Third Powers' Vessels to Move Freely Effective six o'clock yesterday evening, the entire Chinese coast from Chinwangtao in the north to Pakhoi in the south, was proclaimed closed to Chinese shipping by the commands of the Japanese Second and Third Fleets, Excepted were Tsingtao and "waters belonging to leased territories of third Powers.
The prohibition will apply to all Chinese shipping both Government-owned and private, but vessels of third Powers and of Japan will not be prevented "from entering or leaving the proscribed zone.'
These proclamations will supersede that issued on August 25 by Vice-Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, commander-in-chief of the Third Fleet, which barred Chinese maritime traffic along the coast from Shanghai to Swatow.
The proclamations read as follows,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.