893.00/13596: Telegram
The Consul General at Canton (Spiker) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 6—2:50 p.m.]
Further reports from Kwangsi indicate increasingly serious situation there with marked bandit activity in southwestern corner of province. Latest advices indicate all Americans except two evacuated from Nanning and all Americans from Kweilin area where authorities have ordered evacuation of women and children of the populace and are fortifying the city. Government rationing foodstuffs in Wuchow and elsewhere in Province and have fixed food prices with the result that farmers are not bringing foodstuffs into cities and towns. Most foreigners in Kwangsi now concentrated in Wuchow which remains quiet. Have advised Americans still remaining in interior of Kwangsi to evacuate to place of safety. Have also requested Commander of the South China Patrol to send U.S.S. Mindanao to Wuchow where one British gunboat now stationed. He is referring the matter to Commander-in-Chief of Asiatic Fleet. If Mindanao proceeds to Wuchow, U.S.S. Tulsa will come here from Hong Kong.
2. Sent the Department, Peiping, Nanking, Shanghai and Hankow.