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ejects Picas to Withdraw
Military Forces From
Far East.
y the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt maintained hi.s
olicy of armed protection for Ameri
ins in war-torn China yesterday de
>ite some appeals that military forces
f withdrawn to avoid further inci
ents like the shelling of the Ameri
f»n flagship Augusta.
Members of Congress were divided
s to the wisdom of the policy, a few
intending it. might involve the United
tatrs in the conflict, while many
rgued it would save civilian lives
nd thus safeguard peace.
The President refrained from
ersonally and publicy taking issue
ith either China or Japan over the
ugusta disaster, in which one Ameri
*n sailor was killed and IT injured.
Depending on Officials on Scene.
Officials said the White House and
ie State and Navy Departments were
ependmg solely on diplomatic and
uliiarv officials in the war zone to
lake "appropriate utterances."
Secretary Hull emphasized that
meriran officials on the scene had
ot expressed any opinion that the
veil which hit the United States
agship was fired in "any hostile
ay."
Hp did not confirm the statement
f a cabinet official Friday that it
as a Japanese shell, saying he ex
erted an inquiry by an American
card of naval officers at Shanghai to
eferminr the missile's origin.
Navy officials said the board was
ivesfigating only informally, that it
as not authorized to take testimony
■om Japanese or Chinese officials,
nd that it would report directly to
dmiral Harry E. Yarnell, fleet com
lander.
The State Department reported the
'acuation of Amrnran citizpns from
hanghai was settling down to a
vstemafie basis. Department officials
estimated that 1.700 to l.ROO of ap
proximately 4.000 nationals there had
left the international city, and pre
dicted that this week there would be
an orderly exodus of many of those
remaining.
If refugees cannot obtain satis
factory passage on commercial ships,
Hull said, there are enough warships
t.o remove them, if necessary, in “any
feasible numbers."
The Secretary said approximately
900 were being evacuated on the
Dollar liner President Hoover.
Still in War Zone
Among several Washingtonians not yet reported as moving
out of the area of the Sino-Japanese hostilities around Shanghai
is Mrs. John R. Lanigan. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rollie Howard
White of 2812 Cathedral avenue and wife of Capt. John R.
Lanigan of the 4tli Marines. Capt. and Mrs. Lanigan both, arc
natives of Washington. With them in Shanghai is their year
old son. —Harris-Ewing Photo.
China
<Continued From First Page )
f the Shanghai battle, including 30
giant bombprs costing $150,000 each."
A spokesman for thp Chinese for
ien office even asserted that a fleet
f 21 Japanese bombers which at
’mpted a raid on Nanking all ran
hort of fuel and had to .and on the
orth bank of the Yangtze, where
all were raptured."
There was no confirmation of this
'om other sources.
Japanp.se airmen, however, bombed
iukiang, Yangtze port in Kiagsi
rovince and gateway to Killing,
hina's Summer capital. Kiukiang
* 300 miles from the coast in a direct
ne.
Forty Chinese civilians were
illcd and many wounded when a
nmb fpll on a cotton mill. Another
nmb hit. an airfield, but did no dam
ep. Others fell in the Y'angtze.
hich is in flood at Kiukiang, with
ater 18 inches over the water front.
The Italian government ordered
ivps and children of Italian of
rers serving as aviation instructors
v the Chinese at Nanchang to leave
'hina for Italy. Nanchang. a little
nuth of Kiukiang, is China's second
irpest airbase.
rianes Believed From Carriers.
Chinese officers believed the
’angtze raiders might have come
rom Formosa, but independent au
horitips thought it more likely that
hey rose from carriers oil the China
oast.
The Nanking command said a Jap
ne.se seaplane and two pursuit
Manes had been shot down at Shang
lai, one Chinese pilot accounting
or two enemy craft. Another Jap
nese raider was reported downed
iy a Chinese airman over Kwangten,
inhwei Province, 100 miles south
ast of Nanking, and another shot
[own by anti-aircraft guns.
Heavy fighting continued through
lhanghai's eastern district, surg
ng around the Ward Road Jail, but
in important changes of position
cere reported. It was established
hat Japanese army units newly ar
ived from home had landed to
mister the lines of marines in this
ector.
On the Chint.se side the 88th Di
ision. one of Generalissimo Chiang
lai-shek's best-trained divisions,
vas reported withdrawn from the
Shanghai front, because of heavy
osscs.
Independent authorities estimated
he military casualties in the 10 davs
if Shanghai conflict at about 5.000
Chinese killed to 600 Japanese. Civil
an deaths could be estimated only
oughly in the thousands.
Heath Penalty for Looting.
Chinese military authorities in the
Shanghai district decreed the death
tenalty for looting in war-blasted
portions of the city, including areas
n the International Settlement. Po
ire of the settlement disclosed they
tad turned over 33 looters, including
wo Russians, to the Chinese yester
lay for execution. Forty-two more
vere to be turned over today.
The Ward Road "jail break,” un
precedented in Shanghai's history, was
o begin today. Five hundred to 1.000
nmates were to be taken daily to
ihe western borders of the Interna
llnnal Settlement.—considered the
safest—and turned into Chinese ter
ritory.
Soon after the Shanghai fighting
began August 13 a shell struck the jail,
killing or wounding some 90 convicts.
For the last three days it has been
almost impossible for foreign author
ities to reach the war-engulfe<i prison,
although three American prisoners,
two of them women, were brought out
to safety Friday.
War and fire continued to lay waste
to the city while a naval board of in
quiry looked into the Augusta inci
dent. Foreign police said the flames,
bombing and shelling had leveled
nearly all of Chinese Chapei and
Japanese Hongkew, along Shanghai's
northern edge, most of Yangtzepoo
and Pootung, teeming industrial areas
t on opposite sides of the Whangpoo.
and of Kiangwan. northern suburb '
which contained greater Shanghai's
palatial civic center.
Few Sections Still Intact.
Only the International Settlement
south of Soochow Creek, the French
concession, Nantao, the Chinese rity
: south of the French area, and dis
tricts along Soochow Creek remained ■
ini act.
Even belligerents, both Chinese and
Japanese, have had to flee before the
flames in the eastern district, which
spread unchecked, with no firefighting i
forces to combat them.
Chinese officials declared that Jap
anese ronin—-"wave men.' armed civil
ians acting largely on their own re
sponsibility—were terrorizing Chinese ;
parts of Shanghai as they did in the
1932 war, burning, looting and even
shooting Chinese who opposed them
Saturday saw great aerial activity,
mostly Japanese, around Shanghai,
the Japanese planes repeatedly bomb
ing Chinese positions in Pootung and
the districts west of Shanghai. Two
Chinese planes appeared, evidently
trying to reach the Japanese flagship
Idzumo. but were turned back.
The fear of war spread to South
China, where the Kwangtung provin
cial government at Canton began
shipping huge quantities of silver to
British Honkong. Twenty truckloads
of bar silver reached Hong Kong today.
Even larger amounts, trainloads, were
expected there.
NEW STOCK STATEMENT
Registration statements for new se
curities filed yesterday with the Se- j
curities and Exchange Commission
included one by the Retail Druggists'
Display Corp. of Washington. $975,
000 of $1 par value 20-cent class A
stock and $975,000 of $1 par value
common stock for manufacture of dis
play cabinets.
PSYCHOLOGISTS PLAN
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Attitudes Toward Liberalism,
Radicalism and Fascism to
Be Studied.
By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., August 21.—
What makes a radical so radical will
be one of the subjects stressed by
the Nation's leading psychologists here
next month.
This topic, said Dr. Alvin C. Eurich
of the University of Minnesota, will be
one of many to occupy the attention
of the American Psychological Associa
tion in its forty-fifth annual meeting
at the university, September 1 to 4.
Analytical probing also is scheduled
for individual attitudes toward lib
eralism, radicalism, fascism and the
like.
The experts will study animal be
havior, memory, mental measure
ment, conditioning in men, animal
learning, social facilitation, human
learning and personality.
Preceding the gathering of the col
lege body will be the first annual
meeting of the American Association
of Applied and Professional Psycholo
gists, August 30 and 31.
WINNING CONTESTANTS
IN FIRE FIGHT GIVEN
Parks Service Announces Trio in
C. C. C. Whose Posters
Won Recognition.
Three winners of the National Park
Service fire prevention paster compe
tition, open to C. C. C. boys in the
400 Park Service controlled ramps,
were announced today by Arno B
Cammerer, director of the service.
The victors, chosen from 4fi ap
proved entries, will report to Wash
ington September 13 to draw colored
plates for the finished posters.
They are Frank Ranieri of Camp
Woahunk Lake. Glenada, Oreg.; Ray
N. Coates of Camp Strawberry Can
yon. Berkeley. Calif., and Leo Mastee
of Camp Giant City, Makanda, 111.
r———■ ■
17 Are Injured in Shelling of
Flagship Augusta at
Shanghai.
By the Associated Press.
The Navy Department today issued
an official list of the 17 sailors wounded
yesterday in the shelling of the cruiser
Augusta, Asiatic Fleet flagship, at
Shanghai.
Eighteen sailors originally were
wounded, but one, Freddie John Fal
gout of Raceland, La., died shortly
afterward.
Fallowing are the injured:
Frederick Williard Andrews, jr.,
seaman, first class, Cambridge,
Mass., shrapnel injury in upper right
arm.
William Emmanuel Beilman, fire
man, first class, Miami, Fla.. (842
Northwest Seventh street), multiple
wounds in left forearm and legs.
Herbert John Bowers, seaman, first
class, Garner, Iowa, shrapnel wound
in right foot.
David- Clark Burns, seaman, first
class, Harrisonville, Mo„ shrapnel
wounds in right shoulder and chest.
Edward John Elies, radioman, second
class, Toronto, Canada, Coleman Post
Office, Box 86, shrapnel puncture back
of neck and right shoulder.
Luther Fred Guynes, seaman, sec
ond class, Gatesville, Miss., multiple
shrapnel wounds, left shoulder, ab
dominal wall and hip.
Paul O'Bryan Hayden, seaman, first
class. Lebanon Junction. Ky., shrapnel
puncture left aim and right shoulder.
William Henry Hicks, seaman, sec
ond class. Rural Route Box 231. Gra
ham, Wash., shrapnel puncture in
lower back.
Allen Linwood Herd, jr., first-class
seaman, Ruckersville, Va., shrapnel
wound in right chest.
Harold Earle Isakson. seaman, sec
ond class, Rodeo, Calif., multiple
shrapnel wounds in upper left leg,
left, ankle, right knee and right foot.
James Robert Kaetz, seaman, first
class, 5000 Sever th avenue, South
Birmingham. Ala . multiple shrapnel
wounds medial and anterior surface
and left foot.
John Kier, machinist's mate, second
class, 54 Broad street. Phillipsburg,
N. J , shrapnel puncture in back
Everett Lile MarKenzie. second class
yeoman. Route No, 1. Raymond. Wash.,
multiple shrapnel wounds in right
knee, left arm and middle and lower
right leg.
Daniel Joseph Petrick. coxswain,
945 Adams street, La Crosse, Wis.,
multiple shrapnel wound in left elbow,
i Edward Joseph Sheehan, second
' class seaman, 681 Madison street.
Brooklyn N. Y„ multiple shrapnel
; wounds in both feet.
Charles Richard Simms, seaman,
second class, Milltown. Ind . multiple
I shrapnel wounds lower right leg.
| Clarence Bryce Strachan, seaman,
: second class, 240 Eighth avenue. Clin
1 ton. Iowa, puncture in right leg and
base of right thigh.
TRANSPORT TO SAIL
1,200 Marines to Reinforce Shang
hai Contingent.
The naval transport, U. S. S. Chau
mont. will sail from San Diego, Calif.,
August 29 for Shanghai with 1.200
Marines to reinforce the contingent
now on duty in the International
Settlement, there.
Accompanied by the light cruiser
U. S. S. Marblehead, the Chaumont
is scheduled to arrive at Shanghai
about September 21.
OUTING IS PLANNED
Federated Colored Catholics Ex
pect 5,000 at Affair.
The fourth annual pre-Labor day
outing of the Federated Colored Cath
olics will be next Sunday at Carrs
Beach. Annapolis, with 5.000 mem
bers from Washington, Baltimore and
j vicinity expected to attend.
Francis Spriggs, chairman of the
General Committee, has announced a
bathing beauty contest as part of the
entertainment. Athletic events and
music will round out the program.
FINANCES HELPING
CHINA IN CONFLICT
Japan Is Facing Exhaustion
in Trying to Impose
Will in Asia.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
TOKIO, August 21 (N A N.A.).—Not
since the empire of Japan faced the
old empire of Russia on the battle
fields of Manchuria has this country
been confronted with as grave a crisis
as the present one, growing out of an
exchange of shots between a few Chi
nese and Japanese soldiers not far
from the walls of Peiping the night
of July 7.
The Russo-Japanese war was a
struggle by Japan for its very exist
ence as a fully independent nation.
From Japan's victory in 1905 dates its
growth as a great power and, essen
tially, the policy which has led it into
the present impasse.
War with China now, whether called
war or not, is a struggle by Japan for
its continuance as a first-class power,
and this Japan realizes. The strug
gle will not be fought out primarily
by the troops in the field, but by finan
cial and economic forces.
There is scant prospect of a de
cisive Japanese defeat in battle, but
there'is very grave likelihod othat con
flict with China will prove so costly
as to exhaust the nation economically
and thus remove it from the chief
competitive commercial nations of the
world.
China's Weapon Economic.
This, undoubtedly, Is the major
item in the war policy of the Nanking
government. The Chinese are prone
to think in terms of economics, in
terms of generations. Dollars ar.d
pounds and francs and all other cur
rencies will be China's chief allies in
the contest with Japan. Unable to
defeat the Japanese army directly.
China plans to defeat the whole of
the Japanese empire by the indirect
method of economic exhaustion.
If this be done, reason the Chinese,
then China and Japan will start from
somewhere near scratch in the race
to rebuild their economic and indus
trial strength, and the Chinese feel
confident they will win in such a race.
It may take a generation, two gen
erations, but to the economically
minded Chinese, who think in terms
of their descendants and the future,
this is largely acceptable.
To Chlang Kai-shek, however, who
has gone so far wtih the unification
and strengthening of the Chinese re
public, the prospect of prolonged con
flict is tragic. It is more difficult for
him to think in terms of future gen
erations, and he realizes that such a
struggle means the destruction of his
whole life's work.
Struggling to Keep Pace.
Japan is no longer fighting to retain
economic and political control of
North China. It is struggling to keep
its place in the economic world of
today as a principal participant. It
is no use pointing out now that had
Japan not sought to gain control of
North China it would not be con
fronted with this problem. The fart
is that the problem is immediately
to hand.
All intelligent and educated Japa
nese know this; all others sense it.
That is why this is the most unpopular
war upon which Japan has ever em
barked. It is not meant to say for
a moment that there will be any fal
tering on the part of a single Japa
nese in the prosecution of the war.
One and all they are ready to go to
the extreme limit, to make the su
preme sacrifice, if their country and
their Emperor need it from them But
they feel it is all so useless, that there
is nothing to gain.
Japan, for the present certainly,
wants control of no more territory on
the Asiatic mainland. It already has
more than It can handle except at
great cost. Japan does want the
trade of the Chinese people, but even
the Japanese army has come to re
alize that customers cannot be gained
by the use of rifles and machine guns.
The war cannot bring Into Japanese
banks the surplus funds they need.
A blockade of the coast of China
by Japanese men-of-war would be a
costly matter for China, but it Is
as nothing compared to the economic
loss to Japan of a complete stoppage
of trade with the neighboring re
public.
The actual expense of waging battle
and of maintaining armies in the field
is far greater for this empire than
for China. The Chinese are fighting
on their own soil, able In large meas
ure to live off the country. Moreover,
the Chinese standard of living Is much
lower than the Japanese.
With no .substantial surplus and
with its foreign credit for war loans
most questionable, Japan is forced
back to depending upon itself for
financing a conflict with China. This
means heavier and heavier taxes on
an already overtaxed and far from
wealthy people, and the flotation of
domestic bond issues to a point far
beyond the 10.000,000,000-yen mark
(about $3,000,000,000) which Japan's
ablest minister of finance, Korekiyo
Takahashi—murdered by military
rebels a year and a half ago—de
clared to be the margin of safety
for the nation. That point has al
ready been passed.
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In pre-war days the French were. .
very popular In 8yrla aa the foreign ‘ 1
protector* of the Syrian*. Today tha >
Syrians hate the French a* ruler*
over them.
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