693.0024/11–447: Airgram
The Consul General at Shanghai (Davis) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 14—11:01 a.m.]
A–808. The following Customs notification was published in the Shanghai morning papers of November 4, 1947. Inform Commerce.
“Customs Notification No. 168. The public is hereby notified that, in accordance with the instructions of the Executive Yuan transmitted through the Inspector General of Customs, the opening to foreign shipping of Dairen, which has been considered as an unopen port pending resumption of Customs functions there, is to be temporarily postponed, and that permission must be obtained from the Government through diplomatic channels before a foreign vessel is allowed to enter Dairen. Foreign merchant vessels, except those which have obtained special permission from the Government, are, accordingly, temporarily prohibited from entering that port. Liu Ping I, Commissioner of Customs. Custom House, Shanghai, November 3, 1947.”