AMERICA IS STIRRED.
SENDING MORE REINFORCEMENTS. Received Sunday, 5.5 p.irf. WASHINGTON, March 26. The United States have ordered fifteen hundred more marines to be sent to Shanghai. The American marines and sailors now stationed in China number five thousand and approximately twenty-five hundred are en route under orders issued in the past hree days. The latest addition .brings the numbers 4o nine thousand, of which over two thousand wjll be allocated at Shanghai. Navy officials said the new detachment would sail from San Diego aboard the transport Henderson within ten days and is expected to arrive in China within thirty days. It is understood that President Coolidge is alarmed by the rapidly spreading anti-foreign feeling, and is impressed with the necessity of protecting the thousands> of nationals potentiaily menaced. The Government contantly reiterates its approval of the American naval officials1 activities at Nanking
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North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 5
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143AMERICA IS STIRRED. North Otago Times, Volume CVII, Issue 17169, 28 March 1927, Page 5
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