Show FLEES S TO SUM SAFETY NORTHERN CHINA BECOMES DANGEROUS GROUND AS THE manchurian LOSES honan province cleared of troops U S legation at peking in peril washington with anxiety over the safety ot of american citizens and diplomatic officials in northern china revived by news ot of the collapse bollap io ot of the northern chinese attack south of the yellow river the washington administration Is considering removal ot of the american legation from peking to a more easily defended point possibly dispatch ot of american marines from shanghai and possibly tho the philippines to also Is under consideration and there developed little indication that the reported plan to send marines under command of brigadier general butler at shanghai to to form an allied brigade tor for defense ot of that point would be objected to here with the northern chinese army reported in light flight from honan and an hwel hwei provinces to the north bank ot of the yellow river before the onrush of the southern nationalists it ft is felt by president coolidge that the peking legation because of its general inaccessibility should be moved to and that remaining americans in north china should be concentrated there according to prearranged plans |