PROTECTION FOR BRITISH MERCHANT SHIPS
Received Thursday, 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 16. Attacks on unarmed British merchantmen, even inside Chinese territorial waters, will be regarded as "iliegitimate and unfriendly," the Foreign Secretary, Mr, Ernest Bevin, told Parliament today. Nafionalist Ohina, he added, had beeh informed of this view. Britain haid also told the Chinese Nationalists that it intended to give naval protection to British merchantmen outside Chinese territorial waters. Reuter's Hong Kong correspohdent reports that the Nationalists today detained the British ship Elsie Moller as she was about to enter the Yangtze with a cargo for Shanghai. The ship was appar-' ently intercepted a few hours | after the Nationalists had re- , leased two other British ships, the • Wosang and Tsinan. The owners of the Wosang annpunced that their ship was returning to Hong Kong "with her passehgers "and cargo," indioating that the Nationalists had failed to insist on their originai terms for release, that the ships must return to Shanghai and unload before -being permitted to sail.
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Chronicle (Levin), 17 November 1949, Page 5
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