Hanoi Protests At Bombing
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TOKYO, July 14.
North Vietnam issued a statement today protesting against what it claimed was the bombing of Haiphong port and Ha Long Bay by United States aircraft on July 7, the Associated Press reported.
The statement was issued by a North Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman and broadcast by Hanoi Radio.
It claimed United States aircraft were “directly menacing many foreign merchant ships which were then in port.” “On the same day they also engaged in provocations against a number of foreign ships at anchor in Ha Long Bay,” it said. The North Vietnamese statement charged the American air strike on July 7 “in Haiphong and Ha Long Bay is part of a new United States move in the escalation against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. “It shows that the United States is plotting to stage a
naval blockade and paralyse the ports of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31112, 15 July 1966, Page 13
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