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Show TOS-LIN'S ARMY FLEE'SJTO SAFETY NORTHERN CHINA BECOMES DANGEROUS DAN-GEROUS GROUND AS THE MANCHURIAN LOSES Honan Province Cleared of Troops; U. 8. Legation at Peking In Peril ' Washington With anxiety over the safety of American citizens and diplomatic diplo-matic officials in northern China revived re-vived by news of the collapse of the northern Chinese attack south of the Yellow river, the Washington administration admin-istration is considering removal of the American legation from Peking to a more easily defended point, possibly Tientsin. Dispatch of American marines from Shanghai, and possibly the Philippines, to Tientsin 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 Tientsin to forn an allied brigade for defense of that point would be objected to here. With the northern Chinese army reported re-ported in flight from Honan and An-hwei An-hwei provinces to the north bank of the Yellow river before the onmsh of the southern nationalists, it is felt by President Coolidge that the Peking legation, because of its general inaccessibility, in-accessibility, should be moved to Tientsin and that remaining Americans Ameri-cans in north China should be concentrated concen-trated there according to prearranged plans. |