Washington, June 22. "I believe that if we hold firm, Japan will retreat" Representative John M. Vorys, Republican of Ohio, declared today in commenting on latest developments in the Far East.
Representative Carl Vinson, Democrat of Georgia and author of the Vinson Navy Expansion Bill, devoted his commentary to the reply given Admiral H. E. Yarnell Com-nder-in-Chief of the U.S. China Fleet, to Japan's request that foreign war vessels be withdrawn from Swatow.
Said Mr. Vinson, "I approve entirely of Admiral Yarnell's answer.
"So long as there are American citizens in that region, it is the Government's duty to protect them."—
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