Show WAR SHIPS SENT TO CHINESE COAST THREE DESTROYERS AND GUN BOAT SENT TO SHANGHAI ll r BY WAR DEPARTMENT A AAre Are Precautionary Measures Against Possible Outbreak of War ChInese Chinese Chi Chi- nese Troops Placed In Readiness Readiness Readi Readi- ness In Case of Conflict Washington Three destroyers er have been ordered to Shanghai an anth and th the gunboat Sacramento to Amoy Arnoy China as a precautionary measure I Iby by Admiral Thomas Washington commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet Troop concentration in the Quin- Quin san aan and districts is continuing contin contino ting and the inrush of ref refugees ge s 's to Shanghai goes on unceasingly Rear Admiral David Murray Anderson Anderson An An- derson commander of the the British Yangtze patrol has has- been designated commander of all foreign t in Shanghai harbor The number ten including the American gunboats IsaBel Isa Bel Bori Tracy and Smith Thompson Thomp Thomp- son the British cruiser Durban and British gunboat Bee Dispatch and Cricket and the Japanese cruiser Tomi Tonii and Japanese gunboat Tho Thu Japanese cruiser Ataka is en route here Woosung a of Shanghai and the vicinity of the basin at the mouth of the Yangtze river were undisturbed undisturbed undisturbed un un- un- un disturbed Monday although the Chinese Chinese Chinese Chin Chin- ese gunboats and Kien Kieni kang serving the forces were dispatched to where the fleet expected an attack bythe by bythe bythe the supported naval forces troops are covering a line stretching through Pin van and The line extends from through and and westward to lake Rear Admiral Charles B. B McVay TI T I. A A Asirit- Asirit w. w is squadron said he was not ordering ordering ordering order order- ing any more to Shanghai He considered the foreign fleet now assembled adequate to deal with the situation The destroyers named in dispatches to the navy department from Admiral al iii Washington are the Tracy Bori and Smith Thompson No details of the situation growing out of war threats between military governors Chi CM Yuan Shieh-Yuan and Lu La Yuang Yuang-Hsi- ang however were given in the brief report Admiral Washington's actions presumably presumably presumably pre pre- were requested by American American Ameri Amen can diplomatic officers in Peking and it is not regarded as improbable by officials here her that the Peking diplomatic diplomatic diplomatic diplo diplo- matic body comprising representatives tives of other foreign powers powers' approved approved ap ap- approved proved the step and that it will be bc followed by movement of other than American naval craft to Shanghai and other affected ports |