893.801/8–2749: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State
[Received August 27—8:43 p. m.]
[Cantel] 1031. Embassy received following note, dated August 24, 1949 from FonOff:
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the American Embassy. It has the honor to refer to its note of June 20, 1949,66 in which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested the Embassy to take due note of the Chinese Government’s proclamation on the temporary closure of part of its territorial waters and certain seaports and to transmit the contents of this note to the American Government and also to notify American shipping companies to observe these regulations.
“The Chinese Government has now further decided that from midnight, August 27, 1949, the following regions:
“From the north bank of the mouth of the Min river (longitude 119 degrees 40 minutes east, and latitude 26 degrees 15 minutes north and south) to the north part or [of] the mouth of Wei Tou Bay (longitude 118 degrees 34 minutes east and latitude 24 degrees 31 minutes north) which lie along the seacoast and within the territorial waters of China shall be temporarily closed and at the same time the port of Foochow shall be closed.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs requests the Embassy to take due note of this matter and to transmit this information to the American Government and to notify American shipping companies to observe these regulations.”
Sent Department, repeated Shanghai 569, Nanking 656, Taipei 146, London unnumbered, pouched Hong Kong.