BLOCKADE ACTION
AGAIN TAKEN BY JAPANESE AT SWATOW Grave Food Situation in Hong Kong and Kulangsu BRITISH NAVAL RATINGS MANHANDLED AT HANKOW By Telegraph.—Press Association.—Copyright. LONDON, .lune 26. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Jlong Kong correspondent says that despite the assurances to the contrary Japan has reimposed the blockade of the treaty port of Swatow and refused to allow two British steamers to load cargo for Jlong Kong. The food situation in Jlong Kong and Kulangsu is grave. The Shanghai correspondent of “The Times” says the Japanese are insisting on 24 hours’ notice before any foreign ship enters Swatow. The Japanese manhandled two British ratings from the gunboat Petrel in JJankow and forcibly detained them lor six hours till their commander Lieuteiiant-Conimander Carnduft, secured their release. Tons of vegetables, 15 bullocks and 30 pigs will be brought to Tientsin from Shanghai today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 5
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140BLOCKADE ACTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1939, Page 5
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