Yangtze Blockade Irritating Traders
HONG KONG, Nov. 13. British commercial interests in Hong Kong are becoming irritable at what they describe as "the farce at the mouth of the Yangtze." They believe the British Government should take more positive action without causing unduly serious repercussions. A British merchant said today there will now probably be live or six iherchantmen, mostly British, waiting outside the Yapgtze for the end of the deadloek and the opportunity to enter Shanghai. He said many other ships were waiting at Hong Kong and else* Where to resume trade with China. A Foreign Offiee spokesman said Britain had informed the Chinese Nation- 1 alist Government in a Note delivered on November 4, that its warships and aircraft might no longer refuel at Hong Kong. The Note said that in view of the military situation in South China Britain decided to refuse the refuelling right and also that in future no Chiiieso Nationalist aircraft might fly over the British colony, '
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Chronicle (Levin), 14 November 1949, Page 5
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