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Show WAR SHIPS SEHT TO CHINESE COAST THREE DESTROYERS AND GUN. BOAT SENT TO SHANGHAI BY WAR DEPARTMENT Are Precautionary Measures Against Possible Outbreak of War. Chi- . nese Troops Placed In Readiness Readi-ness in Case of Conflict Washington. Three destroyers have been ordered to Shanghai and the gunboat Sacramento to Amoy, China, as a precautionary measure by Admiral Thomas Washington, commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet. Troop concentration in the Quin-san Quin-san and Soochow districts is continuing contin-uing and the inrush of refugees to Shanghai goes on unceasingly. Rear Admiral David Murray Anderson, An-derson, commander of the British Yangtze patrol, has- been designated commander of all foreign warcraft in Shanghai harbor. The number ten, including the American gunboats Isa. Bel, Bori, Tracy and Smith Thomp son; the British cruiser Durban and British gunboat Bee, Dispatch and Cricket and the Japanese cruiser Tomi and Japanese gunboat Ugi. The Japanese cruiser Ataka is en route here. Woosrung, a surburb of Shanghai, and the vicinity of the basin at the mouth of the Yangtze river were undisturbed un-disturbed Monday, although the Chin ese gunboats Yungchien and Kien-kang, Kien-kang, serving the Chekaing forces, were dispatched to Lieubo, where the Nanking fleet expected an attack by the supported Fukien naval forces. Kiangsu troops are covering a line stretching through Soochow, (juinsr.n, Lieubo, Pingwan and Yibs-in. The Chekiang line extends from Lieubo through Hwangtu and Tsingpuhsien, and westward to Taihu lake. Rear Admiral Charles B. McYay, Jr., commanding the American Asiat-is Asiat-is squadron, said he was not ordering order-ing any more warcraft to Shanghai. He considered the foreign fleet now-assembled now-assembled adequate to deal with the situation. The destroyers named in dispatches to the navy department from Admiral Admir-al Washington are the Tracy Bori and Smith Thompson. No details of the situation growing out of war threats between military governors, Chi Shieh-Yuan and Lu Yuang Hsi-ang, Hsi-ang, however, were given in the br.ef report. Admiral Washington's actions presumably pre-sumably were requested by American Ameri-can diplomatic officers in Peking and it is not regarded as improbable by officials here that the Peking diplomatic diplo-matic body, comprising representatives representa-tives of other foreign powers-, approved ap-proved the step and that it will be followed by movement of other than American naval craft to Shanghai and other affected ports. |