Kiukiang, Dec. 6.
The expected evacuation of the Kuling summer resort by about 30 foreigners failed to materialize today when Chinese military authorities on Mount Lushan refused to permit them to come down.
The Chinese authorities refused to allow them to leave on the grounds that they could not understand the meaning of a telegram from Nationalist Government officials which was said to have given permission for the trip, according to Japanese authori. ties here) The message was brought here by d British gunboat.
Lieut. J.MS. Cox, of the British gunboat Cockchafer, who went to a point half way up the mountain yesterday to meet the party of foreigners, returned here today without them.
British and American officers are going up the mountain tomorrow to renew negotiations with the Chinese authorities. If they are successful, the party of foreigners who have been marooned in Kuling for many months may come down on Thursda; or Friday.
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