This cereal is shipped to Canton from Formosa, informants say, and. there is profiteering in high places. Many people become rich by dealing In tice. Other goods are shipped in army transports direct from Shans-hal, Keelung, Kobe and Osaka, The [Chinese Maritime Customs staff are ow enjoying virtually a. prolonged holiday. since no such vessels have sailed for Canton for over a month, Japanese oMclals travel to Formosa, Shanghai and Japan by commercial planes. hence they are not keen on Feopening the Pear! River, travellers say.
The Pearl River is open only to the gunboat USS, Mindanao which [brought down ten American evacuees fast week. This gunboat goos up to ICanton once every two weeks and stays here most of the time. For the time being, very few Americans, in [Canton want 10 come here, unless the For Eastern tension becomes, S. Seamew is off Shameen on River and Is not likely Jcome to Hongkong, while the French unboat Vigilante is algo there, These Jgunboats are afraid that once they eave Canton they will not be able {to return on the ground that they are Delligerent war vessels. Hence the Mindanao is the only vessel in Hongkong that can use the Pearl River.
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