Anxiety Felt for Safety of 300 Foreigners Peking, Jan. 15.
Reports from foreign sources state that the Communists in Kweichow have emerged at Suyung, south-east of Suifu, on the Szechuan border. Their direction, however, from Suyung is unknown.
It is also reported that the northern Szechuan Communists now are estab-shed at Paoingilung, but Government troops are being rushed there to deal with both Communist armies and to prevent any junction between them.
Some anxiety is felt because of the large number of foreigners residing in Szechuan, some of them as far afield as Tachienlu, their total being in the neighbourhood of 300. At! present, there are five foreign gunboats at Chungking—one French. two American, and two British—Reuter.
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