BLOCKADE OF CHINA WATERS
REPORTED PROTECTION OF BRITISH SHIPS (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 6. The Hong Kong correspondent of the United Press, quoting an Australian journalist, Michael Keon. says that British warships are escorting merchantmen through the Nationalist blockade lines in North China waters. Keon. who reached Hong Kong today. had been in Peiping for 18 months, including seven months under Communist rule. Keon said the vessel Huan. in which he came south, was at first unable to leave the Communist port of Tangku because three Nationalist gunboats were waiting outside the river. Then a British destroyer arrived and escorted the Hunan and another British ship, the Choysang. through the blockade area as far as Shantung Peninsula.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25902, 7 September 1949, Page 5
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