Roosevelt Probably Referred to Inland Missionaries Shanghai, Sept. 0.
Some grounds for teller were afforded Americans in China yesterfaay morning by a radiogram received from the Washington bureau of the "New York Times" by the Shanghai bbareau of the newspaper, The mes sage reads a5 follows:
'SSecrelary Hull indicated plainly to-day: that President Roosevelt. id not mean' to say on Sunday that {there would be any change whatever fu. the Administration's polley. of caving Marines and Navy' ships Shanghai and other troops In Tientsin and Peiping.
"the State Department is sorry that: 'Americans in" China' have bees farmed. Every indleatlon here that there is no change in polley in contemplation, "President Roosevelt on Sunday probably referred to missionaries and teachers she stubbornly insist. upon slaying" upcountry despite repeated warnings from. thelt" Consuls. The Government can alford them "no protection, and is most anxious that they: eome at once to some indicated fongentration point"
To Allay Uncertainty received yesterday answer to a cable sent by "the "Now. York "Times bureau here on Tuesday night asking for sietcton of he 'Admini tion's policy. In order to help' the uncertainty and anxiety "of the American community in Shanghai American business and professional men in Shanghai reiterated. yester~ ay' their intention to "stick (o their ons" here and further indications wore given that, they have no. me clination to abandon holt Interests China "because of any temporary anger {0° life and property "eau bby the Sino-Japanese hostilities.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.