COMMUNIST CHARGE DENIED BY NAVY
lteceived Wednesday 7 p.m. LONDON, August 3. Tiie Admiralty has denied an allegaLou made by Chinese Communists that Cir Amethyst, during her dasli to the Yangtze mouth, sank a Chinese vessel and drowned hundreds of passengers. The Communists alleged that the Aniet ' i \ - 1 forced tlie Chinese steamer The K i:\iigling, to come alongside to use her as a sliieid against guniire. Beports t ruiii tlie uien aboard the Amethyst say timi Chinese Communist guns on the Yangtze banlc shelled oue of tlieir own gunboats which is believed to have snnk.
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Chronicle (Levin), 4 August 1949, Page 7
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