The joint meeting of the committees of the American Association and the American Chamber of Commerce was help yesterday at the American Club for the purpose of giving further consideration to the problems involved in the evacuation of Americans from China. In this ecnneetion States. She left the Coolidge in Honolulu.
Mr. Lockhart, who has spent many years in the' American Embassy in Peiping, is no stranger to Shang-hal, He relieved Mr. C. E. Gauss white the latter was' on leave. "The new Consul-General signified yesterday that he was ready to tackle the problem of the evacuation of Ameri-fan women and children but, aecording to advices yesterday at the US. Consulate-General, Washington _officials had not-made further statements, other than to advise that the first relief vessel will take "only 8 American citizens, including alien spouses and unmarried minor chil-aren.
The Acting American-Consul-General and Mrs. BR. P. Butrick propose leaving Shanghai, with their family, in the President' Pierce on November 1.
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