893.801/11–1049: Telegram
The Chargé in China (Strong) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 10—4:06 a. m.]
Cantel 1269. Cantel 1031, August 27. Embassy received note dated November 7 from Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs referring to its note August 24 (full text of which given Cantel 1031), stating Chinese Government has decided to close temporarily beginning midnight November 7, 1949 region along seacoast and within Chinese territorial waters from a point north of the mouth of Weitou Bay, 118 degrees 34 minutes east longitude and 24 degrees 31 minutes north [Page 1163] latitude and southward and westward to a point west of the region of Tienpai Hsien, Kwangtung Province, 211 degrees 20 minutes east longitude and 21 degrees 30 minutes north latitude and at same time to close five ports of Amoy, Swatow, Canton, Kingpei and Chiangmen. Ministry’s communication requests Embassy take due note of this order, transmit it to US Government and instruct US shipping companies observe it.
Sent Department Cantel 1269; repeated Shanghai 570, Nanking 684, Taipei 210, Hong Kong 55. Department pass London 5.