Communications with Tientsin on July 29 were partially disrupted when the various steamship companies announced that services to Tientsin and Tangku were temporarily suspended and. alr services were curtailed, Other services were being run on aa "at the passenger's risk" basis, The China National Aviation Corporation's Shanghai-Peiping pla with three passengers, only got as far as Tsingtao, which became its temporary terminal point. In the middle fof the morning, another plane, without passengers, landed on the field, the pilot reporting that he had just managed to get out of Tientsin in time to save the plane. It arrived in [Shanghai at pin. "By an odd coin-el dence, this sequence of events was almost similar to what happened on the Tsingtao aerodrome eight days before.
From Taku on July 29 came news of the "stranding" of the Blue Funnel s. Patroclus, a ship with a gross registered tonnage of 11,314; she was reported to be anchored at the Taku Bar, unable to get lighters to take jarly' cargo ashore and furthermore, luuable to make any contact with thy shipping companies on shore.
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