Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-31
GOVERNOR ORDERS
ALL FOREIGNERS TO
LEAVE CHINESE CITY
viii Not Be Responsible for
Their Safety at Kiukiang
After Three Days.
REDS ADVANCE AFTER
FIRING ON U. S. WARSHIP
Five Sailors Wounded in Exchange
of Shots-Fifty Communists
Are Killed.
BY the Associated press.

by tne Associated PreSS.
SHANGHAI, July 3l.-Intensive Rec
activity sweeping Middle China today
threatened to engulf Hankow, Wuchang
Hanyang and other important cities III
the Yangtze Valley, following the attack
on an American gunboat yesterday.
Dispatches from Hankow said Reds
captured and looted Hwayuan, so miles
north of Hankow, and advanced to
Siaokan, IS miles from the Central
China metropolis, looting and burning
and cutting the Peiping- Hankow Rail-
way. GAlve fears for the safety OF
Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang, the
tri-cities on the Yangtze, were ex-
pressed
Additional Nationalist forces north OF
Hankow were said to have joined the
Communists and the Middle Yangtze
was reported swarming with bandits and
Reds.
Anti-FOreign Wave.
Marauders at various Yangtze points,
said dispatches, erected large notices
bearing strong anti-government and
anti-foreign slogans similar to those
Haunted in the ravaging of Changsha.
Many Yangtze villages were reported
looted and burned.
British official circles in Shanghai
heard foreigners were evacuating Kiu-
kiang Efforts to communicate with
Kuling, famous foreign health resort,
failed and telegraph lines in the Yang
TIE Valley were reported interrupted at
various places.
The British gunboat Aphis reached
Hankow from Changsha, bringing so
The others we're British, French and
Italian.
A report that M. Borodin, Russian
Communist leader, who organized the
Soviet program for China in 1926 only
to be deported later when the National
lists repudiated Russian connections,
had returned to Hankow was widely cir
culated there.
Americans Reach Hankow.
Among the Americans arriving at
Hankow were George Helde, z. M. G.
A.; Miss Russell, Rev. H. w. Lingle,
Northern Presbyterian missionary, and
Miss Louise Farnam, physician of tlA
Yale-in-C China Hospital.
The Kuomen News Agency, a reliable
Chinese press service, said tonight the
Governor of Kiangsi Province notified
municipal authorities at Kiukiang to
instruct foreigners at Kuling to "evacu-
ate Immediately" The governor was
quoted as saying:
Foreigners must quit the Summer
resort within three days or the Chinese
authorities will not hold themselves re-
sponsible for unforeseen trouble"
The American gunboat Monocacy is
at Kiukiang with several British and
japanese warships.
The japanese Rengo News Agency re-
ported a majority of the japanese refu-
gees from Changsha arrived at Hankow
aboard a Japanese steamer without be-
longings and in q disheveled state.
They were housed in a Japanese pri-
mary school at Hankow.
Saw CHASTITY Spectacle.
Rengo's dispatch said the refugees
described the CHASTITY spectacle which
occurred after the Reds entered Chang
sha as follows:
THE day before the entry of the
Reds, July IS, 1t was rumored Com
munists plain-clothes agents were en-
ter Changsha in great numbers to Gre
ate disorders.
THE following day at 8 am. fire, APP
parently incendiary, started in the Of
fees of the provincial bureau of con-
struction. The flames served as a sig
nal fire for Reds outside, waiting to
enter the city walls.
"Vanguards of the Red Army imme-
diately entered the city, which was at
once thrown into state of anarchy.
A reign of terror ruled over the entire
city.
''Incendiarism, pillage, murder and
other acts of violence were carried out
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