U.S. VESSEL TRYING TO RUN BLOCKADE
(11 a.m.) HONG. KONG. Jan. 15. The American Isbrandtsen Line freighter Brooklyn Heights, left Kong Kong tonight to run the Shanghai blockade. The company dispatched the ship with 5000 tons of general cargo despite the Nationalist attack against the Flying Arrow last week. Captain N. J. Dervin commented before the departure: “Shooting or no shooting, I will get through.”
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23153, 16 January 1950, Page 5
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