Canton, Dec. 9.
All the Communist bands who have been attempting to' invade Kwangs have been put to fight and are retreating in north-westerly direction, according to official reports received here to-da Anxtety for Missionaries 'As Aghting continues and threatens to become widespread in the province, anxiety over the fate of Messrs. Hayman and Bosshardt, China Inland. Mission workers, who' were carried off by. bandits on the Kweichow-Kwangsi border, rapidly is increasing. The whereabouts of the captives and the band who are holding them are fol ally unknown, Mrs. Bosshard, who was recently released and who still staying in Canton, has. received no news from her husband since her arrival here from Kwangsi.
Miss G. Emblen, who was captured by the Communists together with the two missionaries, has, however, been released and is now in Wuchow.
Tt is st fed that the main body of the 4th Group Army is now pushing towards Meichikow, Shengpu and Shuling in pursuit of the Reds, against whom Hunanese troops are also conducting operations. At the same time other Kwangsi troops are advancing on the Kweichow border from Taungsheng and Kooyi to join the Kweichow forces in an attempt to envelop the retreaters.
Meanwhile, part of the militia at Kweilin is engaged in searching for Communist remnants scattered dur-Ing. recent encounters with the Kwangsi forees.—Reuter.
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