WARSHIPS ESCORT BRITISH SHIPS ON CHINA COAST
(10 a.m.) „ LONDON, Sept. C. British warships are escorting merchantmen through the Nationalist blockade of the North China coast, according to the Australian newspaper man, Michael Keon, who reached Hong Kong today, says the British United Press correspondent in Hong Kong. Keon, who has been in Peking for 18 months, including seven under Communist rule, said the vessel 1 Hunan 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, Choysang, through the blockade as far as Shantung Peninsula. Keon said the warship went ahead of the merchantmen with all lights blazing all night and then parted in the early morning. ■The Hunan and Choysang are both British coastwise ships.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23044, 7 September 1949, Page 7
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