The Archive · 1939

Washington, Dee. 16

Rear Admiral Harry E, Yarnell, former Commander-in-Chief of the US. Asiatic Fleet, has sent a letter. to several thousand prominent Amer-leans throughout the United States requesting. their support in halting United States supplies of war materials to Japan, it was revealed last Under the letterhead of the Amer-can Committee for Non-participation in Japanese Aggression, Hear Admiral Yarnell said, "in the past biennium In the Far East I have witnessed the great tragedy of war ard some of its effects on peaceful people.

"It is estimated Chinese have been driven from their hhomes....Of these five or ten million ied of disease and privation,

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