Some grounds for relief were afforded Americans in China yester-ay morning by a radiogram received from the Washington bureau of the "New York Times" by the Shanghai bureau of the newspaper. The message reads as follows:
"Secretary Hull indicated plainly to-day that President Roosevelt did not mean to say on Sunday that there would be any change whatever in the Administration's policy of leaving Marines and Navy ships in Shanghai and other troops in Tientsin and Peiping.
"The State Department is Americans in China have alarmed. Every indication here is that there is no change in policy in contemplation.
"President Roosevelt on Sunday probably referred to missionaries and teachers who stubbornly insist upon staying upcountry despite repeated warnings from their Consuls. The Government can afford them no protection, and is most anxious that they come at once to some indicated concentration point."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.