AMERICAN SHIP HALTED BY CHINESE NATIONALISTS.—The American merchant vessel, the Flying Cloud, which has been halted off Shanghai by gunfire from a Chinese Nationalist warship, according to a cable message from Washington. The incident occurred a few hours after the ship sailed from Shanghai with cargo worth 5,000,000 dollars, including goods for the American forces in Japan. The Flying Cloud had earlier been detained in Shanghai by the Nationalists.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 7
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69AMERICAN SHIP HALTED BY CHINESE NATIONALISTS.—The American merchant vessel, the Flying Cloud, which has been halted off Shanghai by gunfire from a Chinese Nationalist warship, according to a cable message from Washington. The incident occurred a few hours after the ship sailed from Shanghai with cargo worth 5,000,000 dollars, including goods for the American forces in Japan. The Flying Cloud had earlier been detained in Shanghai by the Nationalists. Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25936, 17 October 1949, Page 7
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