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Show Uf u i iiuuru FOR CHINA Five Hundred Men Are to Protect the Railroad Washington, Jan. 9. A battalion of infantry, consisting of 500 men, will be sent by the United States to China to help keep open railway communication communi-cation between Peking and the sea. This force is all that Is required, in the opinion of Minister Calhoun, American Am-erican representative in Peking. The American troops will guard a portion of the railway between Lan-chow Lan-chow and Tang Shan. At noon It had not been determined just what battalion would be sent, but it probably will be part of the Fif- teenth Infantry now at Manila and recently re-cently recruited up to war strength for this purpose. Minister Calhoun's dispatch notes an improvement in the situation along the railway lino and says that train service has been resumed. The outbreak at Lancbow, the western west-ern terminus of the American zone, which caused anxiety, appears to havo been exaggerated. |