thugs" of ered by congress and by the councases to the supreme court Colorado he declared "Withdrawal of the ambassador called at Senator (D) Johnson the state deh the company division (Chinesm were responsible Three-jildg- e cases all 3 courts for labor child the provi(try at a time when men can give senators that Wednesday morning insufficient to insure partment Monday and t is underfor "all of the trouble Monday proposed Sento what If it on Page Two) to their attention are in which Continued are states to from the beet injunctions sought : 41 sugar (Column Four) Japanese safety The Japanese al- stood the secretary expressed his ator Black says of his own bill hold an independent conference of bar enforcement of federal statutes night" r ready have moved to protect for- sentiments to them were true it would be little short their--owto consider the Ickes with one ofrt the judges a member of estRepublic the nation's third largIn answer to reporters' questions steel produceraskedtha-commoof passing demands and to ascertain whether the circuit-coueignersin the Peiping area" of an outrage of appeals the gover nment Tuesday Hull suggested that the Meanwhile pleas court to fix the number Kin a hurry at this session bill to the addition In is theist the designed or shall accede upon they of pickets at each plant entrance asked parliament to provide 96000- - time has not yet come to discuss Oo passage of the bill without the speed appeals by private litigants and demanded an 400 yen ($21840000) to finance Ja- any Invocation of the injunction against Public be filed shall demanded of Need that providing appeals provision by Secretary pan's military adventure in north treaty or any mediation by the with workers Ickes Senator King is- - in accord within 30 days of the lower court interference d United States The treaty guaranChina ' Chief Justice Homer G Powell Str-essebe shall decision that and R with Rawlins for J papers spokesman tees the territorial intigrity of ordered a hearing Wednesday At pinion filed court within the is for who the Utah 'beet with supreme growers China the same timeB J Damich who BELFAST Ireland Northern If on the other hand the bill accepting the Ickes 0 60 days amendments as reginal director of the C L O as I believe 1s nothing but an 27 till—Four thousand special Canal Enoineer Gets steel union is a defendant request- July other vast delegation of power to N Y Pays Tributes ed an investigation by the senate police moved Int0 Belfast Tuesday Reclamation Post another presidential board it cer1 to help line the route along civil liberties committee Lae City tainly ought not to be passed un:—e EL CENTRO Cal July 27 UD— At Marconi Mass Mayor Harold H Burton visited which King George and Queen Eliztil public opinion has had a chance uly 2 union headquarters near the steel abeth will travel Wednesday to understand it To pass! it now on R B Williams construction engitt NEW YORK July 27 (211---A canal reneer on the would be in effect to give Mr plant to examine the damage from their coronation visit to Ulster (For an Historical Scrapbook Clip and Pasta Daly) a four-hoceived word Tuesday of his appoint- crowd that filled St Patrick's 0- Roosevelt new vast and undefined fight between strikers si and workers in which more than 80 Every person occupying windows ment as assistant commissioner' of thedral heard a solemn- - high mepowers without letting the country persons suffered injuries requiring to view the monarchs' procession the U 8 bureau of reclamation He morial mass sung Tuesday for realize what had been done NATIONAL discussed for mining who died a will leave for Washington this week Guglielma Marconi treatment: hospital The attempt to aggrandize the and conference Afterward convention along Lliburn road will have to be to take over Cleveland restricts gatherings to — new duties week his ago met Burton Mayor 7 personal power of the president 'Plans Salt Lake City September Page 1 prevent atrike rioting aC I O and forwarded able to give an account of himself by slickness and Indirection has Beet Page12- to Republiccommittee sugar states' representatives a Steel been defeated with the destructhat it Authorities said this order was request budget public bearing pbst- hire no will meet to spur sugar measand a "formality only as the district is workers tion of the Maveriek judiciary 22 5 to Page August ure Page 1 poned that it give him a complete report intensely loyal?! bill The attempt to aggrandize It was known 9 on to attacks labor Roosevelt on circumstances leading to the at- however they were concerned lest INTERMOITAIN replies '' his polver over industry by tak1 board relations Page Gasoline blast burns kill farm tack on the union soup kitchen Catholic and Protestant enmity ing advantage of the weariness House passes bill authorizing six worker 13 Tells of of congress and the inattention Belfast's marked has which Page history Attack new assistants to president of the country should certainly be Davis county boy found after night for 50 years should start a fresh Al Balint C 10 organizer told outbreak on the occasion of the ' Page 2 In fields 13 defeated at this time Page WASHIN'GTON July 27 (Al— In 1930 For two years he was dissalaries Girdler's Hikers rescue Colorado man trapped the mayor 200 "company" men made royal visit For if this is a good measure It Chrysler's marine colonel who attached to the American legaA 2 closed federal unit Page by on mountain ledge can wait until January Even if rage 13 the attack Hesaid it was "planned King George and Queen Elizabeth bears in Nicaragua resemblance to the tion favors holding little by Republic Steel corporation as an who already have visited Scotland It is urgent it can wait until Congressional group ' Colonel Marston was with the SPORTS 2 boosttax excuse to bring the national guard and Wales will arrive on the royal fabled hard-boile- d Page leatfilrneck" ccimpany can wait till marines it the - occupation of 4 :: October4 rest I Boulder dam rider supporters lose Budge and Parker win singles to back to protect scabs" Guardsmen yacht-Victor- ia until hecoieiiires and Albert from is in command of the American Vera Cruz in 1914 has pursued haquid 21 is 14 clinch Davis Pag4 were withdrawn soon after Repub Stranraer Scotland Just across the cup Page of- °pinto in Peiping bandits in northern Haiti and e legation guard Yankees over — "strike" draws Platinum prospectriumph T4geruatterlIc—reopenifFltr—four-plants--hercome Wick:tem their 'vacations North channel QuTet—a n d 14 11 4 Alaskao tors to 6 Page Page inning July without violence It can wait until men are pre served as personnel officer of the An impressive display of naval Colonel John Marston of Merlon Medwick poles eullo homer in ninth A crowd estimated by Police Cap and FOREIGN pared to stucty it and are In a marine corps in Washington for forces such as Ireland rarely station air county Montgomery 14 as tam Giants defeat Cards n John Savage at from 2000 to has seen will serve as Page mood to debate 1:t never ib spotted three years protecting Japanese troops hammer at four Kingsley and Goodman leaders Pennsylvania In 30000 strikers and strike sympa- escort as the The colonel is married and nas steams up Bel- for a devil dog when he wears walls of Peiping Page 1 amateur golf trials yacht 15 Page ' thizers who remained near the fast lough a long arm of the civilian clothes But hi3 23 offithree children His wife and one British freighter captured off Spain : plant all day Monday continued channel FEATURES cers and 493 men can testify that Unique Strike' Ends by insurgent cruiser page 1 daughter married to Captain John near by most of the time Tuetley ' S LetcheT a member of the leRebels slaughter two loyalist ri- On the monarchs' program - Is on duty he is a strict aisciplinaage Pagel SAN RAFAEL Cal July 27 15 Poil 3 Editorial lunch at the government house a natl gation staff are with him at gades In fierce clash 'Sports Cold and hungry Meyer Goias 82 Dismissals Ford Plant a Comics 17 Society " to 1918 Pto was an at StorFrom1916 Peiping Another daughter wife party government garden Los Angeles burglar ended a sit- Earthouake toll mounts to- 3 in Dorothy Di 19 9 Financial — 19 Foremen mont Castle home of Northern Ire- Inspector in the Haltinn guard e down strike Tuesday after clinging Mexico of Captain Lamar Curry' lives A Child Page 4 Health I Explained by Training DETROIT ' ' L LOCAL 16 Needlework I Theaters July27 UPI — Ford land's premier Lord Craigavon and and from 1929 to 1931 served in at the marine base at Quantico for 19 hours to a brilliantly illumi1 Motor Obituaries Va and a son John Jr is at 10Lippmann contpany foremen exp1ained- an inspection of the Belfast ship- the Nicaraguan gardia winning tower in Sap Quentin City judge inaugurates new method Weather nated 3 19 Mark Sullivan (Continued on pans Four in this country merit school of the medal 22 Intermouniata of I 6 i Nicaraguan fines yard& 13113oake Acolumn Carter Page prison imposing "s" Inty - er of NANKING 28 July office Chinese foreign announced today UP)--'- rha officially that the Chinese army h twenty-nint- City bad adminis- tered a smashing defeat to the Japanese army in North Chhm capturing the Japanese field headquarters at Fengtal live miles west of Peiping TOlii() July 28 - (Wednesday) the of correspondent LIP)--T- he newspaper Asahi reported today two American from Peiping soldiers had been wounded by troops of the Chinese Twenty-nint- h that army The troops of the Chinese army which Japanese are seeking to drive out of north China Assail reported fired on the Americana while they were on patrol duty n In the city - - crisis-ridde- —One of the United States dlers was seriously injured the Asaid dispatch declared while the other was slightly wounded The United States maintains a 7 detachment of marines at Peiping as a guard for Ito embassy TIENTSIN July 21 (Wednes— day) (—The Japanese high command announced Wednesday its advance guard had captured Nsnyuan barracks south of Peiping — after desperate fighting in which the Chinese Twenty-nint- h back on the cient army wu driven walls of the an- city -- The Japanese army com its victorious munique said troops entered the stronghold at II:30 a m and the defeated Chinese of the division were retreating to the northwest toward Peiping The main body of the Japanese army was reported executing a wide flanking movement to cut off the Chinese reThirty-seven- - — th treat The Japanese infantry attack was supported by squadrons of bombers whose repeated attacks hdlicted heavy casualties PEIPING Wednesday July 28 (UP) — Japanese troops striking swiftly oft the heels of a virtual declaration of war against the Chinese defenders of Peiptrig attacked -the walled city from four sidetidawn Wednesday shortly before Chinese military sources reported Peiping was in an uproar Chinese civilians as well as foreign residents including several hundred Americans fled to the legation quarter where marine guards erect-ed sandbag barricades The Japanese rolling northward from their military base at Fengtai encircled the city and began hammering at Chinese positions with trench mortars Gives Notification At midnight the Japanese military command delivered its notification to General Sung Cheh-yua- n that peace negotiations had been abandoned and the Japanese army was ready to take "free action" Almost ( simultaneously General - Sung notified the Chinese central government that he had "abandoned hope of peace" and was ready to fight the Japanese From the south two central noes° divisions marched northward The 37th to aid the city's defense division dug in within the walled" city sandbagging streets and pre pared to resist the advance of the Japanese infantry and machine gun brigades The announcement of the Japa- nese military spokesmen said the attack was a "punitive action directed solely against Chinese opposing the Japanese and added there was "no intention of making 100000000 Chinese residing in north China the objective of our punitive — action" : Warn Foreigners The announcement 'said Japan would not use force within the walled city "unless the Chinese precipitate fighting" but warned that foreign nationals might be endangered It stated clearly that Japan now Intends to drive the Chinese soldiers out of Peiping and "mete out deserved punishment to the challenging Chinese troops" The announcement declared 'Japan was "finally forced to take independent action" The term "free action" in Japanese military language means war as the military comarand is empowered to make war without notifying the Japanese government The notification was delivered at midnight Immediately afterward nationals all foreign including Americans were ordered to report to the legation quarters Marines otti Guard American marines filed out to the guar-te- r guard the western exit of - ” 4-- 0 The American embassy is on the southwest corner' of the legation grounds facing the direction from which the fighting was expetted to - come There were more than 600 Amen- can residents in Peiping but: nitanii' (Contiot)ed on iNige roue) (Column Wal o 41'0 ' - |