Washington, Dec. 13. Senate to-day debated demands for immediate withdrawal of all American gunboats and forces from the Orient, Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat of South Carolina, took the occasion to launch an attack on Great Britain for trying to get the United States "to pull her chestnuts out of the fire in China."
The series of accidents besetting neutrals in the Orient was described by Senator Key Pittman; Democrat of Nevada, as "becoming intolerable."
According to Senator Pittman, "It is of little satisfaction to have the Japanese Government on each occasion express regret. the practice of the Japanese Government to grant broad discretionary power to Army and Navy officers serving in the field.
"Some high Japanese emeers were responsible for such outrages, The
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