Western Replies To Chinese Blockade Proposals
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Received Monday, 9.45 a.m. SHANGHAI, June 26. With their future at stake, Shanghai commercial .interests today"" anxiously awaited definite news of the formal reply qf Bri=tain and the United States to the Chinese Nationalist Government's b.ockade ;annouhcement, There was no shipping movement in. the harbour. today as the city w.as .lashed. by a semi-gale. Following - the departure yesterday of-the British vessel Foochow, which got away from the Yangtze estuary without'incident, the only Jioreign vessels left in the port are one Dutch steamer and the damaged British liner Anchises. Shell Company. officials said today that they had received no further news of the motor lighter Tai-. pingshan, which was yesterday reported to have - been pirated near the Chinese city of Kongmoon, about 100 miles north-west of Nong Cong. The lighter left Hong Kong for Kongmooon on June 22 with a crew of 18 Chinese and a cargo-of 10,000 tins of kerosene. / RepOrts from Kongmoon state that the cargo was seized.
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Chronicle (Levin), 27 June 1949, Page 5
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