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Show CHAFFEE RECOMMENDS WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS. They WU1 Remain, However, Cntll Condl-- Condl-- (Ions Are More Settled. Major General Chaffee has recommended recom-mended that the United Slates troop now in China be withdrawn so sooo aa all the Americana in Pekin have reached places of safety. The president and all the members of the administration are anxious to get the troops out of China at the earliest possible date, hut itcan be said on authority that there will be no immediate im-mediate withdrawal of American forces unless there is an immediate change of conditions. There is a disposition in administration administra-tion circles to believe that General ' BRIG. GEN. ADNA R. CHAFFEE. Chaffee's recommendation was based on military considerations alone, and that -he did not take political positions into consideration, but there is reason to-think to-think that his dispatch was sent1 after' consultation with minor generals. |