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TARDIEU HOLDS PLEDGES NEEDED TO CUT ARMS| His Statement That “Disarmament Without Organization Would Be Encouragement to Technical Skill” Is Believed Leveled at Germany. (Copsriaht. 1932, by the Associated Press.) GENEVA, February 8.— Great Britain and France clashed point- edly at the World Disarmament Conference today over two dis- tinctly abolishing war. Sir John Simon, British spokes- man, plan for disarmanment, including abolition of submarines and gas and chemical warfare, at the same time sharply criticizing the pro- posal of France for arming the League of Nations. “That the peace of the world| is to be secured by preparing for| war,” he said, “is no longer be- lieved by anybody, for recent his- tory manifestly disproves it.” Sir John also insisted that the scope of the proposals discussed be kept within the field of the disarma- ment convention, drawn up be- forehand. He declared the British proposals remained within this field. Tardieu Denies Maneuver. Andre Tardieu, French minister of war and head of the French delegation, who proposed the French armament plan last week, declared that until the League is armed there can be no peace in the world. He spoke immediately following Sir John. He denied a sug- gestion that the French plan was “mere maneuver.” The conference must work entirely within the terms of the League coven ant, he spid, and the nations must be ready to join France in giving mutual pledges of assistance against aggressors before a real reduction of armaments can be realized. “We are not met here to remake the map of the world.” he warned in words which had a special reference to Ger- many and her defeated allies. Chan- cellor Heinrich Bruening of Germany sat in the conference during the dis- cussion and was the only delegate who had a copy of the British spokesman’s speech, which was written only last night Armaments, Sir John Simon said, are useless instruments of world peace. Believed Aimed at Germany. «“Criticize our plan, gentlemen,” Tardieu said. “Discuss it, pre which you think are better. You will find us conciliatory, under the sole reservation that we will remain un- shakably devoted to the fundamental basis of organization of peace because we are convinced that disarinament without organization would b brutal and unjust numbers and to tec ‘The listeners ga at once M. Tardieu aimed this at whose greater population and efficiency have aroused the fears in the French mind Sir John Simon declared the British government would accept the disarma- ment convention as the basis of the scope of the conference, thus dissoci- sting himself -from the French project “A_high level of armaments is no substitute for security.” he told the as- sembled delegates of threescore nations in a speech written since M. Tardie laid the French plan before the confer- ence last week German tifi ke sibson Speaks Tomorrow. announced during the morning Gibson, head of the United ion, would not address the til tomorrow the Washington and “onferences should be n Page 4, Column 8.) It wa that H States de London (Continued WINDSTORM KILLS 45 More Hurt on French Island in Indian Ocean PARIS, February 8 persons were Kill jured in_the union Island L to reports frol least in- Kk Re- cording S The French measures to aid the victi has takel Reunion, or Bourbon, is in the Mas- arene group, about 485 miles east of Madagascar. Of volcanic origin, it is divided by a chain of mountains and = eaole land into two parts. The popula- tion, mostly of French nativity, is &round 200,000. S e R R Rejects Bill for Comma. A misplaced comma and a misspelled word forced President Hoover to re- turn to Congress today the bill ex- empting building and loan associations from bankrupt laws. Senator Hastings, Republican, of Delaware, offered a reso- lution correcting the enrolled bill. The word instead of the word “or” ap- ared in the enrolled measure. The te approved the correction. separate theories about! presented Great Britain's] M. | t plans | that | Roosevelt Meets Smith at Funeral For Tammany Head {Governor Acknowledges “How Do You Do” - With N od. By the Associated Press NEW YORK. February 8.—Franklin D. Roosevelt, avowed candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and Alfred E. Smith, who has an- nounced himself available for the nom- ination, met today at the bier of John R. Voorhis, “elder statesman” of the Democratic party in New York City. As Smith left Greenwich Presbyte- rian Church after the funeral, he ‘:]mned down and laid his hand on the larm of Gov. Roosevelt, seated in the front pew. He whispered something i Roose- veit's ear, at which Roosevelt looked up soberly and nodded. Then Smith passed on. “What did Al say?” asked later. “He said, ‘How do you do. just as Roosevelt was and added: “What would you expect him tosay?” PATROL INCREASED IN DRIVE T0 CHECK Man Arrested in Locked Auto | Tries to Commit Suicide in Cell. | | | All the resources of the Police De- partment are being concentrated today in an intensive effort to capture the mysterious gunman who is believed to have killed one man and wounded | three persons, including two high | school girls, during the past week The police are working with the avowed intention of “getting our man” at any cost and are determined to pre- | vent the gunman from resuming his { activities, which, thus far, have been | centered in the northwest section. The gunman’s latest victim, Paul Pleasant street—only two blocks from the scene of the shooting of Gordon | T. Backus, one of his customers. | Backus, an Agriculture Department forester, was shot and seriously wound- | | ed Thursday night while walking near | his home. .at 3433 Mount Pleasant street. | One Man Questioned. i Armed with the names of | regarded as possible suspects quarters detectives. in co-operation with police of all precincts, are making ia city-wide search for four of them. The fifth man is in custody and is | scheduled to be questioned today. He after Policeman R. N. Finch found him sitting 1n an automobile parked in the 7100 block of Georgia avenue. When the officer approached, he said, { and refused to get out. The policeman |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) |WORLD BANK PLANS AID FOR SOUTH AMERICANS | Board Votes to Help Central Banks Maintain Gold Standard Under Present Conditions. | By the Associated Press. BASEL. Switzerland, February 8.— The board of the Bank for International Settlements today voted to help South { American central banks maintain the | gold standard, and instructed President { Gates W. McGarralv to prepare a_plan ‘1\((‘1:(‘111): its services to the South 1 American continent. ! B | vice president of the board presided in the absence of Mr. McGarrah of the | United States. { The board also instructed the pres dent to name an Arbitration Committee, | | | as provided in the recent Berlin private short-term credit agreement, and de: | cided to accept deposits from the S: | Basin, providing guarantees with the Reichsbank and other banks responsible | for such deposits, were arranged. EIGHT DIE IN MINE BLAST | |18 Entombed Feared Dead in Bel- i gian Explosion. CHARLEROIL Belgium, February 8 ).—A fire-damp_explosion yesterday arly 4.000 feet down in a coal mine { near 't day had taken a toll of | eight known nd it was believed {18 others entombed by the blast would { not be reached alive | King Albert and Queen Elizabeth | visited the families of the victims today ) ne; any-one would.” Gov. Roosevelt Teplied, | IVSTERY CUNMAN Riedel, 45, was shot to death Saturday | night in his bakery at 3215'> Mount | was arrested for drunkenness last night | the man locked the doors of the car| Carl Melchoir of Germany and | SHITH STATEMENT - SPURS' ROOSEVELT i BACKERS' ACTIVITY |Dill Says Opponents of New York Governor Have Played Trump Card. LEADER’S ATTITUDE PUZZLES SUPPORTERS Garner, Cox and Ritchie Are Out- standing Possibilities if Con- vention Is Deadlocked. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. With Alfred E. Smith's statement de- claring his willingness to accept the | Democratic nomination for President | before them, the Roosevelt and anti- | Smith Democrats today went right | ahead with their plans to place the New York Governor at the head of | their national ticket | The assertion was made by Roose- | velt Democrats, among them Senator | Dill of Washington, that former Gov. | Smith's statement, made public today, was designed primarily to “stop” ‘Rnosr\fltv Even Democrats friendly to Smith were puzzled by the form in which the Smith statement was issued. Statement is Puzzling. If Gov. Smith is really a candidate | for the Democratic nomination, why | | didn't he declare himself such and at the same time make a bid for delegates in all the States, including the presi- dential primary States, they asked. The Smith statement, which is brief, | follows: | “So many inquiries have come to me from friends throughout the country who worked for and believe in me as to my attitude in the present political situation that I feel that I owe it to my friends and to the millions of men and women who supported me so loyally | in 1928 to make my position clear. “If the Democratic national conven- tion after careful consideration should decide that it wants me to lead, I will make the fight; but I will not make a pre-convention campaign to secure the support of delegates “By action of the Democratic national | convention of 1928 I am the leader of my party in the Nation. With a full |sense of the responsibility thereby im- posed, I shall not in advance of the convention either support of oppose the candidacy of any aspirant for the nomination.” Statement Was Forecast. The content of the statement had been forecast last week. So the actual | announcement that Mr. Smith would accept the presidential nomination if the convention decided to go to him in Chicago next June was not a sur- prise. General agreement was found among Democratic leaders here today that Smith's willingness to accept the nom- ination would lead to a bitter struggle in tte Democratic national convention. if Mr. Smith's friends in Massachu- setts, Rhode Island, New York, New ! Jersey, Illinois, Pennsylvania and other | States undertake to send to the con- | vention delegates who will stand fast for Smith, or stand for Smith until he s the word to shift to another can- e. | The question on most lips was: “Can | Roosevelt be nominated now that Smith has tossed his hat in the ring?” Most of the Democrats were un- hesitating in their assertion that Smith himself cannot be nominated in the coming convention. And indeed there are Democrats in sympathy with the statement issued by Gov. Smith who do not believe that Gov. Smith really desires the nomination, but who believe that he is anxious to have a great part | | in naming the next presidential candi- | date of his party and also in framing | the national platform upon which the | candidate is to stand i In his statement to the country. Gov. | | ~ (Continued.on Page 4, Column 1) | “LEFTY" BROWN SIGNS AT $1,500 INCREASE| Arrives at | Griffith Biloxi for Spring Training Season of Nationals. ciated Press. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Lloyd “Lefty” Brown, pitcher for the Washington Senggors, announced today he has signed a rontract calling for a 1.500 boost in salary for 1932. He is spending his Winter vacation in Knox- ville. By the A February 8.— BILOXI, Miss, February 8 (#).— Clark C. Griffith, president and owner | of the Washington base ball club, ar- rived here today for the Spring training season. An _inspection of the Biloxi Stadium grounds with City Commissioner John Swanzy was first on Griffith’s program while awaiting the arrival of Manager Walter Johnson ant the first contingent of players. 'PEEPER FINED AFTER DECLARING HE WAS “STUDYING” BRIDGE | They refused to believe Leonard War- { colored, when he broke down in | ren, | Police Court today and confessed he was just a kibitzer. Warren pleaded guiity to having at- tended a bridge game at 2520 L street last night as an uninvited guest. look- ing through the window, he ex- plained, to pick up a few tricks I can’t make much of this east-west, north-south stuff,” Warren told Judge Gus A. Schuldt, “and I don't know any- body wro knows much about it. I saw those people playing and thought I'd get a little first-hand information.” “Stick to the newspapeys then,” ad- { t ! Judge Schuldt Tells Colored Defendant to Stick to Newspaper Instructions and Assesses $25. monished Judge Schuldt. who had heard testimony that the police picked up Warren as a “peeping tom.” “They're printing expert. instructions from Cul- bertson, Lenz and other champions.” Warren was just going to say that since he had read so much about bridge he just couldn't refrain longer from learning himself, when. the judge a | quitted him of being a kibitzer. | Howerev, Warren's conviction on the | other count cost him 25 days in jail when it developed he cousdn't defray a $25 fine Maybe vou can find a e where you're going.” said somec one. Warren said he hoped so. “THE HAPPY WARRIOR. NEW YORK TERROR, COLL, IS “ERASED” Gangster Slain in Drug Store Telephone Booth as Body- guard ‘‘Sneaks.” By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 8—Young Vincent Coll, who was poison with a pistol and most feared of the Gotham “guns,” phone booth at 12:45 a.m. today. A machine gunner chopped him down coolly and deliberately in a West Twen- ty-third street drug store. A single slug tore away the nose the 24-year-old hoodlum so often had turned up at his deadly rival. “Dutch” Schultz, and the Schultzbeer-peddling domination in the Bronx. A line of lead, moving like a saber, cut through the flashy coat and vest and into his chest. The killer entered the little drug store as Coll (recently acquitted of the “baby murder” charge growing out of the Michael Vengalli slaying last Summer) | stood in a phone booth at the rear. Sev- eral customers were in the place. Patrons Are Warned. Seated at an ice cream table near the phone booth was Coll's bodyguard. The killer, a submachine gun slung carelessly under his right arm, moved slowly toward the rear of the store. He said: “Everybody keep Keep calm. This ain't no stick-up. You won't get hurt.” He shuffled steadily toward the rear, not taking his eye from the booth- one of three at the rear of the in which Coll was engrossed in his call Coll's bodyguard arose quietly from his table and slipped through the door to the street. Standing within a fe feet of the phone booth, the killer be- gan firing. It was seconds only for those who saw it—and eternity for Vincent Coll. His body slid down, almost doubling up. and wedged in the booth near the floor. The slayer backed out of the store. A companion, armed with a machine gun. was waiting at a sedan, at the wheel of which was a third man. They drove away, going west to Eighth ave- nue and then north. A patrolman saw them and gave pur- suit in a commandeered cab. Another officer, stationed at Eighth avenue and West Thirty-third street, joined the chase in another machine. Each fired at the racing car. but ineffectuall; The killer’s car was lost in traffic at Eighth avenue and Fiftieth street. Round Up Is Ordered. Police expressed no regret over Coll's death, but they ordered all known gang- sters 'brought in immediately. Prin- cipally they wanted “Dutch” Schultz avowed foe of Coll and the man who police- said had offered $50,000 to the man who “erased” Coll Coll quit the “beer racket” a month lago, police said. Since then. they |learned. he has been living by the | fruits of strong-arming and “chisel- ing"—forcing _gamblers, _dive _keepers |~ (Continuéd on Page 2, Column 4.) {COMMITTEE KILLS WHEAT RELIEF BILL ‘Party Lines Split by 14-to-9 Vote Against Measure on House Side. By the Assoclated Press A Senate bill to release Government wheat for relief purposes was rejected | today by the House Agriculture Com- mittee. ‘The vote was 14 to 9, the ballot split- ting party lines Chairman Jones declined to make ! public the individual votes, but said he had supported the measure. The bill before the committee was that of Senator Capper, Republican, of Kansas, and was passed by the Senate January 4 It would release 40,000.000 bushels of Farm Board wheat for relief distribu- tion by the Red Cross and other char- itable organizations. Jones said rejection of the bill seemed to come from a feeling among mem- bers that “if anything were done the Government should go out in the open market and purchase the wheat.” Other members, he said, seemed influenced by the fact the Farm Board has large loans against some of the wheat, “I favored the bill,” Jones said, “be- cause the stabilization corporation h: the wheat, it is costing money to is deteriorating and in my judgmer acversely affecting the market.” y got his load of lead in a tele- | | | 70 Feared Dead | On Snowbound Rumanian Train By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 8—A | | vienna dispatch to the Daily Ex- press said today it was feared that seventy passengers had been | ].frozen to death in a snow-bound train near Bodok, Rumania. The last message received from Rumania said a snowplow had been unable to reach the train. YEAROLD GIR ~ FOUND MURDERED ‘Mutilated Body of Attack i | Victim Discovered in Phila- delphia House. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, February, 8.—At- ‘imtkcd and hacked to death, the body | of 7-year-old Dorothy Lutz, who had been missing since Wednesday, found today in a second-floor room of a ramshackle vacant house a few doors from her own home. The body was found by two police- men who were among several hundred police and firemen engaged in an in- tensive search of the North Philadel- phia neighborhood where the child lived witii her widowed mother. The child’s head had been almost severed. presumably by an ax, police said bare bed room. House Vacated Thursday. Police said the house had been taken over by the city last week for default the payment of taxes. A colored family moved out of Thursday, they said. Efforts are being made to learn where the family went (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) MILLS’ NOMINATION SENT TO SENATE Gregg May Succeed Ballantine, ‘Who Becomes Undersecretary” ! of Treasury. L. Mills to be ury and of Ar- The names of Ogde! Secretary of the '] thur A. Ballantine to replace him as Undersecretary were sent to the Sen- ate today by President Hoover. The President sent the nominations to the Senate last Friday, but the Sen- ate had adjourned over the week end before they arrived. necessitating their transmittal again tcday Mills has been active as Acting Secre- tary since Andrew W. Mellon was con- firmed by the Senate several days ago as erican Ambassador to the Coust of St. James. If Mills' nomination is confirmed to- . it is considered likely both he and n would take their oaths tomor- The assistant secretaryship to be va- Ballantine has not yet been d officially, but reports continued to- | day to point to the selection of Alex- ander W. Gregg, vouthful tax expert, who was formerly solicitor of the Bu- reau of Internal Revenue. Gregg. for- merly special assistant to Secretary Mel- ently was the Secretary’s ve in hearings on proceedings of Repre- sentative Patman of Texas. MISHAP KILLS MARINE Pvt. Merz, Fatally Shot by Pvt. Guernsey. Pvt. Julius R. L. Merz, U. S. M. C.. died in Shanghai this morning due to “accidental discharge of standard serv- ice pistol in the hands of Pvt. Philip W. Guernsey. U. S. M. C.” Col. Rich- ard S. Hooker. commanding the 4th Regiment of U. S. Marines at Shang- hai, today radioed the Navy Depart- ment. | " His mother. Mrs. Mabel Merz, of Los Angeles, is the dead Marine’s next of kin. Guernsey alio is from California. in Shanghai, Radio Progiams on Plge B-15 was | The body lay on the floor of the | the place last | 1HAR ON HOARDING CIVEN INPETLS |Finance Pool Operations Be- gun—Farm Loan Division Asked of Dawes. B the Associated Press. Movements to place $1,500,000,000 of hoarded money into circulation and to | expedite aid to farmers from the Re- construction Finance Corporation gained impetus today in the Capital. Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who has been designated by President Hoover to head the anti-hoarding campaign, began a round of conferences with Government officials immediately upon his arrival. Meanwhile a congressional delegation from Midwestern agricultural States re- quested the Reconstruction Corporation to set up a division in its organization especially charged with making loans to agriculture. Headed by Representatives Knutson, | Republican, “of Minnesota and Strong, | Republican, of Kansas, the delegation dent of the corporation, for more than an hour. Knutson said afterwards the pro- posals had been received “in a friendly spirit.” He added Dawes had informed him Joseph Chapman, Minneapolis banker, would be the corporation’s rep- resentative in Minnesota. States represented at the conference were Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Mis- | souri, Colorado, Oklahoma, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Another recommendation was: “That the operations of the corpora- tion with respect to loans and advance- | ments to country banks and other agen- | cies engaged in financing the agricul- tural community in the Middle West be segregated and divorced from the large city banks, which do not deal directly with the farmers in the making of leans, to the end that the making of loans and advancements to such rural banks or loan agencies may be accom- plished withcut influence or direction | from such city banks.” | Norbeck Calls on Dawes. The group also recommended setting up loan committees in the 12 States The Loan Committees would consist of men closely affiliated and thoroughly conversant with the rural banking and credit needs of their States Senator Norbeck, Republican, of South Dakota, called on Dawes and made ar- | rangements for a conference tomorrow between corporation officials and a number of Senators and Representatives from the Northwest. Norbeck said the general situation the Northwest with particular referen to agriculture would be discussed The Reconstruction Corporation laid out a regional stucture, with 17 loan agencies designated, and made its first commitment. This was a pledge to absorb any unsold part of a $15,000,000 dedenture issue which the | Federal Intermediate Credit Bank is offering today. It had in hand from the Treasury $150,000,000 of the $500,- 000.000 capital the Government is fur- nishing it. ‘Will Function Soon. Within a few days the 17 agencies designated will be functioning in offi- ces of the Federal Reserve Banks or branches. Others will be announced later. Those decided on will be in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, El Paso, Kansas City, Mo.; Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Poi‘land, Oreg.; Richmond, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle and Spokane. These agencies, each equipped with an advisory committee, including local | representation, to consult with the manager, will pass upon loan applica- | tions and submit recommendations to corporation headquarters for final ac- | tion. Full data will be made available to prospective borrowers at _these branches, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BLIZZARD HI.TS YANGTZE Hundreds of Thousands of Chinese Refugees Suffer. | HANKOW, China, February 8 (#).— ‘Umold suflefin?l among hundreds of thousands of Chinese refugees in the Middle Yangtze Valley was caused today by a blizzard blowing east across | Hankow. | The refugees, who had come into the valley from many points, were en- | tirely without sheiter, most of them were lightly clothed and provisions | were scarce. t consulted with Charles G. Dawes, presi- | SED IN WOOSUNG ATTACK TOKIO ASKS POWERS TO CREATE NEUTRAL ZONE IN FIVE CITIES Plan, Which Includes Demilitari- zation of Manchuria, Will Meet U. S. Opposition. BOMBARDMENT OF CHAPEI HALTS, EITHER SIDE MAKING GAINS Advance on Forts Halted After Part of Village Is Captured—Nine Destroyers Open Fire. While armed Japanese forces drove on Woosung from land and river, diverting the attack from Chapei, the government at Tokio proposed today that the nine-power treaty be revised to eliminate Manchuri-. from its provisions. Regular Japanese troops were engaged at Woosung, 16 miles down the Whangpo from Shanghai, and apparently they overcame stubborn resistance to capture part of the village about the forts. When their advance was halted nine destroyers opened shellfire on the village. The new Japanese proposal would establish a neutral zone under international supervision around each large Chinese commercial lcenter as a means of cutting off the revenue of the Chinese war lords |and demilitarizing China. Japan would demilitarize Manchuria herself. Peace Proposals Collapse. _Such an arrangement, Japan admitted, would run counter to the spirit of the nine-power pact guaranteeing China's territorial integ- rity, but Japan contends that the principles embodied in the pact have proven inadequate, predicated as they are upon the assumption that China can work out its own problems. Chinese Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Quo Tai-Chi notified the consular body here China will not accept responsibility for the loss of life or property of foreigners in the event the Chinese Army advances upon the International Settlement defense positions, espe- cially in Hongkew, the Japanese residential section, in an effort to oust the Japanese, who are using Hongkew as the base for their operations. The peace proposals made by Vice Admiral Sir Howard Kelly of the British squadron and British Consul General John F. Brenan have broken down. It is understood in London that Naotake Sato, Japanese delegate to the League of Nations, told the representative of a certain foreign !office at Geneva that Japan wished to liquidate and withdraw from | the Shanghai situdtion as soon as pessible without losing face, but i that it has underestimated the Chinese resistance and further mili- ' tary steps would be necessary in order to create a position from which they could evacuate. Mr. Sato, on the other hand, is most emphatic ';}l]aaxtlvl{:?ian is determined to tolerate no third-party mediation in churia, London Marking Time, It is understood that Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, saw representatives of the dominions, who explained they would rather see Japan embroiled for the next 20 years in its expansion westward and northward on the Manchuria mainland—where event- ually it must come into contact with Russia—than lodge her outward policy in their direction and menacing the white race in Australia and other countries. Japan'. refusal to permit mediation in Manchuria receives con- firmation in a statement in the Tokio newspaper Asahi, which says the Japanese government has instructed its representative in Geneva to make clear that Japan opposes the application of article 15 of the League of Nations covenant, except so far as the appointment of a commission of investigation in Shanghai is concerned, even to the extent of withdrawing from the League. g e ib;? furtper action ii'expected from London at the moment, as cial quarters are marking time whil a i ; conducted on th~ spot in Shganghai. S PeAseTicegeRtany ate eI _JAPANESE ATTACK REPULSED. ! the forts at Woosung and renewed the bombardment of the enemy bluejackets : ' | holding Hongkew. Advance Halted After Part of Woosung| The Japanese already had occupied Village Is Occupied. | a part of Woosung village, 16 miles 5 . g | down the Whangpoo from the city, but | _ SHANGHAL China, February 8 ().— | Wnen ‘they tried to extend. their hold. | Fighting with a spirit they had not|ings the Chinese threw them back. ;Iumerm exhibited, the Chinese Army| _Thereupon nine Japanese destroyers 1 today repulsed a Japanese attack on (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) L { .S. Will OP’mse Japan’s Proposal For Demilitarization of C 2 | By the Associated Press the close of the Sino-Jaj 7 | . | Sino-Japanese War of The United States looks upon the |1894-95 a policy looking to the eventual proposal to demilitarize Chinese ports | ‘Partition tat (':hxna' appeared to be gai- as reopening the question of partition- '8 8round in some quarters of the e UL Of partitlon- | w414 In the denunciation of such & ing of China and will oppose such a|policy the United States, Japan and move. | Great Britain were in complete accord, This position became clear at the and their determination to respect the State Department today as officials hinese Ports - | | territorial and administrative integrity gave their attention to unofficial re- | of China was affirmed in many of the ports of the position outlined in Tokio. | Oicially the question has not yet been brought to the attention of this Gov- ernment The reports from the Far East enu- merated Shanghai, Canton, Hankow Tsingtao and Tientsin among the ports Japan wished demilitarized. Only last November Japan reaffirmed a stand taken with Great Britain and the United Siates 40 years ago oppos- ing the partition or disintegration of China. Destroyers Ordered Moved. The Navy Department was informed today two American destroyers have been ordered from Shanghai up the Yangtze River, one to augment forces at Nanking and the other to be sta- tioned at Chingkiang. Dr. Hawkling Yen, counselor of the Chinese legation, said demilitarization wouid be ‘nothing less than the dis- memberment of China, and I can | scarcely believe such a proposal will be made by Japan to other powers.” “It would scrap practically all the treaties made in 30 years and, of course, China could never agree to such jan arrangement,” he said. The destroyer Parrott will proceed to Nanking, where the destroyers Simpson and Edsall are now riding at anchor. The Bulmer will be located at Ching- kiang, about 20 miles below Nanking. More than 150 Americans, mostly women and children, have been evacu- ated from Nanking. The Navy also was informed the mine sweepers Finch and Bittern and the converted yacht Isabel had arrived at Shanghal from Manila. November Note Recalled. . News dispatches telling of the Japa- nese position on demilitarization as out- lined at Tokio were received with inter- est at the State Department. The Japa- cluded any stand by Japan for de- i militarized zones, said: “It will be recalled that soon after nese note by this Government as pre- | | diplomatic instruments signed by those | powers. “The Japanese government remains unchanged in their stand against the partition of China.” Main Aim Lacking. Until the demilitarization angle arose it appeared unlikely the powers seeking peace would make any immediate fur- ther proposals to Japan. They appeared to feel it was up to that nation to make | overtures. The new suggestion, which |it is indicated is being presented in- formally, apparently lacks the one prin- cipal object sought by this country, and that is immediate suspension of hos- | tilities. Secretary Stimson and the foreign ministers of other interested powers are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the | fighting, which is rapidly developing |into a large military movement. | Through consular and diplomatic offi- | cers in Tokio, Shanghai and Nanking, | the United States and Great Britain, | as well as Prance and Italy, are calling | the attention of Japanese officia® daily to the peril in which foreigners are placed at Shanghai. George C. Hanson, American consui general at Harbin, advised the State | Department no Americaz. were injured | or property damaged when Japanese | troops occupied that city last Friday, wounding 500 Chinese soldiers. Six Russians were killed and severa: wounded, Hanson reported. He added there was little damage done to the city aside from slight looting in Fuchiatien. Traffic has been restored on the southern line of the Chinese Eastern Railway. Hanson said. The eastern line is functioning normally and the western line soon will be repaired. Fire Sweeps Rumanian Town. MOINESHTI, Rumania, February 8 (P).—Fire destroyed 50 houses in this | Moldavian gillage last night, and hun- | dreds of ons fere made less. No deathyf were re] } \