British Authorities Declare South Honan, Hupeh, and Kiangsi Unsafe for Nationals: Growing Concern The Communist situation on the Yangtze is causing gave cancer Communists, or, as they might otherwise be described, bandits, are believed to have reached within two miles of Kiukiang.
Peking, May 24.
The British authorities have clared all territory in Honan south of the Yellow River, Hupeh, and Kiangsi danger zones in which it is not safe for British nationals to side; in the former owing to is and in the other pro owing to the bandit scourge.
No definite order has been giver to British nationals to evacuate these regions. They are allowed to use their own discretion as, the danger of their present position, it is still more unsafe, in many eases, to travel.
The above naturally does not apply to Hankow,—Reuter. on of Gen, Feng Vu-hsiang's regular army. Shengehow, in Honan has also guffered from a similar inflict tion for some months past. West Honan, South Shensi, and the northwestern district of Hupeh especially are at the mercy of these hordes, and the ravages of typhus have spread terror among the unfortunate people.
Since the pick of the Kuominchun army left to oppose the Nanking forees, leaving behind those factions whose' attitude was uncertain, all semblance of order and every vestige of prosperity have vanished from the land, The present situation is a direct result of the "make hay" policy of these. "aneertains."
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