The Navy Department has reported to me that their information is that one American there has been killed and the American Consulate attacked and the Consul and his staff driven out.

The information I have is that it was almost entirely by soldiers who are in the Cantonese uniform.

Of course, it is difficult to say, but so far as we can foresee it would appear that we now have sufficient forces in China to take care of such Americans there as need to be cared for.

There are some 125 or 150 Americans still within the city supposed to be at the University and their safety is naturally giving us a good deal of concern.

I don't know whether I shall be able to go to the dedication of, I think this is Wicker Park, near Hammond, Indiana.

We have some peculiar interests in Nicaragua, on account of our right to build a canal there and establish a naval station.

To take on a permanent obligation of the nature that I understand is contemplated in the suggestion of President Diaz would be, I think, a little farther than this Government would wish to go.

I withdrew the Marines from Nicaragua in 1925.

One-fourth of our soil is better suited to timber-growing than anything else.

American Forest Week gives a useful opportunity for taking counsel on what can and should be done to bring these neglected and waiting lands into use.

I do so again in the belief that no other of our internal problems is of greater moment than the rehabilitation of our forests, now so hopefully begun but needing the strong support of our collective will and intelligence.

In accordance with the custom established by my predecessor, I have yearly proclaimed an American Forest Week.