CHINESE TURMOIL.
A MENACING SITUATION. AMERICAN EVACUATION. Press Association-Electric Telegraph-CoDyricb;. (Received Wednesday, 5.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Tuesday. It is authoritatively stated that the Government has decided upon the evacuation of all Americans from North China. In case of extreme emergency, in an increasingly menacing military situation, pilaus have already been completed to provide for the withdrawal not only of civilians but of American armed forces also. The first step would bo to remove the Legation and all civilians to Tientsin, followed by the withdrawal of the American troops to that city. The State Department announced to-day that it had sent a Note on May 13th. to the Chinose Nationalist Foreign Minister at Ilwang-fu demanding that the murderers of the American missionary* Doctor Walter Seymour, be arrested and executed. The Note, which was delivered at the Nationalist bureau at Shanghai, for transmission to Hwang-fu, also demands the arrest and punishment of the officers responsible for looting the American mission. —Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 May 1928, Page 5
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