IN FULL OPERATION
JAPANESE BLOCKADE
NAVAL ACTIVITY
(Received September. 7, noon.)
HokG KONG, September 6.
A Japanese destroyer shelled Shekwan, adjacent to British territory, and another seized the Chinese Customs cruisers Kwanwei and Hsukuan, and sent the crews ashore. Others took over the Prata Shoals radio station and the observatory. .
The British steamer Taishan, bound for Canton, has returned to Hong Kong. The captain was reported, to be disinclined to continue the voyage.
The foregoing incidents suggest that the new Japanese blockade is in full operation. The Japanese admiral undertook that there would be no interference with peaceful commerce; but reserved the right to hail all merchantmen, -i ". '.- .. i' ' .'■. ■■"■ .'' . ■'. ':" ■■'■■ :■■■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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109IN FULL OPERATION Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 59, 7 September 1937, Page 11
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