Chinese Detain Ships Leaving Red Port
I (10 ».m.) CANTON, Aug. 11. Nationalist warships yesterday detainI ed 13 vessels attempting to leave the • Communist-controlled port of Tangku. The action was taken with a view to | closing Tangku to shipping. Thr^.' Panama merchant ships and a 7000-ton f foreign vessel were ordered to leave f Tangku. I When the orders were obeyed the I .foreign ships were ordered not to enter | Tangku again as the port was closed, i Among the ships detained was a 1000ton Communist vessel which ignored the Nationalist warning.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23022, 12 August 1949, Page 5
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