893.1561/6–1649: Telegram
The Minister-Counselor of Embassy in China ( Clark ) to the Secretary of State
Canton
, June 16,
1949—5 p. m.
[Received June 17—3:27 a. m.]
[Received June 17—3:27 a. m.]
Cantel 597. Tung Ling, Vice Foreign Minister, tells me Minister National Defense1 has drawn up definite plan for closure all ports in Communist hands and that in next day or two we would receive formal notification from Chinese Government closure these ports. Action would apply to aircraft as well as surface vessels.2
Sent Department, repeated Nanking 399, Shanghai 342.
Clark