Canton, Oct. 9.
All foreign vessels, together with the British river gunboat Cicala, which were bottled up in the Pearl River during the past week, slipped through a narrow opening at the second bar shortly after sunrise this morning.
It is understood the passage in the boom was made by special arrangement with the Chinese authorities.
Reuter's correspondent, aboard a tug belonging to Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Ca, which was standing by to render assistance, watched an array of nineteen vessels, representing many million dollars worth of tonnage, and stretching several miles up-river, cross the barrier in single file.
The procession started at 625 a.m., and it was well afer 7.15 ann, when the last ship passed the bar.
The barrier represents a wide stretch of shallow water, with the mast-heads of sunken vessels visible et various points.
No Japanese planes appeared throughout the proceedings.—Reuter.
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