Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-31
FOREIGNERS READY
ITO FLEE NANCHANG
Bandits Run Wild Over Kiang-
II 81 Province, Capturing
Three Missionaries.
By the Associated press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, March 31.-Foreign dis
patches from Nanchang, capital OF
Kiangsi Province. today said the menace
Of bandits was increasing and that a
general evacuation of foreigners was
anticipated.
- Possible general evacuation of Kiangsi
by missionaries and other foreigners be-
cause of the steadily increasing menace
of bandits and Communists seemed in
dictated in various reports from the
northern part of the province.
These advices, coming from foreign
sources or from official and missionary
quarters, stated that the communistic
bandits, which previously had confined
their depredations to Southern Kiangsi,
were steadily moving northward and
that the whole province now is menaced.
Fear for Safety of Trio.
Brigands who Thursday raided and
looted Yuanchow, Western Kiangsi
Province, captured three foreign work.
ers Of the British China Inland Mission.
Dispatches reporting the Yuanchow
outrage were confirmed by the mission
at Changsha.
Much concern was felt for the safety
Of the trio, the Rev. and Mrs. r. w.
Porteus Of England and Miss N E.
Gennel of Girard, Kans, since they
were believed to have been captured by
the same bandits who on February 8
kidnapped and presumably murdered
three Finnish missionaries.
Mrs. Porteus formerly was an Ameri-
can and resided at Kerkhoven, MINI.
Her maiden name was Emma Forsberg.
She came to China in 1894.
Three other missionaries, two women
and man, escaped the bandit attack
on Yuanchow by fleeing. Their where
aboutS also was q mystery and fears
were felt for their safety in the noun
famous country of Western Kiangsi
Province. Those who escaped were two
British women and an American, the
latter being the Rev. r. H. Glazier.
Fate Of Is Americans in Doubt.
No information has been obtained re-
garding the 10 American Catholic mis-
Sionaries at Kanchow, unable for several
weeks to escape through the Commun-
lists and bandits who have ravaged
Southern KiangSi for months.
Official quarters fear that Nanchang
IS imminently in danger Of falling into
the hands of the outlaws.
Advices from the Standard Oil Co. of
New York said that Kiukiang, on the
Yangtze River, likely would pass into
the hands of brigands should they be
disposed to attack the city. These adj
vices said government defenses virtually
were non-evistent there.
An American Y. NJ. G. A. represent
alive telegTaphed from Nanchang that
5000 bandits, under the notorious Chu
Teh, were operating in Northern Kiangsi
and were likely to enter Nanchang.
Chu Teh has been blamed for the ban
dttry in Kiangsi, an dthe provincial gov
eminent recently announced it would
pay $4,000 for his capture.
Other advices stated that service on
the Nanchang-K iukiang railway, which
affords e means Of evacuation, had been
interrupted, but the cause was not
given. The brigands are believed to
control the Kan River district.
Chinese GunbOat Reaches City.
Unconfirned advices were that some
foreigners already had left Nanchang
for Shanghai. None of these, however,
Is believed to have arrived as yet. A
Chinese gunboat arrived at Nanchang,
apparently to evacuate Chinese officials
In case of emergency, rather than to
attempt protection Of the populace.
According to the Chinese press,
Kiangsi provincial officials have APP
pealed to Chang Kai-Shek head of the
Nationalist government, to relieve their
province of 'the grip of the rising tide
Of Communism" River dispatches
stated foreign shipping on the Upper
Yangtze continued to be subjected to
rifle and machine gun attacks.
STATE DEPARTMENT ACTS.