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...Gimlet Eye," the "Fighting Hell-Devil Marine," returned as Brigadier General last week to Tientsin, a city which he left just 27 years ago this month as a young Leatherneck Lieutenant, eager to do hand-to-hand battle with the slant-eyed "Boxers" who then held the Occidental quarter at Peking under murderous siege...
...prevent a recurrence of these battles of his youth that Brigadier General Smedley Darlington Butler (see front cover) reached Tientsin, last week, commanding 1,800 U. S. marines previously stationed at Shanghai. He knew that the Southern Nationalist Chinese armies were steadily advancing on Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.); but whether "Boxer"-trouble was brewing again he could not be certain. From Washington, President Calvin Coolidge ordered last week that no chances be taken, that the U. S. Legation and all U. S. citizens be removed to the port of Tientsin from inland Peking, should that city be seriously...
...Chinese Nationalists''† was extended northward last week by the advance of their several armies toward Peking. The reaction of U. S. President Coolidge to this situation was to inform reporters that the removal of the U. S. Legation from Peking down to the seacoast at Tientsin, or even 650 miles southward to Shanghai, was contemplated. The reaction of John Van Antwerp MacMurray, alert, pugnacious U. S. Minister at Peking, was to keep the cables busy with code messages which legation officials privately said were appeals for instructions to stand pat at Peking. . . . This meant that Minister MacMurray...
...Rear Admiral Henri Hughes Hough. One warship each was standing by at Ichang, Chungking, Kiukiang, Nanking, Foochow, Canton, Wuhu, Bias Bay and Chinkiang. Ten destroyers and twelve submarines were ready at Manila, whence the destroyer Stewart sailed last week with extra arms and ammunition for the infantry men at Tientsin. During the week the destroyer Pillsbury took off some 60 U. S. refugees, mob jostled, from Foochow, landed them at Manila...
...noted that, Admiral Williams outranks all other officers of the foreign armada patroling Chinese waters ? "the greatest armada assembled since the World War." Mobs, large or small, menaced the foreigner in almost every Chinese city. Belgium, in despair, announced that she would turn over the Belgian concessions at Tientsin without pretense of a struggle should the North Chinese War Lord Chang Tso-lin so demand. At Foochow and elsewhere mobs were incited against the Yang-kuei tze by the old story: "The Foreign Devil kills Chinese babies and cuts them...