Washington, June 16. UESTIONED on the situation in Tientsin, President Roosevelt refused to make any declaration whatsoever during his usual Friday morning press conference today. He referred the newspapermen to the State Department.
Meanwhile, the State Secretary, Mr. Cordell Hull, made a long statement on the blockaded North China port.
He repeated previous assertions that the United States Government kept a close check on events in Tientsin, and that it had not been approached to form a mixed committee of mediation to arbitrate in the Anglo-Japanese dispute.
The American Charge d'Affaires in Tokyo, Mr. Eugene Dooman, had, however, offered the services of imam subject of discussion was the €vacuation of American marines and citizens from Tientsin should any American People Will Support Reprisals Washington, June 16, An assurance that the American people, acting unofficially through the boycott of Japanese silk and goods, will supplement any possible British official economic reprisals, has been cabled to Lord Listowel, President of the British China Campaign, by Dr. Mary Woolley, Honorary National Chairman of the "American Boycott against Aggressor Nations" organization—Reuter.
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