ILLEGAL BLOCKADE
Received Friday 7 p.m. LONDON, July 1. , British and American refusal to recognise the legality of the blockado of the Communist held coastline by the Chinese Natioual Government, was founded solely upon the principles of international law and "implies no de sire to take sides in the eivil war," says The Times. The Nationalist claim to impose a jDlockade was inadmissable. The greater the damage done to tradtby the Nationalists, the more rapidly will the Communists resume their efforts to expel them from their last strongholds on the China coast. British shipping would, in the meantime, stan'l on its rights among which was the riglit to pursue its lawful occupation.
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 July 1949, Page 5
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