YANGTSE RIVER
INTERFERENCE WITH FREE NAVIGATION ACTION BY JAPAN LONDON, 12th January, It has become known in London that the Japanese Naval staff recently notified the Senior British Naval Officer at Shanghai that Japan would no longer permit the passage of non-Japanese merchantmen up the Yangtse River, but would offer every encouragement to vessels at up-river ports to come down, says “The Times.” This interference with free navigation was justified by the alleged dangers to shipping from Chinese minelaying military operations. The British Government cannot admit any right of interference with the Yangtse shipping, but, as it is not practicable to arrange convoys, foreign merchantmen are advised not to attempt the upward passage. One British vessel followed H.M.S. Cricket upstream, but otherwise nonJapanese up-river merchant traffic has been brought to a standstill.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 January 1938, Page 7
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132YANGTSE RIVER Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 13 January 1938, Page 7
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